Lassie - Season 17

Lassie - Season 17

Season 17

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Episodes22
DatesSep 20, 1970 - Mar 21, 1971
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Episodes

Lassie's Interlude
Season 17Episode 130 min

Lassie's Interlude

Lassie, on her own now (no explanation is given), meets a young man traveling the countryside and his male collie, Duke. They later find haven, and the young man a job, at a ranch where the owner's young son has not spoken for years.
Sep 20, 1970
The Birth
Season 17Episode 230 min

The Birth

While Duke and his master move on, Lassie remains at the ranch, but her new puppies are endangered by the owner, who thinks the pups were sired by a killer dog.
Sep 27, 1970
The Survival
Season 17Episode 330 min

The Survival

Lassie and her three puppies escape from the ranch and head for the desert, where Kerry discovers them and helps them survive.
Oct 4, 1970
The Miracle
Season 17Episode 430 min

The Miracle

Mute Kerry continues to help Lassie and her puppies elude his father and the sheriff, who's determined to kill the pups, and by the time the rancher learns Duke was the father of the puppies, it's almost too late.After everything is revealed, Kerry's father let's him adopt one of Lassie's puppies.
Oct 11, 1970
The Innocents
Season 17Episode 530 min

The Innocents

In this all-animal episode, Lassie teaches her two remaining puppies to survive in the wild, not an easy task in an area full of snakes and predators.
Oct 11, 1970
The Offering
Season 17Episode 630 min

The Offering

Lassie and her puppies meet a boy who is grief-stricken by the recent death of his dog.So Lassie leaves one of her two remaining puppies with the little boy.
Oct 25, 1970
Nature's Child
Season 17Episode 730 min

Nature's Child

While wandering the forest, Lassie and her remaining puppy meet a little girl who can ""talk to animals.""
Nov 1, 1970
Flock of Love
Season 17Episode 830 min

Flock of Love

Lassie befriends an elderly man whose claim that the flock of birds he feeds love him is scoffed by his cynical checkers opponent. But the faithful birds will surprise them.
Nov 8, 1970
Aftermath
Season 17Episode 930 min

Aftermath

After a forest fire, Lassie helps the wild animals displaced by the flames find new homes.
Nov 15, 1970
Here Comes Glory! (1)
Season 17Episode 1030 min

Here Comes Glory! (1)

Lassie, poisoned by pesticides, is found by an up-and-coming race horse, Glory, and her young owner. Once well again, she befriends a newborn colt on their California thoroughbred farm--then Glory is threatened by a marauding cougar.
Nov 22, 1970
Here Comes Glory! (2)
Season 17Episode 1130 min

Here Comes Glory! (2)

Even Hank can't believe all his surgical skills can heal Glory's injured leg, but Monty takes a chance and has her operated on nevertheless after a pep talk from partner Bert. Then it is up to Gary and Lassie to make her well, with exercise and swim therapy.
Nov 29, 1970
A Year of Sundays
Season 17Episode 1230 min

A Year of Sundays

Lassie and a workaholic trucker rescue a young man traveling across America trying to live ""a year of Sundays"" after getting out of the Army. The trucker scoffs at Mark's idea--until the brakes fail on a steep downhill run.
Dec 6, 1970
Any Heart in a Storm
Season 17Episode 1330 min

Any Heart in a Storm

Lassie takes refuge during a rainstorm in the garage of a good-hearted, lonely widow whose children have gone to college, but the woman is reluctant to let the muddy collie into her tidy house. Then the loose earth behind her house, weakened by water, begins to slide.
Dec 13, 1970
Gentle Dawn
Season 17Episode 1430 min

Gentle Dawn

Lassie and an injured mother linnet, who was stunned by a car while foraging for food on a road, bring together a lonely man and woman; in caring for the injured creature, they also learn to open themselves to each other.
Jan 10, 1971
Lassie's Busy Day
Season 17Episode 1530 min

Lassie's Busy Day

The ring-tailed cat Lassie saves from a bobcat becomes the hunter after he goes after a grouse's nest along with a grey fox; next, a horned owl's nest is threatened by an opossum. After Lassie deals with the possum, she enlists the grey fox's help to rescue a burrowing owl from a ferret. Then the bobcat returns to stalk the horned owl's nest
Jan 17, 1971
The River
Season 17Episode 1630 min

The River

Lassie makes her way upstream after helping rescue two campers who left their father to try out a new raft and were swept downstream on the rapids. Once she finds help, however, she must find the boys, who are also heading upstream.
Jan 24, 1971
Other Pastures, Other Fences
Season 17Episode 1730 min

Other Pastures, Other Fences

A boy restless with his rural life and chafing under the ""no trespassing"" signs of their territorial neighbor wishes to strike out to ""follow his star""--stealing the neighbor's mare to do so.
Jan 31, 1971
The Awakening
Season 17Episode 1830 min

The Awakening

Teenage Patty, reluctantly having left the city for a summer in the country with her aunt, has an inauspicious beginning: she's poisoned by arsenic in the well. Her aunt finds the source of the problem in an old mine, but is then trapped when the floor collapses, so Lassie must find Patty, who's just about to leave.
Feb 7, 1971
Troubled Waters
Season 17Episode 1930 min

Troubled Waters

Lassie and her new pal, a mutt named Skipper, are getting along just fine with Reed and Johnny, a couple of guys they befriended on the beach, until John discovers Reed is ""the law,"" a harbormaster, and walks out. But he finds he needs ""the law"" later on when he ""borrows"" a for-sale cabin cruiser and takes Lassie and Skipper along for the ride.
Feb 21, 1971
For the Love of Lassie (1)
Season 17Episode 2030 min

For the Love of Lassie (1)

Lassie returns to visit the farm where she left one of her puppies--and once upon her way again, falls down a hidden well.
Feb 28, 1971
For the Love of Lassie (2)
Season 17Episode 2130 min

For the Love of Lassie (2)

As Lassie remains trapped in the well the people she met and helped the previous months converge. In between frequent flashbacks everyone works diligently, including a honeymooning couple, to rescue the beloved dog.
Mar 7, 1971
Sneakers
Season 17Episode 2230 min

Sneakers

People who have been helped by Lassie (including the couple from ""Gentle Dawn,"" who are now married) help rescue her from the well.
Mar 21, 1971

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