Season 1

From the desk

How this season is filed

Filed by Lana Reyes · Red Carpet Reality

Lassie is the collie who saved more kids than most sitcom dads: loyalty as a weekly serial, Jeff then Timmy, a revolving human cast around one branded bark. Watch it now as the animal-star franchise that defined family adventure across two decades — training lore, collie succession, and devotion as the whole plot engine.

TV Flash files Season 1 of Lassie (1954–1973) on CBS as the first listed season of 19 — 26 listed hours, 1954-09-12–1955-03-06 from “Inheritance” (S01E01) to “The Bear” (S01E26). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

Desk essentials in this season

1. S01E01 Inheritance

   Inheritance opens the collie franchise: loyalty as weekly serial, a branded bark already outranking the humans on the call sheet.