Lassie

Season 5, Episode 14

Episode Title: The Black Woods

Air Date: 1958-12-07

Overview:

Having seen sugar maples while taking Timmy on a nature hike, Uncle Petrie returns to the woods to investigate--and runs into two men holding bank president Robert Hanson hostage. Remembering that he taught Timmy smoke signals on their hike, he makes a desperate gamble while helping one of the criminals make a fire.