Lassie Come Home

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Lassie Come Home, 1943.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Lassie Come Home, 1943.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Lassie Come Home, 1943.

Guest host Michael Feinstein introduces Lassie Come Home, 1943.

Robert Osborne introduces Lassie Come Home, 1943.

Father and Joe (Donald Crisp, Roddy McDowall) return the star to the duke (Nigel Bruce) after a second escape, the trainer (J. Patrick O’Malley) scolded before Priscilla (Elizabeth Taylor) offers reassurance, in her first on-screen meeting with her lifelong friend (McDowall), in Lassie Come Home, 1943.

Young Yorkshireman Joe (Roddy McDowall) had no warning whatever that his cash-strapped parents (Donald Crisp, Elsa Lanchester) had plans to sell the collie, rushing home after school for a difficult explanation, early in the MGM hit that launched the popular series, Lassie Come Home, 1943.

Prologue about the author, introduction of the famous collie and his young master Joe (Roddy McDowall), distracted in school, from MGM's hit Lassie Come Home, 1943, featuring Elizabeth Taylor.

First appearance of young Priscilla (Elizabeth Taylor), with grandfather the Duke (Nigel Bruce), meeting his new collie, and the iffy trainer Hynes (J. Patrick O'Malley), in MGM's Lassie Come Home, 1943.

A faithful collie undertakes an arduous journey to return to his lost family in Lassie Come Home (1943) starring Roddy McDowall.