Season 6 poster

Season 6

(1959)

Cast

June Lockhart as Ruth Martin
June Lockhart

as Ruth Martin

Jon Provost as Timmy Martin
Jon Provost

as Timmy Martin

Hugh Reilly as Paul Martin
Hugh Reilly

as Paul Martin

Tommy Rettig as Jeff Miller
Tommy Rettig

as Jeff Miller

Episodes

The New Refrigerator poster

The New Refrigerator 0.0

September 6, 1959

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

Old Henry poster

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September 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 tryi…

The Contest poster

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September 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 spend…

The Mascot poster

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September 27, 1959

Baseball great Roy Campanella comes to coach the Calverton Boys' League just as Timmy puts in a bid for Lassie to becom…

The Sulky Race poster

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October 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,…

Growing Pains poster

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October 11, 1959

After Timmy gets a ""real shiner"" in a fight, Ruth can't understand the self-respect he's gained with his larger class…

The Flying Machine poster

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October 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…

The UNICEF Story poster

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October 24, 1959

On a windy night, Lassie hears screaming coming from the woods, and upon investigating, finds a foreign girl named Anna…

Water Boy poster

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November 1, 1959

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

The Whopper poster

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November 8, 1959

Ruth is disturbed by the tall tales Timmy is telling to impress Willy Brewster--a problem compounded when he tells Will…

The Bounty Hunter poster

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November 15, 1959

Due to stock killings by a puma nicknamed ""Satan,"" the local farmers hire a bounty hunter, a curt, unlikable man whos…

The Land Grabber poster

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November 22, 1959

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

The Man from Mars poster

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November 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 Mar…

In Case of Emergency poster

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December 6, 1959

After a local farmer dies on the way to the Capitol City hospital, fifty miles away, the Martins spearhead a plan to st…

Star Reporter poster

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December 20, 1959

Timmy persuades editor Ira Caldwell to let him try and earn money by selling newspaper subscriptions to the Calverton S…

Alias Jack and Joe poster

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December 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 believ…

Judas Goat poster

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January 3, 1960

Phil Houston's stockyards suddenly gets a new source of lambs for market thanks to his assistant Joe Morton and Lassie …

The Space Traveler poster

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January 10, 1960

When Timmy and Don accidentally release the guinea pig from an experimental rocket, they replace it with Timmy's guinea…

The Maverick poster

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January 17, 1960

large mongrel dog who's been a nuisance on neighbors' farms is trapped in a gorge, and although most of the farmers wan…

The Grasshopper and the Ant poster

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January 24, 1960

Timmy, studying grasshoppers for a school project, becomes so worried about a possible plague when he sees a big nest o…

Homing Pigeon poster

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January 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 …

The Explorers poster

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February 7, 1960

After an Explorer lectures Timmy's Cub Scout den, the inspired den goes on a hike and wonder into the Badlands where th…

The Epidemic poster

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February 14, 1960

When Paul tends a neighbor's herd, he discovers they have hoof-and-mouth disease--and now Princess, the new purebred co…

Fur-Coated Killer poster

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February 21, 1960

A neighbor may lose his new means of moneymaking when minks from his mink farm are blamed for slaughtering chickens. Bu…

Judgment Seat poster

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February 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 fie…

The Elephant poster

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March 6, 1960

After Timmy and other schoolchildren saved up enough money to purchase an baby elephant for the Capitol City Zoo, the c…

Clementine poster

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March 13, 1960

Timmy saves the life of a rooster that Paul only suspects was involved in cockfighting, but a neighbor's hired hand rec…

The Puppy Sitter poster

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March 20, 1960

Lassie, who turns out not to be expecting puppies, refuses to have anything to do with Henry Enders' setter puppies tha…

The Champ poster

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March 27, 1960

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

The Phone Hog poster

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April 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…

The Chase poster

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April 10, 1960

After watching two callous city hunters and their rented dog ruin a neighbor's fence, Timmy and Cully Wilson lead the m…

The Killer poster

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April 17, 1960

Sam Burke buys a savage German Shepherd named Bismarck after a bobcat depredates his flock of sheep and attacks the Mar…

The Moved Monument poster

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April 24, 1960

Paul, Henry Enders, and some other farmers may lose some valuable farmland--and Paul an expensive fence--due to a road …

The Alligator poster

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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 h…

The Wrong Gift poster

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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 moth…

The Fog poster

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May 15, 1960

The Martins' weekend camping trip turns dangerous when a treacherous fog envelops their camping area--and Timmy, stuck …

The Hermit poster

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May 22, 1960

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