Lassie what is it boy

During that time, the first 10 seasons were filmed in black and white, the remaining nine in color. What was unusual about Lassie is that two pilots were intended from the beginning. The first showcased the bond between a boy and his dog, while the second was designed to give a look at what a typical episode would be like. It worked, and CBS placed the show on its schedule, premiering on September 12th at p.

Things changed in when both Ellen and Jeff said that they wanted to leave the show. In response, the decision was made to find a new boy to bond with Lassie and the show would start to follow them.

My mother was not in show business; she grew up in a little farm in Texas and her idol growing up was Jane Wyman. Well, she was a seamstress when she came to L. When my parents got married, she read an ad in the LA Times that Warner Bros was looking for two to three year old blond boys to be in a movie starring Jane Wyman. My mom thought if she took me on this audition, she was going to meet Jane Wyman and get her autograph. That was the only reason she took me.

There were over little boys and little girls whose moms had cut their hair to look like little boysAnd I got the job. How crazy is that? He was cast as Timmy on Lassie, as noted, in We were like a big family.

Come on, who has stuff like that? And then I did half-hour episodes of Lassie , probably only a third of which I remember, because on any given day we could be filming from three different scripts. I just showed up, but I did have fun most of the time. Now I can watch those episodes and it brings back all these great memories.

But I should have, because it was an episode where me and my friend were protecting a penguin. Come on, I was holding a penguin. We worked with alligators, ostriches and elephants — you name it, we did it — and a lot of those I remember.

Jon shares that even before meeting Lassie, animals had been a part of his life. My sister and I had a horse, we had a goat and dogs and cats. But I loved Lassie. I was on the show for seven years and worked with three different dogs.

The last dog I worked with for five years, so obviously he and I bonded. He would only respond to his trainer and the assistants, but it had to be that way. For me it was a chance to get away from the city and have fun. It was also a great way for me and the dog to bond. And we did everything together.

Bill infers that Golden Eyes has been captured, and makes preparations to rescue her. In the mean time Uncle Sam goes on to: return to the German field camp where Golden Eyes has been taken while carrying a secret message for her; knock out the same German officer who captured Golden Eyes and had moved on to menacing her ; sneak out of the German field camp while transporting stolen intelligence to the American forces; and finally, lead an American offensive to the Germans' position in time for a Big Damn Heroes rescue of Golden Eyes.

In the French comic Les Tuniques Bleues about two cavalrymen in the Union army during the American Civil War , one of the cavalrymen, Blutch, has a horse that has saved his life on multiple occasions. Also, because he is a Dirty Coward , he has taught his horse to play dead whenever anyone signals a charge. Rex the Wonder Dog is probably the king no pun intended of this trope. Among other things, he can drive cars, become an award-winning photojournalist, be parachuted into enemy territory with a machine gun and proceed to use it, and beat up a T.

Eventually, this became too absurd even for DC Comics , and in the late s he drank from the fountain of youth, giving him the ability to speak human languages, removing the need for this trope. Snowy from the Tintin comics does this a lot. Comic Strips. In Beetle Bailey Sarge falls over a cliff again and is hanging by a tiny branch. He tells his dog Otto to get help. Otto runs to base and makes every effort a non-talking dog can to get people to go with him, including jumping on them and pulling on their legs.

The strip ends with Otto in the lockup and Sarge still hanging from the branch. The man asks Lassie "Timmy's in a well? What well? Parodied by Doonesbury , in ! That's how long this has been considered a joke. Television: "What? You say a hunter has fallen into the abandoned mine shaft and has broken his legs, and needs insulin?

Garfield: Jon! Little Timmy has fallen down the old well! Jon: This is one of those days I'm glad I don't speak cat. Man: Oh no! Timmy's fallen down the well! Cat: Meow. You pushed him, didn't you? Garfield: You want a hero? Get a dog! TV Man: Is it Timmy? Is he in the well? The Dog: Yes! That rotten kid is in the well! I mean arf. Rover: [barks] Red: Timmy's fallen in a well behind the old Johnson place?

Come on, we've got to get help! Rover: thinks I was just trying to tell him about the new Lassie episode Clerk: What is it, girl? Owner needs a size six in patent leather slingbacks?

Bolt: You remember Lassie, the famous collie who had that show where her human boy was always falling down a well and had to be rescued? Dean: Good Lord. Is this some kind of warped 'Timmy's in the well' scenario? Harry: What is it girl? What's that? Filch is stuck down a well and nobody wants to help him? But well can you blame them? Films — Animation. Disney's Beauty and the Beast has Belle's father's horse, Phillipe, run back to get help when Maurice is imprisoned in the castle.

Near the end of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs , the woodland animals actually do this to the dwarfs after noticing the Evil Queen threatening to give Snow White the poison apple while disguised as the Witch. Unfortunately, it was too late , so the dwarfs and the animals immediately resort to dispatching the Queen by chasing her off a cliff.

In Toy Story 2 , parodied when Woody watches the old '60s series where he was the star, and a few woodland creatures chirp what turns out to be an extremely complex and detailed account of what is going on in a distant mine, with two trapped characters, a stick of dynamite, and a impending explosion.

Rabbit: [incoherent chatter] Woody: What's that? Jessie and Prospector are trapped in the old abandoned mine and Prospector just lit a stick of dynamite thinking it was a candle and now they're about to be blown to smithereens? Rabbit: Uh huh. Woody: Ride like the wind, Bullseye! Films — Live-Action. Played entirely straight in 's The Artist.

Justified in that the dog in question is shown beforehand to be a well-trained stage dog — and maybe also justified by The Artist being a deliberately old-fashioned silent film. Double Subversion from the movie Good Burger : A dog runs up to Cloudcuckoolander Ed, who reads his barkings as "A bunch of clowns are stranded on the highway with a broken radiator. At the end of the scene, Gilligan Cut to a bunch of clowns, standing by a broken car, wondering where the dog went.

In The Wizard of Oz , Toto escapes from the Wicked Witch's castle, finds the other members of the group and starts barking at them. The Scarecrow says "Why, don't you see? He's come to take us to Dorothy!

Joe Dirt has a hilarious subversion. A man has his leg stuck between railroad rails and a train is coming so he sends the dog for help. The guy had been mean to the dog, so the dog walks away Later, the guy returns And with a shotgun. It doesn't end well for the dog. Fido has a perfect example of this trope.

It contains pretty much the exact same scene as Lassie , but the dog is replaced by the family's pet zombie. They presumably named the boy "Timmy" just to set up that joke. Parodied in Broken Lizard's Club Dread. Dave and Juan are cleaning up the Pac-Man maze, when they run into Putman who is still in Banana costume who is trying to tell them that he found Cliff's dead body, but is in such a state of shock that he can't speak.

Says Dave, "Are you trying to tell us something boy? Is little Timmy trapped in a well?! He finds car keys, tracks down and rescues his master from jail, can open car locks, and figures out how to activate the title artifact, among other tricks. Referenced in The Cat in the Hat by the fish, after he grows frustrated at the kids for not listening to his warnings about the title character.

Fish: I told you all this was gonna happen, but no-one listens to a fish! A dog goes "woof woof" and everyone knows little Timmy's trapped in a well, but a fish speaks in plain English —. Spoofed on a few occasions in Discworld. In Guards! In The Last Continent , a talking kangaroo named Scrappy a Shout-Out to Skippy informs Rincewind that the kangaroo language has a gesture that means "come quick, someone's fallen down a deep hole.

Despite doing nothing more than turn up in the pub, the genre-savvy trolls recognize the trope from the movies Laddie's been starring in and decide to follow him back, while completely ignoring the real intelligent talking dog, Gaspode, who's trying to tell them what's going on in their own language. Contrary to how good it all looked on TV, Rettig and the boy who played "Porky" really didn't get along.

Joey Vieira whose stage name was Donald Keeler recalls that he and Rettig were always fighting. If you always thought "Porky" and "Pugsley" on the television series The Addams Family looked a little bit alike, you weren't mistaken. Joey Vieira and Ken Weatherwax are half brothers. Want to ask a sure-fire "stumper" at a TV trivia contest?

Cloris Leachman got tired of playing second fiddle to a dog and a boy and was about to ask to be let out of her contract when Fate struck. The story possibily apocryphal, but it fits her peppery personality goes that Leachman had an interview in which the reporter asked her if she used the sponsor's product Campbell's Soup, for the run of the series on the CBS network.

Leachman quickly replied that she would never use "that stuff," and that she made her own soup! Needless to say, the sponsor was infuriated and she was let go quickly! Jon Shepodd was IMHO a pretty colorless Paul Martin, although Jon Provost remembers him as a great guy, but he was let go because the producers were afraid people who saw a new actress as Ruth Martin would think Paul got a divorce, a subject avoided on a family series in those days.

In fact, he does at least one silent-comedy-type bit in the episode "Double Trouble. Lassie was one of the first series in the early 60's to feature an African-American actor in a role that was not a domestic or a train porter.

Olympic champion Rafer Johnson Gold Medalist for the decathalon portrayed one of a gang of construction workers who helped rescue the collie from a cliff in the episode "Lassie's Ordeal.

Robert Bray was tailor-made for the role of a forest ranger. He was born in Montana and grew up hunting, fishing, and working outdoors. He had been a cowboy, a lumberjack, and a taxidermist before turning to acting taxidermy was always his hobby. At least one episode of the series, "Lassie's Litter Bit," revolved around this role. Many movie information sites and books list "Lassie" in the cast of the classic John Wayne Western Hondo.

Close, but not true, according to a correspondent who knows the Weatherwax family: the collies in Hondo and the later Wayne Western Big Jake were trained by the Weatherwax kennels and were Lassie siblings and children, but were not played by Lassie himself.

There is a story, very probably apocryphal, that says during the filming of Hondo Wayne won Lassie away from Rudd Weatherwax in a very "highly lubricated" after-shooting-hours poker game, then "gave the dog back" in the morning.

Pamelyn Ferdin, who played the deaf girl, Lucy Baker, in the last two seasons of the series, was the voice of Lucy in several Peanuts TV specials. Ironically, Ferdin now belongs to an animal-rights group that does not believe in keeping animals— including dogs— as pets. Turner is named "Laura. Turner is again "Laura.