Another typically good episode of this fine family adventure series, this time with the titled collie coming to the rescue of the small dog "Mike," the pet of "Timmy's" best friend "Boomer." The character "Boomer Bates" (Todd Ferrell) was an attempt in the first, full season of "Timmy & Lassie" episodes to replicate the friendship of "Jeff Miller" (Tommy Rettig) and "Sylvester 'Porky' Brockway (Donald Keeler), from the first farm years ("The Millers," 1954-57) incarnation of this series. It was a good dimension of this series, and too bad "Boomer" was dropped after only one season.Also appearing in this episode is George Chandler as "Uncle Petrie," another attempt at recreation of a close bond, this time the grandfatherly one established between "Jeff" and "Gramps" (George Cleveland). This, too was dropped after only a full season, though Chandler's character inexplicably shows up again the following season, in an episode about saving the town ("Calverton") hospital.Later on, the show would again introduce a grandfatherly relationship for "Timmy," in the person of veteran film & television character actor Andy Clyde, as farmer neighbor "Cully Wilson." Clyde's homespun warmth and befuddled comic timing made that one work "just swell," as "Timmy" might have said.The incidental music of this series (from Seasons Five through Ten) was a memorable element, always very recognizable, horn-driven melodies for tension-building moments of the plot, a bouncy & whimsical scoring for warm & playful scenes, and a sweet, gentle (usually strings-heavy) musical backdrop for sensitive and tender moments. Although the most fondly-remembered "Lassie" main theme music (titled "Whistle") was composed by Les Baxter, the series' incidental music is credited to music editor Sid Sidney.This series holds up well, and may still be enjoyed by kids and families today. Although, in reality, the adventures and serious crises that befell the farm families and their heroic collie would never be so extreme, nor certainly as frequent as on this program. But dramatic license is extended to filmed fiction as well as to printed and staged media.As an additional point of information, this episode was originally broadcast on CBS-TV May 31, 1959; the first "Lassie" episode broadcast on the anniversary of my birth, in this case on the occasion of my first birthday. So I probably never first viewed this episode until a syndicated re-broadcast, I'm guessing at least six or seven years following the original airing.