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I have seen the transition episodes where Jeff Miller, after losing his grandfather, moves away to the big city with his Mom, and has to leave Lassie behind with Timmie and the Martin's (Cloris Leachman variety).

However, I haven't seen in years, many years, the 1964 transition from Timmie and his folks (the June Lockhart legit variety) move to Australia and because of quarentine laws must leave Lassie behind.

I believe they leave her first with Cully, and then she ends up with the ranger. But I can't find these eps. Are they in syndication or on a cable web, or has anyone seen them on the internet?

I would love to see these shows once again.

Joe
 
I can't say for sure this is the reason, but the three episode arc where the Martins leave and Lassie becomes Ranger Corey's dog are at the beginning of Season 11. That season was probably released as part of the Ranger years in a separate syndication package.
 
AngelTwo carried up until a couple of weeks ago the black and white episodes of Lassie (Jeff's Collie, Timmy and Lassie (both Cloris Leachman and June Lockhart) but they are now showing the Ranger Cully episodes and the 1970-1971 season with Lassie alone and all of the episodes aren't in order so they switch around between the Ranger episodes and the black and white episodes.

I would like to see the 1971-1974 syndicated Lassie because I have never seen these shows before as Lassie became part of the children's home and a pre-CHiPs Larry Wilcox in the cast.
 
joeybabe25 said:
I have seen the transition episodes where Jeff Miller, after losing his grandfather, moves away to the big city with his Mom, and has to leave Lassie behind with Timmie and the Martin's (Cloris Leachman variety).

However, I haven't seen in years, many years, the 1964 transition from Timmie and his folks (the June Lockhart legit variety) move to Australia and because of quarentine laws must leave Lassie behind.

I believe they leave her first with Cully, and then she ends up with the ranger. But I can't find these eps. Are they in syndication or on a cable web, or has anyone seen them on the internet?

I would love to see these shows once again.

Joe
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I have yet to see the episode where Jeff and Ellen move away and the transition shifts over to Timmy and the Martins as I said AngelTwo doesn't show the episodes in order. For instance, they would show a first season episode followed by a third season episode and then back and forth between the Ranger episodes and the Jeff/Timmy and the Martins episodes. It is also the first time that I have seen the Cloris Leachman episodes in the Timmy and Lassie mix as all I have seen are the June Lockhart episodes as I don't believe Nickelodeon when they aired those episodes in the 1980's and 1990's included the Cloris Leachman episodes just those with June Lockhart. As for the syndicated package I always thought that "Lassie" was the Ranger episodes since they already had syndicated packages for Lassie with Jeff's Collie and Timmy and Lassie.
 
Wasn't the last episode of "Lassie" with Timmy and the rest of the Martins also the first episode of the series to be filmed in color??

I thought that starting in 1964, "Lassie" was filmed in color although I don't know if it was broadcast in color until the Fall of 1965.
 
Who remembers when Lassie was parodied (as Sassie) on The Flintstones? That was the ep where Dino develops a crush on Sassie and ends up paired with her in a scene of her show.

And who else watched Lassie's Rescue Rangers (from Filmation) on ABC Saturday mornings in 1973-74?

ixnay
 
I remember those late 60's color episodes. They seemed to want to show you extended vistas
of the American West, just like a lot of the Disney nature films of that time.

Personally I could not understand why watching a collie run across open meadows for an hour
made for compelling television.
 
There was also a syndicated "New Lassie" from 1989-91. The
now-grown-up Timmy found out that his real name was Steve
McCullough, that he had been an orphan adopted by the Martins
as a child, and was reunited with his real family on the new show.
Jon Provost continued to play the role, and the show took place
in a middle-class California neighborhood.
 
Lassie can currently be seen on the NBC owned Cozi TV weekday mornings and evenings (Jeff's Collie era)

On RTV Saturday mornings (Timmy and Lasie era)

And on TBN Saturdays at noon, with a 9:30 p.m. airing on it's Smile of a Child kids channel (Timmy and Lassie)

You never really see the ranger, alone, or ranch years too much.

bpatrick said:
There was also a syndicated "New Lassie" from 1989-91. The
now-grown-up Timmy found out that his real name was Steve
McCullough, that he had been an orphan adopted by the Martins
as a child, and was reunited with his real family on the new show.
Jon Provost continued to play the role, and the show took place
in a middle-class California neighborhood.
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There was also a Canadian made modified remake on Animal Planet from '97-'99 (widowed vetrinarian mom starts over in Vermont with her son named...Timmy - and of course, Lassie.)
 
What would Houston's channel 51 sounds like a good thing, as we have Houston's channel 39 & 14 that aired it, BTW I don't know if I want to add 26 to go for it my Jose Jose style.



If CBS had him, did ABC had him as well?
 
retrosmart said:
If CBS had him, did ABC had him as well?
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Lassie was on CBS from 1954-1971 (Jeff's Collie-->Timmy & Lassie-->Ranger Years-->year of traveling alone), and in first run sundication '71-'73 (Holden Ranch). There was also a '73-'74 season of essentially "The Best of Lassie" in syndication, before the whole series went into reruns.

ABC had the Saturday morning cartoon "Lassie's Rescue Rangers" (a Filmation production) from '73-'75. Lassie belonged to a family of forest rangers, and they all had adventures preventing forest fires and saving endangered animals and whatnot.
 
I ALSO wonder why Trinity Broadcasting airs Timmy & Lassie. Also they only air it once a week. I would think that anyone airing this would run it 5 days a week. I would think Trinity would run it on their Smile Of A Child Channel more often. They did do one thing creative. They run Lassie back to back with another Classic TV series Davey & Goliath. Reminds me of when Nickelodeon ran Lassie & Timmy back to back with Dennis the Menace with jay North. I used to sometimes accidentally watch a bit of Lassie thinking Timmy was Dennis for a moment (being both shows were black & white).

Actually Davey & Dennis would make a good match. Both shows (at least the early Davey Episodes) used the same background music tunes and arrangements. The early Davey Episodes were made around the same time Dennis The Menace was made and Lassie & Timmy was for that matter. Hopefully TBN may begin running a classic TV block as part of their format and this is the first phase. But I won't hold my breath.
 
Marckd said:
I ALSO wonder why Trinity Broadcasting airs Timmy & Lassie. Also they only air it once a week. I would think that anyone airing this would run it 5 days a week. I would think Trinity would run it on their Smile Of A Child Channel more often. They did do one thing creative. They run Lassie back to back with another Classic TV series Davey & Goliath. Reminds me of when Nickelodeon ran Lassie & Timmy back to back with Dennis the Menace with jay North. I used to sometimes accidentally watch a bit of Lassie thinking Timmy was Dennis for a moment (being both shows were black & white).

Hopefully TBN may begin running a classic TV block as part of their format and this is the first phase. But I won't hold my breath.
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I think TBN only bought the rights to X amount of episodes, all of them being Timmy and Lassie era, so they limit it as not to don't burn it out.

T & L fits in with the TBN motif...You'll often see scenes of Timmy kneeling at his bed saying his prayers or saying grace before supper, and there's always some sort of moral to the story, so they (albeit as a stretch) count it as E/I programming.

Of course the wholesome, family oriented nature of the show itself is right up TBN/Smile of a Child's alley, but when you get down to it, the Jeff and Timmy years were usually moralistic tales, while the ranger/alone/ranch years were more adventure stories.
 
I recall that when the "Timmy" episodes were in their original run in the 60s, the "Jeff" episodes were syndicated as Jeff's Collie.

BTW - Some years ago, I read an article about Jon Provost (Timmy), who lives here in the SF Bay Area - Sonoma County, I think - and is successful in business (real estate, IIRC). He's clearly one of the 60s era child actors who was able to avoid the pitfalls, stayed level headed and made a post-stardom life for himself.
 
Lkeller said:
I recall that when the "Timmy" episodes were in their original run in the 60s, the "Jeff" episodes were syndicated as Jeff's Collie.

BTW - Some years ago, I read an article about Jon Provost (Timmy), who lives here in the SF Bay Area - Sonoma County, I think - and is successful in business (real estate, IIRC). He's clearly one of the 60s era child actors who was able to avoid the pitfalls, stayed level headed and made a post-stardom life for himself.
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Correct...the Jeff years were syndicated as "Jeff's Collie", so as not to confuse people (syndication was still a relatively new concept back then)

And Jon Provost also wrote his memoirs titled "Timmy's in the Well", in which he actually admits that in all the tangles Timmy got himself into, he never actually fell in a well.
 
Do you think Qubo & WB are merging with TBN/Smile of a Child?




Besides Lassie, the all have Veggie Tales, Penguins, Miss BG.
 
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