During an astounding 19 year-run, Lassie joined two families, an orphanage, and the U.S. Forest Service, and spent one season wandering the earth, solving the problems of various forest creatures.

Jerry, the lame boy who adopted Lassie's son Blacktail ... the Martins', then he and the dog head for the woods--where deer season has just begun. When Paul offers to farm the land Cully has ...