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"Lassie" (1954): :  -- Fifty years after "Lassie" aired, former child star Jon Provost writes about his life during and after the hit television series. He talked to Harry Smith.

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Release Date:
12 September 1954 (USA) more
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Awards:
Won 2 Primetime Emmys. Another 1 win & 7 nominations more
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Scenes We Love: The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T
 (From Cinematical. 24 September 2009, 5:45 PM, PDT)

Dq Entertainment announces animation TV series on Lassie
 (From BollywoodHungama. 29 June 2009, 7:27 AM, PDT)

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Lassie lives forever but not so little boys more (21 total)

Cast

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Lassie ... Lassie (282 episodes, 1954-1973)
Jon Provost ... Timmy Martin / ... (244 episodes, 1957-1964)
June Lockhart ... Ruth Martin / ... (200 episodes, 1958-1964)
Hugh Reilly ... Paul Martin (163 episodes, 1958-1964)
Lassie the Dog ... Lassie (143 episodes, 1954-1973)
Jan Clayton ... Ellen Miller (114 episodes, 1954-1957)
Tommy Rettig ... Jeff Miller (113 episodes, 1954-1957)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Jeff's Collie (USA) (alternative title)
Timmy and Lassie (USA) (syndication title)
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Runtime:
30 min (591 episodes)
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Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System) | Mono (Western Electric Recording)
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On 11 August 2009 the US Postal Service issued a pane of twenty 44¢ commemorative postage stamps honoring early USA television programs. A booklet with 20 picture postal cards was also issued. On the stamp honoring "Lassie" is a picture of its canine star, Lassie. Other shows honored in the Early TV Memories issue were "The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet" (1952), "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" (1955), "The Dinah Shore Show" (1951), "Dragnet" (1951), "The Ed Sullivan Show" (originally titled "Toast of the Town" (1948)), "The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show" (1950), "Hopalong Cassidy" (1952), "The Honeymooners" (1955), "The Howdy Doody Show" (original title: "Puppet Playhouse" (1947)), "I Love Lucy" (1951), "Kukla, Fran and Ollie" (1947), "The Lone Ranger" (1949), "Perry Mason" (1957), "The Phil Silvers Show" (1955), "The Red Skelton Show" (1951), "Texaco Star Theater" (titled "The Milton Berle Show" (1948), 1954-1956), The Tonight Show (which began as "Tonight!" (1953)), "The Twilight Zone" (1959), and "You Bet Your Life" (1950). more
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Referenced in Desk Set (1957) more

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4 out of 4 people found the following comment useful.
Lassie lives forever but not so little boys, 17 March 2002
Author: Jeff Hill (jeffhill1@hotmail.com) from Sapporo, Japan

I grew up with the Tommy Rettig "Lassie" series. Looking back on

it, I would say that I was addicted to that show and that I fantasized

that I was the Jeff who lived with Lassie on the Miller farm, not the

Jeff who lived in New Jersey suburbia with a teddy bear. When George

Cleveland died, the show decided that Tommy Rettig was too old to be

Lassie's boy and the scenario was that since Gramps was dead, they had

to sell the farm and go live in a crummy apartment in Capital City

where Mom would get some miserable job and Jeff would simply go to

school. Mom explained all this to Jeff at the kitchen table, adding

that they couldn't take Lassie to live in some crummy Capital City

apartment, so...... I was ten years old when seeing this unfortunate transition. I

remember it felt like it was my life that was being eviscerated. I

never enjoyed the "Lassie" show much after that.

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