 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."