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Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

Fred Rogers presents and uses music to discuss various subjects with young audiences, including both real-world examples from his own life and fictional adventures set within the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.

"Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" was one of the most famous, longest-lasting, and beloved children's television programs. Host Fred Rogers, known to millions as simply Mister Rogers, used his gentle charm to communicate with young audiences. The show covered a wide range of topics related to children's concerns, such as fears about bedtime, vaccinations, disappointment over not getting what they want, dealing with loss, physical disabilities, and more. Simple songs were often featured, along with segments from the Neighborhood of Make-Believe where puppet characters like King Friday XIII, Lady Elaine Fairchilde, and Daniel Stripèd Tiger inhabited a magical world. Rogers would frequently use scale-model trolleys to transition into Make-Believe segments, which was part of his neighborhood. The show often included visits from regular characters as well as Rogers himself making frequent stops in the neighborhood. The production took place at WQED-TV in Pittsburgh, with first-run episodes airing from 1968 to 1975 before a hiatus until 1979. New programs continued through 2001 for reruns alongside original series, including notable shows focused on helping children cope with fears during the Persian Gulf War in 1991.

Episodes:

Episode 1 1

1. 1

Aired: Feb 19, 1968

Mrs. Russellite sends an invitation to Mr. Rogers so he can see her lampshade...

Episode 2 2

2. 2

Aired: Feb 20, 1968

Mr. Rogers shows how a burlap bag can be many different things when one imagi...

Episode 3 3

3. 3

Aired: Feb 21, 1968

Because of the border guards, Cornflake S. Pecially refuses to visit the cast...

Episode 4 4

4. 4

Aired: Feb 22, 1968

At the Television house, Rogers brings in a playpen and puppy. Mrs. Carol Sau...

Episode 5 5

5. 5

Aired: Feb 23, 1968

After Rogers plays with them, Betty Aberlin takes some helium balloons to the...

Episode 6 6

6. 6

Aired: Feb 26, 1968

To prepare for his scientific endeavor, Rogers puts on a lab coat and compare...

Episode 7 7

7. 7

Aired: Feb 27, 1968

In the Television house, Rogers takes care of a canary while, in the Neighbor...

Episode 8 8

8. 8

Aired: Feb 28, 1968

The Neighborhood of Make-Believe celebrates a peace party and honors Lynda Ma...

Episode 9 9

9. 9

Aired: Feb 29, 1968

Rogers plays audio tapes of Neighborhood of Make-Believe puppet characters to...

Episode 10 10

10. 10

Aired: Mar 1, 1968

In the Television house, Rogers demonstrates the use of binoculars. In the Ne...

Episode 11 11

11. 11

Aired: Mar 4, 1968

Henrietta thinks X always has been spending time with Lady Elaine. X alleviat...

Episode 12 12

12. 12

Aired: Mar 5, 1968

Jewell Walker pretends to do a baseball game and then teaches X arithmetic.

Episode 13 13

13. 13

Aired: Mar 6, 1968

Without asking, Lady Elaine steals King Friday's painting of the Bluebird of ...

Episode 14 14

14. 14

Aired: Mar 7, 1968

Rogers improvises on paper how music in a song makes him feel. Professor Jose...

Episode 15 15

15. 15

Aired: Mar 8, 1968

Rogers bandages his finger to prove that it is still there. Vivian Richman in...

Episode 16 16

16. 16

Aired: Mar 11, 1968

A sculptor visits the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Lady Aberlin also knits a...

Episode 17 17

17. 17

Aired: Mar 12, 1968

Rogers brings in a Sicilian donkey whose name is Donkey Hodie. Donkey Hodie i...

Episode 18 18

18. 18

Aired: Mar 13, 1968

At the Television House, Rogers talks about his boyhood days when he did not ...

Episode 19 19

19. 19

Aired: Mar 14, 1968

Donkey Hodie decides the best place for building a windmill would be in the h...

Episode 20 20

20. 20

Aired: Mar 15, 1968

Mr. Rogers shows a model windmill to help explain how windmills work. The Nei...

Episode 21 21

21. 21

Aired: Mar 18, 1968

Chef Brockett is ready for Donkey Hodie to break ground for the windmill. Bro...

Episode 22 22

22. 22

Aired: Mar 19, 1968

Rogers covers this episode discussing the White House and the U.S. presidents.

Episode 23 23

23. 23

Aired: Mar 20, 1968

Rogers discusses the use of eye glasses. Henrietta also receives glasses.

Episode 24 24

24. 24

Aired: Mar 21, 1968

Rogers has his eyes examined. King Friday wants Donkey Hodie's windmill to be...

Episode 25 25

25. 25

Aired: Mar 22, 1968

Lady Aberlin, X and Henrietta bring housewarming gifts for Donkey Hodie at hi...

Episode 26 26

26. 26

Aired: Mar 25, 1968

Rogers discusses growing and changes a doll's diaper. Nurse Miller also assur...

Episode 27 27

27. 27

Aired: Mar 26, 1968

Rogers makes a toy bed and pretends to make a doll sleep in it. Lady Elaine a...

Episode 28 28

28. 28

Aired: Mar 27, 1968

After he locks his pillow in a safe, Edgar Cooke expresses his different feel...

Episode 29 29

29. 29

Aired: Mar 28, 1968

Rogers demonstrates the use of a loom and sees them being operated by Nantuck...

Episode 30 30

30. 30

Aired: Mar 29, 1968

After Rogers demonstrates the use of violins and violas, he invites Michael G...

Episode 31 31

31. 31

Aired: Apr 1, 1968

Rogers discusses wild animals and Mr. McFeely brings in a Mexican parakeet.

Episode 32 32

32. 32

Aired: Apr 2, 1968

Rogers puts on various masks to prove he doesn't change when he puts one on. ...

Episode 33 33

33. 33

Aired: Apr 3, 1968

Rogers gives some oranges to the members of a ballet company that is set perf...

Episode 34 34

34. 34

Aired: Apr 4, 1968

Rogers plays music by blowing across bottles of water. Mr. McDonald also make...

Episode 35 35

35. 35

Aired: Apr 5, 1968

Rogers and Chef Brockett make their own tunnels from what is around them. The...

Episode 36 36

36. 36

Aired: Apr 8, 1968

Digger Digorum bears gifts as she leaves the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.

Episode 37 37

37. 37

Aired: Apr 9, 1968

Outside the Television house, Peggy Lipschutz draws with chalk while Vivian R...

Episode 38 38

38. 38

Aired: Apr 10, 1968

Rogers demonstrates exercises by using the handlebars from an exercise machin...

Episode 39 39

39. 39

Aired: Apr 11, 1968

The Neighborhood of Make-Believe is preparing to hold a reception party for S...

Episode 40 40

40. 40

Aired: Apr 12, 1968

The reception party for Sara Saturday takes place.

Episode 41 41

41. 41

Aired: Apr 15, 1968

Corny, X and Henrietta have various actions to the rain in the Neighborhood o...

Episode 42 42

42. 42

Aired: Apr 16, 1968

Lady Aberlin gives X the scarf that she had promised for him. In turn, X give...

Episode 43 43

43. 43

Aired: Apr 17, 1968

John Reardon appears for the first time. King Friday asks him to make an oper...

Episode 44 44

44. 44

Aired: Apr 18, 1968

Reardon holds auditions for his opera while Mrs. Frogg provides the costumes....

Episode 45 45: Babysitter Opera

45. 45: Babysitter Opera

Aired: Apr 19, 1968

During Reardon's opera, Lady Aberlin hires Henrietta to look after Donkey Hodie.

Episode 46 46

46. 46

Aired: Apr 22, 1968

Rogers gets a haircut while discussing with the barber how it doesn't hurt. T...

Episode 47 47

47. 47

Aired: Apr 23, 1968

Marion and Nicholas Petrov visit the Neighborhood of Make-Believe dressed up ...

Episode 48 48

48. 48

Aired: Apr 24, 1968

Chef Brockett, who is in apple-giving mood, gives apples, applesauce and appl...

Episode 49 49

49. 49

Aired: Apr 25, 1968

Rogers uses drinking straws to demonstrate the use of blowing soap bubbles. M...

Episode 50 50

50. 50

Aired: Apr 26, 1968

Mr. McFeely brings over a battery operated steam shovel. Dr. Marchl enjoys Gr...

Episode 51 51

51. 51

Aired: Apr 29, 1968

Mime Walker pantomimes Goldilocks and the Three Bears as Grand-père tells the...

Episode 52 52

52. 52

Aired: Apr 30, 1968

In the Television home, Katie Lewin tells Rogers how puzzles are made. In the...

Episode 53 53

53. 53

Aired: May 1, 1968

Rogers discusses Benjamin Franklin and reads about Franklin as a boy. The Nei...

Episode 54 54

54. 54

Aired: May 2, 1968

Alder demonstrates how heat causes things to change. X prints signs to advert...

Episode 56 56

56. 56

Aired: May 6, 1968

Rogers brings in a basket of vegetables. Chef Brockett also shows cooked vege...

Episode 57 57

57. 57

Aired: May 7, 1968

Rogers discusses rabbits. Henrietta gets cheered up by a familiar face.

Episode 58 58

58. 58

Aired: May 8, 1968

Rogers talks about the arrival of a new baby. Meanwhile, Corny is too busy to...

Episode 59 59

59. 59

Aired: May 9, 1968

Rogers demonstrates the use of three tools, a hacksaw, a hammer, and a screwd...

Episode 60 60

60. 60

Aired: May 10, 1968

Rogers demonstrates using a clown marionette. A dance recital is prepared in ...

Episode 61 61

61. 61

Aired: May 13, 1968

Rogers makes mud pies and a dam. Professor Fitzpatrick illustrates the differ...

Episode 62 62

62. 62

Aired: May 14, 1968

With pipes now carrying water into Corny's factory, Corny sends a water-fille...

Episode 63 63

63. 63

Aired: May 15, 1968

Rogers warms some wiener buns in his oven so that Chef Brockett and Mr. McFee...

Episode 64 64

64. 64

Aired: May 16, 1968

Rogers discusses firemen. He also puts on a fireman's outfit. The Neighborhoo...

Episode 65 65

65. 65

Aired: May 17, 1968

Lady Aberlin, Handyman Negri, and X rebuild all of Corny's factory. Everyone ...

Episode 66 66

66. 66

Aired: May 20, 1968

Rogers dictates how all toys do what you want them to do. His son, John, also...

Episode 67 67

67. 67

Aired: May 21, 1968

King Friday is ready to dedicate the new factory, but Lady Elaine senses he i...

Episode 68 68

68. 68

Aired: May 22, 1968

Rogers attends a dance class taught by Miss Nelson and Bruce of Dimension 5 r...

Episode 69 69

69. 69

Aired: May 23, 1968

Donkey Hodie has had no visitors at his unseen home and wants some to come.

Episode 70 70

70. 70

Aired: May 24, 1968

Everyone travels from the Neighborhood of Make-Believe to the unseen home so ...

Episode 71 71

71. 71

Aired: May 27, 1968

Rogers brushes his teeth in the kitchen sink. In the Neighborhood of Make-Bel...

Episode 72 72

72. 72

Aired: May 28, 1968

King Friday and Handyman Negri take up a campaign against littering in the Ne...

Episode 73 73

73. 73

Aired: May 29, 1968

Lady Elaine is derided for throwing litter around as a protest. What she real...

Episode 74 74

74. 74

Aired: May 30, 1968

Major Smith gives King Friday a citation to start the Neighborhood of Make-Be...

Episode 75 75

75. 75

Aired: May 31, 1968

Lady Aberlin dresses up as X so she can welcome Miss Emilie, who has been ill...

Episode 76 76

76. 76

Aired: Jun 3, 1968

Dr. Marchl gets opinions from Corny, Mrs. Frogg, and Lady Aberlin. She is try...

Episode 77 77

77. 77

Aired: Jun 4, 1968

Lady Aberlin enlists several teenagers to try and entertain King Friday.

Episode 78 78

78. 78

Aired: Jun 5, 1968

Handyman Negri is making a list for King Friday. At his instructions, Negri w...

Episode 79 79

79. 79

Aired: Jun 6, 1968

King Friday gets advice on how to contact Sara Saturday. Once she is reached,...

Episode 80 80

80. 80

Aired: Jun 19, 1968

For a while, King Friday has been reluctant to see Sara Saturday outside the ...

Episode 81 81

81. 81

Aired: Jun 10, 1968

John Reardon pretends to be a mailman while he visits the Neighborhood of Mak...

Episode 82 82

82. 82

Aired: Jun 11, 1968

Hugh Wright sets up a tent both outside Rogers' television house and in the N...

Episode 83 83

83. 83

Aired: Jun 12, 1968

Lady Elaine is beginning to develop her own opera, but Reardon has no idea wh...

Episode 85 85

85. 85

Aired: Jun 14, 1968

After he brings in a kitten, Rogers and Miss Emile reflect on one of Vija Vet...

Episode 86 86

86. 86

Aired: Jun 17, 1968

Lady Elaine won't remove the tents from the castle garden, so Handyman Negri ...

Episode 87 87

87. 87

Aired: Jun 18, 1968

Rogers has got a new aquarium. His first fish to go in it are two catfish. In...

Episode 88 Moving tents

88. Moving tents

Aired: Jun 19, 1968

Mr. McFeely brings two piglets into the television house. A visitor to the Ne...

Episode 89 89

89. 89

Aired: Jun 20, 1968

Having been away for a while, King Friday returns to the neighborhood bearing...

Episode 90 90

90. 90

Aired: Jun 21, 1968

King Friday announces that everyone will get a big surprise next week.

Episode 91 91

91. 91

Aired: Jun 24, 1968

Rogers builds a wood frame. Handyman Negri is building a new balcony on the c...

Episode 92 92

92. 92

Aired: Jun 25, 1968

Rogers and Mr. McFeely take care of two ducks that have wondered onto the por...

Episode 93 93

93. 93

Aired: Jun 26, 1968

A special guest is supposed to enter the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Lady A...

Episode 94 94

94. 94

Aired: Jun 27, 1968

Lady Aberlin pantomimes the growth of a plant in the television house. She al...

Episode 95 95

95. 95

Aired: Jun 28, 1968

King Friday prepares Sara Saturday's room in the castle.

Episode 96 96

96. 96

Aired: Jul 1, 1968

Mr. McFeely shows Rogers how to blow bubbles by using liquid detergent. He al...

Episode 97 97

97. 97

Aired: Jul 2, 1968

After Rogers tries on different shoes, Handyman Negri sees that communication...

Episode 98 98

98. 98

Aired: Jul 3, 1968

Mr. Farnham and his daughter Cindy Farnum discuss stones and how they are cut...

Episode 99 99

99. 99

Aired: Jul 4, 1968

The Neighborhood of Make-Believe celebrates Scottish Day.

Episode 100 100

100. 100

Aired: Jul 5, 1968

Rogers shows the comparison between two different scales: one to weigh grocer...

Episode 101 101

101. 101

Aired: Jul 8, 1968

Rogers demonstrates several types of different whistles. Mr. Anybody plays a ...

Episode 102 102

102. 102

Aired: Jul 9, 1968

Rogers pretends to give aid to a sick person. Nurse Miller also gives a shot ...

Episode 103 103

103. 103

Aired: Jul 10, 1968

Rogers talks of playing with toys and reads the poem of The Land of Counterpa...

Episode 104 104

104. 104

Aired: Jul 11, 1968

Rogers makes drums out of tin cans and listens to a real drummer. In the Neig...

Episode 105 105

105. 105

Aired: Jul 12, 1968

Rogers demonstrates how the xylophone works. John Costa, who is on the accord...

Episode 106 106

106. 106

Aired: Jul 15, 1968

Rogers discusses fairy tales. He reads Little Red Riding Hood and explains wh...

Episode 107 107

107. 107

Aired: Jul 16, 1968

Rogers is weaving a basket for Mr. McFeely's birthday. Bernie Jessol, Lowell ...

Episode 108 108

108. 108

Aired: Jul 17, 1968

Rogers brings in a mother turtle and a baby turtle. Miss Emilie shares a book...

Episode 109 109

109. 109

Aired: Jul 18, 1968

Jan Zandhuis presents a small glass bicycle to Rogers that he made for Mr. Mc...

Episode 110 110

110. 110

Aired: Jul 19, 1968

Rogers' television house is the site of Mr. McFeely's birthday party. King Fr...

Episode 111 111

111. 111

Aired: Jul 22, 1968

Rogers discusses how a piano works and then shows a film on how people make p...

Episode 112 112

112. 112

Aired: Jul 23, 1968

Rogers shows how to express your anger on the drums. Dr. Marchl tells Lady El...

Episode 113 113

113. 113

Aired: Jul 24, 1968

Lady Elaine has trouble sleeping in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.

Episode 114 114

114. 114

Aired: Jul 25, 1968

Lady Elaine wants to turn King Friday upside-down with her Boomerang, but it ...

Episode 115 115

115. 115

Aired: Jul 26, 1968

Rogers pretends to ride a camel through the sand, while Donkey Hodie is bothe...

Episode 116 116

116. 116

Aired: Jul 29, 1968

Lady Aberlin and Handyman Negri don a horse costume in which they dance for K...

Episode 117 117

117. 117

Aired: Jul 30, 1968

Rogers shows how a foot measurer works. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe begi...

Episode 118 118

118. 118

Aired: Jul 31, 1968

Rogers displays an assortment of Native American clothing and witnesses Nativ...

Episode 119 119

119. 119

Aired: Aug 1, 1968

Officer Clemmons arrives to show what a badge represents. He then issues a pe...

Episode 120 120

120. 120

Aired: Aug 2, 1968

It's raining in the neighborhood, so Rogers brings in his umbrella. The Neigh...

Episode 121 121

121. 121

Aired: Aug 5, 1968

Rogers, Chef Brockett, and Mr. McFeely decorate doughnuts. Joey Hollingsworth...

Episode 122 122

122. 122

Aired: Aug 6, 1968

Rogers shows how to use a pair of flippers and an inner tube for scuba. A scu...

Episode 123 123

123. 123

Aired: Aug 7, 1968

Rogers brings in light bulbs. Scientist Alder has flashlights and the batteri...

Episode 124 124

124. 124

Aired: Aug 8, 1968

Rogers talks about all sorts of sports that are played with a ball (such as f...

Episode 125 125

125. 125

Aired: Aug 9, 1968

Rogers sets up a punching bag, explaining how some people punch a bag when th...

Episode 126 126

126. 126

Aired: Aug 12, 1968

Rogers discusses the difference between a rooster and a hen. He also makes a ...

Episode 127 127

127. 127

Aired: Aug 13, 1968

Lady Aberlin draws portraits of Corny and Daniel for a book for Sara Saturday...

Episode 128 128

128. 128

Aired: Aug 14, 1968

Rogers explains the meaning of the word "disappear," which isn't always liter...

Episode 129 129

129. 129

Aired: Aug 15, 1968

Robert Troll makes his first visit to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe becaus...

Episode 130 130

130. 130

Aired: Aug 16, 1968

Robert Troll is still appreciative. Fortunately he meets Gloria Onque, one of...

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Seasons: 31

Network: PBS

Production Country: United States

Genres:Family, Fantasy, Music

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