Lassie - Episode

Timmy gets roped into being the "test pilot" for a set of wings made by two friends, and the initial flight off a cliff over a lake almost ends in disaster.
TRIVIA: Audiences began to notice that the scenery in this season had changed significantly from that of prior seasons. Most of the early filming (Seasons 1-5) was done on a sound stage in Los Angeles, and outdoor scenes staged at sites with trees and lush ponds.As Season 6 rolled in suddenly those outdoor shots were in barren western locales than were far from the "midwest" tree-and-grassy-farmland-fields of prior episodes. Franklin Canyon Park, a public park in the middle of 1960's Los Angeles, was used quite extensively by the Lassie directors in almost all the outdoor scenes of the Timmy and Lassie episodes from Season 6 onward. It had been a favorite outdoor "stage" for a number of films - including a 1934 film staring Claudette Cobert and Clark Gable - and w Another site, Vasquez Rocks, a 932-acre park also in Los Angeles county, also saw a number of Lassie episodes being filmed.
Both of these sites, however, were very "western" in look and feel. Audiences had always been lead to believe the Martin's farm was somewhere midwest, and only once were viewers ever given a clue - in Season 10, Episode 4 ("Jeeper") Timmy has a scrap book of Lassie's greatest deeds, and in it the local television station is WITV which uses call letters for stations east of the Mississippi.
The history of broadcast call letters began in the mid-1800's with early wire telegraphy, where each station and operator along a telegraph line was assigned a short "call" or "signal" - usually only three characters (sometimes simply the initials of the telegraph operator) because of the limitations of wire communication.
As the use of radio came into existence the United States federal government began licensing wire stations, still employing only a three digit call sign per station. But as more stations were brought online, especially the landbased commercial operations, the use of better regulation was needed, so W and K prefixes were added to commercial and broadcasting stations. From the start the policy has been that stations in the west normally got call letters beginning with "K", while "W" prefaced letters were issued to stations in the east. The original 1912 K/W boundary ran north from the Texas-New Mexico border, so at first stations along the Gulf of Mexico and northward were assigned W calls. It was at the beginning of 1923 that the K/W boundary was shifted east to the current boundary of the Mississippi River. Currently the WITV call letters belong to a PBS TV station in Charleston, South Carolina.
No wonder the barren wild west scenery of the new Season 6 Lassie just felt...uncomfortable.