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Anyone remember a male Collie named Duke?


I remember I liked renting this one Lassie video when I was younger, and Lassie I think was given by someone to a couple who had a male Collie named Duke, but Lassie didn't stay with them. I don't remember exactly how, but she ended up at a house where there lived a little boy who couldn't talk, but he and Lassie became friends. Then she ran away from that place (I can remember the boy helping Lassie dig a hole under the fence). So then I think the boy's dad decides to go out looking for Lassie, who now has I think three puppies, and the dad thinks they were sired by a wolf or something so he's intending to shoot them. Meanwhile, the husband finds the dad and says he'll help find Lassie. When everybody finally does find Lassie and her puppies, the boy sees his dad ready to shoot, and yells "Stop!" That gets their attention, and then the other guy explains that the puppies were sired by Duke. Then Lassie gives one of her puppies to the boy, who talks now, but with a stutter. Then I think Lassie leaves with her two remaining puppies. I don't remember what this movie title was actually called, and I can't find it on imdb though Lassie's character page. However when I did an imdb search for a sequel to this movie called "Lassie Well of Love" the imdb movie connections link said it was edited from this tv show. In the sequel, we see Lassie give away her two remaining puppies, one of which is named Dusty by the boy and his mom that Lassie gives him to. The other she gives away to a little girl. Then she ends up falling down into an old well, and people with whom Lassie has come into contact recount their stories of how Lassie impacted them all while they are trying to help Lassie get out of the well.





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This story was the seventeenth season opener, known under the umbrella title of "The Saga of Lassie's Puppies." The first four episodes were turned into a TV movie called The Miracle. Lassie is on her own and is staying with a couple called the Pearsons, who own the collie, Duke. The individual episodes are "Lassie's Interlude," "The Birth," "The Survival," and "The Miracle." The next episode is "The Innocents," and then the following episode "The Offering" is combined with the two-part episode "For the Love of Lassie" to form another movie called Well of Love. The final episode with the little girl is "Nature's Child."

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I have it on VHS as a single tv-film.

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I remember a dog name duke but don't remember if he was a collie. I do remember lassie was pregnant and gave birth and this other guy thought she got pregnant by a wolf or some other wild animal and that person wanted to destroy the pups cause they might have wolf in them. so the guy who had lassie told the other guy that she was with a dog duke. is this the same duke your asking about?

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