Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Episode Rating Graph
Feb 1968 - Sep 2001
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Best Episodes of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
Ready to Read?: Baseball Caps and How People Make Them
S30 Ep10
10.0
7th Sep 2000
Given assistance from Mayor Maggie, H.J. Elephant reads his first words on Lady Elaine's new show, The Reading Game. Mr. McFeely shows Rogers a video on how ball caps are made.
Noisy and Quiet: What You Can Do When Someone Wants Quiet Time
S29 Ep4
10.0
8th Mar 1999
Rogers recounts his snorkeling adventure with Sylvia Earle, back from 1990. Sylvia Earle visits the television house, and screens a videotape on the sounds of fish. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, everyone is upset at the constant bell-ringing and drumming at Henrietta and X's tree. No one can convince him to stop, especially since fewer and fewer neighbors remain uncostumed.
Giving and Receiving: A Visit with Author Eric Carle
S28 Ep1
10.0
16th Feb 1998
Rogers visits Eric Carle, author and illustrator of children's books. Mr. McFeely shows a videotape on how fortune cookies are made. A Spanish-speaking "Fortune Cookie Man" makes his debut in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
Then & Now
S23 Ep14
10.0
12th Mar 1993
Mr. McFeeley brings a dead bird into the television house and asks Rogers for a box in which to bury it. This prompts a Neighborhood of Make-Believe discussion of death as Lady Aberlin helps Henrietta and Daniel.
Making Mistakes 3
S17 Ep13
10.0
6th May 1987
Rogers has gone to a meeting, so Chuck Aber fills him in at the television house. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, a visiting Mr. Skunk feels embarrassed because, in a frightened moment, he sprays Audrey Duck and the surroundings.
Mister Rogers Talks About DAY CARE & NIGHT CARE
S13 Ep13
10.0
26th Apr 1983
Mister Rogers arrives with a duffel bag and demonstrates the bag's zipper. Inside the bag, he has a pair of boots and another smaller bag with zippers. Mister Rogers mentions that zippers were originally called "clasp lockers" before he shows a film about how people make zippers. Following the film, Mister Rogers talks about asking questions when you're curious. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, the Trolley delivers the mail which includes a lesson on Native American culture for X the Owl from the Owl Correspondence School.
Shoes
S3 Ep11
10.0
16th Feb 1970
Rogers polishes his shoes. The Pittsburgh Junior Tamburitzans also visit the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, and Bob Dog emerges to dance with them.
Angry feelings
S2 Ep56
10.0
28th Apr 1969
Rogers is doing a puzzle, but Mr. McFeely barges in and takes it before it is even finished. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine surprises Handyman Negri, who drops his souvenir from the jamboree.
Sara Moves In (1) - Trumpets and triangles
S2 Ep6
10.0
17th Feb 1969
Rogers welcomes a trumpet player to his television house. Sara Saturday also moves back to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
Go-Stop-Go: A Visit to a Fire Station
S29 Ep9
9.0
12th Apr 1999
Rogers takes an extended trip to the Pittsburgh fire station. The lessons learned there, extend to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, as several neighbors become volunteer fire fighters. Maggie Stewart Brings a Videotape On How People Make Towels
Little and Big: Helicopters
S28 Ep12
9.0
7th Aug 1998
At an airport, Rogers sees Mr. McFeely about to take deliveries on a helicopter. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Aberlin and Miss Paulifficate are unwilling enforcers of King Friday's bar on yo-yos. This does not prevent Lady Elaine from flying a helicopter she has called "Yo-Yo". She flies up, but does not come down.
Giving and Receiving: How People Make Carousel Horses
S28 Ep4
9.0
21st Aug 1998
Rogers creates a simple merry-go-round from paper plates and a cardboard tube. Maggie Stewart Brings On Behalf Of Mr McFeely shows a videotape on how carousel horses are made.
Fast and Slow
S25 Ep4
9.0
26th Sep 1995
Chainey Umphrey returns to the neighborhood to demonstrate more gymnastics. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, everyone tries to stop the speeding Trolley.
Fast and Slow
S25 Ep2
9.0
26th Sep 1995
Rogers rollerblades with Stephen Lee at a skating rink. Stephen Owl appears in his full safety gear to help the neighbors' cause.
Fast and Slow
S25 Ep1
9.0
26th Sep 1995
Rogers wants to take his time playing a game with a ball and a few tubes. The same can't be said for the Trolley, which whizzes through the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
Dance
S17 Ep8
9.0
11th May 1987
Rogers first sees Sam Weber demonstrating his tap-dancing skills. Mr. McFeely shows a videotape on how shoes are made. Sam Weber also visits the Neighborhood of Make-Believe to disprove Lady Elaine's belief that men don't dance.
Mister Rogers Talks About PETS
S12 Ep10
9.0
2nd Jun 1982
Mister Rogers arrives empty-handed and has some quiet time on the porch while he waits for Bob Trow to arrive with his dog. As he waits, he sings It's a Perfectly Beautiful Day and is surprised when Mrs. McFeely stops by with a parrot in a cage. Just as she leaves, Bob Trow arrives with his dog, Barney, and leaves him in Mister Rogers' care for the night. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Bob Dog is preparing to have his picture taken as a birthday surprise for Ana Platypus. Meanwhile, Daniel is disappointed in his efforts to make his own gift -- a Magic Electronic Supersonic Firemobile -- and decides to seek help from Corney and Handyman Negri. At the castle, Mr. McFeely delivers a parrott which King Friday plans to give to Ana. When King Friday realizes that the parrot will not properly address him as King, he asks Mr. McFeely to take it away. To comfort himself, he brings out his own trusty pet, Troglodytes Aedon.
Mister Rogers Talks About PETS
S12 Ep8
9.0
31st May 1982
Mister Rogers arrives with a toy pig which was made by a friend -- Adelia Moore. Visiting her house, Mister Rogers gets to see many other stuff animals animals she has made in addition to her various wall hangings and other art. Back at the house, Mister Rogers shows a short film about a birthday celebration for a 100-year-old doll which had been passed down through one family's generations. After the film, Mister Rogers comments that "sometimes the oldest toys are the best."
What is Love? Pt 3
S6 Ep48
9.0
25th Apr 1973
Rogers meets a woman who makes toys from wood. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday is dismayed that Harriet Elizabeth Cow has refused to give him her plant. This prompts an argument between King Friday and Queen Sara.
Episode 17
S6 Ep17
9.0
13th Mar 1973
Guy Disalvo visits Rogers' television house to talk of his sugar-cube structure. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine wants to know who Lady Aberlin likes better: Harriet Elizabeth Cow or Lady Elaine.
Magic Kite (5) - Globes and maps
S2 Ep25
9.0
14th May 1969
Joey Hollingsworth returns with news that King Friday and Queen Sara will return on the following Friday. He gives to Corny the orders for chairs that must be filled by that time.
Mister Rogers Talks to Parents About Discipline
S12 Ep1
8.5
28th Feb 1982
Rogers talks with children and parents about punishment and setting limits.
Celebrating the Arts: The Last Program
S31 Ep5
8.0
31st Aug 2001
Everyone in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe now knows that Lady Elaine is still dwelling on that day long ago when somebody hurt her feelings, but when the time comes to "judge" all the artwork she arrives not with a judgment, but with a collage of all the neighbors. It is Lady Elaine's rightful act of compassion toward those around her. Mr. McFeely and Rogers share a video collage of artists in their various fields.
Celebrating the Arts: The Art of Being Kind
S31 Ep4
8.0
7th Sep 2001
Rogers makes his final visit to Negri's Music Shop, where he meets an expert playing the glass harmonica. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, several discover just why Lady Elaine is hurting people's feelings.
Celebrating the Arts: A Native American Potter
S31 Ep3
8.0
7th Sep 2001
The Neighborhood of Make-Believe sees Chuck Aber and HulaMouse's finished sand sculpture. Lady Elaine quickly criticizes it and just about everything else. But the sand sculpture inspires Lady Aberlin to dance, and leads Daniel to create a tiny mobile. Daniel suggests why Lady Elaine might be hurting people's feelings. Rogers does a video insert of his visit to a lady's pottery.
Celebrating the Arts: Sand Art
S31 Ep2
8.0
7th Sep 2001
Rogers takes his final visit to his sand table, leading to a video insert of Jessica Ricciardelli playing with sand at a beach. Afterward, Rogers makes his second and final trip to Tony Chiroldes' toy-and-book store. King Friday pronounces the Neighborhood of Make-Believe will hold an art festival. That doesn't impress Lady Elaine, who appoints herself the art judge.
Celebrating the Arts: All About Trees
S31 Ep1
8.0
7th Sep 2001
While tree-sitting for Mr. McFeely, Rogers draws a picture of a tiny oak tree. McFeely compliments the drawing, and later, he shows a video on how adult tricycles are made. Cousin Mary returns to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe to show her videotape of various trees.
When Things Get Broken: Rolling Ball Sculptures of George Rhoads
S29 Ep13
8.0
10th May 1999
Rogers visits the studio of George Rhoads. He watches as Rhoads demonstrates one of his mechanical ball inventions. A co-worker shows Rogers around to see various men at work on these machines. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday returns, not at all pleased by HulaMouse's absence. At the height of his anger, he breaks a toy that Lady Aberlin has brought.
Giving and Receiving: How People Make Toilets
S28 Ep3
8.0
21st Aug 1998
Rogers brings back The Potty Book that he had introduced back in 1989, and reads it in full, this time. Mr. McFeely shows a videotape of how toilets are made. Betty Okonak Templeton visits the Neighborhood of Make-Believe in search of Lady Elaine.
Giving and Receiving: A Visit with a Batik Artist
S28 Ep2
8.0
21st Aug 1998
Saihou Njie gives Rogers a demonstration on making batik vests. Later in the program, Mr. McFeely shows a videotape on how bagels are made.
Transformations
S26 Ep10
8.0
16th Aug 1996
Rogers shows a wooden egg that contains a speckled egg. He then returns to the McFeely's house, where plants are transplanted and ducklings are delivered. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine Fairchilde retrieves the package for Purple Panda. Much to everyone's surprise, the package opens itself. Maggie Stewart Stops Instead Of Mr McFeely A Videotape On How People Make Towels
Transformations
S26 Ep9
8.0
16th Aug 1996
Rogers fixes the ball float in the toilet. Maggie Stewart demonstrates some sign language, using a book in the process. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe remains perplexed by the mysterious package for Purple Panda. And things don't get any better once Purple Panda arrives.
Transformations
S26 Ep8
8.0
16th Aug 1996
Rogers demonstrates that he doesn't change when he wears dark glasses or a black wig. Lady Aberlin tries the same tactic in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Mr. McFeely shows a time-lapse videotape of how the television house is set up in the studios of WQED in Pittsburgh.
Transformations: A Juggler on a Unicycle Visits
S26 Ep7
8.0
20th Feb 1996
JoAnn Swaim does a juggling act outside Rogers' television house. Rogers shows pictures of the show's neighbors as children and as adults. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe is looking for Purple Panda so they can give him his package.
Transformations
S26 Ep6
8.0
16th Aug 1996
Mr. McFeely presents Rogers with a "hide-and-find ball", with which they play a little hide-and-seek. Rogers hears a storyteller at Mrs. McFeely's house. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe gets puzzled by a gift for Purple Panda, which is one that he is not supposed to open.
Mad Feelings
S26 Ep5
8.0
16th Aug 1996
Rogers attends the rehearsals for Stomp. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe comforts a harried Lady Elaine, who rights the Eiffel Tower and learns that Mr. McFeely was not turned into a doll after all. And Then Maggie Stewart Picks Up The Mr McFeely Doll And Shows A Videotape Of Maggie Stewart and Chuck Aber Riding On The Racer At Kennywood
Mad Feelings
S26 Ep2
8.0
16th Aug 1996
Maggie Stewart brings a water-and-oil motion sculpture to the television house. Jay Styperk, a wheelchair basketball specialist, gives Rogers a few exercises. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe is startled to see Lady Elaine has turned the Eiffel Tower upside down.
Mad Feelings
S26 Ep1
8.0
16th Aug 1996
Rogers visits Red Grooms' studio, where he is currently working on a painting of the trolley. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe sees Lady Elaine in fits because she can't seem to draw the Eiffel Tower well.
Everybody's Special
S25 Ep6
8.0
26th Sep 1995
Maggie Stewart and Chef Brockett are making layer sandwiches for Maggie's upcoming family reunion. Rogers shows a video on how Corelle dinner plates are made. Chef Brockett discusses with the Royal Family the cake being planned for Cornflake S. Pecially's birthday.
Going Away and Coming Back
S24 Ep9
8.0
19th Apr 1994
Rogers uses a long piece of plumbing pipe to simulate a tunnel in which blocks and a car could travel through. Mr. McFeely shows a video of passing through a car wash. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday hears of the search for the lost tunnel. Lady Aberlin finds all the pieces to the old parable about it, and it is very close to X's tree.
Things to Wear
S24 Ep2
8.0
1st Mar 1994
Rogers inevitably fools Marilyn Barnett by donning the Bob Dog costume. Mr. McFeely shows a videotape on how blue jeans are made. Lady Elaine Fairchilde provides the only resistance to King Friday's insistence that everyone and everything in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe should wear the three-cornered hat from the 18th century.
Learning
S22 Ep15
8.0
7th Feb 1992
Rogers displays a variety of batteries, ready to put them to work in two toys and a cassette player. Mister McFeely then shows Rogers a battery-operated car. While the Neighborhood of Make-Believe remains undecided if there will be a field trip, Daniel suggests not to sacrifice anything in the learning process.
Art
S22 Ep5
8.0
29th Nov 1991
Rogers tells a story about a boy who painted a tree blue and how his feelings were hurt. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Daniel submits a painting of a blue King Friday.
Fun & Games: Mister Rogers Goes Bowling
S19 Ep10
8.0
24th Feb 1989
Rogers, along with McFeely, go to a bowling alley to show how to play, and how the pin machine work. The hodgepodge team tries to decide what game to play. After a few sports are rejected, everyone decides to play hide and seek. Lady Elaine decides to find them all with her boomerang, but everyone feels they won by doing their best. Before leaving, Randy Caribou turns his jersey to Lady Elaine so she can be on the team.
Alike and Different
S18 Ep1
8.0
23rd Nov 1987
Rogers attends a show full of antique cars. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Mayor Maggie and Queen Sara agree to change jobs for a day.
Dance
S17 Ep6
8.0
11th May 1987
Daniel receives a t'ai chi lesson in another Neighborhood of Make-Believe that is only half-raining.
Food
S15 Ep5
8.0
23rd Nov 1984
Rogers visits the home of music director and close friend John Costa, who is preparing a pasta dinner. As the all-out effort for Northwood comes to a close, Bob tells Daniel the truth about the "vegetable soup tree".
Mister Rogers Talks About GRANDPARENTS
S14 Ep12
8.0
8th May 1984
Mister Rogers arrives with a partially completed homemade wind chime made of straws, strings, and bells. He shows how it is made and by adding one more bell, he completes the chime. At Negri's Music Shop, Mister Rogers meets John Blake who is visiting the shop with his son Johnathan. Accompanied by Johnny Costa, Carl McVicker, and Joe Negri, Mr. Blake plays a number on his violin. Johnathan demonstrates his own violin and then joins the others as they play Many Ways to Say I Love You. Returning to the house, Mister Rogers shares a few photographs of himself and his parents from when he was a little boy.
Mister Rogers Talks About GRANDPARENTS
S14 Ep11
8.0
7th May 1984
Rogers takes the model Neighborhood Trolley to the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum in Washington, PA filled with real trolleys. He rides one of the restored trollies (Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company #5326) in one direction and drives it back in the other direction. After returning to the television house, Rogers shows the controls of how he operates the Trolley. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, the Trolley and everyone else is surprised with a French trolley called "Grandparents' Express." It has a message for Grand-père that his granddaughter Colette is visiting.
Mister Rogers Talks About PETS
S12 Ep9
8.0
1st Jun 1982
Mister Rogers arrives with a friend's automatic camera which he uses to take a picture of his fish tank. While he waits on the photograph to develop, he sits at the kitchen table and draws a picture of his fish. Cutting out the paper fish, Mister Rogers attaches it to a stick that he can carry with him. Moving to the couch, Mister Rogers shows pictures of animals dressed up for a pet show before singing Everybody's Fancy.
Mister Rogers Talks About DISCIPLINE
S12 Ep6
8.0
5th Mar 1982
Mister Rogers arrives with a blanket which he has just picked up from the cleaners. Unfolding the sofa bed and using the blanket to cover it, Mister Rogers sits and talks about the feelings children have about blankets and teddy bears. He then sings Please Don't Think It's Funny and shows a film about how people make blankets. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Neighbor Aber gives the Trolley a free sample of the C.A. Blanket Company's trolley blankets. X the Owl jumps at the chance to go into business with Neighbor Aber.
Mister Rogers Talks About DISCIPLINE
S12 Ep4
8.0
3rd Mar 1982
Mister Rogers arrives with a towel and a pair of swim trunks and makes good on his promise from the previous day to show viewers where he swims. He talks about how he made a promise to himself to swim a certain length every day and has done so almost every day for ten years. Mister Rogers then shows film footage of his daily swimming. Following the film, Mister Rogers talks about how he doesn't always feel like swimming but he does it anyway because he made a promise to himself to do so.
Worst Episodes of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
Mixed-up NOM Pt 3
S6 Ep58
1.0
9th May 1973
Bob Trow demonstrates several tools. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, everyone is angry at Lady Elaine. Pilot Ito and Lady Aberlin do their best to remedy the rearrangements.
The end of the first week
S1 Ep5
2.0
23rd Feb 1968
Title number 0005. Opens with Mister Rogers playing with a feather on the porch. After Mr. Rogers plays with them, Betty Aberlin takes some helium balloons to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Tagging them with a message of peace, she floats them above the castle. When King Friday reads the message, he ceases his efforts to stop change. The wall is taken down. Mister Rogers sings his special family bedtime song called, "Good Night, God" for the first time.
Feeling scientific
S1 Ep6
2.0
26th Feb 1968
Title number 0006. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a large box in a lab coat. To prepare for his scientific endeavor, Mr. Rogers puts on a lab coat and compares various shells and shell-like objects, including a turtle shell, a conch shell, an armadillo's armored shell and a suit of armor. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Bud Alder compares oil-based and water-based paints. After sharing his wisdom with X the Owl, X teaches Lady Elaine various bird names.
Different ways of thinking about birds
S1 Ep7
2.0
27th Feb 1968
Title number 0007. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a birdcage under a blanket. In the Television house, Mr. Rogers takes care of a canary while, in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine is studying birds and learns from Lady Aberlin how practice is needed to learn anything. The "art lady", Mrs. Rubin visits.
A “Peace Party” to celebrate peace
S1 Ep8
2.0
28th Feb 1968
Title number 0008. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a Peace Party sign and a paper airplane. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe celebrates a peace party and honors sixteen year- old majorette Lynda Martha as a guest, while Lady Elaine Fairchilde dresses up as a dove of peace.
People look and sound different
S1 Ep9
2.0
29th Feb 1968
Title number 0009. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving in a hat with a stack of pictures. Mr. Rogers plays audio tapes of Neighborhood of Make-Believe puppet characters in an effort to allow the viewers guess who they are. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Royal Coach Saunders plays hide and seek with Lady Elaine and X.
Looking closely
S1 Ep10
2.0
1st Mar 1968
Title number 0010. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with binoculars in a case. In the Television house, Mr. Rogers demonstrates the use of binoculars. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Aberlin dresses up as a snow goose.
Spending time together
S1 Ep11
2.0
4th Mar 1968
Title number 0011. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with oatmeal and Picture Picture explains how it's made.
A visit with a toucan, a mime and a French horn
S1 Ep12
2.0
5th Mar 1968
Title number 0012. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a toucan in a cage under a blanket. Jewel Walker visits the television house, where he transforms into Mime Walker. He heads to Make-Believe, where he helps X learn arithmetic with a musician who is playing a French horn for X.
Ask for permission to borrow things
S1 Ep13
2.0
6th Mar 1968
Title number 0013. Mister Rogers sits on the porch swing listening to the symphony rehearse, and afterwards plays with two different kinds of dominoes. In Make-Believe, Marion Petrov dances for King Friday and Lady Elaine steals King Friday's painting of the Bluebird of Happiness.
A visit with a chimp
S1 Ep14
2.0
7th Mar 1968
Title number 0014. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with an easel, supplies, and a record. Mister Rogers plays the 4th movement of Brahm's Symphony No 1 and improvises on paper how music in a song makes him feel. Mr. McFeely treats Mister Rogers to a visit with Honey, a chimpanzee from the zoo. Professor Joseph Fitzpatrick is introduced to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe and he discusses Seurat.
Making things for others
S1 Ep16
2.0
11th Mar 1968
Title number 0016. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with lumber scraps and uses nails to hammer some of the pieces together to make a boat. In this episode, the puppet character Donkey Hodie appears for the first time. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, artist Virgil Cantini visits and shows King Friday some of his nail sculptures. Lady Aberlin knits a sweater for Henrietta Pussycat. X the Owl wants a gift too, so Lady Aberlin promises to knit him a scarf.
Donkey Hodie comes to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe
S1 Ep17
2.0
12th Mar 1968
Title number 0017. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with papers in his hand. A young donkey named Jenny is visiting Mister Rogers on the porch. Back in the house, he, Lady Aberlin, and Mr. McFeely play a game of Pin the Tail on the Donkey. In the Neighborhood of Make Believe, Donkey Hodie has just arrived and is looking for a place to live. He assures Lady Aberlin and Henrietta Pussycat that he no longer bites.
Practicing and playing the clarinet
S1 Ep18
2.0
13th Mar 1968
Title number 0018. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with clarinet in a case. Mister Rogers puts together a clarinet and plays a few notes. He talks about his childhood clarinet lessons and remembers that he did not practice enough. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, clarinetist Loius Paul performs for King Friday and talks about the importance of practice. Mrs. Russellite, played by Barbara Russell brings a pinwheel to Henrietta and is introduced to Donkey Hodie, who is staying in the Tree until he finds a place to live. The pinwheel gives Donkey Hodie the idea to live in a windmill.
Looking for a place for a windmill
S1 Ep19
2.0
14th Mar 1968
Title number 0019. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a toy raft made out of straws. He plays with it and other floating toys in a tub of water. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Scientist Alder is checking the wind velocity for Donkey Hodie, who is looking for a place with a good wind to build his windmill. He decides the best place would be in the hills behind the Castle, but King Friday objects because he wants his privacy. Back at the house, Mister Rogers shows different kinds of fans.
How windmills work
S1 Ep20
2.0
15th Mar 1968
Title number 0020. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a model windmill and talks about how windmills work. Judy Rubin, the “Art Lady,” shows some windmills made by children. She and Mister Rogers make windmills of their own. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Daniel tells Handyman Negri he thinks that King Friday is afraid of Donkey Hodie's biting. Maybe that's the reason the King won't allow Donkey Hodie to put his windmill near the castle. When Donkey Hodie convinces the king that he doesn't bite anymore, the king changes his mind.
Groundbreaking for the windmill
S1 Ep21
2.0
18th Mar 1968
Title number 0021. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a bag in which there are two tubs of ice cream. Chef Brockett is ready for Donkey Hodie to break ground for the windmill. Brockett also brings in a snowman made from dough.
Nurse Miller’s check up
S1 Ep22
2.0
19th Mar 1968
Title number 0022. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with multiple wooden boxes. Mister Rogers covers this episode discussing the White House and the U.S. presidents. Meanwhile, Coach Saunders and King Friday do exercises inside the castle.
All about eyeglasses
S1 Ep23
2.0
20th Mar 1968
Title number 0023. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a thin case of eyeglasses. Mister Rogers discusses the use of eyeglasses and Picture Picture shows how they are made. Henrietta also receives glasses from Nurse Miller.
Mister Rogers gets an eye exam
S1 Ep24
2.0
21st Mar 1968
Title number 0024. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with eye charts. Mr. Rogers has his eyes examined. King Friday wants Donkey Hodie's windmill to be built somewhere else.
Donkey Hodie’s new home
S1 Ep25
2.0
22nd Mar 1968
Title number 0025. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a small house plant and transfers it to a bigger pot. King Friday is visiting with a man who restores antique furniture. Lady Aberlin, X and Henrietta bring housewarming gifts for Donkey Hodie at his home in "someplace else".
Jamie Rogers visits
S1 Ep26
2.0
25th Mar 1968
Title number 0026. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a baby doll in a bag. Mr. Rogers discusses growing and changes a doll's diapers. A friend brings his 5-month-old baby for a short visit. Nurse Miller also assures Tadpole Frogg he is growing at just the right pace. Mr. Rogers then shows a video of Jamie, his eldest son when he was 14 months old on picture picture. Jamie (a.k.a. James), who is now 8 years old, comes to visit and sing the "tomorrow" song with his dad before they leave.
A baby doll bed
S1 Ep27
2.0
26th Mar 1968
Title number 0027. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with toy baby crib. Mr. Rogers makes a toy bed and pretends to make a doll sleep in it. Lady Elaine also wants Edgar Cooke's pillow.
Things that fit into other things
S1 Ep28
2.0
27th Mar 1968
Title number 0028. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with nesting boxes. At the television house, someone sends a rather unusual box. After he locks his pillow in a safe, Edgar Cooke expresses his different feelings. Lady Elaine Fairchilde finds her special toy, which is a boomerang.
Weaving
S1 Ep29
2.0
28th Mar 1968
Title number 0029. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a small loom. Mister Rogers demonstrates the use of a small loom and takes a trip to see the large ones being operated by Nantucket Weavers. In Make-Believe, a four string quartet plays for King Friday. In closing, Mr Rogers sings and plays "Good Night, God" on his piano.
Turning the Neighborhood of Make-Believe upside down
S1 Ep30
2.0
29th Mar 1968
Title number 0030. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a violin and a viola in cases. After Mr. Rogers demonstrates the use of violins and violas, he invites Michael Grebanier to play his cello. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine has a new boomerang trick that is turning everything upside down.
Red Monster Pt 1: A visit from Pedro the bird
S1 Ep31
2.0
1st Apr 1968
Title number 0031. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving and talking about a trip to the zoo. Mr. Rogers discusses wild animals and Mr. McFeely brings in a Mexican parakeet.
Red Monster Pt 2: No one has ever seen a monster
S1 Ep32
2.0
2nd Apr 1968
Title number 0032. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a box of masks. Mr. Rogers puts on various masks to prove he doesn't change when he puts one on. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe is trying to trace out what is believed to be a red monster.
Red Monster Pt 3: Oranges for the ballet
S1 Ep33
2.0
3rd Apr 1968
Title number 0033. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with ballet art and a bag of oranges. Mr. Rogers gives some oranges to the members of a ballet company that is set to perform "The Sad Monster Ballet".
Red Monster Pt 4: Musical bottles
S1 Ep34
2.0
4th Apr 1968
Title number 0034. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a glass bottle. Mr. Rogers plays music by blowing across bottles of water. Mr. McDonald also makes a visit to play a section of Die Miestersinger on the tuba. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe summons Digger Digorum to search for the mysterious red monster.
Red Monster Pt 5: There are no monsters
S1 Ep35
2.0
5th Apr 1968
Title number 0035. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving and making a tunnel from chairs and a blanket. Mr. Rogers and Chef Brockett make their own tunnels from what is around them. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe finally concludes no red monsters are in the tunnels.
Rocking Chairs
S1 Ep36
2.0
8th Apr 1968
Title number 0036. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving a rocking chair. Mister Rogers visits Mr. Dennis who is demonstrating how to make rattan chair seats by hand. In Make-Believe, Digger Digorum bears gifts as she leaves the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
Drawing with Chalk
S1 Ep37
2.0
9th Apr 1968
Title number 0037. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with paints and paper. Inside the Television house, Peggy Lipschutz draws with chalk while Vivian Richman plays guitar and sings four songs, along with Joe Davidson on banjo, and Charles Kubelik on bass violin. Songs include a song in Hebrew, based on Psalms 133, "John Henry" and "This Land is Your Land".
King Friday meets Sara Saturday
S1 Ep38
2.0
10th Apr 1968
Title number 0038. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a bicycle handle. Mr. Rogers demonstrates exercises by using a stationary exercise bicycle and free weights. He then sings "I Like You As You Are". Lady Betty Aberlin tries out the exercise bike. In Make-Believe, Sara Saturday, who had been the damsel in distress a week earlier and frightened by the monster, is welcomed to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Lady Aberlin sings "Then Your Heart Is Full Of Love".
What to wear?
S1 Ep39
2.0
11th Apr 1968
Title number 0039. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a letter. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe is preparing to hold a reception party for Sara Saturday. Handyman Negri goes to a men's fashion show at the Museum-Go-Round so he can find the perfect outfit for the reception.
A party for Sara Saturday
S1 Ep40
2.0
12th Apr 1968
Title number 0040. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with two cut out S shapes and dressed in a tuxedo. The reception party for Sara Saturday takes place.
Rain in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe
S1 Ep41
2.0
15th Apr 1968
Title number 0041. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving in a rain coat twirling a bag. Mister Rogers talks about sewing, and shows a needlepoint creation of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Corny, X and Henrietta have various reactions to the rain in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Lady Aberlin and X sing "Creation Duet".
Airplanes
S1 Ep42
2.0
16th Apr 1968
Title number 0042. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a book about paper airplanes and sits on the porch to sing. Lady Aberlin gives X the scarf that she had promised for him after she visits with Daniel Striped Tiger and they sing "I Like You As You Are". In turn, X gives her a walnut, and she takes it to the new trading tower that Grand-père has established.
Reardon plans an Opera
S1 Ep43
2.0
17th Apr 1968
Title number 0043. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a harmonica and sits on the porch. Mister Rogers talks about missing people and plays a harmonica, then his piano. He plays about his feelings. In Make Believe, John Reardon appears for the first time. King Friday asks him to make an opera, and Reardon gets started on it right away. Back at the house, Mr Rogers shows how to write music on a chalkboard.
Auditions for the opera
S1 Ep44
2.0
18th Apr 1968
Title number 0044. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a milk bottle. Mr Rogers takes care of a baby chimpanzee. Reardon holds auditions for his opera while Mrs. Frogg provides the costumes. Sara Saturday has to babysit during the opera so Henrietta decides to be a babysitter in the opera.
The Babysitter Opera
S1 Ep45
2.0
19th Apr 1968
Title number 0045. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a box with a hat and cape inside. During Reardon's opera, Lady Aberlin hires Henrietta to look after Donkey Hodie.
Visiting the barbershop
S1 Ep46
2.0
22nd Apr 1968
Title number 0046. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a briefcase. Mr. Rogers gets a haircut while discussing with the barber how it doesn't hurt. The same barber also cuts Corny's hair and a gymnast named Bernard is in Make Believe.
Mister Rogers Goes to School
S10 Ep5
2.0
23rd Aug 1979
Mister Rogers gets a beginner's drum lesson at Negri's Music Shop. He also discovers Mr. McFeely is learning to type, prompting an unusual quartet version of Everybody's Fancy. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Daniel tells Lady Aberlin his fears about starting school.
Mister Rogers Goes to School
S10 Ep6
2.0
22nd May 1980
The new school at Someplace Else opens, with an inviting atmosphere for Ana, Prince, and Daniel. To finish his school lecture, Mister Rogers rides on a real school bus.
Mister Rogers Talks to Parents About Superheroes
S10 Ep7
2.0
29th May 1980
This panel program previews the upcoming week of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood devoted to children's fears and beliefs. It includes footage of Rogers' talk with actors Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno about The Incredible Hulk television series.
Mister Rogers Talks About SUPERHEROES
S10 Ep8
2.0
29th May 1980
Rogers finds Trow making wooden blocks. He asks Rogers to use something "super" to use in his invention. Before leaving, Rogers watches Mr. McFeely's video clip of a dinosaur painting. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe is full of scary talk. Prince Tuesday has been having bad dreams about a dinosaur wearing a crown. He also tries to counter with a "super funnel."
Mister Rogers Talks About SUPERHEROES
S10 Ep9
2.0
29th May 1980
Rogers brings model dinosaurs and takes viewers to a hall of dinosaur skeletons at a natural history museum. A dinosaur with a crown appears in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, although it is really a skeptical Purple Panda in a costume. This is all part of Lady Elaine's ploy to scare the neighbors.
Mister Rogers Talks About SUPERHEROES
S10 Ep12
2.0
29th May 1980
Rogers remembers the day he operated a backhoe and a high-lift. At his bakery, Chef Brockett reveals how he makes tapioca pudding. Everyone in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe now hatches a plan to reveal that Purple Panda is the one playing to be a dinosaur.
Mister Rogers Makes an Opera
S10 Ep13
2.0
19th May 1980
Guest Jay O'Callahan tells a story about a king trapped in an enormous soap bubble. When King Friday asks for a bubble that lasts, no one can help, until Reardon calls.
Mister Rogers Makes an Opera
S10 Ep14
2.0
29th May 1980
Rogers finds a bubble-making machine and a knitting machine at Bob Trow's workshop. Mr. McFeely shows a video of how people make sweaters in a factory. Reardon also visits the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Lady Aberlin decides she will be a sweater-maker for an upcoming opera.
Mister Rogers Makes an Opera
S10 Ep15
2.0
5th Jun 1980
Rogers sees Chef Brockett's treats made from bananas. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, the school children provide ideas for the upcoming opera.
Chef Brockett bakes a cake fit for a king
S1 Ep3
3.3
21st Feb 1968
Title number 0003. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a package from Chef Brockett. Because of the new rules and restrictions in Make-Believe, Cornflake S. Pecially refuses to visit the castle. Chef Brockett delivers a cake to King Friday, who is suspicious of more changes, cuts the cake into many pieces to inspect it.
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Episode Guide
Change: The First Program
S1 Ep1
4.0
19th Feb 1968
Title number 0001. Opens with Mr. Rogers talks about tying his shoes. Mrs. Russellite sends an invitation to Mr. Rogers to see her lampshade collection. Lady Elaine's changes to the geography of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe worry King Friday, who begins to impose new rules and restrictions in Make-Believe, and builds a wall.
King Friday Challenges Change
S1 Ep2
4.2
20th Feb 1968
Title number 0002. Opens with Mr. Rogers arrives with a painting. Mr. Rogers shows how a burlap bag can be many different things when one imagines it. After he turns it into a cape, Betty (Lady) Aberlin comes to visit and he lends it to her for strength when she goes to visit her great-uncle, King Friday XIII. Meanwhile, King Friday worries about an invasion of people who want to change the Neighborhood of Make-Believe and drafts her as a border guard.
Chef Brockett bakes a cake fit for a king
S1 Ep3
3.3
21st Feb 1968
Title number 0003. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a package from Chef Brockett. Because of the new rules and restrictions in Make-Believe, Cornflake S. Pecially refuses to visit the castle. Chef Brockett delivers a cake to King Friday, who is suspicious of more changes, cuts the cake into many pieces to inspect it.
Early whimsy, fun and frolic in the neighborhood
S1 Ep4
3.5
22nd Feb 1968
Title number 0004. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a playpen and puppy. Mrs. Carol Saunders also makes her first visit. At the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday still wants to protect his province, so he sends Handyman Negri to install punch clocks at both ends of it.
The end of the first week
S1 Ep5
2.0
23rd Feb 1968
Title number 0005. Opens with Mister Rogers playing with a feather on the porch. After Mr. Rogers plays with them, Betty Aberlin takes some helium balloons to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Tagging them with a message of peace, she floats them above the castle. When King Friday reads the message, he ceases his efforts to stop change. The wall is taken down. Mister Rogers sings his special family bedtime song called, "Good Night, God" for the first time.
Feeling scientific
S1 Ep6
2.0
26th Feb 1968
Title number 0006. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a large box in a lab coat. To prepare for his scientific endeavor, Mr. Rogers puts on a lab coat and compares various shells and shell-like objects, including a turtle shell, a conch shell, an armadillo's armored shell and a suit of armor. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Bud Alder compares oil-based and water-based paints. After sharing his wisdom with X the Owl, X teaches Lady Elaine various bird names.
Different ways of thinking about birds
S1 Ep7
2.0
27th Feb 1968
Title number 0007. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a birdcage under a blanket. In the Television house, Mr. Rogers takes care of a canary while, in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine is studying birds and learns from Lady Aberlin how practice is needed to learn anything. The "art lady", Mrs. Rubin visits.
A “Peace Party” to celebrate peace
S1 Ep8
2.0
28th Feb 1968
Title number 0008. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a Peace Party sign and a paper airplane. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe celebrates a peace party and honors sixteen year- old majorette Lynda Martha as a guest, while Lady Elaine Fairchilde dresses up as a dove of peace.
People look and sound different
S1 Ep9
2.0
29th Feb 1968
Title number 0009. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving in a hat with a stack of pictures. Mr. Rogers plays audio tapes of Neighborhood of Make-Believe puppet characters in an effort to allow the viewers guess who they are. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Royal Coach Saunders plays hide and seek with Lady Elaine and X.
Looking closely
S1 Ep10
2.0
1st Mar 1968
Title number 0010. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with binoculars in a case. In the Television house, Mr. Rogers demonstrates the use of binoculars. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Aberlin dresses up as a snow goose.
Spending time together
S1 Ep11
2.0
4th Mar 1968
Title number 0011. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with oatmeal and Picture Picture explains how it's made.
A visit with a toucan, a mime and a French horn
S1 Ep12
2.0
5th Mar 1968
Title number 0012. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a toucan in a cage under a blanket. Jewel Walker visits the television house, where he transforms into Mime Walker. He heads to Make-Believe, where he helps X learn arithmetic with a musician who is playing a French horn for X.
Ask for permission to borrow things
S1 Ep13
2.0
6th Mar 1968
Title number 0013. Mister Rogers sits on the porch swing listening to the symphony rehearse, and afterwards plays with two different kinds of dominoes. In Make-Believe, Marion Petrov dances for King Friday and Lady Elaine steals King Friday's painting of the Bluebird of Happiness.
A visit with a chimp
S1 Ep14
2.0
7th Mar 1968
Title number 0014. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with an easel, supplies, and a record. Mister Rogers plays the 4th movement of Brahm's Symphony No 1 and improvises on paper how music in a song makes him feel. Mr. McFeely treats Mister Rogers to a visit with Honey, a chimpanzee from the zoo. Professor Joseph Fitzpatrick is introduced to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe and he discusses Seurat.
Talking about feelings
S1 Ep15
3.3
8th Mar 1968
Title number 0015. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving and pinching his finger. Mister Rogers bandages his finger to prove that it is still there even behind the bandage. Vivian Richman introduces folk songs "This Little Light of Mine" and "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands". Dr. Marchl visits the neighborhood of Make-Believe for the first time.
Making things for others
S1 Ep16
2.0
11th Mar 1968
Title number 0016. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with lumber scraps and uses nails to hammer some of the pieces together to make a boat. In this episode, the puppet character Donkey Hodie appears for the first time. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, artist Virgil Cantini visits and shows King Friday some of his nail sculptures. Lady Aberlin knits a sweater for Henrietta Pussycat. X the Owl wants a gift too, so Lady Aberlin promises to knit him a scarf.
Donkey Hodie comes to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe
S1 Ep17
2.0
12th Mar 1968
Title number 0017. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with papers in his hand. A young donkey named Jenny is visiting Mister Rogers on the porch. Back in the house, he, Lady Aberlin, and Mr. McFeely play a game of Pin the Tail on the Donkey. In the Neighborhood of Make Believe, Donkey Hodie has just arrived and is looking for a place to live. He assures Lady Aberlin and Henrietta Pussycat that he no longer bites.
Practicing and playing the clarinet
S1 Ep18
2.0
13th Mar 1968
Title number 0018. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with clarinet in a case. Mister Rogers puts together a clarinet and plays a few notes. He talks about his childhood clarinet lessons and remembers that he did not practice enough. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, clarinetist Loius Paul performs for King Friday and talks about the importance of practice. Mrs. Russellite, played by Barbara Russell brings a pinwheel to Henrietta and is introduced to Donkey Hodie, who is staying in the Tree until he finds a place to live. The pinwheel gives Donkey Hodie the idea to live in a windmill.
Looking for a place for a windmill
S1 Ep19
2.0
14th Mar 1968
Title number 0019. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a toy raft made out of straws. He plays with it and other floating toys in a tub of water. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Scientist Alder is checking the wind velocity for Donkey Hodie, who is looking for a place with a good wind to build his windmill. He decides the best place would be in the hills behind the Castle, but King Friday objects because he wants his privacy. Back at the house, Mister Rogers shows different kinds of fans.
How windmills work
S1 Ep20
2.0
15th Mar 1968
Title number 0020. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a model windmill and talks about how windmills work. Judy Rubin, the “Art Lady,” shows some windmills made by children. She and Mister Rogers make windmills of their own. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Daniel tells Handyman Negri he thinks that King Friday is afraid of Donkey Hodie's biting. Maybe that's the reason the King won't allow Donkey Hodie to put his windmill near the castle. When Donkey Hodie convinces the king that he doesn't bite anymore, the king changes his mind.
Groundbreaking for the windmill
S1 Ep21
2.0
18th Mar 1968
Title number 0021. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a bag in which there are two tubs of ice cream. Chef Brockett is ready for Donkey Hodie to break ground for the windmill. Brockett also brings in a snowman made from dough.
Nurse Miller’s check up
S1 Ep22
2.0
19th Mar 1968
Title number 0022. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with multiple wooden boxes. Mister Rogers covers this episode discussing the White House and the U.S. presidents. Meanwhile, Coach Saunders and King Friday do exercises inside the castle.
All about eyeglasses
S1 Ep23
2.0
20th Mar 1968
Title number 0023. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a thin case of eyeglasses. Mister Rogers discusses the use of eyeglasses and Picture Picture shows how they are made. Henrietta also receives glasses from Nurse Miller.
Mister Rogers gets an eye exam
S1 Ep24
2.0
21st Mar 1968
Title number 0024. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with eye charts. Mr. Rogers has his eyes examined. King Friday wants Donkey Hodie's windmill to be built somewhere else.
Donkey Hodie’s new home
S1 Ep25
2.0
22nd Mar 1968
Title number 0025. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a small house plant and transfers it to a bigger pot. King Friday is visiting with a man who restores antique furniture. Lady Aberlin, X and Henrietta bring housewarming gifts for Donkey Hodie at his home in "someplace else".
Jamie Rogers visits
S1 Ep26
2.0
25th Mar 1968
Title number 0026. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a baby doll in a bag. Mr. Rogers discusses growing and changes a doll's diapers. A friend brings his 5-month-old baby for a short visit. Nurse Miller also assures Tadpole Frogg he is growing at just the right pace. Mr. Rogers then shows a video of Jamie, his eldest son when he was 14 months old on picture picture. Jamie (a.k.a. James), who is now 8 years old, comes to visit and sing the "tomorrow" song with his dad before they leave.
A baby doll bed
S1 Ep27
2.0
26th Mar 1968
Title number 0027. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with toy baby crib. Mr. Rogers makes a toy bed and pretends to make a doll sleep in it. Lady Elaine also wants Edgar Cooke's pillow.
Things that fit into other things
S1 Ep28
2.0
27th Mar 1968
Title number 0028. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with nesting boxes. At the television house, someone sends a rather unusual box. After he locks his pillow in a safe, Edgar Cooke expresses his different feelings. Lady Elaine Fairchilde finds her special toy, which is a boomerang.
Weaving
S1 Ep29
2.0
28th Mar 1968
Title number 0029. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a small loom. Mister Rogers demonstrates the use of a small loom and takes a trip to see the large ones being operated by Nantucket Weavers. In Make-Believe, a four string quartet plays for King Friday. In closing, Mr Rogers sings and plays "Good Night, God" on his piano.
Turning the Neighborhood of Make-Believe upside down
S1 Ep30
2.0
29th Mar 1968
Title number 0030. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a violin and a viola in cases. After Mr. Rogers demonstrates the use of violins and violas, he invites Michael Grebanier to play his cello. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine has a new boomerang trick that is turning everything upside down.
Red Monster Pt 1: A visit from Pedro the bird
S1 Ep31
2.0
1st Apr 1968
Title number 0031. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving and talking about a trip to the zoo. Mr. Rogers discusses wild animals and Mr. McFeely brings in a Mexican parakeet.
Red Monster Pt 2: No one has ever seen a monster
S1 Ep32
2.0
2nd Apr 1968
Title number 0032. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a box of masks. Mr. Rogers puts on various masks to prove he doesn't change when he puts one on. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe is trying to trace out what is believed to be a red monster.
Red Monster Pt 3: Oranges for the ballet
S1 Ep33
2.0
3rd Apr 1968
Title number 0033. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with ballet art and a bag of oranges. Mr. Rogers gives some oranges to the members of a ballet company that is set to perform "The Sad Monster Ballet".
Red Monster Pt 4: Musical bottles
S1 Ep34
2.0
4th Apr 1968
Title number 0034. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a glass bottle. Mr. Rogers plays music by blowing across bottles of water. Mr. McDonald also makes a visit to play a section of Die Miestersinger on the tuba. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe summons Digger Digorum to search for the mysterious red monster.
Red Monster Pt 5: There are no monsters
S1 Ep35
2.0
5th Apr 1968
Title number 0035. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving and making a tunnel from chairs and a blanket. Mr. Rogers and Chef Brockett make their own tunnels from what is around them. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe finally concludes no red monsters are in the tunnels.
Rocking Chairs
S1 Ep36
2.0
8th Apr 1968
Title number 0036. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving a rocking chair. Mister Rogers visits Mr. Dennis who is demonstrating how to make rattan chair seats by hand. In Make-Believe, Digger Digorum bears gifts as she leaves the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
Drawing with Chalk
S1 Ep37
2.0
9th Apr 1968
Title number 0037. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with paints and paper. Inside the Television house, Peggy Lipschutz draws with chalk while Vivian Richman plays guitar and sings four songs, along with Joe Davidson on banjo, and Charles Kubelik on bass violin. Songs include a song in Hebrew, based on Psalms 133, "John Henry" and "This Land is Your Land".
King Friday meets Sara Saturday
S1 Ep38
2.0
10th Apr 1968
Title number 0038. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a bicycle handle. Mr. Rogers demonstrates exercises by using a stationary exercise bicycle and free weights. He then sings "I Like You As You Are". Lady Betty Aberlin tries out the exercise bike. In Make-Believe, Sara Saturday, who had been the damsel in distress a week earlier and frightened by the monster, is welcomed to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Lady Aberlin sings "Then Your Heart Is Full Of Love".
What to wear?
S1 Ep39
2.0
11th Apr 1968
Title number 0039. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a letter. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe is preparing to hold a reception party for Sara Saturday. Handyman Negri goes to a men's fashion show at the Museum-Go-Round so he can find the perfect outfit for the reception.
A party for Sara Saturday
S1 Ep40
2.0
12th Apr 1968
Title number 0040. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with two cut out S shapes and dressed in a tuxedo. The reception party for Sara Saturday takes place.
Rain in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe
S1 Ep41
2.0
15th Apr 1968
Title number 0041. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving in a rain coat twirling a bag. Mister Rogers talks about sewing, and shows a needlepoint creation of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Corny, X and Henrietta have various reactions to the rain in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Lady Aberlin and X sing "Creation Duet".
Airplanes
S1 Ep42
2.0
16th Apr 1968
Title number 0042. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a book about paper airplanes and sits on the porch to sing. Lady Aberlin gives X the scarf that she had promised for him after she visits with Daniel Striped Tiger and they sing "I Like You As You Are". In turn, X gives her a walnut, and she takes it to the new trading tower that Grand-père has established.
Reardon plans an Opera
S1 Ep43
2.0
17th Apr 1968
Title number 0043. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a harmonica and sits on the porch. Mister Rogers talks about missing people and plays a harmonica, then his piano. He plays about his feelings. In Make Believe, John Reardon appears for the first time. King Friday asks him to make an opera, and Reardon gets started on it right away. Back at the house, Mr Rogers shows how to write music on a chalkboard.
Auditions for the opera
S1 Ep44
2.0
18th Apr 1968
Title number 0044. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a milk bottle. Mr Rogers takes care of a baby chimpanzee. Reardon holds auditions for his opera while Mrs. Frogg provides the costumes. Sara Saturday has to babysit during the opera so Henrietta decides to be a babysitter in the opera.
The Babysitter Opera
S1 Ep45
2.0
19th Apr 1968
Title number 0045. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a box with a hat and cape inside. During Reardon's opera, Lady Aberlin hires Henrietta to look after Donkey Hodie.
Visiting the barbershop
S1 Ep46
2.0
22nd Apr 1968
Title number 0046. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a briefcase. Mr. Rogers gets a haircut while discussing with the barber how it doesn't hurt. The same barber also cuts Corny's hair and a gymnast named Bernard is in Make Believe.
Fur, feathers, and hair
S1 Ep47
23rd Apr 1968
Title number 0047. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a book of Fur, Feathers, and Hair. Mr Rogers reads a book that depicts Henrietta and X the Owl. They are flattered when Lady Aberlin shows them. Nicholas and Marion Petrov visit the Neighborhood of Make-Believe dressed up as X the Owl and Henrietta Pussycat. They dance in both costumes and in leotards.
Apples
S1 Ep48
24th Apr 1968
Title number 0048. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a dachshund and shows a book with all types of dogs. Chef Brockett, who is in apple-giving mood, gives apples, applesauce and apple juice. Mr Rogers and Chef Brockett bob for apples in the kitchen. Mr McFeely brings a poodle before they all leave for the day.
Bubbles
S1 Ep49
25th Apr 1968
Title number 0049. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a straw in his front pocket. Mr. Rogers uses drinking straws to demonstrate the use of blowing soap bubbles. Mrs. Rubin also shows paintings that were all done with straws. King Friday is missing Sara Saturday. Lady Aberlin invites everyone to the castle to see a dancer named Paul Draper.
Playing with Toys
S1 Ep50
26th Apr 1968
Title number 0050. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a picnic basket of fruit. Mr. McFeely brings over a battery operated steam shovel. Dr. Marchl enjoys Grand-père's machine because it responds to all French words. Marchl then talks with Henrietta and X about the way boys and girls do things differently.
Bears everywhere
S1 Ep51
29th Apr 1968
Title number 0051. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with stuffed bears. Mime Walker pantomimes Goldilocks and the Three Bears as Grand-père tells the story. Mr. Rogers also gets to see a real trained bear.
Puzzles
S1 Ep52
30th Apr 1968
Title number 0052. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a bag and a painting. In the Television house, Katie Lewin tells Mr. Rogers how puzzles are made. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Handyman Negri and Daniel organize their own play retitled as "Benjamin Franklin and the Three Bears" at the request of X.
Benjamin Franklin
S1 Ep53
1st May 1968
Title number 0053. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a box with items of Benjamin Franklin and a candle maker. Mr. Rogers discusses Benjamin Franklin and reads about Franklin as a boy. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe expands their play into becoming "Goldilocks, Benjamin Franklin, and the Three Bears".
Heat and printing
S1 Ep54
2nd May 1968
Title number 0054. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with bread in a bag. Alder demonstrates how heat causes things to change. X prints signs to advertise the play. King Friday wants a part in it and the title is expanded to "King Friday, Goldilocks, Benjamin Franklin and the three bears".
King Friday, Goldilocks, Benjamin Franklin and the three
S1 Ep55
3rd May 1968
Title number 0055. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a string of yarn and a sock. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe stages the play "King Friday, Goldilocks, Benjamin Franklin and the three bears".
Various vegetables
S1 Ep56
6th May 1968
Title number 0056. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a basket of vegetables. Chef Brockett also shows cooked vegetables to both Rogers and the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
Rabbits
S1 Ep57
7th May 1968
Title number 0057. Opens with Mister Rogers discussing rabbits brought to the porch by Mr. McFeely. A friend brings over a bunny marionette. Henrietta is bored and is cheered up by a familiar face. It turns out to be Joey Hollingsworth in disguise returning from a trip around the world where he learned new styles of dance and sold many "Rockit" rocking chairs for Corny.
A growing family
S1 Ep58
8th May 1968
Title number 0058. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with wood for a dollhouse. Mr. Rogers talks about the arrival of a new baby after he puts together a toy dollhouse made all out of wood. Meanwhile, Corny is too busy to spend a lot of time with Joey Hollingsworth. King Friday is also unwilling to give too much of his time.
Plumbing
S1 Ep59
9th May 1968
Title number 0059. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a hammer. Mr. Rogers demonstrates the use of three tools, a hacksaw, a hammer, and a screwdriver. Handyman Negri comes to fix Rogers' sink. Tadpole Frogg expresses his sadness for thinking he had broken a fountain.
Joey Hollingsworth’s dance recital
S1 Ep60
10th May 1968
Title number 0060. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a marionette. Mr. Rogers demonstrates using a clown marionette and a dance recital by Joey Hollingsworth is prepared in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Daniel and Lady Aberlin play a clapping game. It is at the request of Sara Saturday that the recital is planned. King Friday tries to blunt the dance recital by forbidding applause and moving the start time forward, as he tries to woo Sara Saturday.
All about water
S1 Ep61
13th May 1968
Title number 0061. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a bucket. Mister Rogers makes mud pies and a dam with dirt and water. Professor Fitzpatrick illustrates the difference between a calm sea and a rough sea through showing famous paintings and then drawing with charcoal. Corny and Joey Hollingsworth are digging a well together and as a result, they will be able to sell more rockers. Joey is ready to go on another selling trip for Corny but before he goes, Joey shows Daniel how a water pump works and gives one more little dance.
Drinkable water
S1 Ep62
14th May 1968
Title number 0062. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with bottle of milk in a bag. With pipes now carrying water into Corny's factory, Corny sends a water-filled goblet and cup to King Friday.
Fire in the factory
S1 Ep63
15th May 1968
Title number 0063. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with hot dog buns in a brown bag. Mister Rogers warms some wiener buns in his oven so that Chef Brockett and Mr. McFeely can enjoy them. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, everyone has turned their attention on the fire that has completely burned down Corny's factory. King Friday and Henrietta are especially frightened. Chef Brockett and Lady Aberlin help to put out the fire. Corny is devastated, so Daniel shows kindness by inviting him to stay with him at his Clock until the factory is ready again. Mr. Rogers talks about how many things can be scary when they are out of control, such as fires.
Learning about firefighters
S1 Ep64
16th May 1968
Title number 0064. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving and then discusses firemen. Picture Picture shows what firemen do before they go to help people. Mr. McFeely helps Mr. Rogers put on a fireman's outfit and pretend rescues a doll. He also sings "Sometimes I Don't Understand". In Make-Believe, Handyman Negri and Daniel help Corny to process his sad and mad feelings, giving him hope from his distressed state. Handyman Negri gets right to work, rebuilding Corny's factory. Lady Elaine is worried that everyone thinks she started the fire, but we learn that even she can be an imp, she never wants to hurt anyone. She and Mr. Negri find the most important pieces of the factory. They sing the "Sometimes People are Good" song.
Rebuilding the factory
S1 Ep65
17th May 1968
Title number 0065. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a bag of wood logs. Lady Aberlin, Handyman Negri, and X rebuild all of Corny's factory. Everyone donates something to help, including King Friday.
All about cars
S1 Ep66
20th May 1968
Title number 0066. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a bag of toy cars. Mr. Rogers explains how all toys do what you want them to do. His son, John, also makes his first appearance on the show to play with model antique cars. Meanwhile, at the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Corny's newly rebuilt factory offers to help Mime Jewel Walker in his go-cart play-act.
Dedication at the Rockit Factory
S1 Ep67
21st May 1968
Title number 0067. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a yoyo. King Friday is ready to dedicate the new factory, but Lady Elaine senses he is afraid of elevators. This changes some of the dedication.
Bicycles and dance class
S1 Ep68
22nd May 1968
Title number 0068. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a bag of all different kinds of toy bicycles, and explains the difference between them, tricycles, and unicycles. He sings the "Everybody's Fancy" song. He also then attends a children's dance class taught by Miss Nelson and Bruce of Dimension 5 records, and is introduced to Bruce's "musical computer". Later, Blackberry the cat comes to visit before accompanying Mr. Rogers back home.
Windows
S1 Ep69
23rd May 1968
Title number 0069. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with then reading a poem he wrote. Donkey Hodie has had no visitors at his unseen home and wants some to come.
Glass
S1 Ep70
24th May 1968
Title number 0070. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a briefcase containing glass blown animals made by Mr. Zandhuis, who then comes to show how glass is blown into different shapes, such as a swan. Henrietta must tell everyone how to get to "Someplace Else", which is where Donkey Hodie lives. Lady Aberlin coerces the king to come with them by telling him one of his famous speeches is expected. Everyone travels from the Neighborhood of Make-Believe to his mysterious home at the Windmill so that Donkey Hodie can get his wish of visitors all day long. Mr Rogers sings "Once Upon Each Lovely Day".
Taking care of your teeth
S1 Ep71
7.0
27th May 1968
Title number 0071. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a toothbrush, tooth paste, and tooth powder. He brushes his teeth and shows a film of his dental checkup. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Mr. McFeely brings Donkey Hodie some mouthwash. Sara Saturday hosts a dance recital at the castle where the dancers dance to the stories told by Donkey Hodie and King Friday, and Sara Saturday.
Stop litterbugs
S1 Ep72
6.0
28th May 1968
Title number 0072. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with plant food and talks about how plants and people grow. Judy Ruben shows crafts that kids made with recycled containers. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday and Handyman Negri start a campaign against littering and they learn that everyone is interested in cleaning up the environment.
Rainbow cookies
S1 Ep73
29th May 1968
Title number 0073. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with two boxes which contain a ring and a hat. Mr Rogers sings "Let's Go Right Away". Lady Elaine is derided for throwing litter around as a protest. What she really has wanted is one of Chef Brockett's cookies.
Household Chores
S1 Ep74
30th May 1968
Title number 0074. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a basket of laundry. Mr Rogers does some ironing and washing clothes. Major Smith gives King Friday a citation to start the Neighborhood of Make-Believe clean-up campaign.
Welcome back, Miss Emilie
S1 Ep75
31st May 1968
Title number 0075. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a bag of thermometers. Lady Aberlin dresses up as X so she can welcome Miss Emilie, who has been ill for some time. But first, at the house with Mister Rogers, Emilie Jacobson recites one of her poems about coming home.
Cheering up King Friday
S1 Ep76
3rd Jun 1968
Title number 0076. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a briefcase and box containing dolls of all kinds. Betty Aberlin visits to finish making a doll for King Friday. Dr. Marchl gets opinions from Corny, Mrs. Frogg, and Lady Aberlin. She is trying to cheer up King Friday, who has been missing Sara Saturday.
Entertaining King Friday
S1 Ep77
4th Jun 1968
Title number 0077. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with an electric amplifier. Lady Aberlin enlists several teenagers to try to entertain King Friday.
Letters and words
S1 Ep78
5th Jun 1968
Title number 0078. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a bowl and tin of cat food. Rogers takes care of Mr Mc Feely's cat. Handyman Negri is making a list for King Friday. At his instructions, Negri writes "Sara Saturday" on the S page and agrees that he will call her within a day.
Calling Sara Saturday
S1 Ep79
6th Jun 1968
Title number 0079. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with an empty box from which he pretends to make a phone. King Friday gets advice on how to contact Sara Saturday. Once she is reached, Sara invites him to visit her at her home.
All about telephones
S1 Ep80
19th Jun 1968
Mr Rogers shows telephone line equipment and a video. For a while, King Friday has been reluctant to see Sara Saturday outside the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. He finally comes to a decision on this.
Mail delivery
S1 Ep81
10th Jun 1968
John Reardon pretends to be a mailman while he visits the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. He sends a note that King Friday and Edgar Cooke are staying with Sara Saturday a few extra days. Lady Elaine, meanwhile, wants to set up a campsite at the Castle garden.
Camping
S1 Ep82
11th Jun 1968
Jim Wright sets up a tent both inside Rogers' television house and in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Lady Elaine is using the tents as the centerpiece for her upcoming opera. Back at the house Mister Rogers sings "I Like To Be Told".
Lady Elaine plans an opera
S1 Ep83
12th Jun 1968
Mister Rogers brings one of the first kinds of instant developing cameras to the house. Lady Elaine is beginning to develop her own opera, but Reardon has no idea what kind she is making with camping equipment. At lady Elaine's request, he gets his own covered wagon.
Campsite Opera
S1 Ep84
13th Jun 1968
Reardon and Lady Aberlin are trying to get King Friday's permission for their opera. Lady Elaine is a campsite owner in the opera and is not pleased with some guests that appear.
Cats and kittens
S1 Ep85
14th Jun 1968
After he brings in a kitten, Mister Rogers and Miss Emilie, "the poetry lady", reflect on one of Vija Vetra's dances and Miss Emile brings a special poem.
Pretending
S1 Ep86
7.0
17th Jun 1968
Lady Elaine refuses to remove the tents from the Castle garden. Handyman Negri thinks he can scare her away by dressing as a great crested grebe.
All about fish
S1 Ep87
7.0
18th Jun 1968
Mr. McFeely delivers two catfish for Rogers to put in his new aquarium. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Aberlin tries to get the tents removed from the Castle garden.
Moving tents
S1 Ep88
19th Jun 1968
Mr. McFeely brings two piglets into the television house. A visitor to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe coaxes Lady Elaine to move her tents to Someplace Else.
Rain poem
S1 Ep89
20th Jun 1968
Mister Rogers brings a suitcase full of different kinds of clothing, and explains how to say it's raining in different languages. Miss Emilie pays a visit with a poem about rain. Having been away for a while, King Friday returns to the neighborhood bearing gifts.
Presents
S1 Ep90
21st Jun 1968
Mister Rogers brings signs to talk about. After Betty Aberlin visits to bring a gift from King Friday and Sara Saturday, she goes back to Make-Believe to hear King Friday's announcement that everyone will get a big surprise next week.
Building
S1 Ep91
24th Jun 1968
Rogers builds a wood frame. Handyman Negri is building a new balcony on the castle.
A production of “Rumpelstiltskin”
S1 Ep92
25th Jun 1968
Rogers and Mr. McFeely take care of two ducks that have wandered onto the porch before seeing the Vagabond Marionettes' production of Rumpelstiltskin.
Boomerang-toomerang-soomerang
S1 Ep93
26th Jun 1968
A special guest is supposed to enter the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Lady Aberlin takes Lady Elaine's boomerang. But the guest's identity remains a secret, and in her frustration Lady Aberlin accidentally turns King Friday upside down.
About flowers
S1 Ep94
27th Jun 1968
Lady Aberlin pantomimes the growth of a plant in the television house. She also presents a flower arrangement for Sara Saturday, who is revealed to be the special guest.
Decorating for Sara Saturday
S1 Ep95
28th Jun 1968
King Friday prepares Sara Saturday's room in the castle.
Blowing bubbles
S1 Ep96
1st Jul 1968
Mr. McFeely shows Rogers how to blow bubbles by using liquid detergent. He also gives out liquid detergent samples to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Meanwhile, Daniel thinks that King Friday and Sara Saturday will marry.
Trouble with the telecan
S1 Ep97
2nd Jul 1968
After Mister Rogers tries on many different types of shoes, Handyman Negri sees that communication with the Neighborhood of Make-Believe is intact by repairing the "telecan". Norma Canner and her young students perform dance steps for King Friday.
Meeting a stone-smith
S1 Ep98
3rd Jul 1968
Mr. Farnum and his daughter Cindy Farnum discuss stones and how they are cut and polished for jewelry. Mr. Anybody makes his first visit and decides he'll be a stonesmith. Mr. Anybody gives stones to several neighbors in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. King Friday selects stoned for mounting on rings for Sara Saturday and himself.
Playing the bagpipes
S1 Ep99
4th Jul 1968
The Neighborhood of Make-Believe celebrates Scottish Day. Mister Rogers invites Mr. Anybody (Don Franke) back who comes in full Scottish attire and a real Scottie dog. A Scottish performance takes place for the King, including a bagpipe player.
Height and weight
S1 Ep100
5th Jul 1968
Mistee Rogers shows the comparison between two different scales: one to weigh groceries and one to weigh humans. Nurse Miller gives physicals to the neighbors. Lady Elaine refuses to cooperate, turning King Friday upside-down.
All about whistles
S1 Ep101
8th Jul 1968
Rogers demonstrates several types of different whistles. Mr. Anybody plays a whistle in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe and gives one to the Trolley.
Feeling sick
S1 Ep102
9th Jul 1968
Mister Rogers pretends to give aid to a sick person. Nurse Miller also gives a shot to Tadpole Frogg who is sick.
Roller skates
S1 Ep103
10th Jul 1968
Rogers talks of playing with toys and reads the poem of The Land of Counterpane by Robert Louis Stevenson. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Tadpole Frogg and Lady Aberlin pretend to roller skate. Lady Aberlin finds out that King Friday and Sara Saturday are in the R Room of the Castle.
Playing instruments together
S1 Ep104
11th Jul 1968
Mister Rogers makes drums out of tin cans and listens to a real drummer. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Mr. Anybody is a "one-man-band" and decides to anchor a neighborhood orchestra.
The neighborhood orchestra
S1 Ep105
12th Jul 1968
Rogers demonstrates how the xylophone works. John Costa, who is on the accordion, joins Rogers on several song duets. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe orchestra holds a concert for King Friday and Sara Saturday.
Fairy Tales
S1 Ep106
15th Jul 1968
Rogers discusses fairy tales. He reads Little Red Riding Hood and explains what parkas are. Mr. McFeely shows a parka his children sent him for his upcoming birthday. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Aberlin and Daniel play peek-a-boo, which involves some other neighbors. As a kind act, Lady Aberlin gives hoods to several neighbors.
Decorating a cake
S1 Ep107
16th Jul 1968
Rogers is weaving a basket for Mr. McFeely's birthday. Bernie Jessol, Lowell Meek, and Akeba Blazia also perform gymnastics at the Castle.
Animal Book
S1 Ep108
17th Jul 1968
Rogers brings in a mother turtle and a baby turtle. Miss Emilie shares a book about animals. She also shares with Corny and Henrietta what gifts they will give for Mr. McFeely's birthday.
Making things out of glass
S1 Ep109
18th Jul 1968
Jan Zandhuis presents a small glass bicycle to Rogers that he made for Mr. McFeely's birthday. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Daniel has a gift for Mr. McFeely, but accidentally he breaks it.
Mr. McFeely’s Birthday
S1 Ep110
19th Jul 1968
Rogers' television house is the site of Mr. McFeely's birthday party. King Friday and Sara Saturday offer a gift.
How people make pianos
S1 Ep111
22nd Jul 1968
Rogers discusses how a piano works and then shows a film on how people make pianos. Van Cliburn plays piano at the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
Drums
S1 Ep112
23rd Jul 1968
Rogers shows how to express your anger on the drums. Dr. Marchl tells Lady Elaine Fairchilde the difference between reality and dreams.
Going to bed
S1 Ep113
24th Jul 1968
Lady Elaine has trouble sleeping in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
Staying well
S1 Ep114
25th Jul 1968
Lady Elaine wants to turn King Friday upside-down with her Boomerang, but it backfires and the whole Neighborhood turns upside-down.
Playing with sand
S1 Ep115
26th Jul 1968
Rogers pretends to ride a camel through the sand, while Donkey Hodie is bothered by sand blowing from Lady Elaine's sandbox.
Horse costume
S1 Ep116
29th Jul 1968
Lady Aberlin and Handyman Negri don a horse costume in which they dance for King Friday and Sara Saturday.
Henrietta’s doll collection
S1 Ep117
30th Jul 1968
Rogers shows how a foot measurer works. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe begins preparations for a fair.
Native American dancers
S1 Ep118
31st Jul 1968
Rogers displays an assortment of Native American clothing and witnesses Native American dancers on the Picture Picture screen. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine Fairchilde wants to be a cowgirl for the fair. Both King Friday and Daniel Tiger demonstrate activities at their booths.
Badges
S1 Ep119
1st Aug 1968
Officer Clemmons arrives to show what a badge represents. He then issues a permit for the Neighborhood of Make-Believe street fair.
Rain on the day of the fair
S1 Ep120
2nd Aug 1968
It's raining in the neighborhood, so Rogers brings in his umbrella. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe appears sad because the rain there is threatening to spoil the street fair.
All about doughnuts
S1 Ep121
5th Aug 1968
Rogers, Chef Brockett, and Mr. McFeely decorate doughnuts. Joey Hollingsworth returns to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe and shares with Chef Brockett a magic recipe for peanut butter cookies.
Scuba diving
S1 Ep122
6th Aug 1968
Rogers shows how to use a pair of flippers and an inner tube for scuba. A scuba diver discusses the equipment that she uses. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Joey Hollingsworth and Daniel Tiger sail a boat in the Froggs' pond.
Flashlights need batteries
S1 Ep123
7th Aug 1968
Rogers brings in light bulbs. Scientist Alder has flashlights and the batteries that make them work. X anticipates his gift from Joey Hollingsworth.
All kinds of balls
S1 Ep124
8th Aug 1968
Rogers talks about all sorts of sports that are played with a ball (such as football, soccer and baseball). In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Joey Hollingsworth performs a dance with a magic ball.
Feeling angry
S1 Ep125
9th Aug 1968
Rogers sets up a punching bag, explaining how some people punch a bag when they are angry, saying that rules must be followed in boxing. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe has a surprise for Joey Hollingsworth.
Chickens in the neighborhood
S1 Ep126
12th Aug 1968
Rogers discusses the difference between a rooster and a hen. He also makes a chicken marionette.
Portraits
S1 Ep127
13th Aug 1968
Lady Aberlin draws portraits of Corny and Daniel for a book for Sara Saturday, who is going away for a while.
Disappearing
S1 Ep128
14th Aug 1968
Mr Rogers shows how to tie a shoe, and also explains the meaning of the word "disappear," which isn't always exactly what it seems. With Officer Clemens, The Neighborhood of Make-Believe bids goodbye to Sara Saturday, but she and King Friday declare that she will return. Officer Clemens sings "I Like to Be Told".
Meeting Robert Troll
S1 Ep129
15th Aug 1968
Mr Rogers sings "Let's Be Together Today" and Mr McFeely lends him an animal number book. Robert Troll makes his first visit to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe because he wants to see Sara Saturday in Westwood. However, he must wait a day for Westwood's wise women.
Getting to know Robert Troll
S1 Ep130
16th Aug 1968
Robert Troll is still appreciative. Fortunately, he meets Gloria Onque, one of Sara Saturday's wise women. She is about to meet with King Friday. This is the last episode to be aired in black and white. In addition this is the only season to be broadcast this way and is also the only season with more than a hundred episodes in a single year.
The best rated episodes of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood are:
- Ready to Read?: Baseball Caps and How People Make Them S30E10 rated 10.0
- Noisy and Quiet: What You Can Do When Someone Wants Quiet Time S29E4 rated 10.0
- Giving and Receiving: A Visit with Author Eric Carle S28E1 rated 10.0
- Then & Now S23E14 rated 10.0
- Making Mistakes 3 S17E13 rated 10.0
- Mister Rogers Talks About DAY CARE & NIGHT CARE S13E13 rated 10.0
- Shoes S3E11 rated 10.0
- Angry feelings S2E56 rated 10.0
- Sara Moves In (1) - Trumpets and triangles S2E6 rated 10.0
- Go-Stop-Go: A Visit to a Fire Station S29E9 rated 9.0
The lowest rated episodes of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood are:
- Mixed-up NOM Pt 3 S6E58 rated 1.0
- The end of the first week S1E5 rated 2.0
- Feeling scientific S1E6 rated 2.0
- Different ways of thinking about birds S1E7 rated 2.0
- A “Peace Party” to celebrate peace S1E8 rated 2.0
- People look and sound different S1E9 rated 2.0
- Looking closely S1E10 rated 2.0
- Spending time together S1E11 rated 2.0
- A visit with a toucan, a mime and a French horn S1E12 rated 2.0
- Ask for permission to borrow things S1E13 rated 2.0
The first episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood aired on February 19, 1968.
The last episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood aired on September 07, 2001.
There are 850 episodes of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.
There are 31 seasons of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.
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