Lassie

Season 7, Episode 17

Episode Title: Apron Strings

Air Date: 1961-01-08

Overview:

When Timmy and Lassie bring home a litter of starving orphaned puppies, rescued from a maurading bobcat, the family tries to save them although one has already died of starvation. Inadvertantly, the pups teach Timmy, who's been relying on Paul to help him with arithmetic homework, about self-sufficiency.