6 Mile Request
Series titles: 名犬ラッシー, Lass
- Studio
- Nippon Animation, Fuji TV
- Animation studio
- Nippon Animation
- Distributor
- Bandai Visual
Synopsis
John is a cheerful and energetic young boy who lives in a small coal-mining town in England. One day, he finds a small dog lost in a flock of sheep.
John takes the puppy back home and names him Lassie. Soon, they become really good friends, just like real brothers. Lassie is a very lovely and smart dog, so everyone in the town loves her very much. But their happy life doesn't last long. Suddenly, a coal-mine owner closes his company because there is no more coal left in the mine.
John goes to meet the coal-mine owner to request a further investigation. The owner accepts John's request, but in exchange for that, he takes Lassie to Scotland.
Priscilla, the owner's granddaughter and also John's friend, cannot just stand by and let Lassie suffer in a cage. She opens the cage and sets Lassie free.
Lassie sets out on a very long and hard journey from Scotland to her hometown.
Lassie keeps on running in order to meet John, her best friend and brother, as soon as possible...
John takes the puppy back home and names him Lassie. Soon, they become really good friends, just like real brothers. Lassie is a very lovely and smart dog, so everyone in the town loves her very much. But their happy life doesn't last long. Suddenly, a coal-mine owner closes his company because there is no more coal left in the mine.
John goes to meet the coal-mine owner to request a further investigation. The owner accepts John's request, but in exchange for that, he takes Lassie to Scotland.
Priscilla, the owner's granddaughter and also John's friend, cannot just stand by and let Lassie suffer in a cage. She opens the cage and sets Lassie free.
Lassie sets out on a very long and hard journey from Scotland to her hometown.
Lassie keeps on running in order to meet John, her best friend and brother, as soon as possible...
Characters
Lassie, John, Priscilla, Sandy, Collin, Patrick, Forest, Orusen, Professor
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Sunao Katabushi
- Episode Directors
- Jiro Fujimoto, Kenichi Nishida
Writing
- Writer
- Aya Matsui, Hideki Mitsui
Voices
- Voice
- Takumi Yamazaki (Lassie), Narumi Hidaka (John), Mariko Kouda (Priscilla), Hazuru Matsukura (Sandy), Mayumi Tanaka (Collin), Junko Shimakata (Patrick), Nobuyo Tsuda (Forest), Yukimasa Kishino (Orusen, Professor), Akio Ôtsuka, Bin Shimada, Keisuke Yamashita, Masaharu Satou, Mikio Terashima, Minoru Inaba, Ryouichi Tanaka
Music
- Music
- Masanori Sasaji
Crew
- Design
- Satoko Morikawa
Production notes
This TV series ran for 26 episodes. This series aired in Japan on the Fuji TV network as part of the World Masterpiece Theater between January 14, 1996 and August 18, 1996.
This penultimate anime from "World Masterpiece Theater" was pulled off the air and replaced with "Remi: A Child without a Home" (which, ironically, was also pulled for bad ratings).
The characters' early years, not seen in the original story, were incorporated to increase the running time, so the series' cancellation meant that Lassie's famed journey home ran for only three episodes.
Based on Eric Mowbray Knight's 1940 novel, itself an expansion of his 1938 short story "Lassie Come Home."
The series' final episode, "Run to the Place of Dreams," was never broadcast, but was included in the subsequent video release.
This penultimate anime from "World Masterpiece Theater" was pulled off the air and replaced with "Remi: A Child without a Home" (which, ironically, was also pulled for bad ratings).
The characters' early years, not seen in the original story, were incorporated to increase the running time, so the series' cancellation meant that Lassie's famed journey home ran for only three episodes.
Based on Eric Mowbray Knight's 1940 novel, itself an expansion of his 1938 short story "Lassie Come Home."
The series' final episode, "Run to the Place of Dreams," was never broadcast, but was included in the subsequent video release.