Portrayal
Ruth Martin portrayer June Lockhart joked with co-star Hugh Reilly that she had been married to him longer than to any of her real husbands and commented after leaving the show, "In six sexless years of playing a country wife and mother, I was hardly ever allowed to kiss Hugh Reilly on the cheek."
In a conversation with John Barron of the New York Times in 2004, Lockhart was asked what Lassie was all about and why it remains something of a magical memory for those who were children in the 1950s and 1960s. She responded, "This was a fairy tale about people on a farm in which the dog solves all the problems in 22 minutes, in time for the last commercial. Often, if the scene had gone well, and maybe we hadn't gotten the dialogue quite right, if the dog was right, they'd print it."
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