Lassie 1954 - 1973 Opening and Closing Theme (With the Lone Ranger Snippet)
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Lassie is an American television series that follows the adventures of a female Rough Collie dog named Lassie and her companions, both human and animal. The show was the creation of producer Robert Maxwell and animal trainer Rudd Weatherwax and was televised from September 12, 1954, to March 25, 1973. The fourth longest-running U.S. primetime television series after The Simpsons, Gunsmoke, and Law & Order, the show chalked up 17 seasons on CBS before entering first-run syndication for its final two seasons. Initially filmed in black and white, the show transitioned to color in 1965.
The show's first 10 seasons follow Lassie's adventures in a small farming community. Fictional eleven-year-old Jeff Miller, his mother, and his grandfather are Lassie's first human companions until seven-year-old Timmy Martin and his adoptive parents take over in the fourth season. When Lassie's exploits on the farm end in the eleventh season, she finds new adventures in the wilderness alongside United States Forest Service Rangers. After traveling on her own for a year, Lassie finally settles at a children's home for her final two syndicated seasons.
Lassie received critical favor at its debut and won two Emmy Awards in its first years. Stars Jan Clayton and June Lockhart were nominated for Emmys. Merchandise produced during the show's run included books, a Halloween costume, clothing, toys, and other items. Campbell's Soup, the show's lifelong sponsor, offered two premiums (a ring and a wallet), and distributed thousands to fans. A multi-part episode was edited into the feature film Lassie's Great Adventure and released in August 1963. Selected episodes have been released to DVD.
I am crying, At 70, I have our 6th Collie. All because of Wonderful Lassie on TV.
I was born in 1951 and had some rough times growing up in the late 50’s- early 60’s. But come Sunday night at 7 pm I had my weekly escape to forget everything for 30 minutes because that is when Lassie was on. It had the best acting, storylines and beautiful music. I will always have such warm memories of this show.
When the music plays and timmy says lassie i get teary-eyed. brings back memories of innocent times when you were secure in your home watching with your family. Oh how times have changed i still love♥️ that dog ,.
"Grandpa
Everything is changing fast
We call it progress
But I just don't know
And Grandpa, let's wander back into the past
And paint me a picture of long ago
Did lovers really fall in love to stay
Stand beside each other come what may
Was a promise really something people kept
Not just something they would say and then forget
Did families really bow their heads to pray
Did daddies really never go away
Whoa oh Grandpa
Tell me 'bout the good old days" ("Grandpa", The Judds)
Finally I'm not only who gets teary-eyed over this theme song
I just watched this in 2022 and made me teary eyed as well. I began watching Lassie when Tommy Rettig played Jeff.
I feel exactly the same lad....
I'm 58 and I still love Lassie
I'm from Buenos Aires Argentina
Hugs for you!
I watched Lassie while my mom rolled my hair in those dreadful pink foam rollers. There was an episode where Lassie lost her memory & I thought my heart was going to fall out! 💔 She had it back by the end of the show & everything was perfect again just like it was supposed to be. 😊
omg im 63 yrs old and everytime I see the ending of this show I cry I guess I remember how life was then and how I grew to LOVE dogs THANK YOU LASSIE I LOVE YOU
Me too, mama said all 3 of us cried when Lassie went off. I'm 56
Wow! The Loneranger cool!! Feels like a crossover episode!!!
I’m 13 I feel young
I'm 16, but I know exactly how you feel. I consider myself lucky to have watched this show as a kid. Maybe not at the time, because it was the only thing my brother and I was allowed to watch at grandma's, but now it resonates with me. Something about the simplicity of it all; stories about a boy and his best friend.
2021
The opening and closing always made me cry as a child and I don’t know why. It makes me feel a little choked up now, 60 years later.
Me too
Me too. I could never watch an entire episode. Still can't 65 yrs old.
Made me cry too--especially the ending. And guess what? Still makes me cry decades later.
It’s hollow, lonely like a cold dark wintry night….its leaving and abandonment all wrapped up in a melody of your favorite show. Whatever you were experiencing in your real life as a child was magnified when this came across your television…..
I’m 64 and the Lassie theme song has haunted me since I was a kid.The shows episodes were very sentimental and featured baby animals or Timmy in various perilous situations where Lassie would save them at the last minute.It was an intensely sentimental and emotional show but I really loved it.
YEAS~JUST, WENT, BACKIN TIME TUNNEL, TO OZ~"SKIPPY, DA BUSH KANGAROO~SEVERAL YRS BACK, AFTER SOME BOOZE~I GOT ALL TEARY EYED, REALISIN MY ARAGON BICHOUN~HAS, ONLY SEVERAL YRS~TO GO,~STILL QUITE THE PUPPY~HE'S FOOLED MANY~NEVER, LOST THE SPING, IN HIS "GALLOP" ~ THAT WHAT I STILL HEAR~A LONG LEGGED , BICHOUN~STILL, KICKS UP THE DUST~
I'm only 26 (thank god) but I still watched this as a child with my family all the time (along with The Andy Griffith Show) and the theme song always haunted me too but for a different reason, when I was probably 7 or 8 i had a VERY disturbing, dark and violent nightmare and for whatever fckn reason the lassie theme song was playing in the background during the dream. After that whenever I heard it it reminded me of that dream. Kinda weird right haha
Why haunting?? Nothing scary about it @@John-sr2hr
I get misty-eyed as well at the end credits---I grew up with Lassie on CBS, Sunday evenings---good times.
Yes, it seemed a simpler time...
I'm 57 and I still cry when I hear the theme song! I loved Lassie so much when I was younger, and still watching the reruns On FEtv.
Same here I have my dog beside me when I hear that theme and I have to give my dog a big hug
I know your comment is 3 years old. You're 60 now, give or take a few months. Just came here to say I'm 33. I loved this show so much as a kid, even in the 90s. I didn't watch many black and white shows, but Lassie was a must. I get teary eyed myself during this theme song because it brings back so many great childhood memories that I can never experience again. Oh, what I would give to be 6 years old again, watching Lassie with my own dog at that time, sitting right beside me 😢
Not just that but so many other memories. Bittersweet to think back on them ❤
The Theme of Lassie always gets me choked up. It was a good show
with lots of action, and a nice family
with strong family values.
Hello Stephanie, How are you doing?
I grew up in the mid-1990s, and this show was on every single day on the major tv networks like CBS, ABC, etc.. along with I Love Lucy. Pretty crazy it had a syndication run of about 40+ years. My generation grew up watching it in the mid 1990s and im still in my mid 30s now. So wasnt that long ago. These younger gens won't know anything about lassie though. Or Benji.
It never had any effect on me as a young child...but makes me cry now.
I'm teary-eyed watching this too, and I love Lassie so much that I purchased my own purebred collie and named her Lassie.
I know I am blessed to have grown up when this was new, or in recent syndication.
I got to have a REAL childhood in the Sixties.
I had a REAL childhood in the 90s 🙄stop thinking you’re the only one who had a childhood.
That’s exactly what’s wrong with with your generation you think you’re so goddamn special.
@@Whyistomatoafruit Yeah I can tell from your positive post😂
i guess it didn't translate since you had to post such self-centered drivel.
You're lucky to have gotten to grow up with the show when it was realitively "new".
I was an 80's kid and grew up with shows like lassie, and mr. Ed.
I know what you mean with "a real childhood" comment.
When we were kids we didn't have constant tech "controlling" or "influencing" our lives.
We had morals and good upbringing with our parents and he we had wholesome shows like lassie to teach us about character and being a good person.
We still played outside with friends unlike a majority of kids today.
@@WhyistomatoafruitI was born in the mid 50s and grew up basically through the 60s myself wouldn't trade my growing up in the 60s for anybody that grew up in the 90s and thank you for proving what a fucking judgmental prick you really are
Is there anything more sacred than the bond of a boy and his dog? The friendship and loyalty these companions bring to our lives is impossible to match. My own pup lies just a few feet away, and has been diagnosed with an inoperable tumor. Listening to this theme song brings tears, but also the joy of having this dog in our life and home for 13 years. We will remember his love and devotion for the rest of our lives. When he goes, the oceans will be deeper from our tears.
Just read your post God-bless these beautiful animals sure gets in our hearts
Love your dear dog friend. So very sorry to read this. Take very good care.
When the Vet urged us to put him down six months ago, we prayed for just a little more time with him, as the love and determination in his eyes told us he wasn't ready to go. Incredibly, his tumor shrunk and he began eating and running again. Because of his age, we know our time left with him is short, but we're forever grateful for the small extension granted by the Lord.
@@kahunastev So happy for you and your precious pup.
What about a girl and her dog!?
Omg that music so beautiful and Lassie and I did cry as a kid, when the song came on and lassies paw went up. Incredibly moving
Hello Liza, How are you doing?
It's almost like Lassie is waving to us!
The theme song makes me feel like crying. I know it's happy, a cute dog running to the little boy she loves, but for some reason the whistle sounds so haunting.
Hello Carolyn, How are you doing?
@@liamroberts9047 I'm doing pretty well at the moment, thank you for asking!
@@carolyns4519 So where are you from?
That is for sure!
I was born in 1987 so these were before my time, but I can remember hearing the whistled theme song on reruns as a little kid…it’s a classic!!
My aunt used to cry every time Lassie lifted up her paw at the end.
Made me cry, too as a kid, but guess what? Decades later, it still gets me.
The whistled theme song is hauntingly beautiful
I almost started crying because it reminded me of my childhood
did make me cry and think about my Collie who was hit and killed by a car in the 1950's.
@@JOHNWLOUCKS. I feel for you. I know what it's like. God Bless.
@@davidfrehlini5052 Thank you so much Dave !
@@JOHNWLOUCKS I feel for all of you, from the time I was a child and watched Lassie, I always wanted a dog like that but I grew up poor in eastern KY. Was in the military about 5 years in and joined a Memphis collie rescue group. I fostered alotta hyper boarder collies and ran into a real collie in my fostering. Fell in love, adopted her quick (rescue from an Arkansas puppy mill) and I kept her safe and part of my family for 8 years. Untill she just couldn't get up, it was so sad. I haven't had the gumption to get another dog since then.
@@rickgriffis7684 Hey Rick, I know it's difficult but I hope you adopt another dog. So many need homes. It will make your adopted Collie happy where ever she is. I am 71 so my old Cocker who is 16, deaf but doing well will most likely be my last, If I get another dog, there is no one who will take care of it when I croak. Be well Rick.
We just lost our family dog yester
day morning. She passed peacefully at the age of 13. I came here to be reminded of the Lassie theme song. I would always call ours, just like Timmy called his.
"Ciggi...Ciggi-Wiiiiiiggy!" 🥰😥😪😭
Texas Beast- your post though 2 years old made me want to reach out to you and hug you on your sorrow. I know how much you loved your pup. 🕊️💙🕊️💙🕊️
The Lassie theme song always made me feel sad as a kid because I did not want the show to end that day, but just keep playing. The whole show was wholesome and family friendly! The good old days are long gone, but I long for them!
My first dog was a Rough Collie named Lady. I loved this series and I have loved herding dogs my whole life.
Aww Lassie seems such a sweet dog. I never saw the movie. I got it on DVD a couple of days ago. My mom and my uncle grew up with Lassie. I can’t wait to watch it. I’m 21 and love the classic movies. I have a Mini Aussie Shepherd and some people say that she reminds people of Lassie but just a different color
AS, A CA/KIWI/OZ~SHEEP/CATTLE DOGS~ REALLY RANCH HANDS~FOR 5AM MILK DUTY? LEAVE THE HONDA 90~IN BARN, THESE ARE WORKING DOGS~GRT CHOICE ANNA~ BE WELL~"D"
Anybody who grew up in the 1950s has to get a little misty eyed watching that closing theme.
I grew up in the 80s and 90s and it still does this to me.
I grew up in the 90s and I still get misty eyed. They used to rerun this show a ton on TV back then. I Love Lucy also. It was on the major TV networks still.....
Every kid in my class would watch this in the morning before school, and that was early 1970s!
Anyone who cares about family values surely must be misty eyed... 'cause this era is entirely gone... the world is a dark, ugly place now.
As a kid Sunday evening was great. First Lassie then Walt Disney and course Bonanza. What a great time to grow up.
Sunday was the best. We'd have a nice Sunday dinner then go and sit and watch that lineup and Wild Kingdom was on as well. Simple, lovely times.
I LOVED watching Lassie growing up. I don't know why, but the song is still so sad. But I love it.
Such a tear-jerking theme. Not ashamed to admit it. Miss my MOMS
My mama loves lassie.that is a family drama program that is surely missed on tv today that we could all use.
July 23 2019....i type this after watching these remarkable 3 minutes of American pride past. This was how we were raised.
Can you imagine Hollywood co-operating like this again. Role models quality and integrity...and heroes.
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I write this the day after two videos in new york city came out...locals throwing water on police.
My how America has bern challenged..how the left and their supporters have let this great land down.
This Lassie offering tells you just how great we were....oh to be respectful like this again.
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You do realize that crime rates today are a fraction of what they were back then, right?
Don’t forget how many people got away with it. Either by never being found as people just went “missing” or kept abuse a secret.... to outright confession safe from double jeopardy like Emmett Till’s murderers.
Good old days my fucking ass. Only if you were white, straight, rich, Protestant, and male.
That dudes eyeliner is off the hizzy
Hollywood. . . . . . . Now run, enabled, and manipulated by Satan's minions. By the way that's just an extension of our government, run by the same.
Come Lord Jesus, Amen.
The opening and closing themes grabbed me as a youngster and their magic has never abated over the years. Regal Lassie sitting there during the closing credits warms the heart, and when she lifts her paw, it is enough to break it, so at one are you with her. Ah, were it so that life was always filled with such connections, and because they are not, you cling to this moment ever the more.
This is such a wonderful show, I love its innocence and simple happiness. The theme song just stops me in my tracks every time, it's so nostalgic.
My Mum is 61 years old and. She still loves this tv show
This theme started with season 5 (1958) and continued until season 17 when Greensleeves became the theme. Seasons 1-5 had their own theme which was actually from a 1940 movie: The Courageous Dr. Christian and called Secret of the Silent Hills.
I attribute this opening and closing tune to the reason why to this day at the age of 63, I suffer from a feeling of doom and gloom and a lump in throat every evening, which was the time the show aired in my country the 1960s. It's such a great feeling of inexplicable sadness which for decades, I couldn't figure out the reason but now I know, for sure. It must have seeped and stayed in my subconscious😢
The closing theme made me shed a tear!
Especially the part where lassie raises her paw.
I remember back in 1959 when we had the rodeo in San Antonio and a parade. Lassie was among the guests. Me and my friend were very excited and we wanted to see Lassie. So we bought alot of snacks to enjoy ourselves while watching the parade. We were so dumb because we had bought alot of chocolate bars that were called Ex-Lax. We didn't know at the time that they were laxative bars. So during the parade, we had a very bad day. You can imagine why. But we didn't care because we didn't want to miss seeing Lassie in the parade. Now i wonder why Lassie looked our way. He could probably smell us.
This closing of the show brings tears to my eyes
Well, brings back old memories of the past & of a different America than we have today in 2016. Wow 57 years. Been through a lot! Good to see Clayton Moore as the Lone Ranger and Silver & goo'd ol' Lassie. Use to always watch Lassie at seven p.m. on Sundays way back when. RMA, Bakersfield, Calif.
It is really sad what has happened to America. Even over the last 20 years.
@@bighands69 Total Agreement. They failed. We must change it...
I cried whenever I'd hear lassie's theme whistle n now at almost 70, I still cry
When I was a little girl, I thought that theme song was so sad and lonesome. I just wanted to hug Lassie and say, "You are not alone!"
I watched Lassie with my parents. They're gone now when I hear the Greensleeves theme or see Lassie, I think of them, I missed them so much.
Absolutely a beautiful dog!
she was
I'd do her
@@jameslopper6911 you would do a dog?
She was a he
There were always at least 6 dogs on the set. Different dogs were used to do different scenes.
24 people never knew the joy of a dog.
I down arrowed it because of the deceptive caption....
I remember watching this in the afternoons when I didn’t have school
Love this show as it always brought great values to the family and as well has always been so well loved and received. Love you Timmy, Lassie and the cast!
The closing theme always puts a lump in my throat & temporarily transports me back to a much better time that's unfortunately gone forever
One of my first memories of television.
Hello Elizabeth, How are you doing?
One of the best dogs ever.
I wanted to cry while watching that. “Lassie” & “The Lone Ranger” were 2 of my favorite shows as a child. Wonderful times & wonderful memories. Always loved Clayton Moore (and his voice).
That theme always made me cry--especially the ending credit. Not sure why? After all these years--yup, still makes me cry.
Legend has it lassie is still alive to this day and he’s helping Timmy as much as he can
i was born in 1985 i watched the re-runs when I was just a little guy in the early 90's one of my favorite shows back then.
time travel is possible! I m there in my childhood again. so many memories
Hello from Canada. Great clip of a tremendous show. America at its best! All the best.
I wish I could find Lassie on TV again.
Would like meet Lassie
I turned 66 on September 29, 2021 & for some reason the theme song just popped in my head, especially the whistling. It gives the wanting of a simpler, better time. Of course not everything was better for everyone back then, but I'll try not to rain on everyone's parade.
I’m currently sixteen. This brings me memories of when I was younger and me and my sister would watched old shows and movies like this.
You know, and I don't want to make a whole big thing about it or anything, but I believe that Lassie was one of the first dogs to go into space in the early 1960's. Not only was Lassie a great actor, but she was also a National Hero.
This music makes me tearful. No internet no video games. Just playing in the mud till gone 9pm, parent shouting over the fence over on to the village green, so you knew it was bedtime, tea time etc
I wasn't born anywhere near the 50s but I did grow up watching Lassie and a few other shows made around the same time, and geez do I wish I could go back and experience life back then. Everyone is just lazy now and nobody has class anymore. There's a certain charm about early 1900s America, shame I missed it
Maybe the theme makes us feel sad because we remember a time when we lived with our parents, a time of a kind of freedom children had in those days.
I used to have a very smart shepherd mix who would put her paw up when she wanted something. We called it "Doing Lassie." Then we got a younger male and darned if he didn't learn the same trick from her (not from me)! Dogs are so special. On a side note, and not to ruin the sweet nostalgic mood, I often wondered if Clayton Moore ever had to have his pants surgically removed.
I used to watch this show on Nickelodeon as a kid, I always liked the ending credits where she lifted her paw as if to wave goodbye!
Beautiful t.v. series and loved watching Lassie as a child. Always wanted a collie, I ended up with a samoyed, still love collies.💖💖💖💖💖💖🥹🙏🐾
lassie is the most adorable puppy in history!!!
I too feel a little sad hearing the opening and closing music. It puts me back to a time as a young boy and the world and family was a secure place.
I even preferred the show 'Jeff's Collie' Both were in great times to be alive
These days is a masked man showed up to a school with two pistols on him you would have a SWAT team there inside of 10 minutes. Not like the good old days :-)
Oh gee whiz, they expected him to be there and his guns were fake.
That's because everyone knew the Lone Ranger was there to fight crime.
To this day I don't get it. Why, if this is a happy opening about a wonderful dog, does this theme feel so sad and down? I mean I wanna cry every time I use to hear this as though it was a theme about a dead dog or something. Which growing up I found out that in a way I was right as the dogs they used in these were long since passed on when I saw this show in the 80s as a kid. But still, why so sad and beautiful.
I love the fact that the network Lassie was on has been adopting the great, great, great, great grand dogs of Lassie. I think it's Lassie 14 or something.
The Lone Ranger, Silver and Lassie all in one scene. Crossovers have ALWAYS been a thing, and this was one of the best.
I was a kid for the Lassie "rebirth" of the early 80s on Nick at Nite, when a bunch of us GenXers fell in love with an old Boomer show about a boy and his dog.. I still whistle the theme music all the time.
When I hear the music and and Lassie and Timmy it brings back old memories memories as a child always watch Lassie every Saturday morning and I was very young and I always like to watch it I don't know why they don't bring all these good shows back on❤❤❤
My Mom used to loveeeee Lassie the actual dog in real life and poodles but more the poodle skirts. She use to tell how she had a whole bunch of pretty poodle skirts growing up but sadly when they stole everything from Her and My Grandma when My Grandma passed away she lost everything she had they even kept all her pictures and family memobilia and things that could identify that she was she.
We used to laugh together and often cried about stories we would share with one another. And I'm so Proud of who My Mom was and My Family. She was the Best and will always be the Mother I could ever had had in my life. She lives in all of us. 😭
Man the youtube plus or whatever without ads is worth it since time is one thing you never can get more of...when theres never enough. But the cheap side of me thinks, "but then it's not free and that's no good!"
Lassie come here girl what do u reckon
Makes me think that good times of the past or your past will never be the same we all grow up and be er forget you're good times is how I view the lassie theme song Love it too
I used to watch this every morning before school. Sitting with my bowl of Raisin Bran with cut up bananas in it.
My dad loved lasie's movies
This world is going to the dogs. It's a doggie dog world out there. I used to watch this as a kid. Nice memories.
The whole reason I fell in Love with Collies.
Like some comments,for me at the end when Lassie raises her paw ,brought tears.A boy or girl with their dog. When JON left: as a kid I didn't understand.Watched a few epsiodes ,with Lassie roaming the country,Not the same.
I lived my brother and the neighbor had a Collie they're surprisingly big you can't tell that much on TV but in real life they're pretty big dogs
I have a small collie named Laddie.My husband I love him so much.Love you D.S.😍❤💋
Any other members of the "I Cried When Lassie Lifted Her Paw Club" out there?
I forgot how depressing the whistling was for the Lassie theme.
I loved Lassie as a kid but I truly believed the whistling in the closing credits evoked my life long depression.
@ T,V,G / thanks for the childhood memories from back in the days when TV was truly "good" :-)
Being born in 1993, I would have to disagree.
BadCat I was born in 2006 but I loved and still do love lassie
Does this song have a title. I always loved the end theme, even though sometimes it made me cry. What can I say, I was a sensitive kid.
My sister when she was little, was forbidden from watching as she burst into tears the moment the dog's paw went up....even when she swore she wouldn't!
Many Masks can't blame you it really hardens my throat.
I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who can mist up listening to this theme song......it made me cry as kid, and it still does.......dont know why it strikes me so.....but it does.....
FMHammyJ well I already cried but whenever I hear it again, I don't cry, I guess I got used to it?
It was a tear jerker for me too - still is😭
My Da had a dog like this as a boy and when he had to get it put down it broke his heart. I have always loved every episode and movie of Lassie. This is how TV should be today to show today's children what TV and life was like wayvon back. Problem with today's TV is there is way far to much trash garbage made and all the good old TV gone. Not everyone can afford sky.
Beautiful, how I miss those days. Back than America was Kinder gentler and righteous. What the heck happened, what happened to this country on all levels ? Everything is such a mess
Things began changing with the assassination of JFK.
Janet Ward. I agree, you know i always said that. After JFK died that was the turning point for America . It seemed like America lost its innocence from that point on
Innocence? Lfmao
Lnda y tierna serie, Ojala la dieran porla TV abierta , para compartirla con la generacion de niños de hoy, desde Chile.
For some reason, this was on TBN in the early-to-mid 2010s, which is how I think I first saw it... Or maybe second
My dad had a lassie named jack and his brother and sister had to have one too! ❤️🤣
Aw my first crush was Timmy. I was 4.. I was so sad when they made the new lassie...
I'm glad I'm not the only one who cried lol
King.... KING.... I keep calling and hes not coming back home...😢
What a hell of an episode.
Haven't forgotten this TV series, 43+ years ago....
Dogs are the best animals in the world
I watched lassie in the 1980s on Nickelodeon. My mom watched it in the 1950s. I had a dog growing up named after Greta Garbo and a little boy did a "sit ubu sit" commercial and "I made this" commercial.
Haha same! I always thought he said “sit booboo, sit. Good boy”
I’m 25 and this was my childhood
This show was during the height of segregation in this country. Lol
I used to kiss the image of Lassie because I had 3 dogs such an inspiration to me I really believed it is true
Growing up I had two shelties that looked like Lassie. One passed in 1997, and the other passed in 2012.