Lassie ('54)

In the opening episode of the series, Lassie finds a new home but the collie shows a reluctance to leave her old home.

Jeff is failing math at school due to his ongoing problems with fractions.

Gramps, feeling a little guilty over ignoring Jeff in the past, brings home a colt for him.

Jeff wants to learn to use his father's gun, but Ellen is terrified of him being exposed to a firearm.

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.

Jeff and Lassie meet an escaped convict in the woods.

When Gramps quarrels with Matt Brockway after a hotly contested checker game, both men forbid their sons to play with each other.

With Gramps and Ellen away for the day, Jeff and Porky plan a lazy day--until an escaped circus lion invades the farm.

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

Jeff thinks Lassie needs a vet when her time comes, but a storm is brewing and Gramps says dogs can cope.

A radio producer hears Ellen singing at church and offers her a job singing on radio.

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.

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

A calf Jeff is getting ready for the upcoming county fair mysteriously disappears at the same time that Lassie comes home muddy and injured.

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

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

After Lassie is suspected of having rabies, she's about to be taken to the pound--but Jeff runs away with her.

Ellen offers the boys a special treat if they will babysit a boy while she is called out on an errand.

The church is holding a father-son event and Jeff doesn't want Gramps to fill in for his dad.

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

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.

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

An injured man, hurt in a car accident, is brought to the farm.

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

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