The Rocking Chair - Timmy and Lassie

Lassie. Lassie. >> [music] >> Starring June Lockhart, Hugh Reilly, George Chandler, Jon Provost as Timmy, and of course Lassie. [music] >> [music] >> Mom. Mom. Yes, yes. Mom. Mhm? Can we have an old used furniture? Timmy, we have nothing but old used furniture. Why? It's school. It's a charity auction, and everyone is supposed to donate something. Timmy, I would gladly donate every piece of furniture in this house, even the old carpet sweeper, but unfortunately, it all adds up to our humble little home. You mean I can't have anything to donate? I don't know how to help you. We need all our old used furniture every day. But I got to give something. It's a charity auction for poor people without any money. Oh. Oh, couldn't we give the money instead? That isn't how it's supposed to be done. I can give my bed. >> Oh, now wait a minute. Then I can sleep on the floor. Your bed stays right where it is, young man. So, don't you dwell on that thought any longer. Then what am I going to do? I don't know how to help you, Timmy. I'm sure there's a solution to it somewhere. Come on, Lassie. Maybe Dad can make up a solution. >> [music] >> What's up? You got trouble? Maybe I can help. I need a new piece of second hand used furniture. Oh. For school. We need lots of furniture for people. That sounds like a worthwhile cause. We used all our second hand used furniture. There's nothing to donate. >> [music] >> I see you already approached your mother. Hm? What you got in your mouth? I don't know. Looks like a piece off a rocking chair. Oh my gosh. We don't even have a rocking chair. Maybe you have. I don't know. Let's investigate. >> [music] >> Looks like Lassie discovered the makings of a rocking chair. She must have known it all the time. Here are both arms of the chair. I can see. And the other rocker. And the cross piece. All we need is some glue. Thanks, Lassie. Thanks for the glue. >> [music] [music] >> If I may say so, this is shaping up like a professional job. Gee, Dad. You haven't made a rocking chair before? Uh I'm afraid I can only take credit for putting round pegs into round holes, son. Well, let me prove something. >> [music] >> When will be ready to stick the rocket on? Well, let the glue set for about 24 hours. Should be good and sturdy by then. It's really yours. You found all the pieces. >> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Hi Dad. Hello son. Is the rocket ready yet? Well, I'd let it be till after supper. Might as well let the glue set out its full time. Well, careful now. You know, you look what I've made. I'm pushing for the rocket. Gosh Mom, they're beautiful. They'd almost beg a person to be lazy. I'm ready to test them out right now. Well, I hope this raises the auction price. I'm sure it gives it the finishing touch. Looks like it belongs. I bet everybody will want to buy it. Well, it does add something if I do say so myself. Looks as if Lassie's putting in her bid already. >> All things on my brand new cushion. Lassie got all the pieces to the chair. Mostly hers. Lassie, you get down. >> [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Well, I don't see why I should be made to feel guilty. Everybody, including Lassie, knows that she's not supposed to get up on the furniture. Nobody's saying anything, dear. I know I didn't say anything. Lassie didn't mean anything. >> [music] >> I refuse to be regarded as an iron woman. If Lassie cares to curl up in the rocker, it's perfectly all right with me. >> [music] >> Lassie, if you wish, you can get up in the chair. Go on, girl. It's all yours. I'll be back in an hour or two. All right. Did Danny know you're taking the rocker? Yeah, I told him I'd drop it off at the auction ground on my way into town. >> [music] [music] >> Come here, dear. It's time for bed. Good night, dear. Good night. Good night. I'll be in in a minute. I'm going to put you to bed. Good night, boy. >> [music] >> Coming. The rocker's gone. Can you turn on the fan? >> [music] [music] >> $1.15, $1.15. DO I HEAR $1.25? $1.25? Sold at $1.15 to that lady RIGHT OVER THERE. THAT'S A GOOD LAMP FOR THE PRICE. THAT IS, if it's got two good electric bulbs. $1.15, that right? Look, the rocking chair. Our next donation is this fine, sturdy rocker. Also, these beautiful, brand new seat cushions go with it. I'm sure anybody that knows real comfort will want all this. All right, now, what is my starting bid? Do I hear a bid? I'm Do I hear a bid? What's my bid, folks? Do I hear a bid? WELL, IT LOOKS LIKE I HAVE MY first bid. Now, who wants to raise it? Man or dog? Lassie, come back, girl. You don't understand. They're cheating and they laughed at us and made fun of her. We just got to forget about it. Now, come on. Come on, Lassie. Now, folks, unless you want this chair to go to the dogs, let's hear the bidding. Come on. What am I bid? Do I hear a bid? Do I hear a bid? 50 cents. Uh 60 cents. 75 cents. I hear 75 cents. Do I have a dollar? $1. Do I hear 85 cents? 80 Do I hear 80 80 cents? Dad, I got a dollar home. Could you try to get the chair back for Lassie? I say 85 cents. And I say 95 cents. I've got 95 cents. 95 A DOLLAR. $1. I've got a dollar. $1. $1.10. $1.25. $1.35. And I bid $1.50 for theirs. Lady has bid What are you What are you fighting me for? I just put in the last bid. Do I hear $1.50? And then you can't withdraw a bid once it's been made. What's the matter? Aren't we winning? I'm sure we're winning, all right, but your mother suddenly decided to bid against me. It just just came out. I wasn't thinking. Well, I was standing here talking. The price is going UP AGAIN. GONE! WE SOLD TO MR. JOE BASCOM. >> [music] >> Does the man mean we lost the rocker? >> [music] >> I guess we're going without it, Lassie. Timmy, dear. Please don't set your heart on Mr. Bascom selling you back that rocking chair. Let me explain to him. I want you to take your gun in there, son. John made it. But I can work for him this summer and can make up the rent. And if that $2 doesn't loosen up Mr. Bascom, try this extra 50 cents for heavy artillery. Gee, thanks. Come on, Mom. We're going to get your rocker back. Timmy thanks you. I thank you and Lassie thanks you. >> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> What do you want here? We came to buy to I the rocking chair we bought you? You see, it really belongs to Lassie. I bought this here rocking chair to keep. You don't understand, sir. Lassie found the chair. Don't come around here bothering me. That chair is mine and it's staying right here. Now, get. You better go, Lassie. I don't think he likes us. >> [music] [music] >> He's fast asleep. Poor child is exhausted. He's had to learn a hard lesson today. >> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Wake up, sleepy. What? What's mine is mine, and I want it back. There's still laws against stealing. And I'm warning there's going to be trouble. Now, where's my rocker? Now, Mr. Bascom, I I've got to admit that circumstances sort of point a guilty finger somewhere in this direction. But if Timmy says he didn't take that rocker, then he didn't take it. All right. So, the boy's afraid to tell the truth. But you're his father, and you better get the truth out of him if it takes a good stick to do it. If I don't have my rocker back on my porch by tomorrow morning, I'm coming with the sheriff. >> [music] [music] [music] >> Honest, I told the truth. >> [music] >> Timmy, >> [music] >> are you asleep, Timmy? >> [music] >> Nancy. >> [music] [music] >> What do you think? Yes, but it's funny. Lassie isn't there. Huh? Well, that's great. Larry? >> [music] >> Please try and understand, Mr. Martin. I'm only doing my job. Mr. Bascom has a legitimate complaint. Just because I'm a poor farmer doesn't mean the law don't protect me. I ain't got much. But what I got I own. Yes, sir. I would never take anything that didn't belong to me. I promise. Now, let's try to use our common sense. To begin with, I happen to believe my son. And using mere logic, how could a boy Timmy's size possibly transport a rocking chair all that distance? He's in school all day and he comes right home and he doesn't leave the vicinity. And he certainly couldn't carry a cumbersome piece of furniture on his bicycle and he doesn't drive the pickup truck. Yeah. And he's in bed at 8:00 and I'm sure that he doesn't go roaming the countryside taking rocking chairs off people's porches. Wait a minute. Lassie. The only one that that chair really means anything to it. Oh, no. It's incredible. What are you thinking, dear? What's incredible? You're not really thinking what I think you're thinking, are you? What's going on? You mean you think Lassie could have done >> be out of my mind, but last night when Timmy was asleep, Lassie wasn't in in room. And yet this morning, she was there. Ramsay. Where were you? Hello, girl. Rocking chair. Rocking chair. Do you understand? Rocking chair. Where is it? Come on. I think we solved our problem. >> [music] [music] >> There. Look. Not really. I've lived to see everything. Well, this is one for the books. Ramsay. Mom, are there some people that are just mean like Mr. Bascomb? Well, it isn't a case of being mean, Timmy. Some people appear that way. There are usually good reasons for their actions. But Mr. Bascomb wouldn't even listen to us. Why wouldn't he do that? Sonny, uh, he just wasn't interested in your problem. Maybe he has too many of his own. Some people who live alone like Mr. Bascomb forget that other people have problems and feelings. Their world just gets smaller and smaller until it begins to pinch them. Kind of like a pair of tight shoes. And all those tight shoes make everybody feel mean. That's right. Is that when Mr. Bascomb's going to get meaner and meaner and meaner? Well, I'd say he's just about reached the end of the line. Whoever drove up didn't feel like sticking around. >> [music] >> What's he doing, Mr. Bear? >> [music] >> I had a dog once, too. Joe Baskin. Oh. >> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music]