Lassie plots

Cafe Society
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My officemate and I were talking this afternoon about the '60s tv show Lassie (don’t know how we got to that topic but it was a topic right after Calif recall, energy problems, and opinions of Davis). Yes it has been a boring day, why do you ask? I just know that both of us had meetings early afternoon that sucked the life out of any motivation we had before :slight_smile: .

So we were discussing what we remembered about this show. I stated that I don’t remember much just a bit of the theme song (like one note) and a few bits and pieces but no actually episode plots. W said that he remembered a bit more than that. Well W said that he saw Lassie on Nick a few years back (along with Flipper).

Here is what W said he learned from the Nick episodes. There were like 3 owners of Lassie. The 1st season s/he was owned by Tommy. 2nd season, Timmy came into the picture. Now this is where it sounds like it was a weird plot twist. It seems that Timmy was a run away and that the family kept him. But that family then had to move to the city so the family that bought the farm kept both Lassie and Timmy (the family being June Lockhart and somebody). Then Lassie jumps out of the vehicle and is then found by this guy who kept Lassie. In some kind of the odd coincidence this guy and the June Lockhard family meet up, but the family of June Lockhart had to move to Australia so they let this guy keep Lassie for the last couple of seasons.

So questions is: Is the above synopsis really how the plot went from season to season, if not could someone give the correct version?

I then joked that Timmy was treated like a dog or cat. He runs away and a family is able to just take him in. Did they even put up signs, call the pound, check the newspaper? Then when they, Timmy’s “owner”, moves he is just left. Did anybody object to this kind of treatment of a child? Did any of the viewers object to this plot stuff, cause if it happened today, I could see a real ruckus being raised.

deb – yes I did download the theme song for old times sake – 2world

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Bumpity Bump Bump

Actually I would like to know if the above synopsis of the show is true or not.

Tnx
deb

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Here’s a site with plotlines for the episodes. I looked through some of them and the ever-changing ownership of Lassie seems pretty complicated. I didn’t read enough to pick up all the detailes, but it seems that yes, Timmy’s ownership passed from person to person too… :slight_smile:

Eric

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To clear up a bit of confusion, Lassie’s first owner was Jeff, played by Tommy Rettig. Timmy was an orphan who lived with Jeff and his family (Dad, Mom and Grandpa) on the farm; after Grandpa died, Jeff’s family sold the farm to the Martins, who then adopted Timmy. Later on in the series, the Martins moved to Australia. If Lassie had gone to Australia with them, she would have been kept in quarantine for a long time (or it might have been that she couldn’t even get into the country, I don’t remember! LOL), so ownership of Lassie passed on to Corey the park ranger. The site that Santo provided is very good, btw–that person is a true Lassie fan!

The show was originally called “Jeff’s Collie,” btw. :slight_smile:

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Thanks for the answers. That site from the Lassie fan is great. So it does seem like Timmy’s ownership was passed around a bit. But reading the plots, Timmy was quite the scoundrel, but in a non mean way. :slight_smile: