Lassie ('54)

Ruth loves her new refrigerator, but Lassie prefers meals from the old icebox instead--precipitating a battle of wills.

Timmy buys an old plowhorse for a dollar, but Paul says they cannot keep the animal since he can't do any work.

Timmy enters a "why I love my pet" contest and entrusts Lassie to get the entry to the mailman on time.

Baseball great Roy Campanella comes to coach the Calverton Boys' League just as Timmy puts in a bid for Lassie to become the team's mascot.

A down-on-his-luck horse racer who needs to win just one more race to start his own farm boards his two harness horses at the Martin farm.

After Timmy gets a "real shiner" in a fight, Ruth can't understand the self-respect he's gained with his larger classmates.

As the smallest in the group, Timmy chosen to be test pilot for the gang's homemade glider. But the test flight will be held over a cliff.

On a windy night, Lassie hears screaming coming from the woods, and upon investigating, finds a foreign girl named Anna wandering about lost.

Paul needs a new well, and Cully Wilson swears he can find water with a divining rod rather than Paul hiring an expensive geologist.

Ruth is disturbed by the tall tales Timmy is telling to impress Willy Brewster.

Due to stock killings by a puma nicknamed "Satan," the local farmers hire a bounty hunter.

After Paul refuses to consider selling his land to a real estate broker, someone ruins his tomato crop and sets fire to his hay.

When Timmy sees a meteorite come down, he's sure it was really a spaceship from another planet--and that a man from Mars is wandering around the farm.

After a local farmer dies on the way to the Capitol City hospital, fifty miles away, the Martins spearhead a plan to start a community hospital.

Timmy persuades editor Ira Caldwell to let him try and earn money by selling newspaper subscriptions to the Calverton Sentinel.

During a game, the boys begin fighting and Flip is knocked out by a rock thrown by Rudy.

Phil Houston's stockyards suddenly gets a new source of lambs for market thanks to his assistant Joe Morton.

When Timmy and Don accidentally release the guinea pig from an experimental rocket, they replace it with Timmy's guinea pig Alexander the Great.

A large and uncannily smart mongrel dog who's been a nuisance on neighbors' farms is trapped in a gorge.

Timmy, studying grasshoppers for a school project, becomes so worried about a possible plague when he sees a big nest of the insects.

After he trades some old sports equipment for a homing pigeon, Timmy's next task is to train her.

After hearing a speech about hiking at a Boy Scout meeting, Timmy and his friends set out on a hike of their own and quickly get into trouble.

When Paul tends a neighbor's herd, he discovers they have hoof-and-mouth disease.

A neighbor may lose his new means of moneymaking when minks from his mink farm are blamed for slaughtering chickens.