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[Pow]

Been watching some of the Lassie episodes on Youtube and enjoying them.

Prefer to view the later ones when Lassie was part of the forest service.

Scenery is wonderful as they went on a number of locations and were not as studio bound as the Jeff/Lassie and Timmy/Lassie episodes.

[Bud Brewster]

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My goodness, what a blast from the past, Pow!

The videos below are of Lassie;s first episode from 1954, when Jeff inherits Lassie from a kindly neighbor who passed away.

The show wasn't called Lassie yet! It was called Jeff's Collie! In fact, Wikipedia says the first 116 episodes had that title.

Jeff Miller was played by Tommy Rettig for three years, and he was 13 when he started. I was just six, sitting in front of our first family TV set . . . probably the first week we even had it!

By the way, Tommy Retting stars with Robert Mitchum and Marilyn Monroe in River of No Return, a damn good Western. I own the DVD.

Jon Provost took over as Timmy Miller in the fourth season.

"Ruff, ruff! Ruff, ruff, ruff!"

What's that, Lassie? You think other folks should reply to this thread?

"Ruff, ruff!"

I agree, girl! Now, go see if Jeff has fallen down the well again. I swear, that boy will never learn!
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______ Lassie - Episode 1 - "Inheritance" - Part 1


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______ Lassie - Episode 1 - "Inheritance" - Part 2


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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[scotpens]

It's common knowledge that Lassie has always been played by a male collie, but does anyone know why? From IMDb's Trivia page:

[Bud Brewster]

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First of all, many thanks to scotpens for finding that great Mad Magazine cartoon parody.

I copied the jpegs to my jpeg file and then I cleaned up the discolored dialogue balloons, brightening the background of each one and removing those brown spots.

While doing so I realized what caused the spots, as well as the occasional dialog balloons that had no text. These are scans of Mort Druker's original artwork, and the text of the dialog was printed on pieces of paper, then cut out and glued to the artwork.

Over the years the glue turned brown and stained the paper the dialog was printed on. The blank balloons are the result of dialog strips that fell off the artwork, leaving the discolored glue that was beneath it.





I managed to find a scan of the magazine itself which had readable text (barely), and I copied the text that should have been in the empty dialog balloons.

You'll notice which jpegs below needed to have empty dialog balloons restored, because the text is blurry in those balloons.

Each 700 pixel-wide jpeg below has an embedded link to the 2,000 pixel version, so that you can admire the remarkable detail of Mr. Druker's artwork!

Remember, you have to click on each image here, and then either zoom in as much you want OR click again to see the full sized image

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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Pow]

The ongoing joke people like to use is Timmy falls in a well and must be saved by Lassie.

Reality is no such episode ever existed with Timmy.

Years later when they had Lassie with forest ranger Corey, there is indeed an episode where Lassie falls into a shaft. Not technically a well but still...

It was a 3-part episode and the guest stars were Tony Dow & Jan Michael Vincent (who recently passed away) playing brothers.

[Bud Brewster]

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What I heard was that Jeff fell down the well, Lassie didn't get there in time, Timmy drowns, and Gramps was so upset he shot Lassie!

That's why Jeff was replaced by Timmy, and why there were several Lassies. A big Hollywood cover up, and a very sad situation . . .
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Pow]

There is a hilarious commercial that first aired during one of the Super Bowel Games some years back.

It's for a truck (don't recall which make) that keeps coming to a quaint looking home.
http://www.allsci-fi.com/viewtopic.php?t=5445
It drives up to the house with its headlights flashing and horn honking, with no driver.

The man on the porch can decode just what the truck is saying, which is that Timmy is in some kind of trouble. This happens several times with Timmy in a different jam each time.

It was on Youtube & is worth viewing.

[Bud Brewster]

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I just typed in "Lassie parody truck commercial" and there it was.
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_ Chevy Lassie Truck - 2011 Super Bowl Commercials


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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)