Season 1

October 10, 1954

Gramps hires a tramp to do some odd jobs on the farm, then is jealous when Jeff starts to idolize the tale-telling old man.

October 17, 1954

Jeff and Lassie meet an escaped convict in the woods.

October 24, 1954

When Gramps quarrels with Matt Brockway after a hotly contested checker game, both men forbid their sons to play with each other. After Jeff and Porky's first attempt to fix the problem goes horribly wrong, so the boys hide in the woods in hopes that in ""saving"" them Gramps and Matt will be friends again.

October 31, 1954

With Gramps and Ellen away for the day, Jeff and Porky plan a lazy day--until an escaped circus lion invades the farm. Worse, no one will believe them when they call for help.

November 7, 1954

When Gramps has chest pains, the family tries to keep him from exerting himself.

November 14, 1954

Jeff thinks Lassie needs a vet when her time comes, but a storm is brewing and Gramps says dogs can cope. Dr. Wilson: Frank Ferguson. Mrs. Wilson: Frances Morris.

November 21, 1954

A radio producer hears Ellen singing at church and offers her a job singing on radio--but she and Jeff must take an apartment in the city and leave Lassie with Gramps to do it.

November 28, 1954

Jeff shows a dog trainer at the fair Lassie's tricks--and thinking she can be a headliner for them, the man and his partner steal her. Clay: Richard Garland.

December 5, 1954

Jeff overhears the wrong conversation, and, thinking Gramps needs an expensive operation, attempts to sell Lassie to raise the money.

December 12, 1954

The calf Jeff is raising for the county fair vanishes the same night Lassie comes home injured and covered with mud--then she mysteriously starts chasing Ellen's car.

December 19, 1954

Jeff doesn't understand why a famous prizefighter doesn't want to box any longer and pegs him as a coward.

December 26, 1954

While Jeff prepares for the county fair, a spoiled little girl visits the farm and continually tries to hurt Lassie.

January 2, 1955

After Lassie is suspected of having rabies, she's about to be taken to the pound--but Jeff runs away with her. Clay: Richard Garland. Brockway: Paul Maxey.

January 9, 1955

Ellen offers the boys a special treat if they will babysit a boy while she is called out on an errand. But the kid turns out to be more than Jeff and Porky can handle.

January 16, 1955

The church is holding a father-son event and Jeff doesn't want Gramps to fill in for his dad. Jeff is then even more embarrassed when Ellen decides to accompany him instead.

January 23, 1955

Jeff wants to adopt an orphan fawn, but Gramps says there is no place for wild animals on a farm.

January 30, 1955

The parents of a blind veteran try to buy Lassie--the young man's own collie Lassie has died and they do not want to tell him the truth, fearing he will slip into depression again.

February 6, 1955

Jeff and Lassie are trapped in a cave shown to them by a malicious classmate.

February 13, 1955

An injured man, hurt in a car accident, is brought to the farm. He mutters something about hitting a collie with his car--and Lassie is acting strangely.

February 20, 1955

A snoopy inspector from the water department insists on seeing the Miller well.

February 27, 1955

Jeff is bitten by a rattlesnake and Gramps and Ellen rush to get him to a doctor.

March 6, 1955

Jeff and Porky's campout is ruined by a persistent bear.