Mister Rogers' Neighborhood(1968)

Name: Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
Genre: Kids
Released: 1968-02-19
Rating: 6.1
Cast: Fred Rogers, Betty Aberlin, David Newell, Joe Negri

Won't you be my neighbor?

★ 6.1(124)30m871 episodesEnded

Kids

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.

Created by:: Fred Rogers
First aired:: 1968-02-19
Country:: US
Network:: PBS, National Educational Television

Episodes

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1. The NOM Models Pt 1 - Models of the homes in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe
1970-02-02 · 28m
Title 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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2. The NOM Models Pt 2 - Wishes don’t come true just by wishing
1970-02-03 · 28m
Title 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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3. The NOM Models Pt 3 - A handy lady
1970-02-04 · 29m
Title 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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4. The NOM Models Pt 4 - Learning about police work
1970-02-05 · 29m
Title 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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5. The NOM Models Pt 5 - Making mud pies
1970-02-06 · 29m
Title 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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6. The Pie Restaurant Pt 1 - Groceries
1970-02-09
Rogers 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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7. The Pie Restaurant Pt 2 - Money
1970-02-10
Mr. McFeely finds a puppy, which Rogers looks after until someone finds its home.
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8. The Pie Restaurant Pt 3 - Pies
1970-02-11
Chef Brockett shows how turnovers are made and helps run the new pie restaurant.
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9. The Pie Restaurant Pt 4 - Repairing a fence
1970-02-12
Bad manners cost Bob Dog after he eats all the pies in Lady Elaine's restaurant.
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10. The Pie Restaurant Pt 5 - Opening of the pie restaurant
1970-02-13
Dr. 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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11. Shoes
1970-02-16
Rogers 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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12. Uses for an empty shoe box
1970-02-17
Rogers 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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13. A visit with Johnny Costa
1970-02-18
Johnny Costa and his grandson visit both Rogers' television house and the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
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14. Growing from a baby into an adult
1970-02-19
Rogers 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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15. Rules of the road
1970-02-20
Rogers 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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16. Episode 16
1970-02-23
Henrietta 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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17. Episode 17
1970-02-24
Bramble, 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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18. Episode 18
1970-02-25
Rogers 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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19. Episode 19
1970-02-26
King Friday shares his secret with Mime Walker, informing him not to mention a word of it to anyone else.
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20. Episode 20
1970-02-27
Rogers 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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21. The Clemmonses are Moving Pt 1 - A new baby on the way
1970-03-02
Officer 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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22. The Clemmonses are Moving Pt 2 - How people make crayons
1970-03-03
Lady Elaine and Mrs. Saunders tie up Officer Clemmons in a frantic attempt to keep him from moving to New York.
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23. The Clemmonses are Moving Pt 3 - Fish
1970-03-04
Betty 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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24. The Clemmonses are Moving Pt 4 - Raspberry delight
1970-03-05
Mrs. 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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25. The Clemmonses are Moving Pt 5 - Goodbye Officer Clemmons
1970-03-06
Mr. 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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26. Episode 26
1970-03-09
Rogers 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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27. Episode 27
1970-03-10
Rogers 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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28. Episode 28
1970-03-11
Rogers 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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29. Episode 29
1970-03-12
When 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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30. Episode 30
1970-03-13
Rogers 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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31. Episode 31
1970-03-16
Mr. 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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32. Episode 32
1970-03-17
Rogers plays rhyming games and flash cards with Bob Trow. Lady Elaine and several others participate in the boomerang contest.
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33. Episode 33
1970-03-18
Rogers 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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34. Episode 34
1970-03-19
King 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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35. Episode 35
1970-03-20
Dr. 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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36. Death of a Goldfish
1970-03-23
A 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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37. Episode 37
1970-03-24
At 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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38. Episode 38
1970-03-25
Lady Aberlin finds everybody, except Lady Elaine, is at the Platypus Mound, waiting for the egg to hatch.
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39. Birth of Ana Platypus
1970-03-26
Rogers 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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40. Episode 40
1970-03-27
Handyman 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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41. The NOM Models Pt 7
1970-03-30
Bob 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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42. Episode 42
1970-03-31
Rogers 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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43. Episode 43
1970-04-01
Rogers 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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44. Episode 44
1970-04-02
Rogers 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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45. Episode 45
1970-04-03
Rogers 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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46. Episode 46
1970-04-06
Robert Troll visits to see Ana Platypus, as do X and Henrietta.
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47. Episode 47
1970-04-07
Dr. 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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48. Episode 48
1970-04-08
Mr. McFeely delivers a fortune teller's costume, which Mr. Anybody wears to predict the future.
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49. Episode 49
1970-04-09
Rogers 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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50. Episode 50
1970-04-10
Rogers 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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51. Episode 51
1970-04-13
Gifts 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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52. Birth of Prince Tuesday
1970-04-14
Rogers 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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53. Episode 53
1970-04-15
The 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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54. Episode 54
1970-04-16
A 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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55. Episode 55
1970-04-17
Instead 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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56. Episode 56
1970-04-20
Lady 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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57. Episode 57
1970-04-21
Prince 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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58. Episode 58
1970-04-22
Rogers 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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59. Episode 59
1970-04-23
Reardon fears that he doesn't have enough time to write an opera for Friday, but he assembles the basics quickly.
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60. Pineapples and Tomatoes
1970-04-24
The Neighborhood of Make-Believe holds its opera about the Pineapple Can Telephone Company.
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61. Episode 61
1970-04-27
Captain 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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62. Episode 62
1970-04-28
Rogers 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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63. Episode 63
1970-04-29
Rogers 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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64. Episode 64
1970-04-30
Rogers relates the lessons on teeth that he learned as a child.
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65. Episode 65
1970-05-01
Rogers and Chef Brockett play games in which one doesn't see, but hears or feels.