Season 4

September 29, 1957

When Timmy and Lassie find a sick burro, abandoned by neglectful but well-meaning owners, everyone thinks Timmy's exaggerating until Ellen finds the creature. Timmy's faith and the family's nursing save the burro, but then her owners come return.

October 6, 1957

With Jeff at the dentist, Timmy and Gramps go out to pick huckleberries for pies for the church supper. Timmy thinks Gramps is ill when he naps after berrying, but it's Timmy who must be rescued after eating nightshade berries.

October 13, 1957

Timmy and Jeff nurse an injured raccoon against protests from Gramps--and ""Sam"" repays them by wreaking havoc in kitchen, barn, and chicken coop. Released to the wild, he returns to begin stealing things from the house.

October 20, 1957

Jeff tries every way he can to avoid meeting Debbie, the daughter of Ellen's visiting college roommate Lucy Hopkins--until he sees her dance and is smitten. But when Porky lampoons her dancing, Debbie tells both boys off.

October 27, 1957

Jeff and Timmy saw a huge elephant. Ellen & Gramps doesn't want it as an 2nd Pet for Lassie. They decided to keep it until the animal control person comes by and wanted to get rid of the elephant.

November 3, 1957

November 10, 1957

November 17, 1957

November 24, 1957

December 1, 1957

December 8, 1957

Timmy believes he and Lassie are unloved and unwanted by the Martins, and sends Lassie to the Millers in Capitol City. Ellen Miller, knowing that Timmy is mistaken, returns to the farm to reunite Timmy with his loving adoptive parents.

December 15, 1957

Timmy borrows a bike to learn to ride, but when the bike is stolen, he must replace the stolen one with his new bicycle. The situation is resolved when Lassie plays detective to hunt down the bike thief.

December 22, 1957

December 29, 1957

January 5, 1958

Paul, Timmy, and Lassie are stranded on a deserted road when Paul realizes Timmy is becoming seriously ill. Lassie must risk her life to bring help to the sick child.

January 12, 1958

When Timmy and Scott launch a bait-worm selling business, their only potential customer refuses to buy anything. He changes his mind, however, when Lassie saves him from drowning.

January 19, 1958

Timmy believes one of Uncle Petrie's tall tales and is hurt to discover he has been lied to. A gift of a friendship ring, crafted by Uncle Petrie himself, mends their relationship.

January 26, 1958

February 2, 1958

February 9, 1958

Timmy comes running home with a story about a rabbit-sized pony--but no one believes him.

February 16, 1958

To replace Uncle Petrie broken guitar Timmy enters a borrowed parrot in a contest to win the prize of a new guitar.

February 23, 1958

Timmy refuses to attend the Grange Square Dance out of fear that he will have to dance with a girl. After Uncle Petrie reassures him this will not happen, he relents. To everyone's surprise, a fire disrupts the children's dance and Lassie must save the day.

March 3, 1958

A drought is hitting the area pretty hard, and Timmy desperately attempts to keep his own small garden from perishing.

March 9, 1958

When Timmy insists on going to a blasting site despite Lassie's protests, she is struck on the head by a dynamite-propelled rock and appears to not know who she is. Then she wanders away from the farm.

March 16, 1958

Members of the community band together to hunt down deer driven to eat their crops, but Timmy and Scott fight to do something that doesn't involve killing them.

March 23, 1958

Timmy is stricken with severe stomach cramps and keeps calling out for Lassie.

March 30, 1958

A crate holding a penguin enroute to the Capitol City zoo falls off its truck, and Timmy and Scott adopt the creature

April 6, 1958

Timmy tends an injured sparrow.

April 13, 1958

When Lassie finds an injured seeing-eye dog, the family searches in vain for the dog's owner. The situation appears hopeless until Lassie leads them to the dog's missing collar, and a telephone call to Capitol City Hospital reunites dog and owner.

April 20, 1958

Timmy becomes overzealous in his efforts to spot fire hazards to win a contest.

April 27, 1958

Ruth tries to replace Lassie's disreputable old blanket with a new one, but Lassie will have none of it.

May 4, 1958

Timmy's new rabbits take precedence over Lassie.

May 11, 1958

Scott's city cousins make fun of Timmy and Scott's interest in the Cub Scouts

May 18, 1958

Timmy's ""patient,"" an injured crow he names ""Peck,"" recovers to become a farm pest.

May 25, 1958

On the sly, Lassie tends some orphaned puppies.

June 1, 1958

Timmy becomes annoyed with a house guest of Ruth when all she can talk about is all the finer things Ruth is missing by living on a farm.

June 8, 1958

Inspired by Uncle Petrie's tale of a boy who talks to the animals, Timmy sets out to befriend animals himself. But he helps some people along the way and it is their friendship and kindness that save Lassie from a precarious situation.