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1.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
Transition
(1957)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
With Gramps death, Jeff and Ellen are faced with moving to Capitol City and Timmy with going with his aunt and uncle but the Martins agree to take over the farm and adopt Timmy.
Director: Maurice Geraghty | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Jon Provost
Votes: 31
2.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Brat
(1955)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Ellen must go to a forgotten church meeting so she leaves a little boy for whom she is babysitting with Jeff and Porky, the two of whom suffer from the mean deeds and tricks of the boy.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Lassie the Dog
Votes: 28
3.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Convict
(1954)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Jeff is met at the lake by an escaped convict who threatens harm to Gramps and Ellen if Jeff does bring him clothes and food while being silent about the man's location.
Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Richard Garland
Votes: 35
4.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Christmas Story
(1958)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
While the Martin's are Christmas shopping, Lassie saves a child from getting hit by a truck and is struck herself. Dr. Weaver is uncertain if he can do the operation to save her and the specialist who can is unreachable.
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Anne Barton, Larry J. Blake, George Chandler, Lassie the Dog
Votes: 37
5.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Twister
(1955)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
The Millers, Lassie, and Jeff's friend Porky hunker down in the storm cellar, while a tornado wreaks havoc, above.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Lassie the Dog
Votes: 30
6.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Journey
(1956)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Jeff' skips schools and hitches a ride to Capitol City to seek a specialist to operate on Lassie when it appears Lassie is going blind.
Director: Maurice Geraghty | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Lassie the Dog
Votes: 32
7.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
Inheritance
(1954)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Young Jeff Miller inherits a neighbor's collie and, while Lassie has trouble adapting to the Miller home, she is mistreated by the deceased's misanthropic hired man Wills who hangs on to steal the deceased's hidden cash.
Director: Leslie Goodwins | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Myron Healey
Votes: 55
8.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Job
(1954)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Ellen takes a job as singer at radio station in Capitol City and finds a small apartment that does not allow dogs so Lassie stays on the farm with Gramps but Ellen takes Jeff who is made miserable by lack of activities and a mean neighbor.
Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Raymond Greenleaf
Votes: 32
9.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
Lassie's Pups
(1954)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Lassie is in the barn and about to have puppies but looks ill at ease, and Jeff is worried. He wants to fetch a doctor but there is a windstorm which called Gramps away to repair lines. ... See full summary »
Director: Sheldon Leonard | Stars: Tommy Rettig, Jan Clayton, George Cleveland, Lassie the Dog
Votes: 35
10.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
Gramps
(1954)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Jeff and Ellen wrongly believe that a Gramps has a bad heart and insist Gramps lie down for rest so Jeff trains Lassie to bark when ever Gramps assumes other than a prone position.
Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Joey D. Vieira
Votes: 31
11.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Snob
(1957)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Jeff is embarrassed by his humble circumstances when the son of a wealthy banker and family take residence nearby while the rich boy is envious of Jeff's country lifestyle.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Joey D. Vieira
Votes: 24
12. The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show (1956–1961)
30 min | Comedy, Music
Hosted by Tennessee Ernie Ford, the likeable singer, comedian, entertainer received his own variety show sponsored by the Ford Motor Company which gave Ernie the venue to entertain millions... See full summary »
Stars: Tennessee Ernie Ford, The Top Twenty, The Voices of Walter Schumann, Cliff Arquette
Votes: 70
13.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The School
(1955)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
When the new school teacher prohibit pets in the classroom one student sneaks in a snake.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Jan Clayton, George Cleveland, Phyllis Coates, Lassie the Dog
Votes: 24
14.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Trial
(1956)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
After Jeff bests another boy in a fight, the other youth decides to exact revenge by claiming that Lassie bit him while his attorney argues that the dog should be killed for being a vicious nuisance.
Director: Leonard Freeman | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Joey D. Vieira
Votes: 38
15.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
Father
(1955)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Jeff whose father is deceased is told by a bully that he does not belong at the church father and son banquet but,, after Jeff rejects Gramps company, Ellen injects her self into the event and gains the participants' admiration.
Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Jan Clayton, George Cleveland, Lassie the Dog, Raymond Greenleaf
Votes: 32
16.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
Runaways
(1955)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
When Lassie is to be quarantined because she is mistakenly thought rabid, Jeff and Lassie hop a freight train and meet a hobo who takes them home after some trouble in a hobo camp.
Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Richard Garland
Votes: 26
17.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Rustlers
(1954)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Gramps and Ellen think that Lassie has developed a bad habit of chasing vehicles but Jeff's discovery about the selectivity of what Lassie chases uncovers an illegal cattle slaughtering operation.
Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, William Phipps
Votes: 27
18.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Harvesters
(1957)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
While Jeff helps the boy with his education and Gramps tries to arrange a lease for the father, belligerent Jud Perkins wants the 'foreigner' squatters on an area farm removed by any means necessary.
Director: Philip Ford | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Joey D. Vieira
Votes: 22
19.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Rabbits
(1958)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Lassie is annoyed and jealous when Timmy devotes too much time with his rabbits.
Director: Philip Ford | Stars: George Chandler, Lassie the Dog, Cloris Leachman, Jon Provost
Votes: 16
20.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Carnival
(1954)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
After Jeff' shows dog show operators Lassie's skills at a carnival, the two men steal the dog when Jeff will not sell her so Jeff jumps their truck to prevent the theft.
Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Richard Garland
Votes: 33
21.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Fighter
(1954)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A man who, unknown to the Millers, has been a prizefighter who killed a man in the ring signs on to be a Miller farmhand and is perceived by formerly admiring Jeff as coward for not standing up against another farmhand bully.
Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Christian Drake
Votes: 30
22.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Lion
(1954)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Jeff tells his parents about seeing an escaped circus lion in the woods, but no one believes him until the lion shows up at his home.
Director: Sheldon Leonard | Stars: Tommy Rettig, Jan Clayton, George Cleveland, Lassie the Dog
Votes: 34
23.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
Lassie's Vanity
(1957)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
After Lassie is professionally groomed for a family photo that Ellen won through a radio program, Lassie resists messy tasks and the surrender of her adornments.
Director: Philip Ford | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Joey D. Vieira
Votes: 19
24.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Search
(1957)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
While having a bad day, Gramps leaves the farm thinking Lassie is more valued than he but later needs Lassie's help when pinned against his pickup by a tree that falls during a storm.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, House Peters Jr.
Votes: 21
25.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
War Dog
(1956)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Jeff must prove that a former military dog who has unexplainably attacked the man who Jeff arranged to have the dog is not vicious but responding to some stimulus from army canine training.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Joey D. Vieira
Votes: 23
26.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
Poverty
(1957)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
When a peddler relates to Jeff and Porky a lie told to him by Gramps about going broke, Jeff starts taking drastic action such giving Lassie to Porky to feed, selling his things and readying to leave school to get a job.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Joey D. Vieira
Votes: 24
27.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
Boy's Day
(1957)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Ellen's and Gramps' talk diminishes Jeff's passion that Jeff and Porky will be Calverton constable and deputy constable on boys' day so Gramps arranges a fake bank robbery with his friends.
Director: Philip Ford | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Joey D. Vieira
Votes: 19
28.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Contest
(1959)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
When Willie tells Timmy about contest for circuit tickets for letters about best pet, Timmy writes a letter on the last day and gives it to Lassie to post but it is made undeliverable when Lassie has to help Willie, Mr. Burke and Mr. Huff.
Director: Hollingsworth Morse | Stars: Trevor Bardette, Hal K. Dawson, Lassie the Dog, June Lockhart
Votes: 28
29.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
Father Ellen
(1957)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
When fatherless Jeff shuns the 4H meetings because each father is in turn teaching a task, Ellen attempts to engage with Jeff in physical fatherly activities thinking Jeff is lonely but this behavior causes Jeff to think the same of Ellen.
Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Joey D. Vieira
Votes: 19
30.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Tractor
(1956)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Gramps is both too habituated to his old ways and too fearful to use the new tractor he has won in a raffle until he must use it to rescue Jeff when the pickup with a load of timber is about to go over a cliff.
Director: Philip Ford | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Joey D. Vieira
Votes: 23
31.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
Friendship
(1956)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Lassie comes to the rescue of a cantankerous neighbor who falls seriously ill.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Joey D. Vieira
Votes: 26
32.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
Howling Hero
(1962)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Lassie and Timmy endeavor to accustom Chief Washburne's dog Smokey to fire department noises and commotion so Smokey might overcome his fears and become an authentic firehouse dog.
Director: Hollingsworth Morse | Stars: Lassie the Dog, Lassie, Dick Foran, Jon Provost
Votes: 16
33.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
Mr. Peabody
(1954)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Jeff is enthralled by the plethora of tall tales told by the new farmhand Mr. Peabody but Gramps is chafed at folksy Peabody's partial falsehoods and peculiar ways and what he perceives as these things influences on Jeff.
Director: Sheldon Leonard | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, James Bell
Votes: 34
34.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Cave
(1955)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Since Ben Nielsen is a liar, he is not believed when he tells that Jeff is trapped in a cave by a rock he has angrily moved in front of the cave entrance but can not budge.
Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Sammy Ogg
Votes: 32
35.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Gun
(1954)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Ellen, at first mortified by Jeff's discovery of his deceased father's rifle, allows him to play with unloaded weapon but Jeff proves reckless with the weapon when Mr., King loads it to kill a fox on his farm.
Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Trevor Bardette
Votes: 33
36.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Well
(1955)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
An unscrupulous water company executive trying to acquire by any means water rights from the Miller and other area farms is pushed into an old well by Lassie when he mistreats Jeff.
Director: Leslie Goodwins | Stars: Tommy Rettig, Hugh Beaumont, Jan Clayton, George Cleveland
Votes: 38
37.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
Feud
(1954)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Jeff and Porky try to patch up the friendship between the feuding Gramps and Porky's father.
Director: Sheldon Leonard | Stars: Jan Clayton, George Cleveland, Lassie the Dog, Richard Garland
Votes: 30
38.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Injury
(1955)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Lassie sustains a severe injury after being hit by a car.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Lassie the Dog
Votes: 31
39.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Kittens
(1955)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A mother cat is hit by a car so Lassie brings to the Miller farm the cat's new litter that Gramps wants to drown which is an action to which Jeff objects.
Stars: Jan Clayton, George Cleveland, Lassie the Dog, Tommy Rettig
Votes: 29
40.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
Sunday School
(1956)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Jeff is more motivated by competition with a dismissive schoolmate than by charity when the Sunday School class starts a collection for flood victims within their state.
Director: Philip Ford | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Joey D. Vieira
Votes: 21
41.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Apple Tree
(1957)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Lassie finds a wild Gravenstein apple tree that Jeff and Gramps can use to graft the trees in the orchard after rabbits have girdled them so the orchard and farm can be saved.
Director: Philip Ford | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Joey D. Vieira
Votes: 21
42.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Mother
(1958)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Lassie befriends a litter of newborn puppies but does it secretly.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: George Chandler, Lassie the Dog, Cloris Leachman, Jon Provost
Votes: 19
43. Disneyland '59 (1959 TV Movie)
90 min | Documentary
Walt Disney and Art Linkletter co-host a live celebration of Disneyland's fifth anniversary. Highlights include a mammoth, star-studded parade and the official launching of the Disneyland ... See full synopsis »
Directors: Marshall Diskin, Hamilton Luske | Stars: Eddie Albert, Danny Alguire, Rex Allen, Edgar Bergen
Votes: 92
44.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
Blind Soldier
(1955)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
After a couple whose son was blinded in the war and had a collie named Lassie try to buy Lassie for their son's adjustment, Jeff agrees to let the couple borrow Lassie for two weeks but Lassie's return goes awry.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Lassie the Dog
Votes: 26
45.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
Peace Patrol
(1959)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Timmy wants his school to participate in The Lone Ranger Peace Patrol program encouraging children to save their money to buy saving bonds to support the United States.
Director: Franklin Adreon | Stars: Jon Provost, June Lockhart, Hugh Reilly, George Chandler
Votes: 35
46.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Contest
(1954)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Ellen cares for a divorced old friend' s troubled daughter whose repressed anger is manifest in the destruction of things dear to others even to the extent that the girl will put Lassie mortal danger so Lassie will lose a racing contest.
Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Frank Ferguson
Votes: 29
47.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Rival
(1955)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Jeff and Gramps become jealous, after Clay asks Ellen to go out dancing with him.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Lassie the Dog
Votes: 25
48.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Bear
(1955)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Jeff badgers Gramps to take him on a long promised camping trip despite Gramps' bad back and the two have good time with a fishing contest except when they are briefly accosted by an aggressive bear.
Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Lassie the Dog
Votes: 28
49.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Colt
(1954)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Lassie leaves the farm when Jeff ignores her while he is infatuated with new colt Gramps has given him and after Jeff chastises Lassie for startling the colt.
Director: Sheldon Leonard | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Walter Baldwin
Votes: 35
50.
Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode:
The Dog Show
(1955)
TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Jeff and Porky train Lassie and take her to an obedience trial encountering both mishap and achievement during the process.
Director: Philip Ford | Stars: Jan Clayton, Tommy Rettig, George Cleveland, Lassie the Dog
Votes: 27