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The Best Episodes of Lassie Season 6

Every episode of Lassie Season 6 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Lassie Season 6!

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Lassie is the pet of Jeff Miller, an 11-year-old farm boy. The two become best friends and enjoy family adventures in the American countryside, teaching each other about love, nature and commitment.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Lassie Season 6 Episode 26 - The Elephant
    8.5/10(26 votes)

    S6:E26

    After Timmy and other schoolchildren saved up enough money to purchase an baby elephant for the Capitol City Zoo, the city authorities find there is no place to house it, so, newly named ""Peanuts"" by Timmy, it ends up boarding at the Martin farm.

    Director:Hollingsworth Morse
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Lassie Season 6 Episode 3 - The Contest
    7.9/10(34 votes)

    S6:E3

    Timmy enters a ""why I love my pet"" contest and entrusts Lassie to get the entry to the mailman on time, but she spends so much time aiding neighbors in trouble that the letter is not delivered.

    Director:Hollingsworth Morse
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Lassie Season 6 Episode 4 - The Mascot
    7.9/10(27 votes)

    S6:E4

    Baseball great Roy Campanella comes to coach the Calverton Boys' League just as Timmy puts in a bid for Lassie to become the team's mascot. But when Timmy overhears two boys bargaining over who will pitch the first game and is threatened that Lassie will not get the mascot position if he tells, he's thrown in a quandary.

    Director:Hollingsworth Morse
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Lassie Season 6 Episode 30 - The Phone Hog
    7.9/10(24 votes)

    S6:E30

    Paul is trapped in his truck by a downed power line during an electrical storm, but Timmy can't call for help because a garrilous woman is constantly on the telephone.

    Director:Hollingsworth Morse
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Lassie Season 6 Episode 2 - Old Henry
    7.8/10(25 votes)

    S6:E2

    Timmy buys an old plowhorse for a dollar, but Paul says they cannot keep the animal since he can't do any work. In trying earn money to keep the horse, Timmy becomes trapped in a mine.

    Director:Earl Bellamy
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Lassie Season 6 Episode 17 - Judas Goat
    7.8/10(21 votes)

    S6:E17

    Phil Houston's stockyards suddenly gets a new source of lambs for market thanks to his assistant Joe Morton and Lassie seems to be reacting to strange noises not coming from the new silent dog whistle Timmy recently purchased.

    Director:Earl Bellamy
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Lassie Season 6 Episode 13 - The Man from Mars
    7.7/10(22 votes)

    S6:E13

    When Timmy sees a meteorite come down, he's sure it was really a spaceship from another planet--and that a man from Mars is wandering around the farm. Funny thing is: food keeps disappearing from the Martin house!

    Director:Hollingsworth Morse
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Lassie Season 6 Episode 10 - The Whopper
    7.6/10(25 votes)

    S6:E10

    Ruth is disturbed by the tall tales Timmy is telling to impress Willy Brewster--a problem compounded when he tells Willy and Flip that Mrs. Larson, a new neighbor living in a run-down house, is a witch.

    Director:Hollingsworth Morse
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Lassie Season 6 Episode 12 - The Land Grabber
    7.6/10(26 votes)

    S6:E12

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

    Director:Hollingsworth Morse
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Lassie Season 6 Episode 5 - The Sulky Race
    7.5/10(25 votes)

    S6:E5

    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, Big Boy, his future stud horse, and Lazy Joe, Big Boy's stablemate, at the Martin farm. But at an early time-trial, Big Boy turns up lame.

    Director:Earl Bellamy
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Lassie Season 6 Episode 14 - In Case of Emergency
    7.5/10(24 votes)

    S6:E14

    After a local farmer dies on the way to the Capitol City hospital, fifty miles away, the Martins spearhead a plan to start a community hospital, but a prominent farmer known as a skinflint refuses his approval.

    Director:Hollingsworth Morse
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Lassie Season 6 Episode 25 - Judgment Seat
    7.5/10(23 votes)

    S6:E25

    The father of a new girl Timmy befriends owns the land Paul is renting for his alfalfa crop--and plans to flood the field before Paul can harvest it.

    Director:Hollingsworth Morse
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Lassie Season 6 Episode 27 - Clementine
    7.5/10(23 votes)

    S6:E27

    Timmy saves the life of a rooster that Paul only suspects was involved in cockfighting, but a neighbor's hired hand recognizes ""Clementine"" as a champion fighter named Dynamite who was left for dead.

    Director:Hollingsworth Morse
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Lassie Season 6 Episode 19 - The Maverick
    7.4/10(23 votes)

    S6:E19

    large mongrel dog who's been a nuisance on neighbors' farms is trapped in a gorge, and although most of the farmers want the stray dead, the Calverton dog pound representative wants to save him.

    Director:Earl Bellamy
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Lassie Season 6 Episode 1 - The New Refrigerator
    7.3/10(27 votes)

    S6:E1

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Lassie Season 6 Episode 11 - The Bounty Hunter
    7.3/10(18 votes)

    S6:E11

    Due to stock killings by a puma nicknamed ""Satan,"" the local farmers hire a bounty hunter, a curt, unlikable man whose tracking dog King and Lassie immediately strike sparks off one another.

    Director:Earl Bellamy
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Lassie Season 6 Episode 21 - Homing Pigeon
    7.3/10(22 votes)

    S6:E21

    After he trades some old sports equipment for a homing pigeon, Timmy's next task is to train her. But only Lassie--and a male pigeon attracted to the new homer--knows ""Bright Eyes"" is endangered by a hawk on her first long-distance flight.

    Director:Hollingsworth Morse
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Lassie Season 6 Episode 23 - The Epidemic
    7.3/10(24 votes)

    S6:E23

    When Paul tends a neighbor's herd, he discovers they have hoof-and-mouth disease--and now Princess, the new purebred cow he invested $1000 in, and the Martin's old cow Bessie are threatened with slaughter.

    Director:Hollingsworth Morse
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Lassie Season 6 Episode 15 - Star Reporter
    7.2/10(23 votes)

    S6:E15

    Timmy persuades editor Ira Caldwell to let him try and earn money by selling newspaper subscriptions to the Calverton Sentinel,and then accidently overhears a plan to rob the local dairy's co-op while at the Vance farm.

    Director:Earl Bellamy
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Lassie Season 6 Episode 16 - Alias Jack and Joe
    7.2/10(21 votes)

    S6:E16

    During a game, the boys begin fighting and Flip is knocked out by a rock thrown by Rudy, who makes Timmy and Sam believe Flip is dead and it's their fault, so the two boys and Lassie run away to avoid disgracing their families.

    Director:George Blair
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Lassie Season 6 Episode 20 - The Grasshopper and the Ant
    7.2/10(24 votes)

    S6:E20

    Timmy, studying grasshoppers for a school project, becomes so worried about a possible plague when he sees a big nest of the insects that he speaks up at the Grange meeting and tries to buy insecticide with his own money. It's only then that even Paul takes him seriously--and is glad he did.

    Director:Hollingsworth Morse
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Lassie Season 6 Episode 22 - The Explorers
    7.2/10(24 votes)

    S6:E22

    After an Explorer lectures Timmy's Cub Scout den, the inspired den goes on a hike and wonder into the Badlands where they become stranded on a rock ledge.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Lassie Season 6 Episode 31 - The Chase
    7.2/10(22 votes)

    S6:E31

    After watching two callous city hunters and their rented dog ruin a neighbor's fence, Timmy and Cully Wilson lead the men on a chase through the forest using a young raccoon's scent as bait. It's a grand practical joke--until one of the unexperienced men accidentally shoots the other.

    Director:Hollingsworth Morse
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Lassie Season 6 Episode 33 - The Moved Monument
    7.2/10(19 votes)

    S6:E33

    Paul, Henry Enders, and some other farmers may lose some valuable farmland--and Paul an expensive fence--due to a road building project. Henry Enders tells the Martins he understands some of the original survey markers were once moved, so the two men try to find any that were not replaced.

    Director:Hollingsworth Morse
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Lassie Season 6 Episode 34 - The Alligator
    7.2/10(25 votes)

    S6:E34

    Flip will get Timmy's turtle Myrtle if Lassie behaves like the greedy dog in Aesop's Fables, and indeed she does drop her bone--because she saw the escaped alligator that's taken up residence in the lake.

    Director:Hollingsworth Morse
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 6 Ratings Summary

"The Elephant" is the best rated episode of "Lassie" season 6. It scored 8.5/10 based on 26 votes. Directed by Hollingsworth Morse and written by Unknown, it aired on 3/6/1960. This episode is rated 0.6 points higher than the second-best, "The Contest".