Lassie is a fictional female Rough Collie dog and is featured in a short story by Eric Knight that was later expanded to a full-length novel called Lassie Come-Home.
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16 Facts About Lassie
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In "The Half Brothers", Lassie is loved only by her young master and guides the adults back to where two boys are lost in a snowstorm.
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In 1954, the long-running Emmy-winning television series Lassie debuted and, over the next 19 years, a succession of Pal's descendants appeared on the series.
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The "Lassie" character has appeared in radio, television, film, toys, comic books, animated series, juvenile novels, and other media.
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An early depiction of Lassie is found in British writer Elizabeth Gaskell's 1859 short story "The Half-brothers".
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Lassie arrives home, and leads the search party to the boys.
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Half collie, Lassie was owned by the landlord of the Pilot Boat, a pub in the port of Lyme Regis.
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Lassie's stayed beside him for more than half an hour, nuzzling him and keeping him warm with her fur.
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Lassie was taken to hospital and went on to make a full recovery.
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Lassie visited Lassie again when he returned to thank all who saved his life.
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Fictional character of Lassie was created by English author Eric Knight in Lassie Come-Home, first published as a short story in The Saturday Evening Post in 1938 and later as a full-length novel in 1940.
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In 1943, the novel was adapted into a feature film, Lassie Come Home, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer that starred Roddy McDowall and Elizabeth Taylor.
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In 2005, a remake of the original Lassie Come Home movie was produced in the United Kingdom.
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Lassie continues to make personal appearances as well as marketing a line of pet food and a current pet care TV show, Lassie's Pet Vet on PBS stations in the United States.
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Lassie is featured in Our Nation's 200th Birthday, The Telephone's 100th Birthday by Stanley Meltzoff for Bell System.
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