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Lassie Season 6

Lassie

Season 6

September 5, 1959 37 episodes

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The New Refrigerator
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E1. The New Refrigerator

Sep 6, 1959

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

Old Henry
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E2. Old Henry

Sep 13, 1959

Timmy buys an old plowhorse for a dollar, but Paul says they cannot keep the animal since he can't do any work. In trying earn money to keep the horse, Timmy becomes trapped in a mine.

The Contest
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E3. The Contest

Sep 20, 1959

Timmy enters a ""why I love my pet"" contest and entrusts Lassie to get the entry to the mailman on time, but she spends so much time aiding neighbors in trouble that the letter is not delivered.

The Mascot
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E4. The Mascot

Sep 27, 1959

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. But when Timmy overhears two boys bargaining over who will pitch the first game and is threatened that Lassie will not get the mascot position if he tells, he's thrown in a quandary.

The Sulky Race
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E5. The Sulky Race

Oct 4, 1959

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, Big Boy, his future stud horse, and Lazy Joe, Big Boy's stablemate, at the Martin farm. But at an early time-trial, Big Boy turns up lame.

Growing Pains
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E6. Growing Pains

Oct 11, 1959

After Timmy gets a ""real shiner"" in a fight, Ruth can't understand the self-respect he's gained with his larger classmates and forbids him to play football with them.

The Flying Machine
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E7. The Flying Machine

Oct 18, 1959

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.

The UNICEF Story
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E8. The UNICEF Story

Oct 24, 1959

On a windy night, Lassie hears screaming coming from the woods, and upon investigating, finds a foreign girl named Anna wandering about lost. Befriending the girl, Lassie brings her home to the Martins. They discover she is a European girl that the Wilkins family has taken in temporarily. She is enrolled in the Calverton school and Timmy begins acclimating her to the area by taking her on a picnic. He notices she always eats as if she is starving; at first he does not notice that she is also hoarding food. Anna is continually coming in late, and then Miss Hazlit begins having complaints from Rudy that things are disappearing from the childrens' lunch boxes. When Rudy accuses Anna in front of the other kids, Timmy fights with him until Miss Hazlit breaks it up and makes Rudy apologize. Timmy comes home, however, and overhears Miss Hazlit telling Ruth that she also suspects that Anna is the thief. Timmy is disturbed, but agrees to let Miss Hazlit take care of the matter. In the meantime,

Water Boy
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E9. Water Boy

Nov 1, 1959

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

The Whopper
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E10. The Whopper

Nov 8, 1959

Ruth is disturbed by the tall tales Timmy is telling to impress Willy Brewster--a problem compounded when he tells Willy and Flip that Mrs. Larson, a new neighbor living in a run-down house, is a witch.

The Bounty Hunter
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E11. The Bounty Hunter

Nov 15, 1959

Due to stock killings by a puma nicknamed ""Satan,"" the local farmers hire a bounty hunter, a curt, unlikable man whose tracking dog King and Lassie immediately strike sparks off one another.

The Land Grabber
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E12. The Land Grabber

Nov 22, 1959

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

The Man from Mars
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E13. The Man from Mars

Nov 29, 1959

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. Funny thing is: food keeps disappearing from the Martin house!

In Case of Emergency
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E14. In Case of Emergency

Dec 6, 1959

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, but a prominent farmer known as a skinflint refuses his approval.

Star Reporter
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E15. Star Reporter

Dec 20, 1959

Timmy persuades editor Ira Caldwell to let him try and earn money by selling newspaper subscriptions to the Calverton Sentinel,and then accidently overhears a plan to rob the local dairy's co-op while at the Vance farm.

Alias Jack and Joe
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E16. Alias Jack and Joe

Dec 27, 1959

During a game, the boys begin fighting and Flip is knocked out by a rock thrown by Rudy, who makes Timmy and Sam believe Flip is dead and it's their fault, so the two boys and Lassie run away to avoid disgracing their families.

Judas Goat
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E17. Judas Goat

Jan 3, 1960

Phil Houston's stockyards suddenly gets a new source of lambs for market thanks to his assistant Joe Morton and Lassie seems to be reacting to strange noises not coming from the new silent dog whistle Timmy recently purchased.

The Space Traveler
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E18. The Space Traveler

Jan 10, 1960

When Timmy and Don accidentally release the guinea pig from an experimental rocket, they replace it with Timmy's guinea pig Alexander the Great. But authorities suspect the guinea pig on the rocket was exposed to deadly radiation.

The Maverick
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E19. The Maverick

Jan 17, 1960

large mongrel dog who's been a nuisance on neighbors' farms is trapped in a gorge, and although most of the farmers want the stray dead, the Calverton dog pound representative wants to save him.

The Grasshopper and the Ant
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E20. The Grasshopper and the Ant

Jan 24, 1960

Timmy, studying grasshoppers for a school project, becomes so worried about a possible plague when he sees a big nest of the insects that he speaks up at the Grange meeting and tries to buy insecticide with his own money. It's only then that even Paul takes him seriously--and is glad he did.

Homing Pigeon
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E21. Homing Pigeon

Jan 31, 1960

After he trades some old sports equipment for a homing pigeon, Timmy's next task is to train her. But only Lassie--and a male pigeon attracted to the new homer--knows ""Bright Eyes"" is endangered by a hawk on her first long-distance flight.

The Explorers
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E22. The Explorers

Feb 7, 1960

After an Explorer lectures Timmy's Cub Scout den, the inspired den goes on a hike and wonder into the Badlands where they become stranded on a rock ledge.

The Epidemic
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E23. The Epidemic

Feb 14, 1960

When Paul tends a neighbor's herd, he discovers they have hoof-and-mouth disease--and now Princess, the new purebred cow he invested $1000 in, and the Martin's old cow Bessie are threatened with slaughter.

Fur-Coated Killer
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E24. Fur-Coated Killer

Feb 21, 1960

A neighbor may lose his new means of moneymaking when minks from his mink farm are blamed for slaughtering chickens. But the killer turns out to be something more dangerous: a wolverine.

Judgment Seat
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E25. Judgment Seat

Feb 28, 1960

The father of a new girl Timmy befriends owns the land Paul is renting for his alfalfa crop--and plans to flood the field before Paul can harvest it.

The Elephant
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E26. The Elephant

Mar 6, 1960

After Timmy and other schoolchildren saved up enough money to purchase an baby elephant for the Capitol City Zoo, the city authorities find there is no place to house it, so, newly named ""Peanuts"" by Timmy, it ends up boarding at the Martin farm.

Clementine
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E27. Clementine

Mar 13, 1960

Timmy saves the life of a rooster that Paul only suspects was involved in cockfighting, but a neighbor's hired hand recognizes ""Clementine"" as a champion fighter named Dynamite who was left for dead.

The Puppy Sitter
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E28. The Puppy Sitter

Mar 20, 1960

Lassie, who turns out not to be expecting puppies, refuses to have anything to do with Henry Enders' setter puppies that Timmy is taking care of.

The Champ
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E29. The Champ

Mar 27, 1960

Everyone makes fun of Timmy's runt piglet, Champ.

The Phone Hog
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E30. The Phone Hog

Apr 3, 1960

Paul is trapped in his truck by a downed power line during an electrical storm, but Timmy can't call for help because a garrilous woman is constantly on the telephone.

The Chase
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E31. The Chase

Apr 10, 1960

After watching two callous city hunters and their rented dog ruin a neighbor's fence, Timmy and Cully Wilson lead the men on a chase through the forest using a young raccoon's scent as bait. It's a grand practical joke--until one of the unexperienced men accidentally shoots the other.

The Killer
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E32. The Killer

Apr 17, 1960

Sam Burke buys a savage German Shepherd named Bismarck after a bobcat depredates his flock of sheep and attacks the Martin stock as well, leaving a lamb orphaned--but Lassie knows that something else was responsible for the killings.

The Moved Monument
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E33. The Moved Monument

Apr 24, 1960

Paul, Henry Enders, and some other farmers may lose some valuable farmland--and Paul an expensive fence--due to a road building project. Henry Enders tells the Martins he understands some of the original survey markers were once moved, so the two men try to find any that were not replaced.

The Alligator
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E34. The Alligator

May 1, 1960

Flip will get Timmy's turtle Myrtle if Lassie behaves like the greedy dog in Aesop's Fables, and indeed she does drop her bone--because she saw the escaped alligator that's taken up residence in the lake.

The Wrong Gift
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E35. The Wrong Gift

May 8, 1960

When Willy's expensive Mother's Day gift and Timmy's more frugal choice are mixed up, Timmy can't bear to tell his mother after seeing her pleased reaction--so he takes steps to earn the additional money Willy's gift cost.

The Fog
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E36. The Fog

May 15, 1960

The Martins' weekend camping trip turns dangerous when a treacherous fog envelops their camping area--and Timmy, stuck in a sinkhole in the swamp while searching for Lassie, is threatened by a maurauding wolf.

The Hermit
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E37. The Hermit

May 22, 1960

Timmy befriends the hermit who recently moved into the area, a man a visiting construction worker and his son scorn.

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