 Timmy was reclaimed by the County and eventually adopted by a family named McCullough and began using his middle name, Steven.Ruth and Timmy (Steven) are reunited 25 years later in the seventh episode of the first season of the syndicated television show "The New Lassie", entitled "Roots".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."