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- The ongoing saga of the Martin family and their beloved collie, Lassie.
- Ben Handley, a man Jerry Austin detests, is selected to be the trucking company's new parts manager. While giving him a lift to Buffalo, Jerry and Mike discover that Ben knows absolutely nothing about truck engines. Furthermore, he has a serious drinking problem. When the truckers encounter an accident where the driver has been seriously injured, Ben suddenly displays hidden medical skills and takes charge of saving the dying man.
- 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.
- Lassie comes to the rescue of a cantankerous neighbor who falls seriously ill.
- 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.
- While the gang is at a wedding, Lassie runs after a bakery truck to a delivery, is taken on a hitchhike by transient worker at a delivery, given by the worker to a little girl from whom she flees and helped by campers before coming home.
- 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. Without Gramps to help, Mom advises Jeff to pray. Later that night, the windstorm has died but Gramps is still gone, Jeff decides he just has to ride his bike 5 miles in the darkness to veterinarian Dr. Wilson but Mom won't let him. Jeff advocates for a world where kids can prevail with their perspective on doing the right thing. Nonetheless, he relents and is about to head for bed as told, but Mom changes her mind, lets him make the 5-mile trek in the dark. His bike blows a tire on the way, and he walks the rest of the way to Dr. Wilson's house, where Mrs. Wilson answers and says her husband is away on a call. She wants him to come in for cookies but Jeff just has to find help. As Jeff turns to leave, she tells him to stay on the main road and she will have her husband look for him on his return drive home. Dr. Wilson does see Jeff and they drive over to the Miller's barn and he gives Lassie a shot. Gramps drives up just as Dr. Wilson is heading out. The last scene has Gramps and Mom looking at a tired Lassie laying in the barn with her several pups, and a very tired Jeff asleep in the hay next to them.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Jeff agrees to babysit a little girl at a time he was to join Porky in receiving rides on a road machine and so has Gramps temporarily relieve him without making sure that Gramps and the little girl understand the change of plans.
- 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.
- 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.
- When hunters kill a doe, Jeff rescues her fawn which Lassie is blamed for harming until livestock is killed by a canine believed to be a wolf.
- 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.
- 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.
- A family of Gypsies decides to setup camp on the Miller's property.
- 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.
- Jeff and Gramps become jealous, after Clay asks Ellen to go out dancing with him.
- When the new school teacher prohibit pets in the classroom one student sneaks in a snake.
- 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.
- 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.
- Jeff considers running away when he is forced to study arithmetic including a special test after copying from Porky which study could cause him to miss the circus with Gramps.
- 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.
- Jeff and Porky try to patch up the friendship between the feuding Gramps and Porky's father.
- 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.
- 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.
- When Gramps has back problems, Jeff thinks Gramps will die if he does not have an operation the family can not afford and begins a twenty mile hike to Creston to sell Lassie to Porky's cousin to get the operation money.
- 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.
- 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.
- Lassie sustains a severe injury after being hit by a car.
- 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.
- 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.
- When Jeff is bitten by a rattlesnake, Gramps' truck axle breaks and he must try to carry Jeff to get a doctor and Lassie loses a note for help in a dog fight on the way to Porky's.
- A man who collapses by the Miller barn is found to be a clown on whom the circus owner has fled with the circus money so Jeff and Porky plan a circus at the church carnival but Jeff must prove first the man is not a thief.
- Jeff and Porky train Lassie and take her to an obedience trial encountering both mishap and achievement during the process.
- 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.
- Jeff and Porky think they see a monster while fishing, and, while Gramps goes to the lake to see with the boys, Ellen sees it go into the house where, Gramps upon entering, finds a seal which the Millers keep for awhile.
- Jeff and Lassie tangle with a man who trains pit bull terriers to fight other dogs.
- Jeff and Porky fight because Jeff is more interested in the geode Lassie has found than finding Porky's lost new baseball and Jeff thinks Porky has said he is not interested in the geode that was to be entered in a class exhibit together.
- Lassie hides Laddie, the runt of her litter, to protect the pup from being given away by the Millers.
- The Millers, Lassie, and Jeff's friend Porky hunker down in the storm cellar, while a tornado wreaks havoc, above.
- Jeff's discovery of a wounded Mallard leads Jeff and Porky to the lake where they uncover market hunters violating game laws on posted land but when Jeff reports the infractions he is not believed because of the hunters' cover up.
- 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.
- Porky's dog Pokey is thought to have a contagious disease and must be destroy.
- 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.
- Jeff schemes to get out of his violin lessons by having Lassie howl during his practice.
- The boy the Millers receive in a 4H youth exchange program is unexpectedly Japanese which stirs post WWII prejudices for some in the area to the extent the Miller farm is threatened.
- Eccentric Sarah Dibbles, whom Jeff and Porky believe is a witch due to her stereotypical witch trappings, threatens a curse using the belief so the boys will discontinue spying on her.