Lassie
Lassie is the pet of Jeff Miller, an 11-year-old farm boy. The two become best friends and enjoy family adventures in the American countryside, teaching each other about love, nature and commitment.
Genre: Action & Adventure, Drama
Country: United States of America
Type: tv
Season: 1
Episode: 1
Duration: 24m
Release: 1954
Rating: 6.1
Season 1 - Lassie
19 Sep 1954
"Jeff considers running away when he is forced to study arithmetic including a special test after copying from Porky which study could cause him to miss the circus with Gramps."
26 Sep 1954
"Lassie leaves the farm when Jeff ignores her while he is infatuated with new colt Gramps has given him and after Jeff chastises Lassie for startling the colt."
03 Oct 1954
"Ellen, at first mortified by Jeff's discovery of his deceased father's rifle, allows him to play with unloaded weapon but Jeff proves reckless with the weapon when Mr., King loads it to kill a fox on his farm."
10 Oct 1954
"Jeff is enthralled by the plethora of tall tales told by the new farmhand Mr. Peabody but Gramps is chafed at folksy Peabody's partial falsehoods and peculiar ways and what he perceives as these things influences on Jeff."
31 Oct 1954
"Jeff tells of seeing a lion in the woods but no one believes him until the lion show up at his home."
07 Nov 1954
"Jeff and Ellen wrongly believe that a Gramps has a bad heart and insist Gramps lie down for rest so Jeff trains Lassie to bark when ever Gramps assumes other than a prone position."
05 Dec 1954
"When Gramps has back problems, Jeff thinks Gramps will die if he does not have an operation the family can not afford and begins a twenty mile hike to Creston to sell Lassie to Porky's cousin to get the operation money."
12 Dec 1954
"Gramps and Ellen think that Lassie has developed a bad habit of chasing vehicles but Jeff's discovery about the selectivity of what Lassie chases uncovers an illegal cattle slaughtering operation."
19 Dec 1954
"A man who, unknown to the Millers, has been a prizefighter who killed a man in the ring signs on to be a Miller farmhand and is perceived by formerly admiring Jeff as coward for not standing up against another farmhand bully."
02 Jan 1955
"When Lassie is to be quarantined because she is mistakenly thought rabid, Jeff and Lassie hop a freight train and meet a hobo who takes them home after some trouble in a hobo camp."
16 Jan 1955
"Jeff whose father is deceased is told by a bully that he does not belong at the church father and son banquet but,, after Jeff rejects Gramps company, Ellen injects her self into the event and gains the participants' admiration."
23 Jan 1955
"When hunters kill a doe, Jeff rescues her fawn which Lassie is blamed for harming until livestock is killed by a canine believed to be a wolf."
20 Feb 1955
"An unscrupulous water company executive trying to acquire by any means water rights from the Miller and other area farms is pushed into an old well by Lassie when he mistreats Jeff."
27 Feb 1955
"When Jeff is bitten by a rattlesnake, Gramps' truck axle breaks and he must try to carry Jeff to get a doctor and Lassie loses a note for help in a dog fight on the way to Porky's."
06 Mar 1955
"Jeff badgers Gramps to take him on a long promised camping trip despite Gramps' bad back and the two have good time with a fishing contest except when they are briefly accosted by an aggressive bear."
Season 2 - Lassie
19 Oct 1955
"When the new school teacher prohibit pets in the classroom one student sneaks in a snake."
13 Nov 1955
"Jeff and Gramps become jealous, after Clay asks Ellen to go out dancing with him."
22 Jan 1956
"After Jeff bests another boy in a fight, the other youth decides to exact revenge by claiming that Lassie bit him while his attorney argues that the dog should be killed for being a vicious nuisance."
01 Apr 1956
"Jeff is more motivated by competition with a dismissive schoolmate than by charity when the Sunday School class starts a collection for flood victims within their state."
29 Apr 1956
"Porky and Jeff win a calf in a 4H calf scramble to raise and enter at the county fair to sell in order to buy an outboard motor but have second thought after the sale when they learn the heifer is to be slaughtered."
1956-06-03
"When Jeff and Porky discover their competition jumping frog is female and about to lay eggs, they drive Gramps and Ellen to exhaustion in their quest to see the eggs are fertilized and produce offspring."
Season 3 - Lassie
06 Jan 1957
"While trying to persuade Porky to go home, Jeff resists pressure to tell the whereabouts of Porky who has left home after an unwarranted licking because Jeff has made a promise not to tell."
14 Apr 1957
"When Jeff accepts a dare to enter a rumored haunted house, Jeff and Porky become trapped in a cellar by the actions of a secret society initiation, the members of which the boys believe to be ghost because of their colonial dress."
05 May 1957
"When a peddler relates to Jeff and Porky a lie told to him by Gramps about going broke, Jeff starts taking drastic action such giving Lassie to Porky to feed, selling his things and readying to leave school to get a job."
