Season 16

1. Last Chance

September 28, 1969

On a surveying mission of the forest, Scott and Bob are delighted to find wolves restablishing themselves in the area. Then the male is shot while hunting for his pregnant mate and the rangers must save him--and change the hunter's mind about wolves.

2. Success Story

October 5, 1969

Scott and Lassie help a Job Corps volunteer who just isn't making the grade.

3. Patsy

October 12, 1969

During a surveying trip at a former bombsite sleighted to become a national grassland, Scott carefully disarms the unexploded bomb next to a trapped man while Lassie shuttles supplies to him.

4. No Margin for Error

October 19, 1969

During a surveying trip at a former bombsite sleighted to become a national grassland, Scott carefully disarms the unexploded bomb next to a trapped man while Lassie shuttles supplies to him.

5. Lassie and the Water Bottles

October 26, 1969

Widowed Sarah Caldwell will have to give up the family ranch if she can't keep water on the property, so Scott helps her install ""water bottles,"" large vinyl storage ""tanks."" But a thirsty fawn gets himself trapped inside the slippery containers.

6. Survival

November 2, 1969

As they take an elk survey, Scott and Lassie's helicopter ride turns deadly when the vehicle has has mechnical problems and crashes in the snowy wilderness. Bert tries to at least fix the communications system, but that too is beyond hope; they must rely on their survival gear and wait for rescue.

7. Father and Son

November 9, 1969

While surveying Government rangeland, Scott is hurt by a careless rifle shot fired by young Tom Bradley, a boy who has taken to playing hookey and staying in the woods after his mother's death; later, another shot of Tom's gone wrong injures his father.

8. The Sky is Falling

November 16, 1969

Neeka, spending his vacation with Scott and Bob, is delighted to help the rangers out at the Roaring Camp spur line, a railroad that will run directly through the majestic redwood forest. There they befriend a persistent little bantam chick (Neeka names him Fairbanks) who is constantly wandering into trouble.

9. No Greater Love

November 23, 1969

Bob has the weekend off, so he takes Neeka fishing on the Columbia River, but on a hike, Lassie and Neeka discover a crow building her nest in a dangerous place. When Lassie attempts to save the bird, she is swept down the icy cold river.

10. More Than Meets the Eye

November 30, 1969

On a nature hike, Scott and Lassie help Kathy, a withdrawn and fearful girl who is attending school with other blind children for the first time.

11. The Chase

December 14, 1969

Scott and Lassie help a doe who has been chased to exhaustion by snowmobilers.

12. The Blessing

December 21, 1969

Manuel Sandoval sneaks over the border with his deaf dog Poco, hoping that the Blessing of the Animals as Mission San Luis Rey will restore the little terrier's hearing in time for Christmas.

13. Superstition Canyon

December 28, 1969

Lassie babysits a prospector's burro.

14. The Road Back (1)

January 4, 1970

Scott and Lassie, in San Francisco's Chinatown for a mini-forest project, befriend the children in a Chinese school. Lassie is struck by a car while saving one of the children and appears to have amnesia. So when a fire strikes the vet's office she's staying at, she escapes to the streets with no idea where she belongs.

15. The Road Back (2)

January 11, 1970

Lassie's search for her identity takes her to a wax museum and finally down to the waterfront, where she is befriended by a down-on-his-luck young fisherman with a family and a boat loan he can't pay off.

16. The Road Back (3)

January 18, 1970

Heading back to San Francisco over the Golden Gate Bridge, Lassie befriends a lonely runaway teenager and a lonely soldier, then is mistaken for a possibly rabid collie named Tawny.

17. The Road Back (4)

January 25, 1970

Her memory recovering at last, but still hunted by health officials as a rabid dog, Lassie is chased through the streets of San Francisco.

18. Winged Rescue

February 1, 1970

Lassie and Neeka are lost in the desert.

19. The Cliff

February 8, 1970

Neeka and Lassie take a wrong turn on the self-guided trail at the Mesa Verde National Forest, and, while trying to find their way back, slip off a cliff where Neeka breaks his leg. As darkness falls, Bob and ranger Gene McClintock desperately search for the pair.

20. Warm Heart--Cold Nose

February 15, 1970

With Bob at a meeting, Lassie visits overnight with the Frasers, a blind man and his wife who live in the woods without any way of communicating with the outside world. When Edie Fraser is hurt during a walk, Clint and his guide dog Ginger start for help, but Lassie must save them from a cougar's attack and go herself.

21. Whitewater Fury

March 1, 1970

While Bob and Dan are scouting out the rapids for a ""whitewater trail"" for tourists, Lassie finds a baby raccoon that has been poisoned by ""pink snow""--the same material she has already eaten. The only way to get her help--a trip down the worst of the rapids.

22. Chucka

March 8, 1970

Bob and his Navajo guide Sam find a dog swimming across Lake Powell on their way to survey tribal lands and rescue him; he is Chucka, an indolent dog who'd rather rest or play than tend sheep. But Chucka must ""grow up"" quickly after his shepherd owner, Charlie Ngani, is injured and Lassie must go for help.