"Lassie" (1954) TV series 1954-1974

User Rating:

6.9/10   

Director:

Bonita Granville

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | unknown

Release Date:

12 September 1954 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Family

Plot Keywords:

Dog | Collie Dog | Dog Actor | Lassie | Kids And Family

Awards:

Won 2 Primetime Emmys. Another 1 win & 7 nominations

Cast

Lassie	...	Lassie (282 episodes, 1954-1973)
Jon Provost	...	Timmy Martin / ... (244 episodes, 1957-1964)
June Lockhart	...	Ruth Martin / ... (200 episodes, 1958-1964)
Hugh Reilly	...	Paul Martin (163 episodes, 1958-1964)
Lassie the Dog	...	Lassie (143 episodes, 1954-1973)
Jan Clayton	...	Ellen Miller (114 episodes, 1954-1957)
Tommy Rettig	...	Jeff Miller (113 episodes, 1954-1957)

Also Known As:

Jeff's Collie (USA) (alternative title)
Timmy and Lassie (USA) (syndication title)

Runtime:

30 min (591 episodes)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White | Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System) | Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Certification:

Australia:G | Argentina:Atp

Filming Locations:

California, USA

Company:

Lassie Television

Trivia:

Pal, the first ever dog to play the legendary dog "Lassie" in Lassie Come Home (1943), appeared in the pilot of this TV series (broadcast as the first two episodes). It was his last appearance before his death in 1958.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)

A Lassie novel based on the Jeff's Collie series

I live and grew up in Melbourne, Australia. When I was a kid in the 1960s, I was given a book, a novel, called "Lassie: The Secret of the Summer", based on the Jeff's Collie cast of characters - Jeff, Porky, Ellen, Gramps. The story was that Jeff was trying to save up enough money to buy a record player for his room... and the Millers took in vacation guests on their farm. It was one of my favourite books of that time, in fact, I still have it somewhere. It was published by Whitman Publishing Co. of Racine, Wisconsin, I believe. I first saw the Timmy series of episodes -- and was confused when his parents changed actors suddenly. Later in the 1960s, another network reran the Jeff's Collie episodes from the 1950s. I loved the Jeff's Collie theme music -- wasn't it something classical... Mozart? All in all, a great childhood memory.

Peter Kohn, Melbourne, Australia