The bravest Collie to ever ford a river, get stuck on a cliff, or, yes, help get Timmy out of a well, Lassie first hit TV screens 70 years ago on September 12, 1954. Though the hero pup had ...

Jack De Mave, who portrayed a U.S. forest ranger on Lassie and an unconventional date for Valerie Harper's Rhoda Morgenstern on the second episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, has died.