Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (1968)
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood is an American children's television series that was created and hosted by namesake Fred Rogers. The series originated in 1963 as Misterogers on CBC Television, and was later debuted in 1966 as Misterogers' Neighborhood on the regional Eastern Educational Network, followed by its US network debut on February 19, 1968, and it aired on NET and its successor, PBS, until August 31, 2001. The series is aimed primarily at preschool ages 2 to 5, but has been stated by PBS as "appropriate for all ages". Mister Rogers' Neighborhood was produced by Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA public broadcaster WQED and Rogers' non-profit production company Family Communications, Inc.; previously known as Small World Enterprises prior to 1971, the company was renamed The Fred Rogers Company after Rogers' death.
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Episode 1 - The NOM Models Pt 1 - Models of the homes in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe
Release Date: 1970-02-02Title number 1066. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a box labeled 'clock'. Rogers presents a model of Daniel's clock and visits the man who designed it who is Robert Trow. At his workshop, Trow is finishing a model of the Castle. He asks Rogers to ring the bell when he leaves as well as when he arrives.
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Episode 2 - The NOM Models Pt 2 - Wishes don’t come true just by wishing
Release Date: 1970-02-03Title number 1067. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with some slides of trees. Mr. McFeely delivers Bob Trow's model of X's Tree. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, X learns that wishing doesn't make things come true.
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Episode 3 - The NOM Models Pt 3 - A handy lady
Release Date: 1970-02-04Title number 1068. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with book of caricatures. Rogers puts signs outside his front and back doors advising visitors to knock or ring. He also receives Bob Trow's model of the Museum-Go-Round.
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Episode 4 - The NOM Models Pt 4 - Learning about police work
Release Date: 1970-02-05Title number 1069. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a big box containing Bob Trow's model of the Platypus Mound. Officer Clemmons shows Rogers the workings at his police station. Dr. Bill and Elsie Jean Platypus also share a magic recipe for making pies.
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Episode 5 - The NOM Models Pt 5 - Making mud pies
Release Date: 1970-02-06Title number 1070. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a small cup and spoon from the ice cream shop. Rogers receives the Factory model from Robert Trow. Beforehand, Rogers makes simple puppets from wooden spoons. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine orders chairs from Cornflake in preparation for her new pie restaurant.
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Episode 6 - The Pie Restaurant Pt 1 - Groceries
Release Date: 1970-02-09Rogers plays a game that uses different shapes and groceries. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine Fairchilde is preparing to open a pie restaurant between her Museum-Go-Round and the Platypus mound.
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Episode 7 - The Pie Restaurant Pt 2 - Money
Release Date: 1970-02-10Mr. McFeely finds a puppy, which Rogers looks after until someone finds its home.
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Episode 8 - The Pie Restaurant Pt 3 - Pies
Release Date: 1970-02-11Chef Brockett shows how turnovers are made and helps run the new pie restaurant.
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Episode 9 - The Pie Restaurant Pt 4 - Repairing a fence
Release Date: 1970-02-12Bad manners cost Bob Dog after he eats all the pies in Lady Elaine's restaurant.
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Episode 10 - The Pie Restaurant Pt 5 - Opening of the pie restaurant
Release Date: 1970-02-13Dr. Yen Wang shows two laboratory rats, with which he wishes to show that the study of rats is intended to benefit human beings. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe opens the pie restaurant, but King Friday orders Bob Dog to move it to Someplace Else as a response to what he did in episode 9.
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Episode 11 - Shoes
Release Date: 1970-02-16Rogers polishes his shoes. The Pittsburgh Junior Tamburitzans also visit the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, and Bob Dog emerges to dance with them.
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Episode 12 - Uses for an empty shoe box
Release Date: 1970-02-17Rogers discusses the things children can do with a shoe box. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Queen Sara is escorted to Westwood to visit Dr. Frogg.
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Episode 13 - A visit with Johnny Costa
Release Date: 1970-02-18Johnny Costa and his grandson visit both Rogers' television house and the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
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Episode 14 - Growing from a baby into an adult
Release Date: 1970-02-19Rogers discusses growing both on the inside and on the outside. Mr. McFeely brings a dry aquarium holding frogs and tadpoles. Later Mr. McFeely visits the Westwood Children's Zoo. Queen Sara returns to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe from Westwood after two days with Dr. Frogg.
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Episode 15 - Rules of the road
Release Date: 1970-02-20Rogers talks about the use of triangles, such as on the Yield sign. Betty Aberlin arrives with Bob Trow's model of the Eiffel Tower.
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Episode 16 - Episode 16
Release Date: 1970-02-23Henrietta Pussycat fears Bob Dog's teeth. Lady Aberlin confides in Henrietta and tells everyone the King Friday and Queen Sara have a good secret.
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Episode 17 - Episode 17
Release Date: 1970-02-24Bramble, a large horse, stands outside Rogers' television house. King Friday asks for, and receives, a stuffed horse. Daniel, however, is afraid of the model.
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Episode 18 - Episode 18
Release Date: 1970-02-25Rogers enters with a typewriter and the many ways to put the word "typewriter" to paper. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, an artist draws paintings of King Friday and Queen Sara.
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Episode 19 - Episode 19
Release Date: 1970-02-26King Friday shares his secret with Mime Walker, informing him not to mention a word of it to anyone else.
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Episode 20 - Episode 20
Release Date: 1970-02-27Rogers has a recent chest x-ray, and explains what having an x-ray taken is about. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine warns her neighbors that King Friday might be starting a wild animal zoo. That, she feels, is his big secret, although it isn't.
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Episode 21 - The Clemmonses are Moving Pt 1 - A new baby on the way
Release Date: 1970-03-02Officer Clemmons announces he has accepted a new job with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. King Friday and Queen Sara announce their secret: they are having a baby.
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Episode 22 - The Clemmonses are Moving Pt 2 - How people make crayons
Release Date: 1970-03-03Lady Elaine and Mrs. Saunders tie up Officer Clemmons in a frantic attempt to keep him from moving to New York.
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Episode 23 - The Clemmonses are Moving Pt 3 - Fish
Release Date: 1970-03-04Betty Aberlin gives Rogers a black angel fish for his tank. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, she dresses up as one. At the Tree, she introduces a song praising Henrietta Pussycat.
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Episode 24 - The Clemmonses are Moving Pt 4 - Raspberry delight
Release Date: 1970-03-05Mrs. Clemmons visits Rogers' television house with a poem about her new job title. Rogers invites her to a going-away party to be held the next day. A highlight of the gathering will be Mrs. Clemmons' favorite: raspberry delight.
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Episode 25 - The Clemmonses are Moving Pt 5 - Goodbye Officer Clemmons
Release Date: 1970-03-06Mr. and Mrs. François Clemmons are about to leave for New York. In both the Neighborhood of Make-Believe and Rogers' television house, neighbors hold a farewell party.
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Episode 26 - Episode 26
Release Date: 1970-03-09Rogers shows models of a bicycle and a tricycle. Along the way, he introduces the prefixes "bi" and "tri" to compare what each one means. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Bob Dog fears moving wheels.
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Episode 27 - Episode 27
Release Date: 1970-03-10Rogers uses a tape recorder to tape the sounds of a xylophone, a drum, and a slide whistle. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday thinks his baby should learn the guitar from birth.
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Episode 28 - Episode 28
Release Date: 1970-03-11Rogers shows how he reacts when he is angry. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Aberlin makes a punching bag from rags and knitting. X complements her work.
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Episode 29 - Episode 29
Release Date: 1970-03-12When Coach Saunders informs how athletic and exercise equipment can protect oneself, King Friday orders all the equipment for the new royal baby.
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Episode 30 - Episode 30
Release Date: 1970-03-13Rogers makes a window out of construction paper. Later he picks up a record album at Negri's Music Shop. In between, Chef Brockett goes to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe with a cake for Grand-père and Lady Elaine. Handyman Negri helps Lady Elaine fix the King Friday's broken window.
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Episode 31 - Episode 31
Release Date: 1970-03-16Mr. McFeely delivers Lady Elaine an invitation to a boomerang contest. To show her gratitude, Lady Elaine shows "Funny Fast Films" of Mr. McFeely and Chef Brockett.
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Episode 32 - Episode 32
Release Date: 1970-03-17Rogers plays rhyming games and flash cards with Bob Trow. Lady Elaine and several others participate in the boomerang contest.
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Episode 33 - Episode 33
Release Date: 1970-03-18Rogers shows different sizes of eggs and the animals who lay them. Elsie Jean Platypus says her newly-laid egg will hatch in ten days.
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Episode 34 - Episode 34
Release Date: 1970-03-19King Friday hears about the baby platypus that will emerge soon. He tries to make the Platypus family leave the Neighborhood of Make-Believe so that his new baby will be the first born there.
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Episode 35 - Episode 35
Release Date: 1970-03-20Dr. Bill Platypus and Digger Digorum convince King Friday that he will have the first human baby born in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Reminded, King Friday allows the Platypus family to stay. They will have the first animal baby born there.
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Episode 36 - Death of a Goldfish
Release Date: 1970-03-23A fish in Rogers' tank has died. Rogers buries it and, with Bob Trow's help, constructs a tombstone with a pentagon that bears a fish drawing. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, concern hits when the Trolley stops at the Castle and doesn't move. Eventually, with help from Bill Platypus, they find out that the Trolley simply suffered a derailment, preventing full electrical pickup (as explained earlier by Mister Rogers).
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Episode 37 - Episode 37
Release Date: 1970-03-24At the grave of the fish he had buried, Rogers talks of sad feelings. At Negri's Music Shop, he witnesses the Pittsburgh Junior Tamburitzans play. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, the Platypus family waits for their egg to hatch.
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Episode 38 - Episode 38
Release Date: 1970-03-25Lady Aberlin finds everybody, except Lady Elaine, is at the Platypus Mound, waiting for the egg to hatch.
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Episode 39 - Birth of Ana Platypus
Release Date: 1970-03-26Rogers demonstrates the use of a cane and shows many ways to write his name. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe celebrates the birth of Dr. Bill and Elsie Jean's baby girl platypus, Ana.
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Episode 40 - Episode 40
Release Date: 1970-03-27Handyman Negri is among those with a gift for the baby Platypus. It's a song to fit her Latin name, Ornithorhynchus anatinus.
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Episode 41 - The NOM Models Pt 7
Release Date: 1970-03-30Bob Trow has made his own model of the Neighborhood Trolley and its tracks for Rogers. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday is tired of waiting for the baby to be born. Several neighbors decide to hold a play based on what King Friday puts in a suitcase.
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Episode 42 - Episode 42
Release Date: 1970-03-31Rogers makes a cardboard suitcase, while in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Mr. Anybody finds his apparently empty suitcase has a heavy rock in it. Lady Elaine had to have put the rock inside.
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Episode 43 - Episode 43
Release Date: 1970-04-01Rogers goes to Negri's Music Shop to see Betty Aberlin perform a few simple magic tricks. Lady Elaine has her reservations about the upcoming play the Neighborhood of Make-Believe will stage. Mr. Anybody tells her she can be in the play if she asks to.
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Episode 44 - Episode 44
Release Date: 1970-04-02Rogers brings two gerbils to his television house. On a visit to the McFeelys' house, he finds Mr. McFeely looking after a Saint Bernard. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Bob Dog is practicing for his role in the play "Let the Vet Get the Pet", but it isn't easy.
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Episode 45 - Episode 45
Release Date: 1970-04-03Rogers looks after two penguins for Mr. McFeely. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe holds its stage play, which is about a vet flying in a jet to check on a pet.
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Episode 46 - Episode 46
Release Date: 1970-04-06Robert Troll visits to see Ana Platypus, as do X and Henrietta.
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Episode 47 - Episode 47
Release Date: 1970-04-07Dr. Bill Platypus talks about time to X and Henrietta, who have discovered the newborn platypus is too small to play with them.
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Episode 48 - Episode 48
Release Date: 1970-04-08Mr. McFeely delivers a fortune teller's costume, which Mr. Anybody wears to predict the future.
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Episode 49 - Episode 49
Release Date: 1970-04-09Rogers welcomes Mrs. Franks, who demonstrates how to carve leather. Later he discusses wearing an eye patch. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Handyman Negri assures King Friday that his eye is underneath an eye patch.
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Episode 50 - Episode 50
Release Date: 1970-04-10Rogers shows the dog that belongs to his son John. At Bob Trow's workshop, Rogers finds Trow and John working on fingerpaint pictures. Handyman Negri and Lady Aberlin have a message for Bob Dog.
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Episode 51 - Episode 51
Release Date: 1970-04-13Gifts have been pouring in for the imminent birth of Queen Sara's baby. One of them is a paper crown, which Henrietta takes without asking.
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Episode 52 - Birth of Prince Tuesday
Release Date: 1970-04-14Rogers talks of being able to do certain skills at certain ages. Meanwhile, the Neighborhood of Make-Believe is abuzz with excitement, as Queen Sara gives birth to a prince named Tuesday.
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Episode 53 - Episode 53
Release Date: 1970-04-15The gifts keep pouring in for the newborn Prince Tuesday, which makes Lady Elaine jealous. Joey Hollingsworth arrives with gifts for the baby and other neighbors.
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Episode 54 - Episode 54
Release Date: 1970-04-16A watch repairman shows Rogers the proper use of his watch-cleaning machine. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Nurse Miller tells all that Queen Sara and the newborn prince will begin to accept visitors next week.
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Episode 55 - Episode 55
Release Date: 1970-04-17Instead of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Rogers sees a story played out in Betty's Little Theater. Four dancers, dressed as raccoons, perform a nighttime adventure.
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Episode 56 - Episode 56
Release Date: 1970-04-20Lady Elaine is annoyed with Prince Tuesday's constant crying. At one point, she asks King Friday and Queen Sara to send the baby back, although they can't.
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Episode 57 - Episode 57
Release Date: 1970-04-21Prince Tuesday is one week old, and the Castle is suitably decorated for a celebration. King Friday gives gifts to everyone, which only rides Lady Elaine's jealousy.
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Episode 58 - Episode 58
Release Date: 1970-04-22Rogers shows how he operates Picture-Picture and the Trolley. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday asks that Reardon put together an opera within two days.
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Episode 59 - Episode 59
Release Date: 1970-04-23Reardon fears that he doesn't have enough time to write an opera for Friday, but he assembles the basics quickly.
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Episode 60 - Pineapples and Tomatoes
Release Date: 1970-04-24The Neighborhood of Make-Believe holds its opera about the Pineapple Can Telephone Company.
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Episode 61 - Episode 61
Release Date: 1970-04-27Captain Kangaroo visits Rogers' television house and the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. He sees that Lady Elaine and Donkey Hodie are hopeful that the carrots would grow faster somehow.
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Episode 62 - Episode 62
Release Date: 1970-04-28Rogers visits Jan Zandhuis, a glassblower, who is doing a project for Mrs. Saunders. King Friday feels baby Prince Tuesday should be taught subtraction.
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Episode 63 - Episode 63
Release Date: 1970-04-29Rogers makes modeling clay, a perfect spot for son Jamie to discuss clay figurines. Dancer Ethel Winter is toured around the Neighborhood of Make-Believe and Someplace Else.
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Episode 64 - Episode 64
Release Date: 1970-04-30Rogers relates the lessons on teeth that he learned as a child.
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Episode 65 - Episode 65
Release Date: 1970-05-01Rogers and Chef Brockett play games in which one doesn't see, but hears or feels.