Lassie: Season 17
Season 17 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Lassie Season 16.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 17 Progress Shield
Lassie's Interlude
Sep 20, 1970
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
The Birth
Sep 27, 1970
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.
The Survival
Oct 4, 1970
Lassie and her three puppies escape from the ranch and head for the desert, where Kerry discovers them and helps them survive.
The Miracle
Oct 11, 1970
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 t
The Innocents
Oct 11, 1970
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.
The Offering
Oct 25, 1970
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.
Nature's Child
Nov 1, 1970
While wandering the forest, Lassie and her remaining puppy meet a little girl who can ""talk to animals.""
Flock of Love
Nov 8, 1970
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.
Aftermath
Nov 15, 1970
After a forest fire, Lassie helps the wild animals displaced by the flames find new homes.
Here Comes Glory! (1)
Nov 22, 1970
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
Here Comes Glory! (2)
Nov 29, 1970
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
A Year of Sundays
Dec 6, 1970
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--u
Any Heart in a Storm
Dec 13, 1970
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 he
Gentle Dawn
Jan 10, 1971
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 als
Lassie's Busy Day
Jan 17, 1971
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.
The River
Jan 24, 1971
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, sh
Other Pastures, Other Fences
Jan 31, 1971
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
The Awakening
Feb 7, 1971
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
Troubled Waters
Feb 21, 1971
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 la
For the Love of Lassie (1)
Feb 28, 1971
Lassie returns to visit the farm where she left one of her puppies--and once upon her way again, falls down a hidden well.
For the Love of Lassie (2)
Mar 7, 1971
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
Sneakers
Mar 21, 1971
People who have been helped by Lassie (including the couple from ""Gentle Dawn,"" who are now married) help rescue her from the well.