Die Jeff Episoden waren deutlich dramatischer und spannender.
Selbst als Jeff klein war (1954, erste Lassie Staffel) weinte er nie wie Timmy. Ich fand ihn immer sehr tapfer.
Leider hat FETV die allererste Jeff Folge, die es auch in Farbe gibt (und mit anderem score) nicht ausgestrahlt. Darin traegt er einen Strohhut und jemand (Lassie?) faellt in einen Brunnen oder Schacht. Ist zu lange her, seit ich das zuletzt gesehen habe.
Aber in dieser webiste wird es als die zuerst gedrehte Folge genannt:

[episodes.lassieweb.org]

Hier die erste Episode:

"The Well" (02/20/55):
A businessman wants to dredge an old well on the Miller property to use for his water company, but Gramps won't let them, so the executive schemes to get at the water some other way, to the dismay of his clean-cut young attorney. Mr. Saunders: Hugh Beaumont. Mr. Hazlitt: Tristam Coffin. Liz Barton: Hallene Hill.
• Trivia: Gramps says he's 68, which as George Cleveland's age at the time. Gramps traded Si Barton a heifer calf for the half acre on which the well was located, forty years earlier, and Gramps never filed the proper paperwork to transfer the deed of ownership.
• Note: Hallene Hill turns up again four years later as Timmy's elderly aunt, and Hugh Beaumont will appear again during the ranger years as Corey Stuart's friend. This episode and "The Inheritance" were the first two filmed as pilots for the series. Although the kitchen set remains the same, and the exterior shot of the barn and house, they have a substantially different "look" than the other episodes in the series. The screen door is painted black, and the living room, shown only in "The Well," has its entry from a door on the right rather than an archway on the left. There's also no door to the storm cellar in the hallway (seen through the kitchen door to the hall), but a picture and table instead (indeed the arrangement of windows on the outside of the house doesn't seem to match the inside). The interior house doors have more elaborate molding. There's also a big wide gate as the entrance to the farm in these two episodes, with rolling fields behind (these were filmed in British Columbia) rather than the narrow road (with or without mailbox) shown in the remainder of the episodes. Most of the incidental music is different as well.

On the DVD release of four Lassie episodes, "A Mother's Love," the fourth, "bonus" episode is an uncut, full color copy of "The Well." (One wonders: if they shot a color version, is there a color copy of "Inheritance" somewhere, too?) This is the only chance to see the kitchen in color in the Jeff episodes; the stove is cream-colored and the wainscoting is a tan color. The china cabinet is a warm brown. The parlor furniture is the same, just in a different room and arranged differently, and you can also see the colors of these old-fashioned pieces, Ellen's organ, and the area rug.

Gruss,

Chrissie




Don (1977) schrieb:
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> In den 80ern habe ich die Serie in Sat.1 gesehen
> und da gab es auch viele Folgen mit Jeff, der mir
> persönlich deutlich sympathischer war als Timmy.
> Das lag aber vermutlich auch daran, dass Timmy
> jünger als Jeff war und ich mich dadurch damals
> weniger mit ihm identifizieren konnte als mit
> Jeff.
> Aber ich fand auch die Geschichten irgendwie
> spannender als in der Timmy-Zeit.