Where Are the LASSIE Season Sets?
The occasional LASSIE episode releases Classic Media is giving us are like doling out eyedropper doses of water to a thirsty person. This disk contains three episodes having to do with mother love. In "The Runt," a second season Jeff episode, Lassie protects her remaining puppy by hiding it in a mine. In "The Wrong Gift," Timmy's Mother's Day gift is swapped with Willy Brewster's, and he has to find a way to repay the extra money that Willy's gift cost. (Willy's mom is played by series producer and former child star Bonita Granville Wrather.) "Lassie's Wild Baby" has Lassie mothering a cougar kitten (played by a Siamese kitten; VERY obvious). An interesting note: Jane Darwell of GRAPES OF WRATH fame plays the woman giving away kittens. These three episodes are syndication copies, but fairly complete and nice looking. But there is a stunning bonus feature on this DVD. The pilot episode to the LASSIE series were originally two filmed episodes: "Inheritance," which shows how Jeff came...
GIVE US "JEFF'S COLLIE"--ALL 116 EPISODES
The best of the "Lassie" television series was the first 116 episodes syndicated as "Jeff's Collie." Tommy Rettig, Jan Clayton, and George Cleveland all played their roles with great conviction and came off very believable. Those early scripts were far better written and the Jeff episodes had an emotional appeal that was never equalled in the subsequent years. The 3-episode "Jeff's Collie" DVD which Classic Media released in 2003 looked very good except for an edit in "The Inheritance" and a wavering sound problem in the last episode titled "Transition." It doesn't appear to me "The Well" episode was filmed in color, but "colorized" instead. I have a color picture of the original cast gathered outside of the icon farmhouse back door and, though the actors ARE in color, the farmhouse siding and back door are all in shades of grey. In the early days of B&W TV, settings were frequently done in shades of grey which photographed well for B&W before the advent of color. When...
Great Tv Show
These selected episodes from lassie show up on other releases BUT it is well worth it to buy this video just for the color episode of jeffs collie as a bonus episode its great to watch it in color.
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