- 7.4/1018 votes
#1 - Blacktail
Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 9/11/1960
Jerry, the lame boy who adopted Lassie's son Blacktail, and his dog visit the farm, when the Martins find out Jerry can walk without his brace, but is afraid to try.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1018 votes
#2 - The Wallaby
Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 9/18/1960
Something's raided the family strawberry patch, but the large mysterious tracks puzzle everyone until Timmy catches a glimpse of the animal, describing it as a ""giant rabbit."" In reality it's a wallaby named Pancho--who poses a danger to Lassie!
Director: Hollingsworth Morse
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1022 votes
#3 - Cully's New Pet
Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 9/25/1960
Cully tells Timmy no animal is all bad, so Timmy befriends a skunk, but no one, not even Lassie, will come near his new friend.
Director: William Beaudine
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1022 votes
#4 - The Rescue
Season 7 Episode 4 - Aired 10/2/1960
Timmy is trapped on a ledge while chasing a strayed ewe that has just given birth and Ruth desperately tries to get the attention of a nearby helicopter pilot reseeding the hills.
Director: Hollingsworth Morse
Writer: N/A
- 6.1/1019 votes
#5 - Feathered Menace
Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 10/9/1960
Ruth agrees to babysit Betty Wilder's infant twins, but the young mother arrives early and reluctantly leaves Timmy and Lassie to care for the babies until Ruth returns from an errand. Timmy thinks it will be a cinch--until a marauding hawk chases a frightened pigeon into the bedroom where the babies are sleeping.
Director: Hollingsworth Morse
Writer: N/A
- 5.9/1018 votes
#6 - The Gentle Tiger
Season 7 Episode 6 - Aired 10/16/1960
Timmy learns a lesson in obedience when he takes a job as water boy at a traveling carnival. He disregards an order, inadvertently allowing a tiger to escape from its cage.
Director: Hollingsworth Morse
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1018 votes
#7 - The Renegade
Season 7 Episode 7 - Aired 10/23/1960
Timmy finds out that Bob Alder's dog Butch is going blind from cataracts and that Bob's father wants to have him put to sleep, so Ruth hires Bob to help with gathering corn to help pay for Butch's surgery. But Butch wanders away from the field where they are working.
Director: Hollingsworth Morse
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1021 votes
#8 - The Blind Dog
Season 7 Episode 8 - Aired 10/30/1960
A blind dog is trapped in a skip-loader and in danger of being buried alive. Lassie risks her life to save the handicapped pup and Timmy helps the dog's owner find work to pay for a sight-restoring operation for his pet.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1017 votes
#9 - The Swallows of Los Pinos
Season 7 Episode 9 - Aired 11/6/1960
Timmy and Ruth try to prove that a little chapel should not be sleighted for demolition because a flock of swallows return there every year on the same day, but they may not arrive after a hawk attacks the scout swallow.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1017 votes
#10 - Sea Serpent
Season 7 Episode 10 - Aired 11/13/1960
Mistaking a fin print on the beach left by a diver for the tracks of a sea monster, Timmy and Culley Wilson let their imaginations get the better of them. They launch an attack on the would-be sea creature endangering the life of the diver.
Director: Hollingsworth Morse
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1015 votes
#11 - Visiting Colt
Season 7 Episode 11 - Aired 11/20/1960
Timmy cares for a young colt during a neighbor's vacation, and doesn't realize until Lassie has twice saved the horse's life that he has neglected his oldest and best friend.
Director: Hollingsworth Morse
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1017 votes
#12 - Little Cabbage
Season 7 Episode 12 - Aired 11/27/1960
Movie star Mimi Marlowe has car trouble near the Martin farm and is forced to leave her baby, a pet poodle, in Timmy and Lassie's care. Excitement ensues, as Lassie must save the poodle, which in turn rescues Timmy from a precarious situation.
Director: Jeffrey Hayden
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#13 - The Big Race
Season 7 Episode 13 - Aired 12/4/1960
Timmy is punished for neglecting his farm chores when he joins Willie Brewster to build a vehicle for a go-cart race.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1016 votes
#14 - Bows and Arrows
Season 7 Episode 14 - Aired 12/18/1960
Timmy and Bob build their own bows and arrows to go ""hunting"" like the two bow hunters they met, but when Bob uses one of the hunter's arrows, he hits an unexpected target.
Director: Hollingsworth Morse
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1033 votes
#15 - The Christmas Story
Season 7 Episode 15 - Aired 12/25/1960
The Martin's new neighbors turn out to be living in an abandoned shack with little food. Efforts to help are rebuffed by the father, but when the sheriff becomes involved, Timmy and Lassie find the father a job and the family enjoys a happy Christmas.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.9/1017 votes
#16 - The White-Faced Bull
Season 7 Episode 16 - Aired 1/1/1961
A neighbor's prize bull strays onto the Martin farm and tries to attack Timmy. When the bull is later poisoned, the neighbor accuses Paul of the deed. Detectives Timmy and Lassie launch an investigation to find the real culprit.
Director: Hollingsworth Morse
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#17 - Apron Strings
Season 7 Episode 17 - Aired 1/8/1961
When Timmy and Lassie bring home a litter of starving orphaned puppies, rescued from a maurading bobcat, the family tries to save them although one has already died of starvation. Inadvertantly, the pups teach Timmy, who's been relying on Paul to help him with arithmetic homework, about self-sufficiency.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1018 votes
#18 - The Wild Horse
Season 7 Episode 18 - Aired 1/15/1961
Timmy observes what he believes is a wild horse which becomes a menace to the local farms but persuades Paul to convince the local farmers to spare the life of the horse which is later learned to be an escaped thoroughbred.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1015 votes
#19 - The Mad Dog
Season 7 Episode 19 - Aired 1/22/1961
While Paul is away, Ruth and Timmy care for a stray dog that Timmy names Duke. But after being involved in a fight, Duke suddenly shows all the signs of rabies.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1015 votes
#20 - The Trip
Season 7 Episode 20 - Aired 1/29/1961
When the Martins travel by train to Chicago for an agricultural exhibition, as well as to visit Ruth's mother and family, Lassie is taken along, but her crate falls off the baggage car enroute and Tom and Jess, two friendly truckers, try to help her get back where she belongs.
Director: William Beaudine
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#21 - Shadrack
Season 7 Episode 21 - Aired 2/5/1961
Cully plays host to his old regiment's Army mule, but he and Timmy must save the animal from being destroyed when it suddenly goes mad and begins rampaging all over the countryside.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#22 - The Patriot
Season 7 Episode 22 - Aired 2/12/1961
After finding out the local Army base needs dogs to guard their missiles, Timmy adopts Homer, a German Shepherd from the dog pound to give to the Army, but the dog has become so cowed from abuse that the family wonders if he can ever be trained.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#23 - The Eagle
Season 7 Episode 23 - Aired 2/19/1961
Timmy and Lassie watch in horror as a man raids a golden eagle's nest and destroys her only egg, so Timmy gives the bereaved bird a goose egg to raise.
Director: Hollingsworth Morse
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1016 votes
#24 - Cracker Jack
Season 7 Episode 24 - Aired 2/26/1961
Enroute to the city to relocate after a drought, a backwoods family stops at the Martins after Timmy plays a trick on them. But when their son Billy Joe finds out his parents plan to give away his beloved dog Mitchell, he swears Timmy to secrecy after returning to the Martins', then he and the dog head for the woods--where deer season has just begun.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1016 votes
#25 - Cully's Hound Dog
Season 7 Episode 25 - Aired 3/5/1961
When Paul offers to farm the land Cully has allowed to lie fallow, the old man thinks Paul means he should retire. But after Timmy gives him a pep talk, Cully decides to fight back by hitching horse to plow and farming his land again.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Lassie Season 7
Every episode of Lassie Season 7 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Lassie Season 7!
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...
Genres:Action & AdventureDramaFamilyComedy
Network:CBS
Season 7 Ratings Summary
"Blacktail" is the best rated episode of "Lassie" season 7. It scored 7.4/10 based on 18 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/11/1960. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "The Wallaby".