Seasons & episodes

Timmy refuses to attend the Grange Square Dance out of fear that he will have to dance with a girl. After Uncle Petrie reassures him this will not happen, he relents. To everyone's surprise, a fire disrupts the children's dance and Lassie must save the day.

A drought is hitting the area pretty hard, and Timmy desperately attempts to keep his own small garden from perishing.

When Timmy insists on going to a blasting site despite Lassie's protests, she is struck on the head by a dynamite-propelled rock and appears to not know who she is. Then she wanders away from the farm.

Members of the community band together to hunt down deer driven to eat their crops, but Timmy and Scott fight to do something that doesn't involve killing them.

Timmy is stricken with severe stomach cramps and keeps calling out for Lassie.

A crate holding a penguin enroute to the Capitol City zoo falls off its truck, and Timmy and Scott adopt the creature

Timmy tends an injured sparrow.

When Lassie finds an injured seeing-eye dog, the family searches in vain for the dog's owner. The situation appears hopeless until Lassie leads them to the dog's missing collar, and a telephone call to Capitol City Hospital reunites dog and owner.

Timmy becomes overzealous in his efforts to spot fire hazards to win a contest.

Ruth tries to replace Lassie's disreputable old blanket with a new one, but Lassie will have none of it.

Timmy's new rabbits take precedence over Lassie.

Scott's city cousins make fun of Timmy and Scott's interest in the Cub Scouts

Timmy's ""patient,"" an injured crow he names ""Peck,"" recovers to become a farm pest.

On the sly, Lassie tends some orphaned puppies.

Timmy becomes annoyed with a house guest of Ruth when all she can talk about is all the finer things Ruth is missing by living on a farm.

Inspired by Uncle Petrie's tale of a boy who talks to the animals, Timmy sets out to befriend animals himself. But he helps some people along the way and it is their friendship and kindness that save Lassie from a precarious situation.