фильм лесси 1997

Scott Moore, "Lassie", , March 2, 1997.

Direct Source released the complete first season on DVD in Region 1 in 2006. This release is now out of print.

Susan Almgren as Dr. Karen Cabot

The entire first season is available on in Canada since April 4, 2006.

The show was canceled after two seasons. A total of 49 episodes were produced.

Although young Corey Sevier impressed critics, others complained that the series relegated Lassie to a bystander role by focusing more on the Cabot family's dealings with various townspeople, at the expense of featuring Lassie's action stunts and feats as had been traditional in the famous canine's previous movie and TV incarnations.

In the first (1997) season, Lassie was played by "Howard", an eighth generation collie descended from , the dog in the original 1943 movie Lassie Come Home. As with all previous Lassie movies and television series beginning with Pal, Howard was owned and by Weatherwax Trained Dogs, founded by brothers and . Midway through production, Cinar replaced Howard with a non-Pal descended dog. Following Lassie fan protests, "Hey Hey", son of Howard and a ninth-generation direct descendent of Pal, was brought in to assume the role of Lassie for the final thirteen episodes of the show.

Not to be confused with a previous, follow-up series entitled which aired 1989–1991, this Canadian-produced Lassie series starred as 13-year old Timmy Cabot in the fictional town of Hudson Falls, . The show was filmed in by . In this series' story line, Timmy and his recently-widowed mother, Dr. Karen Cabot, move to Hudson Falls, where Karen takes over a veterinary practice.

Lassie is a which aired from 1997 to 1999 on in Canada and Sunday nights on the network in the , as a modified remake of the about a boy and his faithful dog. As with previous Lassie TV versions and several movies dating back to the original movie of 1943, the star was , a trained .

Lassie with Corey Sevier –DVD cover

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