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The first Lassie story was published in the Saturday Evening Post on December 17, 1938.

Collie stories by Albert Payson Terhune:
Lad: A Dog (1919)
Bruce (1920)
Buff: A Collie (1921)
His Dog (1922)
Further Adventures of Lad (1922) Republished as: Dog Stories Every Child Should Know (1941)
Lochinvar Luck (1923)
Treve (1924)
The Heart of a Dog (1924)
Wolf (1925)
Najib (1925)
Treasure (1926) Republished as: The Faith of a Collie (1949)
My Friend The Dog (1926)
Gray Dawn (1927)
The Luck of the Laird (1927) Republished as: A Highland Collie (1950)
Lad of Sunnybank (1929)
A Dog Named Chips (1931)
The Way of a Dog (1932)
The Book Of Sunnybank (1934) Republished as: Sunnybank: Home of Lad (1953)
Real Tales of Real Dogs (1935)
True Dog Stories (1936)
The Critter And Other Dogs (1936)
The Terhune Omnibus (1937) Republished as The Best-Loved Dog Stories Of Albert Payson Terhune in 1954.
A Book of Famous Dogs (1937) Republished as: Famous Dog Stories Every Child Should Know (1937)
Grudge Mountain (1939) Republished as: Dog of the High Sierras'' (1951)
Dogs (1940)
Loot! (1940) Republished as: Collie to The Rescue (1952)
Wallace: Glasgow's Immortal Fire Dog (1961)
Great Dog Stories (1994) Collects five stories from The Heart of a Dog and five from My Friend The Dog.



The first Lassie novel was “Lassie Come Home” by Eric Knight

In the 1940s and 50s several Lassie movies were made:

1. Lassie Come Home (1943) starred now famous actors Roddy McDowall and Elizabeth Taylor as children
2. Son of Lassie (1945)
3. Courage of Lassie (1946)
4. Hills of Home (1948)
5. The Sun Comes Up (1949)
6. Challenge to Lassie (1949)
7. The Painted Hills (1951)
8. Lassie’s Great Adventure (1963)
9. Lassie: A Christmas Tail (1963)
10. The Magic of Lassie (1978)
11. Lassie: Best friends are Forever (1994)
12. Lassie (2005)

The Lassie Radio Show aired from 1946 until 1949

Blaze the Wonder Collie was a three part comic published from 1949 to 1950

The original Lassie television series ran from 1954 to 1974

Lassie Television Series:

1. 1954 to 1973 Lassie
2. 1972 Lassie’s Rescue Rangers (animated)
3. 1989 to 1991 The New Lassie
4. 1997 to 1999 Lassie
5. 2011 Lassie the Animated Series

Lassie Made for TV Movies:

1. Lassie: Flight of the Cougar (1967)
2. The Adventures of Neeka (1968)
3. Peace is Our Profession (1970)
4. Well Of Love (1970)
5. Sound of Joy (1972)
6. Lassie and the Spirit of Thunder Mountain (1972) animated
7. Lassie: A New Beginning (1978)
8. The Story of Lassie (1994)

Lassie Books:

1. Lassie Come Home
2. Lassie
3. Lassie: A Dog’s Life
4. The Lassie Method
5. Magic of Lassie
6. Painted Hills
7. The Story of Lassie
8. Lassie: A Christmas Story
9. Challenge to Lassie
10. The Sun Comes Up
11. Lassie: The Prize
12. Forest Ranger Handbook
13. Lassie and the Lost Little Sheep
14. Lassie’s Forest Adventure
15. Lassie: Rescue in the Storm
16. Lassie and the Mystery of Blackberry Bog
17. Lassie and the Secret of Summer
18. Lassie: Forbidden Valley
19. Lassie: Treasure Hunter
20. Lassie: The Wild Mountain Trail
21. Lassie and the Mystery of Bristlecone Pine
22. Lassie and the Secret of the Smelter’s Cave
23. Lassie: Lost in the Snow
24. Lassie: Trouble at Panter’s Lake
25. Lassie: Adventure in Alaska
26. Lassie and the Shabby Sheik
27. Lassie: Old One Eye
28. The Adventures of Lassie
29. Lassie and her day in the Sun
30. Lassie and her Friends
31. Lassie and the Big Clean-Up Day
32. Lassie and the daring rescue
33. Lassie and the Lost Explorer
34. Lassie Shows the way
35. Lassie: The Great Escape
36. Hooray for Lassie!
37. Lassie and the Cub Scout
38. Lassie and the Deer Mystery
39. Lassie and the Firefighters
40. Lassie and the Kittens
41. Lassie Finds a Friend
42. Lassie’s Brave Adventure
43. Lassie: The Busy Morning
44. Lassie: The Sandbar Rescue
45. Lassie’s Long Trip
46. Lassie to the Rescue
47. Lassie: Hayloft Hideout
48. Lassie Under the Big Top
49. Lassie: Treasure at Eagle Mountain
50. Lassie: Danger at Echo Cliffs
51. The Puppy Problem
52. Digging Up Danger
53. The Big Blowup
54. Water Watchdog
55. Skateboard Dare
56. Dangerous Party

Special thanks to Rainybank Collies for doing a lot of the legwork for this trivia!