The New Lassie
Genre	Family Drama
Starring	Will Nipper Christopher Stone Dee Wallace-Stone Wendy Cox
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	48
Production
Executive producer	Al Burton
Producer	John Ward
Camera setup	Single-camera
Running time	25 mins.
Production companies	Al Burton Productions Palladium Entertainment MCA TV
Original release
Network	Syndication
Release	September 8, 1989 (1989-09-08) – February 15, 1992 (1992-02-15)
Related
Lassie Lassie

The New Lassie is an American familydrama series which aired in first-runsyndication from September 8, 1989 to February 15, 1992. The series starsWill Estes (then using his real name of Will Nipper) as Will McCullough,Lassie's new master. Real life husband and wifeChristopher andDee Wallace-Stone co-starred as Will's parents.

The New Lassie is essentially a sequel to the1954 series, and was the latest in the line of works featuring the Lassie character, which debuted in the1943 filmLassie Come Home, followed by several more movies and the aforementioned television series, which ran from 1954 to 1973.

The series centers on the McCulloughs, a middle-class family living in fictional suburban Glen Ridge, California. The McCulloughs are the owners of the then-present-day descendant of Lassie. Real life spousesChristopher andDee Wallace-Stone played Chris and Dee McCullough, withWill Estes (credited by his given name of Will Nipper) and Wendy Cox appearing as their young son Will and teenage daughter Megan respectively.^[1]

Jon Provost (born 1950), who starred in the originalLassie series, portrayed Chris' brother Steve McCullough who was revealed in a later episode to be the now adult Timmy Martin in an episode guest-starringJune Lockhart (born 1925), in a reprisal of her original role as Timmy's foster mother Ruth Martin (1958-1964). In the episode titled "Roots", Timmy reveals that he was never officially adopted by the Martins, and thus couldn't go with them toAustralia when they moved there (at the beginning of season 11 of the second version of the originalLassie series, 1958-1964). Subsequently, he was later adopted by the McCullough family, and began going by his middle name of Steven (Steve).^[1]

• Will Nipper as Will McCullough
• Christopher Stone as Chris McCullough
• Dee Wallace-Stone as Dee McCullough
• Wendy Cox as Megan McCullough
• Jon Provost as Timmy Martin/Steve McCullough

Guest stars with a Lassie past includedRoddy McDowall, who had starred in the first movieLassie Come Home (1943)^[2][3] andTommy Rettig,^[4] who had played Jeff Miller in the early years of the original television series (later syndicated asJeff's Collie).^[5] Other guest stars includedLeonardo DiCaprio andTodd Bridges.^[6][7]

The collie featured inThe New Lassie was a fifth generation of Lassie. The dog was trained by Robert Weatherwax, the son ofRudd Weatherwax who trained the original Lassie. Robert was assisted by his only son Robert Jr.^[8]

Reruns ofThe New Lassie aired onTV Land Canada in 2007.^[9]

• The New Lassie atIMDb

• 1989 American television series debuts
• 1992 American television series endings
• 1980s American drama television series
• 1990s American drama television series
• 1980s American children's television series
• 1990s American children's television series
• American sequel television series
• American English-language television shows
• First-run syndicated television programs in the United States
• Lassie television series
• Television series about families
• Television series by Universal Television
• Television shows about dogs
• Television shows set in California

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