"Lassie" (1954) TV series 1954-1974

User Rating:

7.0/10   

Directors:

Bonita Granville
Lesley Selander
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Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | unknown

Release Date:

12 September 1954 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Family

Plot Keywords:

Dog | Collie Dog | Dog Actor | Lassie | Kids And Family

Awards:

Won 2 Primetime Emmys. Another 1 win & 7 nominations

Cast

Lassie	...	Lassie (277 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)
George Cleveland	...	George 'Gramps' Miller (112 episodes, 1954-1957)

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Series Directed by
William Beaudine		(72 episodes, 1960-1968)
Hollingsworth Morse		(58 episodes, 1959-1964)
Lesley Selander		(52 episodes, 1955-1959)
Philip Ford		(51 episodes, 1955-1958)
Jack B. Hively		(38 episodes, 1960-1973)
Dick Moder		(28 episodes, 1965-1973)
John English		(17 episodes, 1957-1965)
Franklin Adreon		(14 episodes, 1958-1959)
Joseph Sargent		(14 episodes, 1961-1964)
Maurice Geraghty		(10 episodes, 1956-1959)
Sidney Salkow		(9 episodes, 1954-1955)
George Archainbaud		(9 episodes, 1958-1959)
Earl Bellamy		(7 episodes, 1959-1960)
Sheldon Leonard		(6 episodes, 1954)
Abby Berlin		(4 episodes, 1958-1959)
William Beaudine Jr.		(4 episodes, 1962-1969)
Paul Nickell		(4 episodes, 1964)
Robert Sparr		(4 episodes, 1967-1968)
Arthur H. Nadel		(4 episodes, 1972)
Thomas Carr		(3 episodes, 1954-1955)
George Blair		(3 episodes, 1959-1960)
Gerald Schnitzer		(3 episodes, 1960-1961)
Oliver Drake		(3 episodes, 1960)
Leslie Goodwins		(2 episodes, 1954-1955)
Ralph Murphy		(2 episodes, 1957)
Harold D. Schuster		(2 episodes, 1958)
R.G. Springsteen		(2 episodes, 1958)
Norman Morgan		(2 episodes, 1959)
Christian Nyby		(2 episodes, 1964-1965)
James B. Clark		(2 episodes, 1969)
Sigmund Neufeld Jr.		(2 episodes, 1969)
Richard L. Bare		(2 episodes, 1972)
William Witney		(1 episode, 1959)
Bonita Granville		(unknown episodes)

Series Writing credits
Eric Knight		(376 episodes, 1954-1972)
Eric Freiwald		(92 episodes, 1959-1973)
Robert Schaefer		(92 episodes, 1959-1973)
Sumner Arthur Long		(46 episodes, 1955-1963)
Claire Kennedy		(32 episodes, 1954-1958)
Monroe Manning		(32 episodes, 1958-1964)
Robert Lees		(20 episodes, 1957-1964)
Richard Sanville		(13 episodes, 1956-1964)
Z.C. Cramer		(13 episodes, 1960-1964)
Paul David		(12 episodes, 1956-1958)
Jackson Gillis		(11 episodes, 1954-1960)
Arnold Belgard		(9 episodes, 1958-1960)
James Douglass West		(9 episodes, 1963-1968)
Alan Woods		(8 episodes, 1958-1960)
Joan Scott		(7 episodes, 1956-1962)
Francis Rosenwald		(7 episodes, 1962-1963)
Jessica Benson		(6 episodes, 1957-1964)
Charles O'Neal		(6 episodes, 1957-1963)
Miriam Geiger		(6 episodes, 1957-1959)
David Richards		(6 episodes, 1962-1963)
Vernon E. Clark		(6 episodes, 1964-1969)
Jack Paritz		(6 episodes, 1964-1965)
Seymour Kern		(5 episodes, 1956-1957)
Pauline Stone		(5 episodes, 1957-1959)
Will Gould		(5 episodes, 1958-1961)
Ruth Church		(5 episodes, 1958-1960)
James S. Henerson		(5 episodes, 1958-1959)
Dwight Hauser		(5 episodes, 1961-1963)
Orville H. Hampton		(5 episodes, 1963-1966)
Frank L. Moss		(5 episodes, 1969-1971)
David T. Chantler		(4 episodes, 1954-1957)
Thelma Robinson		(4 episodes, 1955-1956)
Michael Cosgrove		(4 episodes, 1958-1959)
Oliver Drake		(4 episodes, 1959-1961)
Hendrik Vollaerts		(4 episodes, 1959-1961)
Les Farber		(4 episodes, 1960-1961)
Jennings Cobb		(4 episodes, 1965-1968)
John McGreevey		(3 episodes, 1956)
Ed Adamson		(3 episodes, 1957-1958)
Vincent Fotre		(3 episodes, 1957-1958)
Edmond Kelso		(3 episodes, 1957-1958)
Homer McCoy		(3 episodes, 1957-1958)
Edward E. Seabrook		(3 episodes, 1957-1958)
Peggy Phillips		(3 episodes, 1958-1963)
Bill Kelsay		(3 episodes, 1958-1959)
Rose Mathias		(3 episodes, 1958-1959)
Steven Michaels		(3 episodes, 1959-1960)
William Beaudine		(3 episodes, 1960-1962)
Jess Carneol		(3 episodes, 1963)
Kay Lenard		(3 episodes, 1963)
Barry Shipman		(3 episodes, 1964-1965)
Inez Asher		(2 episodes, 1955-1957)
Joel Andrews		(2 episodes, 1955-1956)
Marguerite Gallien		(2 episodes, 1955)
Marianne Mosner		(2 episodes, 1956-1961)
Doris Hursley		(2 episodes, 1956-1957)
Frank Hursley		(2 episodes, 1956-1957)
Robert Bloomfield		(2 episodes, 1956)
Arthur Fitz-Richard		(2 episodes, 1957-1958)
Jo Conway		(2 episodes, 1958-1960)
Ellis Marcus		(2 episodes, 1958-1959)
T.C. Lengyel		(2 episodes, 1958)
Harold Shumate		(2 episodes, 1959-1960)
Elwood Ullman		(2 episodes, 1959-1960)
Mary Helen Fay		(2 episodes, 1960-1961)
David Boehm		(2 episodes, 1960)
Joseph Sargent		(2 episodes, 1961-1964)
Jerry Thomas		(2 episodes, 1962-1963)
Christopher Bose		(2 episodes, 1964)
S.H. Barnett		(2 episodes, 1968)
Colin MacKenzie		(2 episodes, 1968)

Series Produced by
Jack Wrather	....	executive producer (379 episodes, 1956-1973)
Robert Golden	....	producer / executive producer (310 episodes, 1958-1973)
Bonita Granville	....	associate producer / producer (271 episodes, 1959-1973)
Robert Maxwell	....	producer / executive producer (136 episodes, 1954-1958)
Rudolph E. Abel	....	associate producer / producer (123 episodes, 1954-1958)
Dusty Bruce	....	producer (79 episodes, 1955-1957)
Sherman A. Harris	....	executive producer (74 episodes, 1958-1960)
Don Castle	....	associate producer (63 episodes, 1960-1962)
William Beaudine Jr.	....	associate producer / producer (63 episodes, 1967-1973)
Peter Frank	....	associate producer / assistant producer (40 episodes, 1957-1958)
Leon Fromkess	....	producer (unknown episodes)

Series Original Music by
Nathan Scott		(140 episodes, 1962-1973)
Raoul Kraushaar		(40 episodes, 1954-1957)
Alexander Courage		(2 episodes, 1972)
Joseph Hooven		(unknown episodes)

Series Cinematography by
Stuart Thompson		(129 episodes, 1954-1958)
Eddie Fitzgerald		(99 episodes, 1962-1966)
Kenneth Peach		(73 episodes, 1958-1960)
Robert F. Sparks		(67 episodes, 1966-1973)
Charles Van Enger		(61 episodes, 1960-1962)
Ed Durden		(4 episodes, 1962-1964)
Robert C. Moreno		(3 episodes, 1966)
Kent Durban		(3 episodes, 1967-1969)
Harold E. Stine		(2 episodes, 1954-1955)
Tom Beemer		(2 episodes, 1967)
Bill Fairchild		(2 episodes, 1967)

Series Film Editing by
Monica Collingwood		(102 episodes, 1959-1973)
Arthur Hilton		(53 episodes, 1954-1957)
Bruce Schoengarth		(51 episodes, 1962-1973)
Sigmund Neufeld Jr.		(32 episodes, 1961-1969)
Chester W. Schaeffer		(30 episodes, 1957-1968)
Dwight Caldwell		(23 episodes, 1960-1962)
Richard L. Van Enger		(17 episodes, 1957-1958)
John Sheets		(15 episodes, 1959-1965)
Noel L. Scott		(12 episodes, 1958-1959)
Paul Weatherwax		(12 episodes, 1958)
William Morgan		(11 episodes, 1956-1957)
Arthur Roberts		(9 episodes, 1955-1956)
William W. Moore		(8 episodes, 1958-1959)
Harry Reynolds		(6 episodes, 1954)
Edward Sampson		(6 episodes, 1960-1961)
James Blakeley		(6 episodes, 1962-1965)
Desmond Marquette		(5 episodes, 1955-1956)
Thomas Neff		(4 episodes, 1963-1964)
Bernard Matis		(3 episodes, 1954-1955)
Harry Marker		(3 episodes, 1959)
Roy V. Livingston		(3 episodes, 1960)
William M. Moore		(2 episodes, 1959)
Jack B. Hively		(2 episodes, 1967-1968)
Ralph Schoenfeld		(2 episodes, 1972-1973)
Jack Horger		(2 episodes, 1972)

Series Casting by
Harvey Clermont		(157 episodes, 1960-1971)
Kerwin Coughlin		(41 episodes, 1964-1969)
Marvin Paige		(14 episodes, 1972-1973)

Series Art Direction by
George Troast		(201 episodes, 1961-1973)
Bill Ross		(87 episodes, 1955-1958)

Series Set Decoration by
Frank Rafferty		(102 episodes, 1962-1971)
Ken Swartz		(69 episodes, 1958-1960)
Jerry Welch		(19 episodes, 1964-1965)
Harry Gordon		(9 episodes, 1972-1973)
Gino Tomasino		(5 episodes, 1972)

Series Costume Design by
Ellen		(21 episodes, 1955-1956)

Series Makeup Department
Don Schoenfeld	....	makeup artist (161 episodes, 1958-1963)
Ruby Felker	....	hair stylist / makeup artist (151 episodes, 1959-1964)
Harry Ross	....	makeup artist (103 episodes, 1955-1958)
David Newell	....	makeup artist (56 episodes, 1965-1971)
Betty Pedretti	....	hair stylist / makeup artist (37 episodes, 1958-1959)
Ted Coodley	....	makeup artist (32 episodes, 1963-1964)
Charles Blackman	....	makeup artist (31 episodes, 1964-1965)
Loren Cosand	....	makeup artist (14 episodes, 1971-1973)
Annabell	....	hair stylist (6 episodes, 1959)
Les Berns	....	makeup artist (3 episodes, 1972)

Series Production Management
William Beaudine Jr.	....	production supervisor / production manager (187 episodes, 1959-1967)
Hugh McCollum	....	production supervisor (47 episodes, 1958-1960)

Series Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Joe Dill	....	assistant director (111 episodes, 1954-1958)
James E. Casey	....	assistant director (102 episodes, 1954-1969)
Richard Del Ruth	....	assistant director (53 episodes, 1964-1972)
Maurice Vaccarino	....	assistant director (32 episodes, 1958-1959)
Austen Jewell	....	assistant director (23 episodes, 1959-1961)
Frank Myers	....	assistant director (21 episodes, 1959-1960)
Grayson Rogers	....	assistant director (21 episodes, 1961-1963)
Paul Feiner	....	assistant director (16 episodes, 1959-1960)
Wesley Barry	....	assistant director (15 episodes, 1962-1964)
Don Torpin	....	assistant director (13 episodes, 1971-1973)
Melville Shyer	....	assistant director (10 episodes, 1954-1955)
Gilbert Mandelik	....	assistant director (4 episodes, 1969-1971)
Gene Anderson	....	assistant director (3 episodes, 1959-1960)
Robert H. Justman	....	assistant director (3 episodes, 1965)
John Barnwell	....	assistant director (2 episodes, 1961)

Series Art Department
Mariano Tomasino	....	property master (222 episodes, 1960-1973)
Lou Asher	....	property master (107 episodes, 1954-1958)
Jack Owens	....	property master (36 episodes, 1958-1959)
Reginald Smith	....	property master (36 episodes, 1959-1960)
Craig Binkley	....	assistant property master (27 episodes, 1967)
Marvin Tomasino	....	property master (6 episodes, 1960)

Series Sound Department
Wallace Nogle	....	sound (287 episodes, 1956-1966)
Bert Schoenfeld	....	sound effects editor / sound editor (170 episodes, 1962-1973)
Joe Kavigan	....	sound effects editor / sound recordist (115 episodes, 1955-1959)
William M. Andrews	....	sound effects editor (78 episodes, 1958-1961)
Ray Alba	....	sound editor / sound effects editor / ... (75 episodes, 1965-1973)
Dave Williams	....	sound (42 episodes, 1966-1969)
Harry D. Mills	....	sound (35 episodes, 1955-1956)
Bill Anderson	....	sound effects editor (30 episodes, 1961-1962)
Seymour S. Klein	....	sound mixer (10 episodes, 1972-1973)
Ben Winkler	....	sound (5 episodes, 1965-1966)
Al Overton	....	sound (5 episodes, 1971-1972)
Vic Carpenter	....	sound (3 episodes, 1972)

Series Special Effects by
Harold Murphy	....	special effects (227 episodes, 1959-1973)
Joe Lombardi	....	special effects (5 episodes, 1959)
Gerald Endler	....	mechanical effects (unknown episodes)

Series Visual Effects by
Howard A. Anderson	....	special photographic effects (3 episodes, 1963)

Series Stunts
Jesse Wayne	....	stunt double: Bobby Diamond / stunt double: Kevin Brodie (2 episodes, 1961-1974)
Gary Epper	....	stunts (unknown episodes)
Whitey Hughes	....	stunts (unknown episodes)

Series Camera and Electrical Department
Burl Stafford	....	chief electrician / electrician / ... (108 episodes, 1954-1958)

Series Costume and Wardrobe Department
Walt Hoffman	....	wardrobe (101 episodes, 1962-1967)
Grace Kuhn	....	wardrobe (62 episodes, 1960-1962)
Bucky Rous	....	wardrobe (16 episodes, 1967-1968)
Bob Christenson	....	costumer (10 episodes, 1972-1973)
Stan Kufel	....	wardrobe (9 episodes, 1969)
Dave Saltuper	....	wardrobe / costume supervisor (7 episodes, 1971-1972)
Swede Munden	....	wardrobe (5 episodes, 1967)
Charles Arrico	....	wardrobe (5 episodes, 1968)
Morrie Friedman	....	wardrobe (4 episodes, 1964)
G. Tony Scarano	....	wardrobe (3 episodes, 1968)
Ellen	....	original cottons: Miss Clayton (2 episodes, 1956)
Joyce Rogers	....	wardrobe (2 episodes, 1971)

Series Editorial Department
John Sheets	....	editorial administrator / editorial supervisor (117 episodes, 1960-1969)
James Blakeley	....	editorial administrator / editorial coordinator / ... (90 episodes, 1960-1963)

Series Music Department
Sid Sidney	....	music editor / music supervisor (223 episodes, 1960-1973)
Raoul Kraushaar	....	music supervisor (86 episodes, 1954-1958)
Robert Carlisle	....	music editor (66 episodes, 1958-1960)

Series Other crew
Rudd Weatherwax	....	animal trainer / dog trainer: Lassie / ... (383 episodes, 1954-1973)
Mercy Weireter	....	script supervisor (181 episodes, 1961-1971)
Lloyd Nelson	....	dialogue coach / script supervisor (122 episodes, 1960-1968)
Rose Mathias	....	story editor (94 episodes, 1958-1961)
Lionel Comport	....	livestock supervisor / animal handler (94 episodes, 1961-1972)
Maria Little	....	story editor / script editor / ... (94 episodes, 1961-1964)
Peter Frank	....	assistant to producers / assistant to producer (64 episodes, 1955-1957)
Miriam Geiger	....	story editor (47 episodes, 1956-1958)
Richard Sanville	....	story editor (19 episodes, 1956-1957)
Dan Ocko	....	assistant to producer (8 episodes, 1954-1955)
Ted Derby	....	animal handler / animal trainer (8 episodes, 1967-1972)
Lynn A. Aber	....	script supervisor (7 episodes, 1971-1972)
John Dutton	....	script supervisor (5 episodes, 1964)
Robert Gary	....	script supervisor (4 episodes, 1973)
Pat Derby	....	animal trainer / animal handler (3 episodes, 1969-1972)
Sheila Lynch	....	script supervisor (3 episodes, 1972-1973)
Sheelagh Lynch	....	script supervisor (3 episodes, 1972)
Lou Schumacher	....	animal handler / eagle handler (2 episodes, 1968-1969)
Moe Di Sesso	....	animal provider (2 episodes, 1968)
Ray Berwick	....	animal handler / bird trainer (2 episodes, 1969-1972)
Sam Williamson	....	assistant animal trainer (unknown episodes)

Production Companies

• Lassie Television
• Robert Maxwell Associates (1954-1957)
• Television Programs of America (TPA) (1954-1957)
• Wrather Productions (as Jack Wrather Productions)

Distributors

• Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) (1954-1971) (USA) (TV) (original airing)
• Starcuts (1995) (USA) (VHS)
• Sony Wonder (2004) (USA) (DVD)
• Guardian Television Network (GTN) (2006) (USA) (TV) (episode "The Raffle")
• Nederlandse Christelijke Radio Vereniging (NCRV) (1962-1980) (Netherlands) (TV)
• Television Programs of America (TPA)

Other Companies

• Campbell Soup Company  original sponsor

Also Known As:

"Jeff's Collie" (USA)
"Timmy and Lassie" (USA) (syndication title)

Runtime:

30 min (591 episodes)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White | Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System) | Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Certification:

Australia:G | Argentina:Atp

Filming Locations:

California, USA

Company:

Lassie Television

Trivia:

Lassie was both owned and trained by Rudd Weatherwax and reportedly lived to be 19 years old.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Club Dread (2004)

Lassie lives forever but not so little boys

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.