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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!

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...
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Network:CBS

Season 6 Ratings Summary

"The New Refrigerator" is the best rated episode of "Lassie" season 6. It scored 7.2/10 based on 23 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/6/1959. This episode is rated 0.7 points higher than the second-best, "Old Henry".

  • The New Refrigerator
    7.2/1023 votes

    #1 - The New Refrigerator

    Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 9/6/1959

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Old Henry
    7.9/1020 votes

    #2 - Old Henry

    Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 9/13/1959

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

    Director: Earl Bellamy

    Writer: N/A

  • The Contest
    7.6/1028 votes

    #3 - The Contest

    Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 9/20/1959

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

    Director: Hollingsworth Morse

    Writer: N/A

  • The Mascot
    7.9/1021 votes

    #4 - The Mascot

    Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 9/27/1959

    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: N/A

  • The Sulky Race
    7.7/1019 votes

    #5 - The Sulky Race

    Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 10/4/1959

    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, 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: N/A

  • Growing Pains
    6.8/1023 votes

    #6 - Growing Pains

    Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 10/11/1959

    After Timmy gets a ""real shiner"" in a fight, Ruth can't understand the self-respect he's gained with his larger classmates and forbids him to play football with them.

    Director: Hollingsworth Morse

    Writer: N/A

  • The Flying Machine
    6.6/1017 votes

    #7 - The Flying Machine

    Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 10/18/1959

    As the smallest in the group, Timmy chosen to be test pilot for the gang's homemade glider. But the test flight will be held over a cliff.

    Director: Hollingsworth Morse

    Writer: N/A

  • The UNICEF Story
    6.5/1021 votes

    #8 - The UNICEF Story

    Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 10/24/1959

    On a windy night, Lassie hears screaming coming from the woods, and upon investigating, finds a foreign girl named Anna wandering about lost. Befriending the girl, Lassie brings her home to the Martins. They discover she is a European girl that the Wilkins family has taken in temporarily. She is enrolled in the Calverton school and Timmy begins acclimating her to the area by taking her on a picnic. He notices she always eats as if she is starving; at first he does not notice that she is also hoarding food. Anna is continually coming in late, and then Miss Hazlit begins having complaints from Rudy that things are disappearing from the childrens' lunch boxes. When Rudy accuses Anna in front of the other kids, Timmy fights with him until Miss Hazlit breaks it up and makes Rudy apologize. Timmy comes home, however, and overhears Miss Hazlit telling Ruth that she also suspects that Anna is the thief. Timmy is disturbed, but agrees to let Miss Hazlit take care of the matter. In the meantime,

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Water Boy
    6.4/1027 votes

    #9 - Water Boy

    Season 6 Episode 9 - Aired 11/1/1959

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

    Director: Hollingsworth Morse

    Writer: N/A

  • The Whopper
    7.6/1021 votes

    #10 - The Whopper

    Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 11/8/1959

    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: N/A

  • The Bounty Hunter
    7.4/1015 votes

    #11 - The Bounty Hunter

    Season 6 Episode 11 - Aired 11/15/1959

    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: N/A

  • The Land Grabber
    7.7/1022 votes

    #12 - The Land Grabber

    Season 6 Episode 12 - Aired 11/22/1959

    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: N/A

  • The Man from Mars
    7.8/1019 votes

    #13 - The Man from Mars

    Season 6 Episode 13 - Aired 11/29/1959

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

    Director: Hollingsworth Morse

    Writer: N/A

  • In Case of Emergency
    7.5/1021 votes

    #14 - In Case of Emergency

    Season 6 Episode 14 - Aired 12/6/1959

    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: N/A

  • Star Reporter
    7.6/1019 votes

    #15 - Star Reporter

    Season 6 Episode 15 - Aired 12/20/1959

    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: N/A

  • Alias Jack and Joe
    7.2/1018 votes

    #16 - Alias Jack and Joe

    Season 6 Episode 16 - Aired 12/27/1959

    During a game, the boys begin fighting and Flip is knocked out by a rock thrown by Rudy, who makes Timmy and Sam 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: N/A

  • Judas Goat
    7.9/1018 votes

    #17 - Judas Goat

    Season 6 Episode 17 - Aired 1/3/1960

    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: N/A

  • The Space Traveler
    6.3/1028 votes

    #18 - The Space Traveler

    Season 6 Episode 18 - Aired 1/10/1960

    When Timmy and Don accidentally release the guinea pig from an experimental rocket, they replace it with Timmy's guinea pig Alexander the Great. But authorities suspect the guinea pig on the rocket was exposed to deadly radiation.

    Director: Hollingsworth Morse

    Writer: N/A

  • The Maverick
    7.2/1019 votes

    #19 - The Maverick

    Season 6 Episode 19 - Aired 1/17/1960

    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: N/A

  • The Grasshopper and the Ant
    7.1/1021 votes

    #20 - The Grasshopper and the Ant

    Season 6 Episode 20 - Aired 1/24/1960

    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: N/A

  • Homing Pigeon
    7.5/1018 votes

    #21 - Homing Pigeon

    Season 6 Episode 21 - Aired 1/31/1960

    After he trades some old sports equipment for a homing pigeon, Timmy's next task is to train her. But only Lassie--and 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: N/A

  • The Explorers
    7.2/1021 votes

    #22 - The Explorers

    Season 6 Episode 22 - Aired 2/7/1960

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Epidemic
    7.2/1021 votes

    #23 - The Epidemic

    Season 6 Episode 23 - Aired 2/14/1960

    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: N/A

  • Fur-Coated Killer
    7.0/1020 votes

    #24 - Fur-Coated Killer

    Season 6 Episode 24 - Aired 2/21/1960

    A neighbor may lose his new means of moneymaking when minks from his mink farm are blamed for slaughtering chickens. But the killer turns out to be something more dangerous: a wolverine.

    Director: Hollingsworth Morse

    Writer: N/A

  • Judgment Seat
    7.4/1019 votes

    #25 - Judgment Seat

    Season 6 Episode 25 - Aired 2/28/1960

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

    Director: Hollingsworth Morse

    Writer: N/A