Rogers accepts an invitation from Mrs. Russellite to see her collection of lampshades at her home. Lady Elaine Fairchilde tries to bring change to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, forcing a fearful King Friday XIII to impose new rules and restrictions.
Rogers shows that a burlap bag can be many things when left to one's imagination. Betty Aberlin suggests wearing it as a cape. Sure enough, in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Aberlin will wear the cape as a border guard. King Friday XIII is taking no chances should an invasion occur.
Cornflake S. Pecially will not visit the Castle due to the border guards. King Friday XXII, ever mindful of security precautions, has ordered that a cake delivered to the Castle be cut up.
Rogers brings a playpen and a puppy to the television house. Later in the program, Mrs. Carol Saunders makes her first visit, bringing three boys who sing songs. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday XIII is still bent on protecting his province. He has ordered Handyman Negri to install punch clocks at both ends of the Neighborhood–from the Eiffel Tower to Daniel's clock.
Rogers plays with helium balloons, which Betty Aberlin takes to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. She floats the balloons, tagged with a peace message, over the Castle. Only by reading the note does King Friday cease his efforts to stop change.
Mister Rogers arrives and puts on a lab coat because he is feeling "scientific, ready for a true scientific endeavor. He compares a turtle, a conch shell, an armadillo, and a suit of armor delivered by Mr. McFeely. He shows various types of armor on Picture Picture. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe a different scientist, Bud Alder, shows the difference between oil-based and water-based paints. He shares his wisdom with X the Owl, who offers to teach Lady Elaine the names of birds. Back at the house, Mr. McFeely returns to pick up the suite of armor.
Rogers arrives with and takes care of a canary. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine learns that patience and practice is needed to learn new things as she studies birds. People are preparing in various ways for an upcoming Peace Party. Back at the house, Mr. Rogers makes a bird from objects in the kitchen.
Mister Rogers arrives with an airplane and a paper bird and puts up decorations for the party. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, food preparation and rehearsals finish and the Peace Party takes place. Miss Majorette of America, Lynda Martha, is one of the honored guests for the peace party. Lady Elaine Fairchilde dresses as a noisy dove of peace. At the house, Mr. Rogers eats peach pudding and takes down the decorations.
Mister Rogers arrives wearing a turban and talks about how people look and sound different. He plays audio tapes of his puppet characters so that viewers can try to guess who they are. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Coach Saunders helps people exercise, and Lady Elaine and X continue with birdwatching. Back at the house Mr. Rogers tries some exercises. He then talks about different letters and sounds and concludes with the Alphabet Song.
Rogers demonstrates binoculars and teaches viewers to look closely at things. In Make-Believe, Lady Aberlin dresses as a snow goose, and Lady Elaine shares what she's learned of birds. Back at the house, Mister Rogers sings about numbers.
Mister Rogers arrives with a can of dry oatmeal and asks Picture Picture to show a film about how oatmeal is made. And he makes some himself. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Mime Jewell Walker performs for King Friday at the Castle and then at the Tree for X and Henrietta. Henrietta is upset that X is spending so much time with Lady Elaine, so X invites Henrietta along for some bird watching. Back at the house, Mister Rogers’ son Jamie stops by for a visit and together they play with clay.
Jewell Walker mimes a baseball game before he goes to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe to teach arithmetic to X the Owl.
Lady Elaine Fairchilde has taken King Friday's painting of the Bluebird of Happiness without asking first.
Mr. Rogers draws a song (i.e., improvises on paper how the music makes him feel. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe welcomes Professor Joseph Fitzpatrick, who discusses Pointilliste painter Seurat.
Mr. Rogers puts a bandage on his finger, proving that his finger is still under the bandage. Vivian Richman stops by for folk songs that tell about feelings.
A sculptor visits the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Lady Aberlin knits a sweater for Henrietta Pussycat and promises to knit one for X the Owl.
Rogers brings a Sicilian donkey to his television house. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe welcomes Donkey Hodie. Henrietta Pussycat learns that Donkey Hodie uses teeth only to eat his food.
Rogers talks of his boyhood days of not practicing a clarinet (something we would hear again in ""Discipline"" week). At the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Donkey Hodie is staying in X's tree until he finds a place to live.
Donkey Hodie decides the best place to build a windmill would be in the hills behind the Castle. King Friday objects.
Mr. Rogers shows a model windmill to help explain how windmills work. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe decides they have to prove to King Friday XIII that Donkey Hodie does not bite people. That should help Donkey Hodie build the windmill behind the Castle.
Chef Brockett is ready for Donkey Hodie to break ground for the windmill at the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. To this end, Brockett brings a snowman made from dough.
Rogers discusses the White House and the President of the United States.
Rogers discusses eye glasses by showing several pairs of glasses, and then by using a simple hand puppet. Henrietta Pussycat receives glasses, making X the Owl wish he had a pair.
Rogers has an eye examination. King Friday XIII orders that Donkey Hodie's windmill be built someplace else.
Lady Aberlin, X the Owl and Henrietta Pussycat bring housewarming gifts for Donkey Hodie at Someplace Else.
Rogers changes the diapers on a doll in a discussion on growing. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Nurse Miller assures Tadpole Frogg he is growing at just the right pace.
Rogers assembles a toy bed and pretends that a doll is going to sleep in it. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine wants Edgar Cooke's pillow.
Edgar Cooke expresses his feelings about having locked a pillow in a safe. Lady Elaine Fairchilde finds her special toy: a boomerang. Little do the others know what mischief that boomerang will cause over the years.
Rogers demonstrates a loom and sees Nantucket weavers operating looms.
After showing the violin and viola, Rogers invites Michael Grebanier to play his cello. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe begins to feel the effects of Lady Elaine's new boomerang trick: turning things upside down.
Rogers discusses wild animals. Mr. McFeely brings a Mexican parakeet.
Rogers wears masks to prove he doesn't change when he puts one on. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe is trying to trace what is believed to be a red monster.
Rogers gives oranges to members of a ballet company that will perform "The Sad Monster Ballet."
Rogers plays music by blowing across bottles of water. Mr. McDonald visits to play a section of Die Miestersinger. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe summons Digger Digorum to search for the red monster.
Rogers and Chef Brockett create tunnels using what they have around them. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe concludes that there are no red monsters in the tunnels.
Digger Digorum leaves the Neighborhood of Make-Believe bearing gifts. Everyone is pleased there are no red monsters.
Outside Rogers' television house, Peggy Lipschutz draws with chalk during Vivian Richman's song.
Rogers enters with handlebars for an exercise machine, and demonstrates exercises. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe welcomes Sara Saturday, the lady who had been frightened a week earlier by the monster.
The Neighborhood of Make-Believe is going to hold a reception for Sara Saturday. Handyman Negri goes to a men's fashion show at the Museum-Go-Round to find the perfect outfit.
The Neighborhood of Make-Believe holds a reception for Sara Saturday.
It's raining in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Corny, X the Owl, and Henrietta Pussycat have different reactions to the rain.
Lady Aberlin gives X the Owl the scarf she promised him. X gives her a walnut, and she takes it to the new trading tower Grandpere has established.
John Reardon makes his first appearance. King Friday XIII asks him to make an opera, and Reardon gets started right away.
Reardon holds auditions for tomorrow's opera. Mrs. Frogg provides the costumes. Because Sara Saturday has to babysit tomorrow, Henrietta decides to be a babysitter in the opera. The other parts are assigned.
It's opera time in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Lady Aberlin hires a baby-sitter (Henrietta Pussycat) to look after her son (Donkey Hodie).
Rogers gets his haircut and discusses with the barber how haircuts don't hurt. The barber shows up in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe to cut Corny's hair.
Marion and Nicholas Petrov visit the Neighborhood of Make-Believe dressed as X the Owl and Henrietta Pussycat. They dance in costumes and in leotards.
Chef Brockett is in an apple-giving mood in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. He gives apples, applesauce and apple juice.
Rogers uses drinking straws to blow soap bubbles. Mrs. Rubin shows paintings done with straws. Paul Draper tap dances in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
Mr. McFeely brings over a battery operated steam shovel. At the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Dr. Marchl enjoys Grandpere's machine, which responds to French words. Marchl then talks with Henrietta and X about the way boys and girls do things differently.
Mime Walker pantomimes The Three Bears as Grandpere tells the story. Later in the program, Rogers gets to see a trained bear.
Katie Lewin tells Rogers how puzzles are made. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Handyman Negri and Daniel Striped Tiger organize a play retitled Benjamin Franklin and the Three Bears at X's request.
Rogers discusses Benjamin Franklin, wearing glasses and wig, then reading about Franklin as a boy. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe expands their play into Goldilocks, Benjamin Franklin, and the Three Bears.
Scientist Alder demonstrates how heat causes objects to change. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, X the Owl prints signs advertising the upcoming play. King Friday calls for a part and that its title should be King Friday, Goldilocks, Benjamin Franklin and the Three Bears.
The Neighborhood of Make-Believe stages King Friday, Goldilocks, Benjamin Franklin and the Three Bears.
Rogers brings a basket of vegetables. Chef Brockett presents cooked vegetables, first to Rogers and then to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
Rogers discusses rabbits. A familiar face visits the Neighborhood of Make-Believe to cheer up Henrietta Pussycat.
Rogers talks about the arrival of a new baby. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Corny is too busy to spend a lot of time with Joey Hollingsworth. King Friday is unwilling to give too much time either.
Rogers demonstrates a hacksaw, hammer, and screwdriver. Handyman Negri fixes Rogers' sink, but not his toilet. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Tadpole Frogg expresses his sadness for thinking he had broken a fountain.
Rogers demonstrates a clown marionette. A dance recital is scheduled at the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. King Friday XIII tries to blunt the dance rehearsal by forbidding applause and moving the start time forward. He's trying to woo Sara Saturday.
Rogers makes mud pies and builds a dam. Professor Fitzpatrick illustrates a calm sea and a rough sea. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Corny and Joey Hollingsworth dig a well. Hollingsworth is then assigned to sell rockers.
Now pipes carry water to Corny's factory. As a gesture of kindness, Corny sends King Friday XIII a goblet and a tin cup, each filled with water.
Rogers warms some wiener buns in his oven so that Chef Brockett and Mr. McFeely can enjoy. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, all the attention is on the fire that burns down Corny's factory.
Rogers shows a film on firemen. He then puts on the full fireman's outfit. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe gets right to work, rebuilding the factory. Handyman Negri consoles Corny and Lady Elaine along the way.
Lady Aberlin, Handyman Negri, and X the Owl rebuild Corny's factory. Everyone donates something, including (eventually) King Friday XIII.
Rogers dictates all toys do what you want them to do. His son John makes his first appearance on the show to play with model antique cars. At the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, the newly-rebuilt factory offers to help Mime Walker in his go-cart play-act.
King Friday is ready to dedicate the new factory, but Lady Elaine senses he is afraid of elevators. This leads to a surprise at the dedication.
Rogers attends a dance class where kids dance to the music of a sound synthesizer.
A lonely Donkey Hodie wants visitors at Someplace Else.
Neighbors travel from the Neighborhood of Make-Believe to Someplace Else so that Donkey Hodie will have visitors all day long.
Rogers brushes his teeth in the kitchen sink. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Mr. McFeely brings Donkey Hodie some mouthwash. Sara Saturday returns to the Castle for a dance recital.
King Friday XIII and Handyman Negri take up a campaign against littering.
Lady Elaine is derided for throwing litter around as a protest. All she wanted was one of Chef Brockett's cookies.
Major Smith gives King Friday XIII a citation for the Neighborhood of Make-Believe clean-up campaign.
Lady Aberlin dresses up as X the Owl to welcome Miss Emille, who had been ill for some time.
Dr. Marchl gets opinions from Corny, Mrs. Frogg, and Lady Aberlin. She is trying to cheer up King Friday XIII, who misses Sara Saturday.
Lady Aberlin enlists several teenagers to try and entertain a dour King Friday XIII.
Handyman Negri is making a list for King Friday. At the king's instructions, Negri writes "Sara Saturday" on the S page and agrees to call her within a day.
King Friday XIII gets advice on how to contact Sara Saturday. Once reached, Sara invites the King to visit her at her home.
For a while, King Friday has been reluctant to see Sara Saturday outside the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Now he comes to a decision.
John Reardon visits the Neighborhoof of Make-Believe, pretending to be a mailman. He sends a note that King Friday XIII 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.
Hugh Wright sets up a tent outside Rogers' television house and again in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Lady Elaine is using the tents as the centerpiece for her upcoming opera.
Lady Elaine is developing her opera. Reardon has no idea what kind of an opera she will make with camping equipment. Nevertheless, he gets a covered wagon at Lady Elaine's behest.
The second opera of the season has Lady Elaine as a campsite owner who is not pleased with some of the guests.
Rogers brings a kitten to his television house. He and Miss Emile reflect on one of Vija Vetra's dances.
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.
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.
Mr. McFeely brings two piglets to Rogers' television house. A visitor to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe coaxes Lady Elaine to move her tents to Someplace Else.
King Friday XIII returns to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe bearing gifts.
King Friday XIII announces that he will have a good surprise for the neighbors next week.
Rogers completes a wood frame. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Handyman Negri is building a new Castle balcony for King Friday.
Rogers and Mr. McFeely take care of two ducks on the porch before seeing the Vagabond Marionettes' production of Rumpelstiltskin.
A special guest is supposed to enter the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Lady Aberlin takes Lady Elaine's boomerang-toomerang-soomerang. But the guest's identity remains a secret, and in her frustration Lady Aberlin accidentally turns the king upside down.
Lady Aberlin pantomimes the growth of a plant at Rogers' television house. She presents a flower arrangement for Sara Saturday, the special guest.
King Friday XIII prepares a room in the Castle for Sara Saturday.
Mr. McFeely shows Rogers how to blow bubbles with liquid detergent. McFeely gives out liquid detergent samples to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Daniel thinks that King Friday and Sara Saturday will marry.
Rogers tries on different shoes. Handyman Negri sees that communication with the Neighborhood of Make-Believe is intact. Later in the program, a dance teacher and her students perform a few steps.
Mr. Farnum and his daughter Cindy Farnum are lapidaries. They discuss stones and how they are cut and polished for jewelry. Then Mr. Anybody makes his first visit. He decides he'll be a stonesmith today. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Mr. Anybody gives stones to several neighbors. King Friday selects a stone for mounting on rings.
It's Scottish day at the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, and a guest plays the bagpipes at the Castle.
Rogers shows different scales: one to weigh groceries and one to weigh humans. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Nurse Miller gives physiclas to the neighbors. Lady Elaine refuses to cooperate, turning King Friday XIII upside-down.
Rogers demonstrates several different whistles. Mr. Anybody plays a whistler in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, giving a whistle to the Trolley.
Rogers pretends to give aid to a sick person. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Nurse Miller gives a shot to a sick Tadpole Frogg.
Rogers talks of playing with toys and reads the poem The Land of Counterpane by Robert Louis Stevenson. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Tadpole Frogg and Lady Aberlin pretend to roller skate. After skating, Lady Aberlin finds that King Friday and Sara Saturday are in the R Room of the Castle.
Rogers makes drums fromof tin cans and listens to a real drummer. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Mr. Anybody anchors a neighborhood orchestra.
Rogers demonstrates the xylophone. John Costa, on the accordion, joins Rogers on several song duets. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe orchestra holds a concert for King Friday XIII and Sara Saturday.
Mister Rogers introduces the topic of fairy tales. He reads the book “Little Red Riding Hood.” and puts on a hood. Mr. McFeely comes over to show off a parka his children sent him for his birthday. Mister Rogers explains that Mr. McFeely is a grandfather. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Aberlin pretends she is Little Red Riding Hood. She gives Daniel a hood. He and Lady Aberlin play peek-a-boo. Mrs. Frogg finds X the Owl for Lady Aberlin. Lady Aberlin gives X the Owl, Henrietta, and Corney hoods as gifts because they are her neighbors.
Mister Rogers jumps rope and shows different types of knots. He is making a basket for Mr. McFeely’s bicycle for his birthday. Chef Brockett visits and says he will make a cake for Mr. McFeely’s birthday. Picture-Picture shows him how the cake should be decorated. Acrobats perform for King Friday XIII. They suggest the king make something for Mr. McFeely’s birthday.
Mister Rogers brings a mother and baby turtle from the pet store. He also brings in a bowl and food for them. He puts the turtles in the bowl filled with a little water and then feeds them. Miss Emilie visits Mister Rogers. She brings a book about animals. As she reads the book, Mr. Rogers counts the animals. She is going to give Mr. McFeely the book for his birthday. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Mr. McFeely delivers Corney his weekly order of lumber. Miss Emilie shows Corney and Henrietta the animal book. Corney is going to make Mr. McFeely a bicycle seat with a safety belt, and Henrietta is going to give him a kiss for his birthday.
Mister Rogers visits Jan Zandhuis at his workshop. Mr. Zandhuis shows Mister Rogers a small glass bicycle he has made for Mr. McFeely. He also demonstrates how to make a glass ornament using a glass blower. Lady Aberlin enters and asks Mr. Zandhuis for some excelsior for Daniel to use to wrap a fragile present.In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Aberlin asks Grandpere for a box. She takes Daniel the box and the excelsior. While showing Lady Aberlin the glass he decorated for Mr. McFeely, Daniel drops and breaks it. He cries because he is very sad that he broke the glass. Lady Aberlin cleans up the glass so no one will get cut. Then she helps Daniel decorate another glass.
Today is Mr. McFeely’s birthday. Chef Brockett arrives at Mister Rogers’ house with Mr. McFeely’s birthday cake. They decorate the cake with gumdrops. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Handyman Negri shows Lady Aberlin the pennant King Friday and Sara Saturday designed for Mr. McFeely. At Mister Rogers’ house, Mister Rogers and Chef Brockett prepare for the guests. Miss Emilie, Lady Aberlin, Mister Rogers, Chef Brockett, and Handyman Negri give Mr. McFeely the gifts they have been preparing all week. Mr. McFeely thanks Mister Rogers and Chef Brockett for such a nice birthday party.
Mister Rogers uses a flashlight to look at the hammers and strings inside a piano. He uses a model to demonstrate how the hammers, strings, and keys all work together to produce music. He shows a film about how people make pianos. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Van Cliburn plays several selections on the piano for King Friday and Sara Saturday. He explains how it took a lot of hard work and practice for him to become a pianist. Lady Aberlin goes to Someplace Else to lend Donkey Hodie a pair of ear muffs. He cannot sleep because Lady Elaine Fairchilde tunes her piano at night. Lady Elaine agrees to be a good neighbor and tune her piano during the day.
Mister Rogers plays a home-made drum. A professional drummer visits and shows different types of drums and sticks. Mister Rogers says the things we dream about are not really there. Lady Elaine Fairchilde kept the neighbors awake all night by banging a spoon against a pan. She was frightened after dreaming about bears. Trained bears perform for King Friday XIII.
Mister Rogers talks about nighttime and going to bed. Miss Emilie visits and reads a poem by De La Mare. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, it is nighttime. Lady Elaine has called Handyman Negri and asked for a drink of water. He takes her a drink. She is having trouble sleeping so he sings her a song.
Mister Rogers talks about getting injections. He pretends to give injections to doctor and nurse dolls. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday is exercising with Coach Saunders. Lady Elaine uses her Boomerang-toomerang-soomerang to turn them upside down while they exercise. The boomerang doesn’t work properly. The whole neighborhood is upside down and she can’t turn it right side up. When she finally turns everything right, the kings asks her to keep the boomerang outside. Back with Mister Rogers, Judy Rubin shows him how to use some medical supplies, such as cotton swabs, for crafts.
Mister Rogers and Betty Aberlin play in a sandbox and try on Middle Eastern clothing. Lady Elaine Fairchilde’s sand is blowing to Donkey Hodie’s windmill. Mr. McFeely wets the sand so that it will not blow away.
Lady Aberlin and Handyman Negri don a horse costume in which they dance for King Friday and Sara Saturday.
Rogers uses a foot measurer from a shoe store. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe begins preparations for a fair.
Rogers displays an assortment of Native American clothing. He witnesses Native American dancers as well. 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.
Officer Clemmons arrives to show what badges represent. Hee then issues a permit for the Neighborhood of Make-Believe street fair.
It's raining in the neighborhood, so Rogers shows his umbrella. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe appears sad because the rain there is threatening to spoil the fair.
Rogers, Chef Brockett, and Mr. McFeely decorate doughnuts. Joey Hollingsworth returns to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. He shares with Chef Brockett a magic recipe for peanut butter cookies.
Rogers shows how to use a pair of flippers and an inner tube. A scuba diver discusses equipment she uses. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Joey Hollingsworth and Daniel Tiger sail a boat (Daniel's present from Joey) in the Froggs' pond.
Rogers brings light bulbs. Scientist Alder has flashlights and the batteries that make them work. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, X anticipates his gift from Joey Hollingsworth.
Rogers talks about all sorts of sports that are played with a ball. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Joey Hollingsworth performs a dance with a magic ball.
Rogers sets up a punching bag, explaining how some people punch a bag when they are angry. He says that rules must be followed in boxing. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe has a surprise for Joey Hollingsworth.
Rogers discusses the rooster and hen. Later he makes a chicken marionette.
Lady Aberlin draws portraits of Corny and Daniel for a book. This book is for Sara Saturday, who is going away for a while.
Rogers explains the meaning of the word ""disappear,"" which isn't always literal. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe bids goodbye to Sara Saturday, but she and King Friday declare that she will return.
Robert Troll makes his first visit to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. He wants to see Sara Saturday in Westwood, but must wait a day for Westwood's wise women.
Robert Troll is still appreciative. Fortunately he meets Gloria Onque, one of Sara Saturday's wise women, Gloria is about to meet with King Friday XIII.
Mister Rogers arrives with a blue circle which he compares to several other round objects in the house.
King Friday XIII needs to find another curator for the Museum-Go-Round. The Frogg family cannot leave until Lady Aberlin and others can fill that post. In the meantime, King Friday has a portrait of himself to give the Frogg family. Handyman Negri arrives at Rogers' house to collect a frame for the picture.
Rogers discusses antiques and uses a vacuum cleaner. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine applies for the position of Museum-Go-Round curator. Since she knows everything in the Museum, she is awarded the job. Thus the Frogg family can move to Westwood.
The Frogg family moves to Westwood. Tadpole Frogg expresses his feelings about the move. One character pleased with the move is Lady Elaine Fairchilde, the Museum-Go-Round's new curator.
Rogers brings ducklings to his house. For their benefit, he fills a wading pool and both he and Francois Clemmons feed the ducklings. In the Neighborhood if Make-Believe, Lady Aberlin and Lady Elaine discuss the difference between being alive and being a model. Robert Troll tells King Friday XIII that Sara Saturday will soon be arriving from Westwood.
Rogers welcomes a trumpet player to his television house. Sara Saturday moves at the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
Rogers paints the porch swing yellow. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe Castle is closed so King Friday XIII can have important meetings.
The Neighborhood of Make-Believe is in the midst of change: X the Owl turns the Z on his knothole door to an X; Lady Elaine Fairchilde paints the pillars of her Museum-Go-Round. But the biggest change of all is the news that Sara Saturday will marry King Friday.
King Friday XIII and Queen Sara give interviews on their upcoming wedding.
The Castle holds a fashion show of wedding garments.
Robert Troll measures the many wedding gifts pouring into the Castle.
Rogers brings mittens and gloves in a briefcase. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday XIII orders that any guests to the royal wedding must take a bath and wear purple gloves.
The Neighborhood of Make-Believe stages a variety show, which includes The Purple Glove Ballet.
Lady Elaine Fairchilde gives her present for the Royal Wedding: she spruces up the Castle.
Rogers, Miss Emile, and Chef Brockett carry out their plans for the Royal Wedding. What nobody knows until late is that King Friday XIII wants the wedding to take place in the redesigned Castle garden.
While the King and Queen are away, Robert Troll welcomes his old friend, Dr. Bill Platypus, to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
Dr. and Mrs. Platypus move into the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. X and Henrietta do what they can to accommodate the newcomers.
Rogers shows the insides of a buckeye. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Officer Clemmons helps the Platypus family settle temporarily in X's tree.
The Platypus family must wait for Digger Digorum to return before they can dig a platypus home.
Rogers brings shovels, one of which he uses to put down fertilizer. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Henrietta has sewn curtains with a duckbill pattern. These go to the site for the new Platypus mound. Later in the program, Rogers shares his homemade recipe for popsicles.
While digging the Platypus family's home, Digger Digorum and Handyman Negri discover a box containing a magic kite.
A magician performs tricks at Rogers' television house. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, the magic kite gives advice to everyone, including Digger Digorum.
Officer Clemmons pretends to be the voice of the magic kite. This convinces first Daniel and then X and Nurse Miller that the kite can talk and sing.
X the Owl wants the magic kite to add. Joey Hollingsworth returns just as Corny makes a rocking chair for kites.
Joey Hollingsworth returns with news that King Friday and Queen Sara will return the following Friday. He gives to Corny the orders for chairs that must be filled by that time.
Mr. McFeely brings Lightning, a small horse, first to Rogers' television house and then to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. He hears Donkey Hodie has broken his arm, but it is actually an arm of the windmill that has been broken.
Rogers plays a Xylophone and visits percussionist Jean Wilmouth. Those in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe are sad because the King and Queen are still on their honeymoon.
Edgar Cooke and Joey Hollingsworth, along with Lady Elaine, plan to decorate the Neighborhood of Make-Believe for the Royal family's return.
Joey Hollingsworth is dressed up as King Friday as part of the ceremony to welcome back the Royal couple. Lady Elaine instructs Lady Aberlin to dress as Queen Sara. This causes mass confusion and more disguses.
King Friday XIII and Queen Sara return to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe to find the disguised Joey Hollingsworth and Lady Aberlin.
Rogers plays a matching game. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, the Royal Family give moving frames to X, Henrietta, and Lady Elaine.
Rogers uses a balance scale to compare weights. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe is beginning plans for their carnival. X the Owl and Lady Aberlin demonstrate the talents they will display there.
Chef Brockett must explain cotton candy and carnivals to the King, and neither interest him. Lady Elaine gets into her fortune-teller mode for the upcoming carnival.
King Friday puts a damper on the carnival plans because he had not been asked for permission to hold it at the Castle.
With permission from the King, the Neighborhood of Make-Believe holds its carnival.
A Wizard enters the Neighborhood of Make-Believe to find Lady Elaine Fairchilde. He plays games and then stubs his toe, prompting Dr. Bill Platypus (who meets King Friday XIII for the first time).
The Wizard of Lupovich leaves the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, but not without leaving a box for the King and others to watch. The box will open itself tomorrow.
Dr. Bill and Elsie Jean Platypus, among others, are curious about the box. When the neighbors gather, the box opens itself to reveal a bunny cap. Anyone who puts it on, hops.
Handyman Negri lets Corny, X, and Henrietta try the hopping cap. Dr. Bill Platypus has built up a clientele.
Several of those in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe don't like Dr. Bill's bagpipes. He will have to find a different place to play them.
Mabel Mercer arrives in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe with a costume changer for Lady Aberlin.
Rogers is looking after Carol Saunders' guitar. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Robert Troll raises mischief.
Robert Troll wants to live at the campsite at Someplace Else, since Lady Elaine isn't using it anymore. But Robert is too afraid to ask, until friends offer him support.
Officer Clemmons has brought a building permit to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, but doesn't know who it is for. In fact, the building permit is for a community center at Someplace Else.
Rogers brings pots filled with orchids, tulips, and daffodils. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday XIII is surprised by the sudden quiet. Everyone is watching Handyman Negri building the community center at Someplace Else.
To combat King Friday's boredom, singer Barbara Koski visits the Neighborhood of Make-Believe from Finland.
Rogers plays house with a set of dolls and two houses. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday orders all the locales be numbered from west to east.
Officer Clemmons reminds Rogers that Chef Brockett's birthday will be in two days' time. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine tells King Friday he can't always be number 1. This means all the house numbers on all the locales are coming down.
Rogers has to keep secret the cake he is making for Chef Brockett's birthday. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Robert Troll, X the Owl, and Daniel Tiger discuss their gifts for Brockett.
Today is Chef Brockett's birthday. King Friday offers as his gift the Atlantic Ocean.
Rogers puts together a puzzle Chef Brockett has given him as a thank-you present. Handyman Negri leaves the Neighborhood of Make-Believe for a scout jamboree. His replacement for the week is John Reardon.
Mister Rogers talks about magnets. In the world of make-believe, Reardon is organizing an opera. Daniel Striped Tiger, Lady Aberlin, and Dr. Bill Platypus land parts in it.
Reardon distributes music to those who will take part in the opera. Robert Troll wants to be a whale, and Elsie Jean Platypus wants to play the Loch Ness monster.
Lady Aberlin gives Trolley a waves costume for the opera, which fools Corny. Now he'd like to be in the opera. The entire Neighborhood of Make-Believe will be the backdrop, simulating the sea.
The Neighborhood of Make-Believe stages its opera about the search for a lost teddy bear.
Rogers is doing a puzzle, but Mr. McFeely barges in and takes it before it is finished. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine surprises Handyman Negri, who drops his souvenir from the jamboree.
Rogers discusses the differences between male and female. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Handyman Negri and Lady Elaine assemble a rocket.
King Friday XIII blocks the launch of Handyman Negri and Lady Elaine's rocket until some rules are laid down.
Carole Clemmons, Francois' wife, her some new poems. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine is mad at her improperly-working rocket.
King Friday has completed his set of rules for Lady Elaine's rocket. Once these rules are followed, the rocket rides more smoothly.
Rogers builds a model car. Van Cliburn enters the Neighborhood of Make-Believe gathering parts for the piano Lady Elaine is building.
Chef Brockett has made a piano-shaped cake for Van Cliburn, who performs at the Castle.
Lady Aberlin has a magic leaf. When she says the correct words, her aunt will sing for her.
A button band performs for the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, during which Vija Vetra performs a button dance.
Queen Sara gives a lesson to Lady Aberlin and King Friday about understanding Robert Troll's troll talk.
Fred Rogers is joined by his Neighborhood regulars in this one-hour special which includes an actual car ride through the Neighborhood, an original pantomime dance and hide-and-seek animation, mixed with Mister Rogers usual intimate communication.
Mister Rogers enters with a model of Daniel Striped Tiger's clock and visits the man who designed it: Robert (Bob) 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.
Mr. Rogers presents slides of trees. Mr. McFeely delivers Bob Trow's model of X the Owl's Tree. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, X the Owl learns that wishing doesn't make things come true.
Rogers puts signs outside his front and back doors advising visitors to "please knock" or "please ring." Later in the program, he receives Bob Trow's model of the Museum-Go-Round.
Rogers brings in Bob Trow's model of the Platypus Mound. Officer Clemmons shows Rogers the workings at his police station. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe finds Dr. Bill and Elsie Jean Platypus share a magic recipe for making pies.
Season Three ends its first week with Rogers receiving 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 S. Pecially in preparation for her new pie restaurant.
Rogers plays a game using different shapes and grocieries. 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.
Mister Rogers explains how coins are used in vending machines. Mr. McFeely finds a puppy. Mister Rogers keeps the puppy until a home is found for him.
Chef Brockett how turnovers are made. He appears in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, helping run the new pie restaurant.
Mister Rogers repairs a wooden fence. Joe Negri visits and gives Mister Rogers some instructions on the guitar.
Dr. Yen Wang shows two laboratory rats, with which he wishes to shw that the study of rats is intended to benefit human beings. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe opens the pie restaurant, but King Friday XIII orders Bob Dog to Someplace Else.
Rogers shines his shoes. The Pittsburgh Junior Tamburitzans visits the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, and Bob Dog emerges to dance with them.
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.
Johnny Costa and his grandson visit Rogers' television house and the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
Rogers discusses growing inside and outside. Mr. McFeely brings a dry aqaurium 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.
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 (at last). Citizens in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe are worried because the King and Queen have yet to return from Westwood.
Henrietta Pussycat fears Bob Dog's teeth. Lady Aberlin confides in Henrietta and tells everyone the King and Queen have a good secret.
Bramble, a large horse, stands outside Rogers' television house. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday asks for, and receives, a stuffed horse. Daniel is afraid of the model.
Rogers enters with a typewriter and the many ways to put the word ""typewriter"" to paper. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, an artist, perhaps in a foreshadowing mood, draws paintings of the King and Queen.
King Friday XIII shares his secret with Mime Walker, informing him not to mention a word of this to anyone.
Rogers has a recent chest x-ray, explaining 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. It isn't.
Officer Clemmons announces he has accepted a new job with the Metropolitan Opera in New York. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday XIII and Queen Sara announce that they will have a baby.
Lady Elaine and Mrs. Saunders tie up Officer Clemmons in a frantic attempt to keep him from moving.
Betty Aberlin gives Rogers a black angel fish for his tank. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, she dresses as a black angel fish. At the Tree, she introduces a song praising Henrietta Pussycat.
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. But what kind of raspberry delight should be made?
Mr. and Mrs. Francois Clemmons are about to leave for New York. In both the Neighborhood of Make-Believe and Mister Rogers' television house, neighbors hold a farewell party.
Rogers shows models of a bicycle and tricycle. Along the way, he introduces the prefixes ""bi"" and ""tri."" In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Bob Dog fears moving wheels.
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.
Rogers shows how he reacts when he is angry. Using a punching bag may make you feel better. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Aberlin makes a punching bag from rags and knitting. X the Owl complements her work.
When Coach Saunders informs how athletic and exercise equipment can protect oneself, King Friday orders all the equipment for the new royal baby.
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 Grandpere and Lady Elaine. Handyman Negri helps Lady Elaine fix the King's broken window.
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.
Rogers plays rhyming games and flash cards with Bob Trow. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine and several others participate in the boomerang contest.
Rogers shows different sizes of eggs and the animals who lay them. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Elsie Jean Platypus says her newly-laid egg will hatch in ten days.
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 child will be the first born there.
Dr. Bill Platypus and Digger Digorum convince King Friday XIII 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.
A fish in Rogers' tank has died. Rogers buries it and, with Bob Trow's help, constructs a tombstone with a pentagon bearing a fish drawing. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, concern hits when the Trolley stops at the Castle and doesn't move.
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. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, the Platypus family waits for the egg to hatch.
Lady Aberlin finds everybody except Lady Elaine is at the Platypus Mound, waiting for the egg to hatch.
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.
Handyman Negri is among those with a gift for the baby Platypus. It's a song to fit her name, Ornithorhynchus anatinus.
Bob Trow has made a 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.
Rogers makes a cardboard suitcase. 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.
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.
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.
Rogers looks after two penguins for Mr. McFeely. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe holds its stage play, about a vet flying in a jet to check on a pet.
Robert Troll visits to see baby Ana Platypus, as do X and Henrietta.
Dr. Bill Platypus talks about time to X and Henrietta, who discover the newborn platypus is too small to play with them.
Mr. McFeely delivers a fortune teller's costume, which Mr. Anybody wears to predict the future.
Rogers welcomes Mrs. Franks, who demonstrates leather carving. 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.
Rogers shows the dog belonging to his son John. At Bob Trow's workshop, Rogers finds Trow and John working on fingerpaint pictures. In the Neighborhood of Make Believe, Handyman Negri and Lady Aberlin have a message for Bob Dog.
Gifts have been pouring in for the imminent birth of Queen Sara's baby. One of those gifts is a paper crown, which Henrietta takes without asking.
Rogers talks of being able to do certain skills at certain ages. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe is abuzz with excitement, as Queen Sara gives birth to a prince named Tuesday.
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.
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 accept visitors next week.
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.
Lady Elaine is annyued with Prince Tuesday's constant crying. At one point, she asks King Friday and Queen Sara to send the baby back.
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.
Rogers shows how he works Picture-Picture and then the Trolley. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday asks that Reardon put together an opera within two days.
Reardon fears he doesn't have enough time to write an opera for Friday, but he assembles the basics quickly.
The Neighborhood of Make-Believe holds its opera about the Pineapple Can Telephone Company.
Captain Kangaroo visits, first at Rogers' television house and then in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. He sees that Lady Elaine and Donkey Hodie are hopeful that the carrots would grow faster somehow.
Rogers visits Jan Zandhuis, a glassblower, who is doing a project for Mrs. Saunders. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday feels baby Prince Tuesday should be taught subtraction.
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.
Rogers relates the lessons on teeth that he learned as a child.
Rogers and Chef Brockett play games in which one doesn't see, but hears or feels.
King Friday XIII feels that babies get too much attention and tries to limit such attention to one hour a day.
Meghan Sweenie has her routine check-up. Dr. Mermelstein tells Rogers the basics of this physical. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Prince Tuesday's crying prompts some neighbors to take action.
Rogers and Bob Trow make popsicle-stick crafts.
Rogers discusses the string quartet and hears each instrument at Negri's Music Shop. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Mr. McFeely delivers a bass fiddle to King Friday XIII.
Rogers demonstrates how music is written as well as performed. Those in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe try to play the bass fiddle, then offer their opinions on The Machine That Plays The Bass.
When King Friday wants a waterfall for his Castle garden, Donkey Hodie suggests that they install new plumbing.
While gymnasts perform in the Castle gymnasium, water begins to leak in. It seems one of the pipes for the Castle garden waterfall is clogged.
Handyman Negri and Donkey Hodie are finishing the Castle garden waterfall. Francois Clemmons visits as waterfall singer.
Rogers needs a washer for a fountain he wants to assemble. Instead of taking one from Bob Trow's workshop, he merely leaves Trow a note. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, the Castle fountain works only to a small extent. Lady Elaine has taken the windmill at Someplace Else apart for some reason.
Lady Elaine wants her Museum-Go-Round to turn, so she harnesses X to the Museum. He doesn't want to spend all hours turning the Museum, but he does get things moving in another way.
Miss Paulifficate bumps into Daniel's toy tiger, but she glues it back together. They give a letter to Dr. Bill Platypus.
Mrs. Lawver, a doll collector, presents to a visiting Rogers her collection of antique dolls. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Dr. Bill Platypus receives his lesson toward a pediatrician's license. He is to borrow a doll for the practice.
Bob Dog accidentally rips Dr. Bill's second pediatrician lesson and hides. Lady Elaine magically reverses the damage. She also gets a lesson on child care from Dr. Bill.
After showing some children's drawings, Rogers visits Mrs. Saunders school, talks with the children and watches them play. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Mr. McFeely delivers a package from the pediatrician school to Dr. Bill. The letter says he will continue his training in Australia. Thus the Platypus family will be leaving tomorrow.
Don Williamson visits the television house to demonstrate his radio-controlled model airplane. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday still doesn't want the Platypus family to visit Australia. But then he is given the right to start their flying machine.
Rogers talks of light bulbs and replaces one of the bulbs on his traffic signal. Later in the program, two boys discuss bird-watching with Rogers.
Rogers shows a hidden object in a drawing of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. That neighborhood discovers an old toy that Corny used to manufacture: a toy horse in the Chatty-Cathy mold.
Rogers sacrifices NOM for a visit to Betty's Little Theater. When the planned guests aren't able to appear, Betty Aberlin improvises a play with Bob Trow, Joe Negri and Audrey Roth.
When the name "upside-down cake" offends King Friday, he affronts everyone with a short-lived rule: everyone should say what he doesn't mean.
Queen Sara asks Bob Dog to send a note asking if Henrietta Pussycat can babysit for Prince Tuesday. Bob Dog is distracted with a new rocking chair, but he finds a way to help the Royal Family.
Bob Dog wants to wear shoes so Queen Sara will like him as much as she likes Prince Tuesday.
Joe Negri displays musical instruments made out of junk. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine borrows Corny's hammer without asking first.
Children act out nursery rhymes at Betty's Little Theater. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe acts out Old King Cole.
Rogers draws a song, using paint brushes to visualize the Japanese records he plays. Later Mr. McFeely brings a big St. Bernard dog. In between, Yoshi Ito enters the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
Rogers builds a go-cart with spare parts. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Grandpere begins to make pommes frites (French-fried potatoes).
Rogers and visitor Mary Sweenie talk of crafts such as needlepoint. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Handyman Negri wants to have Henrietta Pussycat's eyes checked.
Rogers has his eyes examined. An accident occurs in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, when Trolley runs into a toy car Lady Aberlin and Robert Troll left on the tracks.
Rogers plays an audio cassette that hints to a package containing a magnifying glass. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday gets the impression that a magnifying glass makes the prince grow.
Rogers puts on an opera costum that includes a turban. He invites Betty Aberlin to a costume party set for the next day. Those in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe agree to a costume party to allay the doldrums.
Rogers dresses as an airplane pilot for the costume party. Betty Aberlin and Joe Negri team up to dress as a horse. (You see what's coming, don't you?) The Neighborhood of Make-Believe holds its own costume party, and only the toy Horse has no costume.
Those in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe react differently to the presents the Platypus family, returned from Australia, had given them.
Dr. Bill Platypus invites those in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe to see his home movies about Australia. Joining them are Captain Kangaroo and his puppet friends.
Rogers has a sign made for Bob and Judy Brown, the marionette-puppeteers who are moving in just a few doors down. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Dr. Bill moves his office to the Eiffel Tower.
Ezra Jack Keats visits Rogers to read his book Hi, Cat! In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, a book editor visits Grandpere at the Eiffel Tower.
Rogers sees Bob and Judy Brown's production of Jack and the Beanstalk.
John Reardon comes to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe dressed as an organ grinder. But will anyone recognize him?
Rogers tries on various moustaches. Betty Aberlin visits to put on wigs. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday XIII commissions a new opera.
John Reardon gives opera roles to Daniel and his toy, Ino A. Horse. Chef Brockett displays the monkey costume he will wear.
Today the Neighborhood of Make-Believe holds its opera. King Friday XIII plays his bass for this opera, in which a zookeeper must console a down-on-his-luck organ grinder.
Rogers shows photos from yesterday's opera. At Brockett's Bakery, Rogers discusses Chef Brockett's opera role. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Henrietta Pussycat mopes since she didn't have a part in the opera.
Rogers and Bob Trow repair child seats and a rocking chair. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Cornflake S. Pecially and Robert Troll build an infant seat for Prince Tuesday. Lady Elaine discovers how good a father King Friday is.
Susan Linn helps Rogers discussing how puppets can be used to express feelings. Her Audrey Duck character appears in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, scaring Baby Ana Platypus.
Twins Barry and Garry Nelson visit the television house. Rogers helps Betty Aberlin play a marble game. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, the Nelsons help Daniel play with a ball.
Rogers talks about how things look different at night. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Bob Dog and Daniel share their fears with Miss Paulifficate.
Richard Kvistad plays a kettle drum at Negri's Music Shop. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine and Bob Dog scare King Friday XIII.
Grandpere receives a picture from his granddaughter Collette. This hurts Henrietta Pussycat, who feels she is not as fancy.
Susan Linn returns to Rogers, bringing her puppets Audrey Duck and Cat-a-Lion. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Handyman Negri helps ease Henrietta Pussycat's tangled emotions.
King Friday gives Collette a key to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Henrietta Pussycat is afraid that key will open the door to her house.
Rogers shows cake-decorating tools and sees a man decorate a cake at Brockett's Bakery. Chef Brockett takes a cake to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe for Collette. Once again, Henrietta Pussycat is in the center of what happens.
Rogers explains that it isn't always possible to understand what goes on in the world. He and his son make hats out of newspapers. Grandpere introduces Collette to everyone in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
Francois Clemmons is going to teach a driver's education course. To help him, Clemmons borrows the traffic signal from Rogers' television house. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Daniel is instructed to wait for Mr. McFeely to deliver groceries intended for the Castle. King Friday asks Daniel to fetch his robes, which causes a quandary for Mr. McFeely.
Francois Clemmons returns the traffic signal to Rogers. Nurse Miller and Dr. Bill Platypus help X the Owl after he hurts his wing.
Cornflake S. Pecially is impatiently waiting for his new lathe. In his rush to work the lathe, Corny injures his finger in it. Nurse Miller consoles him. Later in the program, Rogers goes to Bob Trow's workshop to see his lathe.
The Castle is organizing a jazz festival, and King Friday XIII wants the best jazz musicians. Handyman Negri brings in a blind saxophonist named Eric Kloss, of whom we will see more in the coming 25 years. Dr. Bill tells all that they were not responsible for Kloss' condition.
Rogers draws a song based on a recording of jazz and classical music. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday is still trying to shortcut his way to playing the bass fiddle. Perhaps a gold bass is the answer.
Bob Brown, the puppeteer, shows Mister Rogers how to make puppets from detergent bottles.
King Friday and Queen Sara implore Lady Aberlin to baby-sit for Prince Tuesday. Lady Elaine misinterprets the instructions and assigns Daniel the baby-sitting duties.
Mr. McFeely delivers the book Fur, Feathers, and Hair to Rogers. Later McFeely brings an English sheepdog. In between, King Friday XIII is upset that baby Prince Tuesday will not smile at him.
Rogers makes ice cream by hand-cranking. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, some are wondering about baby Ana Platypus's behavior.
Morrie Turner, author of the Wee Pals comic strip, visits Rogers. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, X the Owl begins his printing business.
Lady Elaine wants people to come to her book show in the Museum-Go-Round, not to the Castle to see a chameleon.
Lady Aberlin asks Van Cliburn to wear a costume for his visit to the Castle. The King and Queen are fooled until the disguised Van Cliburn plays the piano.
Collette is worried that Grandpere will be lonely when she leaves for Paris. After she leaves, Lady Elaine hears Van Cliburn performing at her Museum-Go-Round.
Lady Elaine wants company, but everyone is too busy for her. So She is so adamant that she takes Mr. McFeely's bicycle and refuses to return it.
Rogers decorates some eggs, as do people in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
Mary Sweenie arrives late at Betty's Little Theater for her bird dance. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, X the Owl wants to read poetry alone.
Rogers and Mr. McFeely do a bit of secret communication, with neither one understanding the other. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine is impatient with X's call for privacy while he writes poetry.
X is afraid others will laugh at his poetry should he read it aloud. Lady Elaine is eager to hear this poetry and is in position to hide her feelings about it.
While seeing the breads at Brockett's Bakery, Rogers learns how a bread slicer works. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe discovers a floating loaf of bread from the Owl Correspondence School. X registers himself for a course.
Bob Trow repairs Mr. McFeely's bicycle, slightly embarrassed because Bob doesn't yet know how to ride a bike. This pours into the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, as Robert Troll begins to learn to ride. This puzzles Cornflake S. Pecially.
Audrey Roth brings three unidentified cheerleaders to Rogers' television house. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Cornflake S. Pecially must juggle tasks for Miss Paulifficate and a gift for Prince Tuesday.
Rogers' son Jamie and a friend play with a toy on the floor of the television house. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Robert Troll starts a game of catch, but doesn't want to throe because he thinks no one will throw back.
Rogers shows steam from a tea kettle. Later in the program Mr. McFeely shows him a steam engine. In between, Robert Troll plays ball with Lady Aberlin, Handyman Negri and Daniel Striped Tiger.
Corny asks Robert Troll to dump an excess amount of stain into into a creek. The resulting pollution leaves a bad smell and tars the Castle fountain. King Friday orders Corny not to manufacture until he can clean up the mess.
Corny and Robert Troll need some help to clean up the paint stain that they caused. Lady Elaine uses her boomerang to return the paint to its can. Afterward, Mister Rogers goes to the McFeelys' house and Brockett's Bakery to see what can be made from scraps of old material.
Susan Linn performs her puppets, Audrey Duck and Cat-a-Lion, at Betty's Little Theater. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday plans to buy a large TV.
Rogers needs Joe Negri's help to get a crystal radio working. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Handyman Negri has to figure out why the TV set for King Friday XIII isn't working yet.
Rogers buys a TV set from Negri's Music Shop with a credit card. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday turns the TV set on, finds a program he likes, and implores that everyone watch it.
King Friday commands that everyone watch a television show at the Castle. He borrows a TV set from Lady Elaine so that everyone (but he) will watch. Bored, everyone else leans toward Lady Elaine, who has a plan brewing at her Museum-Go-Round.
Rogers goes to traffic court to plead the case that led to his parking ticket. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine leads a march on the Castle to show that everyone has different interests.
Rogers demonstrates the different sounds made from bells and crystal glasses filled with water. Joey Hollingsworth tap dances in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. King Friday and Queen Sara present Henrietta a bell for babysitting Prince Tuesday. The bell makes X the Owl jealous.
Tom Flynn and the Southminister Bell Ringers perform at Negri's Music Shop. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Henrietta's constant bell-ringing proves a nuisance to X the Owl. But he won't tell why the bell annoys him.
Rogers makes a musical instrument out of an oatmeal box, a large button, and some string. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Henrietta's bell is missing. This leads Lady Aberlin to talk to a jealous X the Owl.
X wants to ask King Friday for a job. He earns the title printer of Royal calling cards.
A plumber replaces the clogged elbow in Mister Rogers' sink drain. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe sees the same plumber retool the Castle Fountain so it can re-circulate water.
A magician performs part of his act at Betty Aberlin's theater. He is seen again in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, but on harder times.
Andrew Wyeth illustrates to Rogers the work behind an animated film based on Rogers' song You've Got To Do It. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe establishes the King Friday, Queen Sara Saturday Foundation for the Performing Arts.
Rogers explains the size of things by having a tailor alter a suit jacket. Those in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe donate things to the Appel family.
Lady Aberlin is asking those in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe to donate to the new performing arts program. Lady Elaine refuses to contribute until she learns what King Friday is donating.
Mr. Appel is named the first recipient from the Neighborhood of Make-Believe's foundation for the performing arts.
It's Mrs. McFeely's birthday, and Rogers isn't the only one giving presents. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine is trying to get attention, much to the dismay of her neighbors.
Attempting to make a merry-go-round, Lady Elaine doesn't feel that her animals look perfect. Rogers introduces viewers to Elsie Neal's Craft Shop.
Handyman Negri gives X the Owl a lesson in music history from the Owl Correspondence School. The record is an owl history music lesson that X had been hoping for.
Bob Dog is saddened because Daniel Tiger doesn't want him near the Clock. Still, Bob Dog wants to talk with Daniel.
Rogers takes some vegetables to Bob Trow. X the Owl wants to play the harmonica alongside the King's bass violin.
Rogers helps Bob Trow inflate one tire of a tandem bicycle. Fog in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe causes Bob Dog to lose a stone intended for King Friday XIII.
Astronaut Al Worden stops by the television house to show his space suit works. His scheduled arrival in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe the next day, prompts various reactions from the neighbors.
Lady Elaine is prepared to go to the moon by any means. Later in the visit, Rogers goes to the Brown Marionette studio to work on a piece with Chef Brockett.
Rogers and astronaut Al Worden recall the question-and-answer period they conducted with children about going to the moon. Worden shows the envelope of questions he took with him on his mission. He also appears in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, where Lady Elaine turns him upside-down.
Al Worden shows more equipment that he took to the moon, and he discusses the one side of the moon that is never seen on Earth. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday gives Worden a model solar system.
Rogers makes a crayon rubbing of leaves. Mrs. McFeely invites him to their house to see a fern and a reptile called a caiman. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine is still thinking about space travel. She sends Mrs. McFeely for leaves on which, Lady Elaine thinks, she can ride to Jupiter.
Rogers plays with blocks and then with clay. Later he calls Francois Clemmons, offering him a position as voice teacher. In between, Lady Elaine insists she will fly from the Neighborhood of Make-Believe to Jupiter. She goes through a day of preparation.
Mr. McFeely shows Rogers a duck. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine commands attention as she begins her flight into space on a ship made of leaves.
The Brown Marionette Company opens one room in their studio for Francois Clemmons to give voice lessons. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine radios back about her flight through space.
Lady Elaine radios back to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, saying she will stay in space because she has made the most extraordinary discovery.
Lady Elaine splashes down in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. While some think she is going to get married, Lady Elaine keeps her extraordinary discovery a secret.
Rogers hears a harpist at Negri's Music Shop. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine announces she has discovered the Planet Purple, where everything is purple.
A purple disk drops into the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, giving Lady Elaine and others information on Planet Purple. She tries to emulate the lifestyle of all the Pauls and Paulines on the planet.
Rogers visits Francois Clemmons's music class. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine is reluctant to shake off living like the Pauls and Paulines of Planet Purple. She even refuses to talk to X the Owl.
Lady Aberlin and Robert Troll must convince Lady Elaine of her rightful place in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
Chef Brockett presents snow pudding to Rogers at the bakery. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine wants to make snow, but can't get it just right.
Rogers talks about practice by showing different pairs of skates, including beginner's skates with a double runner. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine's snow-making succeeds. which doesn't exactly bear well with everyone. It does persuade John Reardon to make an opera anout snow.
Rogers explains how only grown-ups can change light bulbs with a ladder. In the Neighborhood of Make-Nelieve, Lady Elaine experiments to make multi-colored snow, which backfires (the sky is plugged up).
Rogers uses the heater for the fish tank and shows the room radiator. He also sees that the Brown Marionette Theater is heated with a furnace works. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Henrietta Pussycat begs for a role in the upcoming opera.
The snow opera features an angry girl who has interrupted a badminton game. She makes snow and turns the badminton players into snow people, but she needs help to get the snow to melt.
The bulb burns out in Picture-Picture, so Rogers gets a new bulb at Negri's Music Shop. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, the telecan kiosk by the Tree begins to bob up and down uncontrollably.
Mr. McFeely has been taken ill because he hass been in too much a hurry. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, X the Owl gets a lesson from the Owl Correspondence School.
Rogers talks about staying still, something that Mr. McFeely will need to practice. The same cannot be said for the telecan kiosk in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Handyman Negri tries to tie it up, but that interferes with King Friday's calls.
Rogers uses a pitch pipe at his television house and with Francois Clemmons. Mr. McFeely demonstrates one of his sitting-still exercises. The crisis in the Neighborhood of make-Believe is stopped in conjecture, as Rogers tells viewers they will have to decide the outcome on their own.
King Friday XIII wants to fool Lady Aberlin and others with a marionette of the king pretending to fly.
The Castle has lost its XIII plaque. It's up to Lady Aberlin and Handyman Negri to find it.
Ezra Jack Keats visits the Neighborhood of Make-Believe and tells a story about a bad king. Keats must report his story to King Friday.
Rogers goes to Betty's Little Theater with an idea for Susan Linn's puppets to act out.
Bob Dog is sad that Queen Sara is too busy with Prince Tuesday.
Lady Elaine decides to turn the Nrighborhood of Make-Believe purple with her Boomerang-Toomerang-Soomerang. It does not sit well with the neighbors.
Lady Elaine has yet to remove purple residue from Grandpere's sign. But the Boomerang doesn't seem to get it off.
King Friday XIII sends Mr. McFeely to deliver things for the water skiers who will appear later in the week. Mr. Rogers watches ballet dancers and demonstrates a musical triangle.
Rogers shows that even when things are hidden, those things still exist. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Mrs. McFeely and Handyman Negri look for Mr. McFeely. Lady Elaine helps a tired Mr. McFeely do his job (or so she claims).
The McFeelys bring two African lion cubs to Rogers' television house. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Aberlin helps Handyman Negri with his tasks.
Rogers and Elsie Neal make clay figures of a person and a horse. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Handyman Negri and Lady Aberlin, wearing a horse costume, give Henrietta Pussycat a ride. X the Owl must face his feelings about being alone.
Rogers gives a Santa Claus costume to Chef Brockett. Both Betty Aberlin and Francois Clemmons talk of how as children, they used to be afraid of Santa Claus. Later Santa Claus appears in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
Roegrs demonstrates how to use a microscope. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine is intent to cut Santa Claus' hair without his permission.
Rogers pretends to be a bird at Francois Clemmons' studio. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday makes another bad rule: nobody can have bare hands. Lady Elaine doesn't take the rule seriouslt until a cold breeze blows by.
Chef Brockett is planning to add a soda fountain to his bakery. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Aberlin brings back the toy horse which, when a string is pulled, says ""I know."" X the Owl gives her a toy seagull which says ""you know"" when a string is pulled.
Rogers and several other neighbors attend the opening of the new soda fountain at Brockett's Bakery. Eric Kloss visits the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, telling the King how the other senses tell a blind person about the world.
Mr. McFeely wears a new Speedy Delivery uniform. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Henrietta Pussycat shows her disdain for getting Collette's old clothes, which don't fit.
Collette has sent dresses and hats from Paris to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. One of the hats is too big for Henrietta Pussycat, so Lady Aberlin gives it to Queen Sara.
Golfer Carol Mann visits Rogers' television house to show golf equipment. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, X the Owl swings his golf club, inadvertently knocking boxes out of Corny's hands.
Rogers hears Bob Trow lead his a cappella group at Negri's Music Shop. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Corny and Robert Troll want to console X the Owl.
Rogers' telephone isn't working, so the telephone repairman makes a visit.
Rogers tells viewers of the time he had an imaginary friend. Daniel Tiger has an imaginary friend, Malcolm Apricot Dinko, whom he consults to decide whether he should spend the night with Grandpere.
Rogers discusses sleep, with help from the McFeelys. Sunset reaches the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, and Daniel still doesn't believe he can to go to Grandpere's for the night. Donkey Hodie has advertised his need for a helper at Someplace Else.
Rogers hears a harmonica band at Negri's Music Shop. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Donkey Hodie realizes that Malcolm Apricot Dinko cannot help much with harvesting the vegetables.
Mrs. McFeely has a cow named Harriet, and Rogers sees how Harriet is milked. A new arrival to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Harriet Elizabeth Cow, answers the call for help at Someplace Else.
Ana Platypus is beginning to speak. Harriet Elizabeth Cow is pleased to see her.
Lady Elaine Fairchilde decides to make mischief at the welcoming party for Harriet Elizabeth Cow. When a splash of milk ruins the welcoming cake, some believe Malcolm Apricot Dinko, Daniel's imaginary friend, is responsible.
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.
Lady Aberlin is dressed as a ballerina, dancing with Robert Troll to Lady Elaine's piano music.
Rogers shows crayons rubbings. Later he sees preparations for a variety show at Betty's Little Theater. Ib the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday wants to rush Prince Tuesday's learning skills.
Joe Negri shows Rogers an accordion at Negri's Music Shop. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine plays an accordion in Someplace Else just to show up Harriet Elizabeth Cow.
Rogers and other neighbors participate at the talent show held at Betty's Little Theater.
Rogers visits Elsie Neal's Craft Shop, where Bill Strickland talks of making clay pots. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe sees Purple Panda, the first of a handful of visitors from the Planet Purple.
The Neighborhood of Make-Believe welcome two new visitors from the Planet Purple, called Paul and Pauline.
Paul and Pauline command that Purple Panda broke a law by rocking in a rocking chair. As a punishment, Purple Panda cannot return to Planet Purple.
Bob Trow is working on a bird house for a wren. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday has a new wooden bird on a stick called Troglodytes aedon.
Rogers has props for Bob and Judy Brown's production of The Three Little Pigs. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday wants to buy an airplane.
Don Williamson shows his remote-control model airplane at Rogers' television house. Later in the program, Rogers forgets that the Brown Marionette Company was performing The Three Little Pigs today. Fortunately, it will be held again tomorrow. In between, an airplane salesman visits the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. King Friday purchases a plane and wants Handyman Negri to be the pilot.
Rogers attends the Brown Marionettes' production of The Three Little Pigs. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday gets word that his airplane will arrive tomorrow.
Rogers works a car horn, a trumpet, and a bicycle horn. When he returns to Negri's Music Shop, he hears trumpeter Ben Benack. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday gets his plane and hires Yoshi Ito to pilot it.
Marcel Marceau performs pantomime, both in Mister Rogers' television house and the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
Daniel Tiger's birthday is coming Friday, and he asks for, among other things, a truck.
Daniel Striped Tiger shares his birthdate (three days away) with Purple Panda.
Al Worden shares one of his poems with Rogers. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Daniel wonders if he has made a mistake giving his birthdate to Purple Panda.
Rogers finds beauty in a rainy day. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Purple Panda overcomes his fear of the rain.
Rogers visits a lapidarian, who shows how stones and polished. Later Al Worden shows a moon rock in Rogers' kitchen. In between, the Neighborhood of Make-Believe celebrates Daniel's and Purple Panda's birthday.
Rogers works a typewriter specifically used with teleprompters. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Pilot Ito wants to take opera lessons. The King calls John Reardon in to teach her.
Rogers visits a dentist. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, John Reardon agrees to give Pilot Ito opera lessons. The King commissions an opera for Friday, the 13th of April 1973.
Rogers shows a book with pictures of animals' teeth. Mr. McFeely brings animal-sound instruments. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, John Reardon gives opera parts to Lady Aberlin and Harriet Elizabeth Cow.
Rogers shows different kinds of potatoes and shows what happens if they are put in water for a while. He makes up a potato song. Mr. McFeely delivers an ocarina. At the Negri's Music Shop, a blue grass band is rehearsing and explains why their music is bluegrass. In the NOM, Chef Brockett is playing an ocarina and decides to be a potato bug in the opera. John Reardon and Lady Aberlin are still planning the opera and need a king and a pilot. King Friday decides he can't be in the opera. Francois Clemmons will make a good king, and Miss Ito can be a pilot. Songs: Won't You Be My Neighbor?, Sweet Potato, Who Wants To Be A Cow, Potato Bug Song, Good Feeling.
The Neighborhood of Make-Believe holds its opera on Potato Bugs and Cows. Lady Aberlin plays Priscilla, an unsatisfied cow who wants to be a potato bug.
Rogers hears that Mrs. McFeely is ill. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Queen Sara begins to fall ill.
Rogers visits Mrs. McFeely. In the process, both express their feelings about her illness. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine and Bob Dog show off their bravery.
Susan Linn uses her Cat-a-lion puppet to express sad and happy feelings. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Handyman Negri announces the Queen's illness.
Those in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe decide to play music to help Queen Sara get well.
Rogers has a juicer for Chef Brockett. Those in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe hold a concert to celebrate Queen Sara's recovery from illness.
X the Owl gives leaves for Queen Sara to examine under her microscope.
Rogers helps the McFeelys pack for their upcoming trip to see their grandchildren. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Aberlin wants Queen Sara to identify a leaf.
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.
Lady Aberlin wants to know how love works. Just how could loving people argue with one another?
As he takes care of Mrs. McFeely's plants, Rogers says that new plants start from seeds. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Henrietta and Miss Paulifficate imagine what the McFeelys might be doing.
Rogers welcomes back the McFeelys. They share photographs of their grandchildren. One of them, Chrissie Thompson, wears leg braces. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine shows her impatience for Mr. McFeely's return.
Rogers has a ukelele he wants Joe Negri to sell. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Henrietta and Lady Elaine are at odds: both wishes she could be the other.
Henrietta is still stinging from her argument with Lady Elaine. Handyman Negri must console both.
King Friday wants Mr. McFeely to order a rocking throne. The trouble is, Corny is having his nap.
Corny and Miss Paulifficate put the finishing touches on King Friday's rocking throne.
Bob Trow helps the McFeelys wallpaper their kitchen. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine uses her boomerang-toomerang-soomerang to rearrange the buildings.
Rogers takes a wallpapered container to the McFeelys, who have finished wallpapering their house. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, everyone is confused over the rearranged locales.
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.
Rogers talks to a glassblower at Elsie Neal's Craft Shop. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine moves all the locales back where they belong. King Friday commissions a Festival of Mad Feelings for the next day.
Rogers visits a drummer in Negri's Music Shop. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe holds its Festival of Mad Feelings.
Morrie Turner, a cartoonist, shows Rogers pictures of several neighbors. Mr. McFeely announces that his grandchildren will visit the neighborhood soon.
Rogers tries on leg braces and works crutches before he visits Chrissie Thompson and Mrs. McFeely. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Mr. McFeely helps Donkey Hodie put the finishing touches on his invention.
Audrey Roth shows Rogers a new game she created. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Grandpere compliments Donkey Hodie for his potato crop.
Rogers talks about and draws different kinds of stars. Nighttime in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe sees Daniel Tiger and Grandpere making a star for Donkey Hodie.
Rogers hears a barbershop quartet at Negri's Music Shop. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine starts a vocal chorale with Harriet Elizabeth Cow and Lady Aberlin.
Rogers paints the walls of his television house. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe is preparing for a Sweethearts' Concert. X the Owl gets word that the Owl Correspondence School will send him a lesson.
Rogers has finished repainting the living room of his television house. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, a mischievous Prince Tuesday empties Miss Paulifficate's purse during the Make-Believe Sweethearts Concert.
Rogers sees how pizza is made by observing two guests at Brockett's Bakery. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Miss Paulifficate's pizza dough, thrown in the air, lands with an OCS lesson attached.
Bob Trow sets up a train display at his workshop, where he and Rogers discuss relative size. The potato train arrives with a package from the Owl Correspondence School for Harrite Elizabeth Cow. She is to help X the Owl learn about safety.
Elsie Neal has brings a decoration she made from horse chestnuts. Later Ezra Jack Keats, returned from Japan, visits Rogers. In between, the Neighborhood of Make-Believe invites the circus from Westwood.
Elsie Neal presents circus miniatures. Purple Panda returns to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, but misses the circus and the friends he has there. King Friday tries to get the circus to the NOM.
Sam Kamin, a balloon artist, visits the McFeelys to make animal balloons. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, one Oliver Circus Clown reunites with Purple Panda.
Mrs. McFeely is looking after a Capuchin monkey at her house. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, the King and Oliver Circus Clown reach a compromise by which Purple Panda can rejoin the circus.
Rogers sees the Shadow Box Theatre perform their puppets. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Daniel is afraid of the circus parade passing his Clock.
Ella Jenkins visits Rogers' television house to share songs and musical instruments. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe holds Circus Day. Purple leaves to rejoin the circus.
Mr. Rogers searches for his watch. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Daniel works on his Clock, but it disappears.
The Neighborhood of Make-Believe launches a search for Daniel's Clock.
Mr. Allmine tries to take the sandbox where Prince Tuesday and Daniel are playing. While that is thwarted, he does lead them to the Land of Allmine, where Daniel's Clock stands.
Mr. Allmine still refuses to return the Clock to Daniel, but Lady Elaine Fairchilde steps in with a wry trick.
Sam Senkow introduces the game of story tag to Rogers. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Mr. Allmine returns Daniel's Clock.
Mr. and Mrs. McFeely tell Rogers that their anniversary is four days away. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine makes a cylinder record on which King Friday's ancestors can be heard.
Rogers' son John shows his molds of animal tracks. Elsie Neal is assigned to make a portrait of Mr. McFeely. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday asks for a statue of Monday IX, Friday's great-great-great-great grandfather.
Audrey Roth wants to put a mirror in an old frame and present it as an anniversary gift for the McFeelys. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Prince Tuesday sees himself in a mirror while touring the Museum-Go-Round.
Rogers sees what Chef Brockett is making for the McFeelys' anniversary: a mother cat and her kitten. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Elsie Neal and Henrietta Pussycat contribute to the statue of King Monday IX.
Rogers and other neighbors attend a surprise party for the McFeelys' anniversary. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe witnesses the unveiling of the statue of King Monday IX.
Rogers sees the Brown Marionette Company prepare for a performance of The Shoemaker and the Elves. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, a self-billed Master Mister Magic Maker insists on performing magic tricks. To some, he is a mischief maker (and so is Prince Tuesday).
Rogers offers to write music for the Brown Marionettes' production of The Elves, The Shoemaker and the Shoemaker's Wife. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Prince Tuesday breaks the statue of King Monday IX. Lady Elaine is among the neighbors who first let the Prince understand what he has done and then help him repair it.
Chef Brockett has a sale on round baked goods. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, X the Owl needs Handyman Negri to help repair the bell outside Henrietta's house.
Rogers delivers his songs to the Brown Marionettes Theater in preparation for the puppet play the next day. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, X looks for a hide-and-find lesson from the Owl Correspondence School.
The Brown Marionettes perform The ELves, the Shoemaker and the Shoemaker's Wife.
Rogers shows a film of his visit to New York to see Francois Clemmons. Later Rogers visits an oboist at Negri's Music Shop. In between, some in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe look for X the Owl's OCS lesson. King Friday shows concern that his waterfall remain off most of the time.
Audrey Roth's daughter Holly shows some of her crafts at Rogers' television house. Later Rogers hears a Vietnamese musician at Francois Clemmons' studio. In between, the Neighborhood of Make-Believe is the perfect place for a magic switch to turn the Castle fountain on or off.
Rogers talks of turning things on and off, such as a flashlight and a water faucet. Later he goes to Elsie Neal's Craft Shop where two people are making a papier-mâché tunnel. In between, the Neighborhood of Make-Believe witnesses a fire at Henrietta Pussycat's house. Prince Tuesday lets Handyman Negri use his squirt bottle to put it out.
Julia Child makes spaghetti Marco Polo at Brockett's Bakery. Smokey Bear visits the Neighborhood of Make-Believe to console Henrietta Pussycat.
Mike Taylor, a bass player, performs at Negri's Music Shop. Later Rogers begins reading The History of Planet Purple. In between, Handyman Negri and others in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe are surprised to see people from the Planet Purple wearing different colors.
Rogers continues to read from The History of Planet Purple, explaining that Lady Elaine's visit opened the populace to variety in life. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Paul and Pauline arrive looking for Purple Panda.
Rogers reads The Owl and the Pussycat. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Aberlin is surprised to see Paul and Pauline with variety in their lives.
Myra Stone, a silversmith, displays her jewelry at Elsie Neal's Craft Shop. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine is not pleased with the changes at Planet Purple until she discovers those changes came about from her.
Rogers discusses voting and sees a voting machine at Trow's Workshop. Most in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe oppose the vote to add "Fairchilde" at the end of the territory's name.
Chef Brockett and Barbara Russell apply clown make-up at Betty's Little Theater. Rogers completes his reading The History of Planet Purple. Lady Elaine whisks herself and a panda from the circus for a weekend on Planet Purple.
Chef Brockett makes waffles at the McFeelys' house. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, he begins searching for maple syrup. Lady Elaine promises she will make syrup by Thursday.
Rogers gets a hole in a bucket repaired. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine wants to go into making maple syrup.
Rogers witnesses a Native American family teaching dances to Francois Clemmons. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine plans to get maple syrup for the harvest festival. To this end, she tries to tap X's oak tree.
Lady Elaine Fairchilde tries to get maple syrup from X's Tree. But Chef Brockett helps her remember the brown sugar syrup she enjoyed as a child.
Elsie Neal helps Rogers arrange a rock garden at her craft shop. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine gets her bottles of brown sugar syrup ready for the Potato Harvest Festival at Someplace Else.
Rogers' adopted sister visits with her two sons. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine discusses opera roles with John Reardon.
Rogers hears Don Riggs play a washboard at Negri's Music Shop. He also visits the McFeelys' house to see an old-fashioned washing machine. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, X the Owl suggests a role he can play in the upcoming opera.
Francois Clemmons demonstrates his camera to Rogers. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Clemmons asks to be a photographer in the opera.
Rogers puts a puzzle together and sees how diamonds are cut. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday XIII grants Yoshi Ito a part in the upcoming opera.
The Neighborhood of Make-Believe stages the opera All in the Laundry. In it, Reardon plays a lowly laundromat worker who catches the eye of a handsome lady.
Tim Scanlon and Elaine Bromka, from the National Theatre of the Deaf, perform a pantomime of Mary Had a Little LamLamb. X the Owl gets word that a new professor at Owl Correspondence School will teach him a new lesson soon.
The National Theatre for the Deaf performs pantomime at Betty's Little Theater. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Henrietta and King Friday express their feelings for X's new teacher.
Rogers dyes some Easter eggs. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, X prints all sorts of signs after Professor Scanlon's lessons.
Rogers discusses facial expressions vibrations with musical instruments. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday XIII decides he likes X the Owl's teacher.
Tim Scanlon is at Bob Trow's workshop enlarging photographs. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday wishes to hold a dinner for Professor Scanlon.
Mr. McFeely gives Rogers a pullover shirt from Elsie Neal. Later Rogers hears a marimba and a xylophone at Negri's Music Shop.
Since COrny said Lady Elaine is his best neighbor, she gives him freshly-squeezed orange juice. In his appreciation, Corny gives Lady Elaine a baseball bat. This, she thinks, is a sign that she and Corny are engaged.
John Costa performs his accordion at Francois Clemmons' studio. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine decides she will marry Corny the following Wednesday. Lady Aberlin feels Corny knows nothing about the engagement.
Rogers meets a weaver at Elsie Neal's Craft Shop. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Elsie Jean and Miss Paulifficate plan for Lady Elaine's shower.
Rogers works a sandsifter and says that only water flows through a bathroom shower. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe holds its shower for Lady Elaine.
Rogers goes to the McFeelys to work a player piano (which Mrs. McFeely was not told about). In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine thinks Joey Hollingsworth will be the best man for her apparent wedding with Corny.
Professor Arne B. Larson shows a few ancient musical instruments at Negri's Music Shop. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Corny leaves on a business trip, ruining Lady Elaine's thoughts of a wedding between them.
Back in Negri's Music Shop, Arne B. Larson demonstrates handmade musical instruments. Those in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe try to get a dour Lady Elaine to attend a party.
Rogers shows all the puppets he uses in the NOM segments. He and Bob Trow (the man behind Harriet Elizabeth Cow) demonstrate the washer-dryer-sorter-dumper. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine overcomes her disappointment of the day before by starting a television station, called MGR-TV.
Rogers shows how a bed tray is used. Lady Elaine Fairchilde puts on cooking shows at MGR-TV. But the station is strapped into inaction because Lady Elaine doesn't have a TV license.
Rogers shows his driver's license at the beginning of the program. As a favor for Mr. McFeely, he gives a delivery to Trow's workshop. Robert Trow is giving a lesson on silkscreening to a professional artist. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe has waited a weekend for the license for MGR-TV. A few hurdles still have to be cleared. X the Owl and Mr. McFeely have delivered to an empty studio. But Lady Elaine and King Friday arrive in haste, eager to get MGR-TV back on the air.
Negri's Music Shop has a display of television equipment. Rogers and Negri take turns working the camera and performing music on-screen. Before leaving the shop, Rogers encounters Terri and Chrissy Thompson, who are arranging a puppet show. MGR-TV is still emerging at the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, creating program ideas on the spot. To help a tiring camera operator (Lady Aberlin), Handyman Negri provides a rolling camera attachment.
Mister Rogers brings with him a collection of puppets from around the world (provided by the Lovelace Marionette Theatre). He then goes to Elsie Neal's shop to find Elsie Neal helping Terri and Chrissy Thompson for their upcoming puppet show. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine is ready to do remote TV work. The first act is Lady Aberlin in a primitive witch costume, which scares Henrietta Pussycat.
Chrissy Thompson tells a story of how a girl had despised her braces and crutches, but changed her mind thanks to Chrissy's television visits. X the Owl and Lady Aberlin help to comfort Henrietta Pussycat by telling her in song, Witches Aren't Real.
In preparation for Chrissy and Terri's puppet show, Mister Rogers has made an "icebox cake" from chocolate wafers and whipped cream. Before the play, the Neighborhood of Make-Believe finds Lady Aberlin in search of the world's smallest talking witch.
Rogers sees the offices of Audrey Cleans Everything (really a mobile home that converts to an office. Purple Panda returns to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, as does a lady who now calls herself "Barbara B. Frisbee."
Lady Aberlin gives Daniel Striped Tiger a tap-dancing lesson. When Barbara B. Frisbee jokes about her enormous frisbee, Lady Elaine decides that a giant will visit the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
Rogers lends his antique car to Mr. McFeely. He hears an organist play a fugue by Bach in Negri's Music Shop. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine is still frightening people with talk that the giant frisbee is for a giant.
Rogers gets Barbara Russell's help to remove an ink spot on his shirt. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Barbara B. Frisbee wants everyone to guess what the frisbee is for.
Rogers sees tap dancers at Betty's Little Theater. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Aberlin helps give X the Owl an understanding about clothes and those who wear them.
Queen Sara is looking for Prince Tuesday. It leads to an appeal on MGR-TV.
Rogers builds with blocks and sees a llama at the McFeelys' house. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, some wonder what the Platypus family intends to do with wood blocks.
Rogers illustrates magnetism and plays horseshoes with Bob Trow. At the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Aberlin brings back the old toy horse from years gone by.
Rogers compares a chromaharp and a standing harp.
Lady Aberlin is doing a remote broadcast at MGR-TV to welcome the Platypus family home. This includes an in-studio visit with the Sweetheart trio.
Rogers discusses fasteners before hearing a string quartet practice. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, the Royal family packs for a visit to Westwood and they want Bob Dog to accompany them.
The Royal Family is about to visit Westwood, but someone has to fetch the King's bass.
Jean Worthley of Hodgepodge Lodge tells Rogers about making a terrarium. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Tad Frogg is jealous of H.J. Elephant because he has played constantly with Prince Tuesday.
Chef Brockett makes noodle pudding. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Edgar is anxious for the Royal family to return. He is asked to bring his noodle pudding to Westwood.
Rogers talks of the ways people can welcome others. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe welcomes the Royal family home.
Mr. McFeely shows Rogers leopard frogs. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Prince Tuesday wishes the Frogg family would visit.
Rogers discusses the fact that, unlike humans, tadpoles transform into frogs. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, the Frogg family visits. Tuesday is worried that all his wishes will come true.
Rogers mixes his own modeling dough and sees a sculptor at Elsie Neal's Craft Shop. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine reports on MRG-TV that Tuesday is missing. When he is found, he tells his worries about wishes.
The Brown Marionette Theater is preparing to perform Little Red Riding Hood. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Aberlin wants to act as Red Riding Hood. X will pretend with her only if he is called ""Pretend Wolf.""
Rogers and McFeely take tickets at the Brown's Marionette Studio and watch the Browns' production of Little Red Riding Hood.
Rogers shows that a captain's lap desk has many compartments. Another such desk is delivered to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe while Black and White Panda visit.
Audrey Roth shows Rogers how her mobile home converts from an office to a living room. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe is curious about a tent that has appeared overnight.
Rogers hears Francois Clemmons, John Costa and Bert Lloyd playing and singing music at Clemmons' studio. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, the reformed Mr. Allmine invites Daniel and Lady Aberlin to his museum in the Land of Allmine.
Residents of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe try to find Lady Aberlin and Daniel, who did not ask permission to go to the Land of Allmine.
Rogers goes to Brockett's Bakery, where guests are preparing egg-drop soup and fortune cookies. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Aberlin and Lady Elaine discuss the differences between a merry-go-round and the Museum-Go-Round.
Mr. Rogers has a dental exam. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Edgar Cooke plays Tooth Fairy to take one of Daniel's baby teeth.
Rogers goes to Negri's Music Shop to demonstrate the difference between a piano and an organ. Al Worden returns to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, which is running low on electricity.
Rogers visits an exhibition of kinetic art at Elsie Neal's Craft Shop. He then shows how he can make the Trolley go slower. The Trolley does indeed go slow in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, as their energy source is drained to the marrow.
Rogers and Bob Trow discuss efficient energy use. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Al Worden receives the solar power system needed to restore energy there.
Rogers brings a St. Bernard to the McFeelys' house and draws a song there. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, MGR-TV gives Mr. McFeely his own show.
Rogers sees the world's largest guitar at Negri's Music Shop. Handyman Negri plays the world's largest guitar in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Reardon calls the King and says he will create an opera about swans.
Rogers operates a machine that simulates the sound of waves crashing. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, several neighbors propose the parts they wish to play in the upcoming opera.
Chef Brockett and Jeff Edwards make taffy at Brockett's Bakery. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Aberlin decides to use taffy and a key in the opera.
Rogers brings a combination lock to a raffle game held at Betty's Little Theater. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Mr. Allmine lands a role in the opera.
In this ninth Neighborhood opera, Lady Aberlin plays a girl whose brother finds a key in the sand. She dreams the key opens the door to another land, full of swans, beavers, and a witch with a diabolical passion.
King Friday XIII offers John Reardon a high office in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, but Reardon is not sure he wants to stay.
Reardon is homesick and must leave the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Rogers helps the McFeelys make glider planes.
King Friday declares no one may leave the Neighborhood of Make-Believe without his permission. Lady Elaine defies the rule, thanks to her leaf mat. Later in the program, Rogers visits Anne Pellowski, who tells one African folk tale and one Turkish story.
Betty Aberlin is at a beauty parlor, discussing with Rogers uniforms and the people who wear them. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Aberlin is ordered to put Lady Elaine Fairchilde under house arrest.
Rogers invites a baton twirler to his television house. Later Mrs. McFeely shows a film on her work with a bookmobile. In between, Everyone in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe has stayed inside. King Friday now realizes he must revoke his rule that no one leave without his permission.
Rogers sees Bob Trow make a jigsaw puzzle. Those in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe get an understanding of King Friday's rule allowing careful travel.
Rogers helps Natalie Baker look at an apartment she may rent. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Corny gets a new saw but refuses to part with his old one.
Mr. McFeely shows a film of his visit to a flea market. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Corny is reluctant to throw anything away.
Rogers helps the Baker family move into their apartment. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe is nearing its flea market, but Corny decides to keep his old saw.
Rogers goes to Betty's Little Theater to see Ella Jenkins perform with Susan Linn and her puppets. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine stages the flea market.
Rogers listens to African music. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Aberlin gets different reactions about her turban from different neighbors.
Paul Gertner, a magician, shows a few tricks in Rogers' kitchen. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, X and Henrietta must inform Bob Dog the truth about magic tricks.
Rogers watches as a piano is delivered to Mrs. Baker's apartment. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine Fairchilde bothers people with her boomerang-toomerang-soomerang. Lady Aberlin finds that boomerang is just what she needs.
It's Upside Down Amateur Hour on MGR-TV. Thanks to Lady Elaine, Lady Aberlin pours water upside down.
Rogers plays back a tape of his wife's piano recital. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe welcomes back Professor Scanlon, who performs magic tricks.
Rogers sees a stained glass expert at Bob Trow's workshop. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday XIII sends Mr. McFeely on a search for a rainbow for Prince Tuesday.
Lady Elaine stages a bird show at MGR-TV.
Mr. McFeely continues his search for a rainbow by entering the Land of Allmine. He and Mr. Allmine find a rainbow trout.
Rogers sees Sylvia Bubalo making greeting cards at Elsie Neal's Craft Shop. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine interviews a butterfly on MGR-TV. Mr. McFeely still can't find a rainbow.
On an overcast day, Rogers shows an umbrella. Chef Brockett prepares a fruit dish. It rains in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, prompting a rainbow for Prince Tuesday and everyone else.
Rogers and Marilyn Barnett watch Vija Vetra dance. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Tony Bennett sings on MGR-TV and does a sketch of Lady Elaine.
Rogers sees gymnasts work the bars and sideboards at a gymnasium. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Aberlin informs several neighbors that King Friday's birthday is coming.
Walter Brown weaves baskets at Trow's workshop. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, X and Henrietta think of birthday presents for King Friday.
Rogers plays games with bean bags at Elsie Neal's Craft Shop. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Digger Digorum discovers the perfect gift for King Friday's birthday.
It's King Friday's birthday, and Lady Elaine has a song for him as part of the Neighborhood-wide celebration.
Fred McFalls, one of Rogers' college friend, has made a sculpture of Rogers. At the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday XIII announces that his college friend, a lizard, will visit later in the week.
Daniel is afraid the visiting lizard will eat him. King Friday reassures everyone that his friend is a vegetarian. Not only that, but "Princess Margaret H. Lizard" can change into a witch.
Margaret Hamilton visits the television house to discuss with Rogers her work in the classic film The Wizard of Oz. She appears in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe as a princess who is sometimes a lizard. This Princess Margaret is about to stage a festival for remembering the past.
Mister Rogers plays tapes of past television visits, including a segment from the wedding of King Friday XIII and Queen Sara. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Princess Margaret H. Witch presents a crystal ball that shows the past and tells the future.
Princess Margaret H. Witch has left the crystal ball to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. At Brockett's Bakery, Rogers sees John Costa's mother making bread.
Rogers takes viewers to his garage, which is filled with the show's puppets, scripts, videotapes, and other memorabilia. He and Mr. McFeely watch a videotape of Show 1032. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, X the Owl reminds Lady Aberlin how to prepare the crystal ball for gazing into the future.
Rogers brings all the Neighborhood of Make-Believe models to the garage, where he and Betty Aberlin watch a videotape of Show 1013. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine has painted the crystal ball to try and cut down the time needed to look into one's future. But the paint causes no end of problems.
Joe Negri goes to Rogers' garage to tape actress Mari Gardner performing nursery rhymes. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe calls out for Princess Margaret H. Witch to remove the paint from the crystal ball.
Mister Rogers returns to his garage to replay Chef Brockett's first appearance in the television house. In the Neighborhood of Make Believe, Margaret H. Witch returns to help clean up the disabled crystal ball. But she can't do it without Lady Elaine, who had painted one side of the crystal ball red and the other half blue. When Lady Elaine confesses, she plays the last part in getting the crystal ball back to normal.
After replacing a light bulb in the traffic light, Rogers looks back at the tape of Show 1069 and his visit to a police station. He and Francois Clemmons discuss some of the operas in which Clemmons performed. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Aberlin sees what the future holds for Daniel Striped Tiger and X the Owl.
On the eve of Mister Rogers' new era, Rogers is one of a handful of panelists who discuss easing the fear children have about starting school.
Mister Rogers takes his television neighbors to a kindergarten classroom at the local school. Prior to beginning Make-Believe, he disguises the Neighborhood Trolley as a school bus with a cardboard cover. The Trolley enters the Neighborhood of Make-Believe with a convincing school bus disguise, arousing everyone's attention. It gets to the point where King Friday XIII decrees that a school shall be built in the neighborhood within three days. After scouting four locations, Lady Aberlin and Handyman Negri decide that the school should be built at Someplace Else. Harriet Elizabeth Cow has agreed to be the teacher for Ana Platypus, Daniel Striped Tiger, and Prince Tuesday.
Lady Elaine Fairchilde attempts to get the children of Make-Believe ready for school. Mister Rogers visits the neighborhood school again, this time learning from the first-grade teacher.
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 Striped Tiger tells Lady Aberlin his fears about starting school.
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 school bus.
Mister Rogers starts off by showing two name tags and asking viewers to pick the one that says "Francois Clemmons." The other tag, which says "school bus," is put on the Trolley which is still decorated as a bus. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Francois Clemmons sings a song he made up using the names of the Neighborhood children. Dr. and Mrs. Platypus visit the castle where they, along with King Friday and Queen Sara, share that they miss their children who are off at school. Meanwhile, at Someplace Else, Handyman Negri answers questions about playing the guitar before everyone enters the new school. Inside, each of the children find their seats before they sing along with Francois Clemmons' new song. Returning to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, the children are excited about school and share their joy with everyone at the castle.
This panel program, recorded before a live audience previews the upcoming week of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood devoted to children's fears and beliefs. Includes footage of Rogers' talk with Bill Bixby about The Incredible Hulk.
In his first visit to Robert Trow's workshop since 1975, 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 paintings. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe is full of scary talk. Prince Tuesday has been having bad dreams about a dinosaur wearing a crown. He tries to counter with a "super funnel."
Rogers brings model dinosaurs and takes viewers to a dinosaur hall at a natural history museum. Between these ventures, a dinosaur with a crown appears in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe–really a skeptical Purple Panda in costume. This is all part of Lady Elaine's ploy to scare the neighbors.
Rogers visits Universal Studios to see Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno during a shoot of The Incredible Hulk. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe residents are still in awe of a dionsaur (who is really Purple Panda in disguise).
Rogers returns to the film studios to speak with Lou Ferrigno and Bill Bixby. Mr. McFeely shows his video of how Ferrigno in make-up to look like The Incredible Hulk. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, everyone discusses the dinosaur (Purple Panda in costume). Lady Aberlin wishes to prove that the dinosaur is not real.
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 arrives empty-handed but has a synthesizer waiting inside the house to show viewers. Mr. McFeely stops by with a "person delivery" in the form of Jay O'Callahan. Mr. O'Callahan shares a story about a king who finds himself trapped inside a giant bubble. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Handyman Negri is blowing bubbles for King Friday. Lady Elaine Fairchilde expresses to Handyman Negri that she would like to be a hummingbird in the opera while Francois Clemmons reminds him that anything is possible in Make-Believe.
Rogers finds a bubble-making machine and a knitting machine at Bob Trow's workshop. Later on, Mr. McFeely shows a video of how people make sweaters in a factory. In between, Reardon visits the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Lady Aberlin decides she will be a sweater-maker for the upcoming opera.
Rogers sees Chef Brockett's treats made from bananas. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, the schoolchildren provide ideas for the upcoming opera.
Mister Rogers visits a weather station and helps launch a weather balloon. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Handyman Negri is named to play the Wind in the upcoming Bubbleland Opera.
The opera "Windstorm in Bubbleland" takes up the entire program. In it, a news team promises "There's never any trouble here in Bubbleland." What they don't know is that a windstorm is approaching. It's the by-product of a chemical company's aerosol spray. While all the residents are worried about their bubbles, Hildegarde Hummingbird strives to protect the people from the giant wind.
Rogers is again part of a panel discussion, fielding questions from parents.
Mr. McFeely relives memories of his wedding. Previewing the Neighborhood of Make-Believe storyline, Prince Tuesday befriends a girl whose parents are divorced.
Rogers visits a bakery to see people making pretzels. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, the King and Queen squabble about buying a new plane. It upsets Prince Tuesday to the boiling point.
Rogers recalls the day he test-drove an electric car. Later he meets a boy in a wheelchair, who describes some of his physical handicaps. In between, the Neighborhood of Make-Believe continues its all-out search for Prince Tuesday. When found, he has a mix of emotions.
Joe Negri shows Rogers a rack of musical instruments that have either been repaired or are in need in repair. They meet Earl Grollman, a counselor who has written a book on divorce for children. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Prince Tuesday finally shares his emotions with his family.
Rogers wears a false-face to show that he is still himself inside. In Make-Believe, the Royal Electric Plane-Car arrives via a clown courier. Behind that mask is Chuck Aber, who has been divorced and doesn't see much of his children. Thus, Prince Tuesday can relate to Aber's feelings. Corny reveals his secret: he is now making rocking-chair-shaped pretzels. Mister Rogers concludes his visit by showing viewers the ins and outs of an airplane.
Rogers is part of a panel discussion before an audience of parents discussing combative attitudes.
King Friday decrees a "Draw the Neighborhood Contest," something which Lady Elaine Fairchilde wants to win.
Mister Rogers visits an art museum to look carefully at various genres of paintings. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Henrietta Pussycat is upset when she hears Big Bird will visit X the Owl.
After reflecting on his discussion with Andrew Wyeth, Rogers helps to console Chef Brockett. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe welcomes Big Bird, who enters his drawing for the Draw the Neighborhood Contest.
Rogers meets Lynn Swann at a dance class. Swann enters in his Pittsburgh Steeler uniform, then changes into something more suitable for a dance lesson. as the Neighborhood of Make-Believe Drawing Contest nears an end, Lady Aberlin discovers that Ana has drawn a picture of the Neighborhood and all its neighbors.
Mister Rogers wants to create a rainbow, but he needs Mr. McFeely's help. King Friday XIII selects the winner of the "Draw the Neighborhood" contest.
Bob Dog volunteers to get a ball stuck in X's tree, but he falls and hurts his leg. When King Friday XIII hears of the accident, he bars play from the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
Lady Elaine is so incensed with King Friday's no-play rule that she moves herself and the Museum-Go-Round to another neighborhood.
In defiance of King Friday's rule, the schoolchildren set up a play area at the point where the Museum-Go-Round used to be. Prince Tuesday challenges King Friday up front about the no-play rule.
King Friday realizes just how important play is and repeals the rule, much to everyone's delight. All they need is to inform Lady Elaine.
Mister Rogers arrives with a pair of stilts which he demonstrates outside before singing You're Growing. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Bob Dog has recovered from his injury and he is instructed by King Friday to find Lady Elaine Fairchilde and ask her to return. Although it takes some persuading on the part of Purple Panda and Handyman Negri, Lady Elaine and her Museum-Go-Round return to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe where play is once again allowed. Back at the house, Mister Rogers sings Children Can before leaving on his stilts.
In this 30-minute special, Rogers talks with children and parents alike about punishment and setting limits.
At his Music Shop, Negri demonstrates a player piano and shows Rogers a video on how player piano rolls are made. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, an overworked Cornflake S. Pecially (Corny) is trying to make miniature trolleys in addition to rocking chairs and pretzels.
Rogers goes to a factory to see how people make dolls. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, an overeager X the Owl presses Corny into making Friday XIII dolls. That's be more than anybody can handle, especially a jealous Lady Elaine.
Mister Rogers tells of the promise he had made to himself years before, leading to a film of Rogers swimming. He also reminds viewers that one cannot coast through anything, that one must keep trying. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday XIII is enraged that Lady Elaine has defaced the King Friday dolls at Corny's factory.
Mister Rogers talks with Peggy Fleming, who is practicing at a nearby arena. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine knows she will be punished for defacing the King Friday dolls. She suggests that she work at Corny's factory for two days.
Mister Rogers brings a blanket and shows a video on how blankets are made. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine keeps Corny's factory running smoothly. She convinces Corny to manufacture only rocking chairs. Thus Corny bails out of pretzel-making after just a year.
Rogers previews the upcoming week of programs on pets, and also delves into subject areas not covered on the five half-hours.
Rogers visits the home of Adelia Moore, who has been crafting many dolls and quilts for her children. On his return to the television house, he shows a film of people celebrating a doll's 100th birthday. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, everyone is preparing gifts for Ana Platypus's upcoming birthday.
Robert Trow calls Mister Rogers to ask if he can look after his dog the next night. At the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday and Lady Elaine suggest the type of pet to give Ana for her birthday.
Mrs. McFeely stops by with a parrot before Robert Trow brings his dog, Barney, to Mister Rogers for the night. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Daniel is starting to lament over the shabby fire truck he is trying to build for Ana's birthday. King Friday XIII gets disturbed over a talking parrot.
Mister Rogers reflects on his walk with Barney (film insert) before his owner, Robert Trow, collects him. At the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, a few are anxious for Ana's birthday to arrive the next morning.
Rogers visits the Washington National Zoo, where Barbara Bingham invites him to help feed the pandas. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe holds a big parade for Ana's birthday, but that doesn't prevent Ana from a quiet birthday party with her friends. In the last minute Rogers, for the first time, does sign language for ""I Love You.""
The next five programs will be titled ""Mister Rogers Talks About Make-Believe."" Togers provides parents with a few guidelines not exactly covered in these upcoming programs.
After displaying an array of spoons, Mister Rogers introduces the song Let's Think Of Something To While We're Waiting before a spoon-player visits. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday gives a proclamation for Lady Aberlin and Robert Troll to make a mountain beside the castle.
Mr. McFeely brings slides of various trees to show on Picture-Picture. Make-Believe is cut short when, in decorating the Eiffel Tower with trees, Queen Sara sprains her arm. This gives Rogers twenty minutes to talk about hospitals and emergency rooms.
When Chuck Aber retrieves his lost cat at Mister Rogers' television house, they discuss seat belts and car seats for infants. King Friday XIII climbs the mountain made from the Eiffel Tower to sip imaginary tea. Once there, he asks to organize an opera for the next Friday. Near the end, Mister Rogers presents clips of four previous operas (three of which would never air after 1994).
Rogers makes popcorn in his kitchen. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday and others discover they will have to stage an opera without Reardon.
The Neighborhood of Make-Believe stages its Spoon Mountain opera. A mean figure called Wicked Knife and Fork kidnaps a baton-twirling cat and takes him to Spoon Mountain. It's the same mountain given to a queen for her birthday.
Rogers brings a display of some of his friends. In the middle of the display is his longtime friend Buzz Wagner, from whom Rogers buys a pair of shoes. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe residents learn a few things about sharing.
Mr. McFeely takes Rogers to Betty Aberlin's house for a sing-along with a few children. At the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, a turkey gives messages to Lady Elaine and Robert Troll. They are to bring banners and large balloons to the Neighborhood Picnic in two days' time.
Mister Rogers sees the ins and outs of a restaurant. Among the notes distributed to Make-Believers are three parts toward making a fruit salad. This tests the teamwork of Lady Aberlin, X the Owl and Henrietta Pussycat.
Rogers visits Betty Aberlin's little theater for a performance of fife and drums. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe holds its picnic for friends—but Lady Aberlin forgets to take Daniel Striped Tiger there.
Mister Rogers arrives with a collection of empty food containers which he takes to the sand table for some pretending. With some imagination, he turns the containers into a tunnel, a lake, and an apartment building. Mr. McFeely stops by and offers some a suggestion for making a bridge out of milk cartons and popsicle sticks. Before Mr. McFeely leaves, Mister Rogers gives him a broken umbrella to deliver to Bob Trow. When Mister Rogers calls Bob Trow to let him know he is not in any hurry to have his umbrella fixed, Mr. Trow invites him to come to the workshop for a demonstration. At the workshop, Bob Trow shows Mister Rogers various types of pulleys and how they work. At one point, a pulley is used to lift Mister Rogers off the ground. After the pully demonstration, Mister Rogers and Bob Trow share a few funny magic tricks. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Chef Brockett asks for Corney's help in making a rocking chair cake for some friends' anniversary. Corney takes this opportunity to share his newest invention -- the Rain or Shine Rocker -- a rocking chair with pulley-operated canopy. Lady Aberlin stops by to get some oil for her umbrella so she can be sure it's working properly in case it rains. At the clock, Daniel asks Lady Aberlin if she will help him try out his homemade walkie talkie made of two cans and a string. As they go together to the picnic place to try the walkie talkie, they sing Let's Be Together Today. Finding a nice spot by a bridge, Daniel and Lady Aberlin are able to play with the walkie talkie for just a moment before it starts to rain. Seeking shelter under the bridge, they tell knock-knock jokes as they enjoy the rain shower. Meanwhile, Chef Brockett is staying dry thanks to Corney's Rain or Shine Rocker while Henrietta and X use their umbrellas and talk about the peaceful rain. At the castle, King Friday and Queen Sara are also enjoying the refershing shower. Back at the house, Mister Rogers cleans up the sand table and c
Rogers shows a video on how people make towels. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe,a salesman informs King Friday XII of an upcoming letter from the Make-Believe Olympic Games Committee.
Bob Trow has made a rocking chair for Rogers to borrow for the day. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Cornflake S. Pecially has two new chairs, with which Lady Aberlin and Bob Dog play a stop-and-go game.
Rogers and Mr. McFeely go to a place where robots are assembled. One such robot measures off the Neighborhood of Make-Believe for the upcoming Olympic Games.
Brockett's Bakery is making and selling cakes designed to look like Make-Believe characters. Indeed, Chef Brockett has a couple of video arcade games to promote his cake sale. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, X the Owl finds he is better at some of the planned Olympic Games than others. But the Olympic plans hit a wall when Lady Elaine Fairchilde makes snow fall.
Mister Rogers arrives with a board game based on the Neighorhood of Make-Believe. Taking it to the kitchen, he shows how the game is played. After playing for a minute, Mister Rogers sings You Are Special. Mr. McFeely delivers a harmonica and turns down an invitation to play the new board game as he needs to get to the airport to pick up Ella Jenkins. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, the snow has started to pile up and everyone is trying to remove the snow in time for the games. Lady Elaine shows sincere regret for causing the snow and learns that "nobody can be in charge of a big thing like the weather." Seeking help from the Neighborhood children, Mr. Strothers is reminded of how the snow was melted in the Snow People opera. Thanks to a "very special teacher' and a "warm pussycat," the snow disappears and the games begin! Back at the house, Mr. McFeely returns with Ella Jenkins who plays a variety of songs on her harmonica.
Previews the "Day Care & Night Care" programs with the gentle respect viewers have come to expect from Mister Rogers.
Mister Rogers follows Mr. McFeely as he delivers snacks to a day care center, where Rogers gets a quick tour. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday and Queen Sara have been invited to another neighborhood to lecture together on crown-keeping and child-rearing.
Rogers brings an array of zippered goods to his television house, and shows a video on how zippers are made. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Prince Tuesday says goodbye to his parents as his night-and-day care giver arrives.
Chuck Aber and Prince Tuesday observe the balloon room in the Museum-Go-Round. Handyman Negri assures Prince Tuesday that King Friday and Queen Sara are coming back.
A friend gives Rogers pointers on how to take care of fish. Nighttime at the Neighborhood of Make-Believe finds Prince Tuesday recover from a bad dream.
Rogers visits a bakery plant where graham crackers are made. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe welcomes back King Friday and Queen Sara.
Rogers sees a collection of toy banks. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe wants to buy a record player for the school, but something else grabs King Friday's attention. Why is Corny making all those parts for Southwood?
Rogers goes to the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia to see how coins are made. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, a shallow King Friday jumps to the conclusion that Southwood is making bombs, and he wants to counter.
Rogers demonstrates a Brailler. He then visits a cave to see the petroglyphs of an earlier civilization. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine and Lady Aberlin are determined to prove that Southwood is a peaceful neighborhood.
Rogers shows a video on how people make marbles. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe sends a peace delegation to Southwood, where the residents have used all those parts to make a bridge.
Rogers brings a record player to his kitchen and shows a video on how record players are made. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, a festival of peace prompts Keith David to help the School at Someplace Else.
Mister Rogers takes viewers to the U.S. Postal Service headqaurters for an inside look and engraving and printing stamps. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe issues its annual report of services to neighbors. It turns out they have a surplus of 3,000 (no monetary unit attached).
Rogers visits a dairy farm to see cows milked. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday meets with a representative of a pool company. They reach a compromise by which the NOM can afford to build a new swimming pool.
Mister Rogers needs a washer for his kitchen faucet. He barters washers with Bob Trow, who is busy working on a water pump. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, construction crews unearth the old water pipes, all of which seem to leak.
Rogers goes to a grocery store and takes a look behind the scenes. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Daniel suggests the pool money be spent on new pipes for the neighborhood.
In the ultimate reality check, Mister Rogers reveals his television house is part of a television studio, as viewers glance at some of the technical crew and the musicians. Rogers also shares pictures of his days as puppeteer of The Children's Corner in the 1950s. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe finishes the new underground system of water pipes. While others are working on their disappointments, Westwood Mayor Maggie has good news in store for everyone.
Mister Rogers arrives with a copy of West Penn Railways -- a book about trolleys. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, the Trolley is surprised to find an unknown trolley on the track as it attempts to pass the castle. Officer Clemmons shares his strange experience with a fascinated Lady Aberlin. At the castle, Lady Aberlin shares the news with Officer Clemmons and King Friday shares a picture of Prince Tuesday's grandfather (King Friday's father). Mister Rogers mentions that he is often asked by viewers how they might get a Trolley of their own to play with.
Rogers makes a wind chime out of straws and shows a video of people making straws. Collette visits the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Privately, Daniel is upset because he doesn't have a grandfather.
Rogers talks about the time he enjoyed with his grandparents. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe sees Collette and Chuck Aber at the school, and they learn that Daniel Tiger wants a grandfather.
Rogers visits an aquarium. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, John Reardon visits to help Daniel and others put together an opera.
The Neighborhood of Make-Believe presents the opera A Granddad for Daniel, composed by Fred Rogers and arranged by John Costa. In it, Daniel Striped Tiger plays the son looking for someone to call his grandfather. John Reardon plays a man who follows Daniel and his mother on a trolley ride through various exotic areas.
Mister Rogers enters with Hischer Booptrunk (his ventriloquist dummy) and tells a story of how his sister tried to feed Hischer, thinking he was hungry. Rogers then visits a place where applesauce is made. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, X the Owl wants to grow vegetables of his own, but he must be patient, these "speedy seeds" take a day to grow.
Rogers mixes granola for several neighbors and shows viewers how tofu is manufactured. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, X the Owl is puzzled that the food grown from his speedy seeds has been taken.
The "garden guards" in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe catch the hungry culprit, the Old Goat from Northwood. Only then do they realize Northwood has no food. The King arranges for an all-out effort to grow food for their Northwood neighbors.
Rogers goes to the soup division of Heinz Foods to see how people make soup in factories. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe keeps its promise to grow food for Northwood. But Daniel Tiger thinks he can grow a vegetable soup tree.
Mister Rogers arrives with a pasta maker which he has borrowed from John Costa, Jr. John Costa, Sr. talks about how proud he is of his son. Sitting at the piano, Mr. Costa accompanies Mister Rogers while he sings I'm Proud of You. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, the all-out effort for Northwood is coming to a close as Daniel Tiger finds out the truth about his vegetable soup tree.
A game of peekaboo ends with Rogers presenting a portrait of his father, painted by Dianne Dengle. She has asked Mister Rogers to pose for his own portrait, which she paints with bits of rolled-up newspaper. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe welcomes James Michael Jones, a specialist in "Exactly Like Me" portraits (mirrors). Jones announces that he is moving to Southwood, where he will marry Betty Okonak Templeton.
Mister Rogers brings flowers to remind people of a lesson he learned when he was a boy. Mr. McFeely brings a video on how people make tricycles. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Prince Tuesday disobeys an order from King Friday XIII and is punished for trying to ride the royal tricycle. Meanwhile, Daniel Striped Tiger expresses doubts of being the ring bearer at the wedding of James Michael Jones and Betty Okonak Templeton. At the end of the program, Dianne Dengle is ready to present her portrait of Mister Rogers. It shows him encircled with some of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe characters.
After a visit from a young breakdancer named Jermaine, Mister Rogers is reunited with Chrissie Thompson, one of Mr. McFeely's granddaughters. Rogers presents her with a butterfly necklace as a symbol of freedom. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Ana Platypus is mad that she does not have an active role in the upcoming wedding. Lady Aberlin tells Ana her attending the service is of an importance that all will see.
Rogers goes to Brockett's Bakery to see Jose Cisneros' specialty: rice with milk. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Aberlin and Betty Okonak Templeton give ring-bearer Daniel a tip to keep the wedding ring on the pillow.
Rogers visits Eva Kwong at her house. Several from the Neighborhood of Make-Believe go to Southwood to attend the wedding of Betty Okonak Templeton and James Michael Jones.
Rogers walks off stage and introduces his viewers to the people who create the music live on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood: John Costa, pianist and musical director, Bob Rawsthorne, percussionist and Carl McVicker, bassist. In Make-Believe story King Friday commands that all neighbors celebrate a “Bass Violin Festival.” The trouble is, not everyone can play the bass violin. The neighbors each find their own creative ways to obey the King’s command.
Yo-Yo Ma, one of Rogers' closest friends, plays his cello at Negri's Music Shop. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Miss Paulifficate suggests doing a dance in a bass violin costume for the festival.
Folk singer Ella Jenkins and Chuck Aber stop by for folk songs that keep everyone moving. Mister Rogers helps children know it’s hard to learn new things, even for grown-ups. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Aberlin doesn't know how to approach her offer to dance with a bass violin for the festival. Daniel suggests Lady Aberlin tell the truth to King Friday.
Rogers visits a brass quintet. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Aberlin and Handyman Negri meet the Royal trumpeters.
Mister Rogers arrives with a flexitone which he has borrowed from his friend, Tom O'Horgan, who has a large collection of musical instruments. The Trolley carries a bass violin as it travels through on the alternate set of tracks. Back at the house, Mister Rogers plays the piano as he talks about how he uses music to express his feelings.
Most of this show is devoted to oranges. Mister Rogers plants an orange seed and, with Mr. McFeely, shows a sequence on how orange juice is made. Rogers then drops by Brockett's Bakery, which has a sales display of several soy foods. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe sees more of the same, as Lady Aberlin distributes orange juice to the neighbors. But the tempo of the week changes when she and X the Owl learn that Cousin Mary Owl will arrive the next day.
Mister Rogers arrives with a painting of a tree covered in snow. Handyman Negri is helping X the Owl prepare for a visit from Cousin Mary Owl. Growing tired of waiting for his cousin's arrival, X joins Lady Aberlin on a visit to Southwood where they learn that Betty Okonak Templeton and James Michael Jones have adopted a baby girl -- Carrie Dell.
Rogers visits a girl's check-up at a pediatrician's office. During Make-Believe, Betty and James Michael Jones name their adopted daughter Carrie Dell.
Robert Trow shows two puppies in Rogers' yard and delivers a film of different families in the neighborhood. With the Neighborhood of Make-Believe's cousin reunion nearing, Bob Dog and Ana Platypus adopt each other as cousins.
Mister Rogers goes behind the scenes at the Penguin Encounter. Daniel Striped Tiger is tentative about attending the cousins' reunion.
Rogers plays at his sand table. Later he and Mr. McFeely go to a miniature golf course. In between, Lady Elaine Fairchilde inspires the Neighborhood of Make-Believe by putting a car cover on the Trolley. This inspires everyone to make covers for a Museum-Go-Round exhibit.
Eva Kwong and her grandmother make dumplings at Brockett's Bakery. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Corny contributes a rocking chair with a horse cover for Lady Elaine's exhibit, but the chair flies away.
Mr. McFeely demonstrates a new chair for Rogers and shows a video on how people make rocking horses. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine accepts covers from neighbors in Westwood and Southwood. One exhibit not in her Museum-Go-Round is the rocking chair with the horse cover, which is flying above the Tree.
Rogers shows a kitten and talks with two poets on his porch. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Chuck Aber fools the Royal family with his King Friday cover.
Mister Rogers takes viewers to the construction site of a playground that both children and adults designed. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, the horse-covered rocking chair must stop flying around, but only someone who is brave and doesn't know it, can coax it down.
King Friday XIII wants everyone to celebrate the imminent arrival of Friday's Comet. For her part, Lady Elaine Fairchilde is busy planning a surprise birthday party for a dour Henrietta Pussycat.
Rogers visits a planetarium. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday intensifies the imposed celebrations for the imminent arrival of Friday's Comet.
Rogers hears Wynton Marsalis at Negri's Music Shop. It's nighttime in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, and Lady Elaine is planning to disprove the talk that the upcoming comet is Friday's.
Mister Rogers arrives with a cake that is not quite finished. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, dawn is about to break as Purple Panda and King Friday are at the castle eagerly awaiting the arrival of Friday's Comet. Neighbor Aber arrives at the castle and Lady Elaine mentions Henrietta's upcoming birthday.
It's time for the opera "A Star for Kitty," in which a kitten wishes on a half-moon and has a vivid dream about the night sky.
Rogers visits 15-year-old Chainey Umphrey III at the neighborhood gym. Also there is Chuck Aber, working with his H.J. Elephant III puppet. In a real rarity, Aber appears in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe working the H.J. Elephant III puppet. Together they visit Lady Elaine, who talks of a toy that no one has seen.
Rogers takes a tour of the Little Tikes Company, observing the design and manufacture of children's toys. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Aberlin reveals the present addressed to Queen Sara. It's a bicycle for Prince Tuesday, who is told, "Life is good."
Mr. McFeely shows a video of his visit to an air traffic control tower. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, H.J. Elephant is searching for a flying key. He finds it on Prince Tuesday's new bicycle.
The Neighborhood of Make-Believe appears at a standstill. Lady Aberlin has the magic key that she hopes will open the door to a closed room in the Museum-Go-Round. What she and a couple of neighbors don't count on is that Lady Elaine is absent. All of them must wait for her return before they can try to work the key. Afterward, Rogers finds Bobby Rawsthorne demonstrating odd musical instruments at Negri's Music Shop.
Mister Rogers arrives with a small elephant carved out of wood. Through a film, he remembers a time he recently visited a much larger wooden elephant named Lucy. After the film, Mister Rogers visits the Neighborhood toy lending library where he meets Barbara Liftman. Ms. Liftman explains the library's procedure for sharing toys with patrons and also discusses some of the library's playful features. Mister Rogers takes some time to look inside a doll house. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Prince Tuesday is having a difficult time learning to ride his bicycle. With a little help from Handyman Negri, Prince Tuesday finds some encouragement and wants to share his excitement with Ana Platypus. At the clock, Prince Tuesday offers to let Ana ride his bicycle. At the Museum-Go-Round, the master key is used to open the locked door but all that is found inside is an empty box. Back at the house, Mister Rogers talks about the importance of playing and sings I'm Proud of You.
Daniel Striped Tiger receives a tai-chi lesson in a Neighborhood of Make-Believe that is only half-raining.
Rogers sees killer whales Shamu and Namu dancing with people at Sea World. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine sets up a dance studio and invites only the females. The reason? According to her, men don't dance.
Rogers sees Sam Weber demonstrating his tap-dancing skills. Mr. McFeely shows a videotape on how people make shoes. (Not sneakers—that's for a later show.) Sam Weber visits the Neighborhood of Make-Believe to disprove Lady Elaine's belief that men don't dance.
Rogers visits the Dance Theatre of Harlem. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine changes the name of her dance studio and sends dance invitations to all the men.
Rogers visits an expert weaver and helps in making a scarf. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine invites the Junior Tamburitzans to her studio.
Mister Rogers helps children understand that everyone makes mistakes sometimes. Even Mister Rogers does when he buttons his sweater wrong. Ventriloquist Susan Linn shows how she uses her puppets to help children talk about their feelings.
Mr. McFeely brings the corrected animal book with the skunk and giraffe images in their proper places. He shows a videotape on how books are made. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Audrey Duck is overwhelmed with the thought of reading her poem to so many people.
Oops! Mister Rogers forgot about a meeting and finds a way to deal with it. There's a video of how people make erasers, and in Make-Believe Daniel worries he's a mistake. Lady Aberlin assures him he's fine just as he is.
Concert pianist Andre Watts talks about practicing and learning from his mistakes. In Make-Believe, puppet Audrey Duck is upset about the fuss over her little poem, but she learns that sometimes littlest things are the best.
Mister Rogers says nobody's perfect, but they can still give good care. Folk singer Andy Holiner sings with some children. In Make-Believe, King Friday makes a mistake introducing Audrey for her poetry reading. Even kings make mistakes.
Mister Rogers arrives with his ventriloquist dummy, Hischer Booptrunk. Hischer is dressed just like Mister Rogers and Mister Rogers spends a moment talking about he and Hischer are alike and different. On her way to teach a sign language class, Maggie Stewart stops by to invite Mister Rogers to come see Chuck Aber and his car at the Neighborhood car show. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday is playing the bass violin when his is visited briefly by a beautiful butterfly named Darrelle.
Rogers brings to the television house a set of children's books in different languages. Mr. McFeely brings a videotape of children's TV shows from three different countries. The longest sequence (four minutes) is from a popular Russian kids' show.
Robert Trow dresses up in his Bob Dog costume so that Mister Rogers can compare a real hound (which he brought) to a man in a dog costume. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, everyone except Prince Tuesday knows Mayor Maggie and Queen Sara will trade places for a day. This leads to the inevitable misunderstanding.
Jeffrey Gabel, a circus clown and cook, prepares strudel at Brockett's Bakery. In Make-Believe, Queen Sara and Mayor Maggie trade places for a day, or at least until a mix-up occurs with two clowns (Gabel and Brockett).
Jeff Gabel surprises Mister Rogers by showing a few peeps. Later in the program, Rogers goes to the circus, where Gabel puts on his clown make-up. In between, the Neighborhood of Make-Believe finds Lady Aberlin in a chicken costume, much to Daniel Striped Tiger's dismay. Aberlin gives sound advice to Daniel and to Nancy Caterpillar.
Mister Rogers closes the curtains in his television house to resemble nighttime. It's the perfect backdrop for Mr. McFeely's delivery: a video on how people make flashlights. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe has a nighttime story of its own. Lady Elaine frightens X the Owl with talk of stars falling from the sky.
Mister Rogers recalls his visit to a Russian TV studio, guest-starring on Tatiana Vedeneeva's nighttime children's show. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe still has to contend with Lady Elaine's talk of falling stars.
Mr. McFeely brings a firefighter's outfit for Rogers to try on. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Chuck Aber is preparing to scuba dive at night, but first he must help his neighbors in Southwood.
Tatiana Vedeneeva visits Rogers' television house and brings a videotape of how people make matrouska dolls. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe welcomes an unexpected visitor from the stars.
Mr. McFeely shows a video of different people doing their jobs at night. Dawn nears in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe and still no one can understand the night visitor.
Another client reprimanded Mr. McFeely for delivering the wrong tape (which Mister Rogers received by mistake). Rogers soon reassures Mr. McFeely how important he and his service are. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, a difficult King Friday hears that Prince Tuesday and his classmates at school were playing music. Friday decides that Tuesday needs a different type of schooling.
Mister Rogers and his saxophonist friend, Eric Kloss, visits a cave with Betty Aberlin as tour guide. This cave has its own organ, on which Rogers accompanies Kloss's sax. Events accelerate at the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, as King Friday has arranged for ""Sir Thomas T. Tune"" to be Prince Tuesday's new tutor. X the Owl's Cousin Mary arrives with a new Owl Correspondence School lesson.
Marilyn Barnett shows how to start jumping rope and invites several expert rope-jumpers. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday is ready to take Prince Tuesday out of the school at Someplace Else.
Mr. McFeely brings a videotape of how people make bicycle helmets (something no bicyclist would be seen without in all future episodes of this series). The Neighborhood of Make-Believe is surprised to see "Sir Thomas T. Tune."
Mister Rogers arrives with a homemade crown made by a friend. Before a visit from accordian player Guy Klucevsek, Mister Rogers uses his dictionary to look up the word "accordian." In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, X the Owl and his cousin Mary continue their OCS course in people watching. Meanwhile, Sir Thomas Tune gains a great deal of popularity among the school children and convinces King Friday to allow both the new schooling method and the old.
Rogers and Mr. McFeely visit a house built into the side of a wall. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe gets word that Westwood is building a sandbox.
Rogers follows clues in a treasure hunt, the end of which leads to a balloon artist. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Chuck Aber gives a balloon ring to Lady Elaine. She is overcome with the suggestion that Aber has proposed to her.
Mr. McFeely shows a videotape of his visit with sculptor Allen Dwight. He carves a marble structure, which McFeely gives to Rogers. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine tells Lady Aberlin her secret.
Rogers meets with Crist Delmonico, a blind painter. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine is about to tell all that she and Chuck Aber will get married. The news surprises everyone—Aber most of all.
Mister Rogers finds a clipboard on his porch with a small piece of paper that says "read this note" but the rest of the paper is blank. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Neighbor Aber explains to Lady Elaine that the balloon ring he gave to her does not mean that they are to get married. Back at the house, Mister Rogers hears an alarm coming from the suitcase Mr. McFeely delivered with the film.
Rogers listens to folk singers Andy Holiner and Alice Johnson. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, several residents decide to wear hats for fun. Then along comes Randy S. Caribou, who can wear all the hats at once.
Mister Rogers brings with him a clay figurine of Randy S. Caribou, and puts him within the Neighborhood of Make-Believe models. Joining the Randy figurine are clay figurines of several other Make-Believe puppet characters. Later in the program, Mister Rogers watches a team of kids playing soccer. When the Make-Believe adventure starts, Randy S. Caribou plays hide-and-seek with the Neighborhood Trolley. But Randy soon puts himself in a sticky situation when he squashes a cake made to look like a soccer ball.
Mister Rogers shows off an assortment of baskets, most of which Mr. McFeely brought. Both men visit the Special Olympics tryouts at the nearby school gymnasium. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Aberlin and Bob Dog invite King Friday XIII to go 'round the mulberry bush. It was the first time King Friday was ever asked to hoin in a game. When Randy S. Caribou talks about his emerging team, Bob Dog and Lady Aberlin jump at the chance to join.
After showing a new board game based on the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Mister Rogers gets a visit from Suzie McConnell, an expert basketball player-teacher. Mr. McFeely shows a video of Dance Alloy, with dancers gliding along huge rubber balls. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe team rounds itself out, with Henrietta Pussycat and X the Owl joining King Friday, Lady Aberlin, Bob Dog, Prince Tuesday, Ana Platypus, Daniel Tiger and Randy S. Caribou, of course. Queen Sara prefers not to join.
Upon his arrival, Mister Rogers talks about learning to play peekaboo as a young boy. With him, Mister Rogers has brough two different kinds of bowling balls -- a large one and a small one. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, the pussycat-owl-king-woman-dog-boy-girl-reindeer-tiger team has assembled at the castle but is having difficulty deciding on a game that would be appropriate for all team members. Back at the house, Mister Rogers has placed the Neighborhood of Make-Believe figures in the order they were mentioned in the pussycat-owl-king-woman-dog-boy-girl-reindeer-tiger team name.
Mister Rogers and Mr. McFeely get a glimpse of the San Diego Wild Animal Park, with Dr. Joan Embery as Rogers' guide. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, the unseen Princess Zelda is preparing a play about a giraffe with a short neck.
Mister Rogers watches a roll of film develop at a film lab. The newly-arrived Princess Zelda recruits the Neighborhood of Make-Believe residents to appear in the upcoming play.
"Josephine the Short-Neck Giraffe" begins with the melancholy Josephine yearning to grow a longer neck. Her friend, Hazel the Elephant, had told her to wish at the same spot for the past year, but nothing happened. Now Hazel tries to talk Josephine to attend the nearby school.
In Part Two of "Josephine the Short-Neck Giraffe," Josephine and Hazel go to school, where they meet all sorts of other animals. Among the classmates are a shy giraffe and a snake that doesn't know how to hiss. Josephine attends the "Attractive Active Animals" class.
Josephine feels that the school's Attractive, Active Animals class is not helping her, especially because Sam Snake has finally learned how to hiss. Hazel tells J.R. Giraffe to give Josephine words of encouragement. In the process, both J.R. and Josephine accept themselves, and each other, for who they are.
Negri's Music Shop needs Rogers' help when the lady at the cashier must see her sick child. Negri and Rogers propose a Neighborhood of Make-Believe story in which the King and Queen leave Tuesday for their errands.
Rogers and Mr. McFeely make treats with peanuts and peanut butter. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Tuesday is still angry that his parents are running errands all the time.
Wearing a lei of peanut shells as he enters, Mister Rogers will promote reading the rest of the week. Mr. McFeely brings a video on how people make peanut butter. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Henrietta Pussycat suggests that Cornflake S. Pecially's factory start a caring center for the children of the factory's workers.
Rogers visits oboist Natasha at Negri's Music Shop. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe begins work in earnest on the new child-caring center at Corny's factory.
Balloon Artist Bruce Franco visits Rogers' television house. He has even made a balloon Trolley. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Prince Tuesday helps those who run the child-caring center at Corny's factory.
A major crisis has arisen in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Their nearby landfill at Someplace Else has reached the saturation point.
Messrs. Rogers and McFeely visit the neighborhood recycling center. Everything is orderly there, which cannot be said for Make-Believe. Westwood Mayor Maggie informs that their landfill has been filled completely.
Mister Rogers discusses making artwork out of old objects. This precipitates Mr. McFeely's video, showing his visit with a spare-parts artist.
Mister Rogers recalls the snorkeling adventure he shared with Sylvia Earle. It leaves little time for Neighborhood of Make-Believe, which needs help from two of Northwood's goats.
Mister Rogers arrives with a cardboard box with a hole cut into its side to look like a television screen. Outside, Mr. McFeely shows Mister Rogers an angora goat named William. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Queen Sara and Lady Aberlin are talking about the garbage crisis as they wait for King Friday's television appearance on The Universe Today. At Someplace Else, Old Goat and New Goat are talking to Harriett Elizabeth Cow and Donkey Hodie about the composition of their garbage.
Mister Rogers enters with a bandaged hand. He illustrates (as Lady Aberlin demonstrates to Ana Platypus in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe) that nothing changes underneath a bandage. Rogers attends the Marsalis Family's rehearsals at Negri's Music Shop.
Mr. McFeely brings materials on how adhesive bandages are made. Rogers puts one such bandage on a rag doll. That rag doll becomes the plot point in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, as King Friday XIII and Prince Tuesday believe the doll to life.
Chuck Aber brings a guest to the television house. Joining them are two wolves. Later in the show, Mister Rogers' son Jim and grandson Alex stop over. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Aber is dressed as a wolf, ready to offer a wolf costume to someone else.
Rogers reads a book a teenage girl had made for her father. He then puts stuffing in a toy wolf for a friend. Later in the program, Ella Jenkins visits (as does Chuck Aber) to perform some songs. In between, those in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe discuss their feelings about wolves. Daniel Striped Tiger tells those at school that he doesn't have a musical father, like Ana and Prince Tuesday.
Rogers discusses music with Yo-Yo Ma and, when son Nicholas Ma arrives, Rogers helps perform a trio of The Skaters' Waltz. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Aberlin finds a musical father for Daniel.
Chef Brockett is making gingerbread faces with varying emotions. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday appoints Lady Aberlin as the Director of Research. Her first assignment revolves around people's reaction to a box that plays a recording of someone laughing.
Rogers makes tunnels out of cardboard tubes. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Aberlin continues her research with the laughing voice in a box. Robert Troll believes a little person is in that box.
Mr. McFeely shows a videotape on how people make toothbrushes. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Aberlin wishes to show there is no person inside the laughing-voice box. What she uncovers, lets her become a tiger for a limited time.
Mister Rogers arrives with a tube of toothpaste which he shows before inviting viewers along on a visit to his dentist. Before leaving, Mister Rogers heads to the bathroom to brush his teeth. At the dentist's office, Mister Rogers receives a check-up from Dr. Doug Jackson and his hygienist, Lisa Gjebre. Lisa and Dr. Jackson demonstrate various tools used for a dental check-up. Afterwards, Mister Rogers talks with a young dental patient named Joe. Returning to the house, Mister Rogers takes out a puppet which he uses to explain that people should not bite other people. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Neighbor Aber sings It's the Style to Wear a Smile as Princess Zelda is looking for the Director of Research, Lady Aberlin. Still looking like a tiger, Lady Aberlin appears from behind the tree but goes unrecognized by Neighbor Aber and Princess Zelda. At the castle, Queen Sara reveals that Lady Aberlin will be gone for a "limited period of time." Back at the house, Mister Rogers sings It's the Style to Wear a Smile and talks about the best feelings are the ones that come naturally.
Rogers talks of how a steam shovel works. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Daniel Tiger finds out Lady Aberlin has been disguised as a tiger.
Mr. McFeely arrives with a new advertising jingle for his Speedy Delivery service. Later in the program, he brings a video to Rogers about how people make model cars. Concern grips Westwood and then the Neighborhood of Make-Believe when some big thing is spotted nearby.
Rogers plants a bean seed and joins Mr. McFeely in a visit to a local conservatory. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday XIII tries to allay fears about a ""big thing"" rolling its way in from Westwood.
The Big Thing arrives in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. At the request of several neighbors, the King agrees to maintain and talk of peaceful things.
Rogers gets his hair cut to prove to viewers there is nothing that harms anybody during a haircut. Robert Troll drops by the Neighborhood of Make-Believe and gives some aid to the Big Thing.
Rogers finds old friend Francois Clemmons, now singing with the Harlem Spiritual Ensemble. Purple Panda arrives at the Neighborhood of Make-Believe with a miracle ingredient that makes plants grow quickly.
Bringing a toy raccoon to his television house, Mister Rogers recalls a raccoon dance first performed two decades before. He uses a raccoon mask to illustrate he does not change when he puts on the mask. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Harriet Elizabeth Cow and Lady Aberlin is surprised to see King Friday XIII disguised as a bird. He learns that Harriet and Lady Aberlin are planning a play with the schoolchildren.
Rogers and Mr. McFeely visit a children's book reading at the library. At the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, all the schoolchildren are getting roles for their upcoming play.
Mister Rogers arrives with a box full of costume pieces including a wig and a pair of glasses. Chef Brockett stops by and does not immediately recognize Mister Rogers who is still wearing a wig and glasses. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Handyman Negri is searching for the King's spare crown which he left with Prince Tuesday. Chef Brockett arrives at the castle with a crown cake for King Friday and lets the truth slip that the spare crown is missing. At the school, the children sing One and One Are Two when Lady Aberlin arrives. Meanwhile, at the castle, the spare crown is still lost and Chef Brockett tries to convince King Friday that the latest style is wearing a chef's hat.
Absolutely nobody can find King Friday's spare crown. Lady Elaine Fairchilde is implored to turn the Neighborhood of Make-Believe upside down to aid in the search. This leads to the most unimaginable conclusions. After Make-Believe, Mister Rogers visits an auditorium to hear the Boys Choir of Harlem.
Maggie Stewart, disguised as Mr. McFeely, delivers to Rogers the video on how people make zipper sweaters. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe witnesses the school play.
Mr. McFeely shows Rogers a Mrs. McFeely portrait Bob Trow made. Later Rogers goes to see Trow do a portrait of Mr. McFeely. In the meantime, King Friday XIII declares that everyone in the Neighborhood produce Royal portraits.
Rogers shows a flip book and presents Picasso art. Later in the program, he sees a Spanish rhythm quartet at Brockett's Bakery. In between, Lady Aberlin, X the Owl, and Henrietta Pussycat make King Friday art, but Lady Elaine refuses.
Mr. McFeely describes the day he met a skywriter. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe witnesses a skywriter drawing the King's face and hears Handyman Negri's contribution.
Mister Rogers makes his own clay and visits sculptor Bill Strickland. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine uses her clay to deface all the existing portraits and other dedications to King Friday XIII.
Mister Rogers arrives with a painting of a blue tree and tells the story of his friend who painted it. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Aberlin is working to remove the play clay from the royal portraits. At the clock, Daniel is hesitant to show his portrait of King Friday to Robert Troll because he things he did it in the wrong color. Robert Troll returns to the castle with Daniel's portrait which meets the approval of King Friday. Back at the house, Mister Rogers sits at the bench to read Spot's Baby Sister, a book by Eric Hill.
Rogers draws a song. Mr. McFeely brings a videotape on how people make felt-tip markers. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe gets another "glimpse" of Daniel's imaginary friend, Malcolm Apricot Dinko.
Rogers talks of using a telescope, albeit a pretend one. Bob Trow talks of how he used his imagination as a boy, making up what would be "troll talk." This Robert Troll demonstrates in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
Rogers sees a ballet troupe do a dance with umbrellas. As it is raining in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Chuck Aber tests Corny's new umbrella rocking chair.
Rogers has a real book which he reads to a pretend child sitting in a real chair. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe sees Prince Tuesday's rag doll for the last time.
Ella Jenkins stages a sing-along at Brockett's Bakery. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine tries to blame Malcolm Apricot Dinko for something.
Mr. McFeely brings whistles to Rogers' front porch, and both hear a professional whistler. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Robert Troll is taking a census. Daniel Striped Tiger cannot help at this time, as he and the other schoolchildren are planning a field trip.
Lady Aberlin is searching for the source of a wind that abruptly appears and disappears. One possible source of that wind could be the Museum-Go-Round.
Rogers hangs a paper chain through the kitchen and living room. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Aberlin discovers the wind source.
The school at Someplace Else is ready to stage their field trip through the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. But a major stumbling block may emerge when James Michael Jones shows off his learning machine on his head. For most of this visit, Rogers talks to Eric Kloss at the neighborhood library.
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. With the Neighborhood of Make-Believe is still undecided if there will be a field trip, Daniel suggests not to sacrifice anything in the learning process.
After changing into his sneakers, Mister Rogers stands and steps up to the door and then back down again. He raises his arms and eyebrows to demonstrate "up and down", as well. Sitting on the floor, Mister Rogers shows a toy parking garage that he brought with him. Placing a toy car on the garage's elevator, Mister Rogers raises it to the top and then back down again. Mister Rogers sings Let's Think of Something To Do as he waits for Mr. McFeely to stop by. When he arrives, Mr. McFeely takes Mister Rogers a shopping mall where they go up and down an escalator and a glass elevator. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Handyman Negri is playing music for Mimus Polyglottos and Torglodytes Aedon as they dance when he is called to the factory where Corney asks for his help. Using a new pulley system, Handyman Negri removes a Rockit from the factory's display case. Corney sings I'm a Man Who Manufactures before he promises to make something special for Handyman Negri to thank him for his help. Meanwhile, Mr. McFeely is struggling with a heavy package from the Up and Down Company to be delivered to Lady Elaine Fairchilde. Handyman Negri helps Mr. McFeely deliver the package to the museum where Lady Elaine allows them to open the package. Inside they find a hydraulic lift platform which they demonstrate by lifting each other up and down. X the Owl is somewhat curious about the lift and mentions that he doesn't need such a device to go up and down -- he is able to fly up and down naturally. Returning to the factory, Corney presents Handyman Negri with a custom-made rocking guitar holder. Back at the house, Mister Rogers suggests that fancy things are not needed to go up and down -- just ideas and an imagination. He concludes for the day by singing It's You I Like.
Famed domino artist Bob Speca sets up and knocks down dominoes at Negri's Music Shop. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Robert Troll rides the hydraulic platform outside the Museum-Go-Round.
King Friday XIII wants the neighbors to find a place where Mimus polyglottos and Troglodytes aedon can take up dance lessons. While they are not looking, Robert Troll takes Mimus and Trog for a walk/dance. Chuck Aber goes off looking for the birds.
Rogers hears from clarinetist Richard Stoltzman. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, two crises remain unsolved: stop the Museum-Go-Round from going up and down, and get the wooden birds back.
Bruce Franco again makes balloon art, concentrating on animals. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, the hydraulic platform is fixed. By chance, Robert Troll is seen with the King's two wooden birds.
Rogers enters with a stuffed bear and a bear costume (which he wears). Mr. McFeely then brings a video on how stuffed bears are made. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe finds one of its neighbors in a bear costume.
Rogers shows a picture of one friend, an ornithologist, and visits him at The Aviary in Pittsburgh. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine Fairchilde is readying a "Museum of Love."" At Mayor Maggie's suggestion, Lady Elaine decides to start a soap opera.
Rogers soaks his feet in a tub outside his porch and finds an unexpected visitor: "Officer" Clemmons. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine is preparing to do a soap opera she calls As the Museum Turns.
Rogers discusses the way images are reflected in mirrors. Lady Elaine continues preparations for her one-woman soap opera.
Mister Rogers arrives with a soap solution which he uses to blow bubbles. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Robert Troll is practicing his role as usher for the soap opera when Mayor Maggie and Neighbor Aber arrive with an automatic bubble maker. The royal family arrives as the soap opera begins -- "As the Museum Turns." Back at the house, Mister Rogers remembers a time when he visited the kitchen of Mrs. Schipper and learned to make spinach egg rolls.
Rogers does a science experiment with food coloring and water. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Robert Troll takes the Neighborhood Trolley off its tracks. This prompts several neighbors to search for it.
Shadows and light are the contrasts of the day, as guest shadow artist Jim West performs silhouettes of various animals. Later, Mr. McFeely shows a tape on how people make light bulbs. In between, the Court of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe wants to return the shadows of Harriet Elizabeth Cow, Donkey Hodie, X the Owl, and Henrietta Pussycat. Before long, Robert Troll reveals the Trolley's Extra Dimension to Lady Aberlin.
Mr. McFeely brings a pantomimist to Rogers' television house. The trolley's reputation for revealing the past spreads through the Neighborhood. It gets to the point where Trolley turns the Neighborhood upside-down.
Mr. McFeeley brings a dead bird to the television house and asks Mister Rogers for a box in which to bury it. This prompts a Neighborhood of Make-Believe discussion of death as Lady Aberlin helps Henrietta Pussycat and Daniel Striped Tiger.
This program provides the last glimpse of Trolley's Special Dimension. For the bulk of the show, Rogers visits Itzhak Perlman at a concert hall and reflects on his visit to Colonial Williamsburg.
Rogers and McFeely go on a bus ride through the neighborhood, observing various hats certain people wear. None wears the hat Rogers brought to show viewers: a three-cornered hat from the 18th Century. Thus the dilemma in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Upon gaining interest in them, King Friday XIII orders everyone (and everything) to wear three-cornered hats.
Rogers dons the Bob Dog costume (inevitably fooling Marilyn Barnett). Later in the program, Mr. McFeely shows a videotape on how people make blue jeans. In between, Lady Elaine Fairchilde provides the only resistance to King Friday's insistence that everyone and everything in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe wear the three-cornered hat from the 18th Century.
Rogers sees Alan Morrison play the organ at a nearby church. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine Fairchilde squirts water at anyone who mentions ""three-cornered hat"" to her. King Friday hardens his position with a rule (one with a loophole).
Chef Brockett visits, explaining how he uses canes to walk following his operation. Later Rogers returns to see Alan Morrison play alongside a flutist and a clarinetist. In between, Betty Okonak Templeton visits the Neighborhood of Make-Believe with a way to break the impasse between King Friday XIII and Lady Elaine.
Given a portable sewing machine, Mister Rogers shows the stark contrast between clothing of today and clothes of the 1700s. Thus he visits a building in Colonial Williamsburg. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine and Betty Okonak Templeton exploit the loophole in King Friday's three-cornered rule. Finally, everyone else takes off those hats.
On the back of an old floor covering, a friend of Mister Rogers painted a map of the world. Rogers deomnstrates traveling from place to place, on boat or plane, and coming back. Later in the program, Dan Kamin demonstrates his mime act. He appears as a mime character in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
Three minutes into the program, the Neighborhood of Make-Believe finds a newcomer, Stephen Owl (X's cousin), in search of a tunnel believed to be in the neighborhood. But the bulk of the show has Mister Rogers showing the ins and outs of an ambulance.
Rogers gets a feel for shooting a basketball from a chair. This segues eventually to his visit with a wheelchair basketball team called the Steelwheelers. In between, more residents in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe join in Cousin Steve's search for a hidden tunnel. One clue comes from a scrap of paper.
Rogers uses a long piece of plumbing pipe to simulate a tunnel in which blocks and a car could travel back and forth. Mr. McFeely shows a video of his ""tunneling"" through a car wash. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday XIII hears of the search for the lost tunnel. Lady Aberlin finds all the pieces to the old parable about this tunnel, which is very close to X's tree.
Chuck Aber surprises Fred Rogers at his television house with what Rogers calls his ""piece of equipment."" It's heavy machinery used for digging dirt. Later in the program, Mr. McFeely shows a videotape on how people make tortilla chips from blue corn. In between, friends in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe discover the secret tunnel and learn where it goes.
Rogers wants to take his time playing a game with a ball and a few tubes. The same cannot be said for the Neighborhood Trolley, which whizzes through the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
Rogers rollerblades with Stephen Lee at a skating rink. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Stephen Owl appears in his full safety gear to help the neighbors' cause.
Daniel Tiger is astonished at how fast Prince Tuesday can say the letters of the alphabet. Lady Aberlin gives Daniel the confidence true friends have.
Chainey Umphrey returns to the neighborhood to demonstrate more gymnastics. Those in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe tries to stop the Trolley and fail.
Rogers operates a toy crane in his sandbox. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, a larger crane finally catches the Trolley and lifts it up, so the neighbors can figure out how it can slow down.
Maggie Stewart and Chef Brockett are making layer sandwiches for Maggie's upcoming family reunion. Mister Rogers shows a video on how Corning dinner plates are made. In between, Chef Brockett discusses with the Royal Family the cake being planned for Cornflake S. Pecially's birthday.
Mister Rogers arrives with a photo album filled with pictures of twins. He explains that twins have the same parents and same birthday but each person is still an individual. The final picture shows twin girls who will be stopping by with Marilyn Barnett. Mr. McFeely arrives with a pair of wooden shoes and a video about how people make such shoes. Mister Rogers tries on the shoes and wears them until he leaves for the day. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Robert Troll is about to give the cake drawing to Corney when he is stopped by King Friday who would like to talk about Prince Tuesday. The King is concerned with the fact that Prince Tuesday is not happy with himself and the royal robes that he wears as prince. At the factory, Neighbor Aber is wearing wooden shoes and approaches Robert Troll who shares that Prince Tuesday might be in need of some "Neighbor Aber time." Together they sing Then Your Heart is Full of Love. Queen Sara arrives at the factory looking for the cake drawing and Robert Troll realizes that he was about to spoil the birthday surprise. When Corney appears, Queen Sara distracts him by pointing out Neighbor Aber's wooden shoes. Back at the house, Mister Rogers sings Then Your Heart is Full of Love before Marilyn Barnett stops by with her students, Meghan and Kelly. Mister Rogers, still in wooden shoes, joins them outside for some exercise. Back inside, Mister Rogers concludes by reading Friends in the Park.
Lady Aberlin, dressed as a lion, discovers the dour Prince Tuesday, who is upset that his robe disrupts his guitar lessons.
Mister Rogers shows some of his Neighborhood of Make-Believe puppets and introduces the puppeteer behind Prince Tuesday, Lenny Meledandri. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, several people have to console Prince Tuesday, who has removed his robe.
Cornflake S. Pecially feels everyone has forgotten that today is his birthday. It adds to the drama of the surprise birthday party, for which Daniel and Prince Tuesday have made a card.
Mister Rogers visits the studio of artist Red Grooms, who is currently working on a trolley painting. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe sees Lady Elaine in fits because she can't seem to draw the Eiffel Tower well.
Mister Rogers introduces many different ways of dealing with anger, such as singing, playing the piano, and exercising, including his friend Maggie Stewart's favorite - swimming. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Robert Troll and Mayor Maggie are worried about how upset Lady Elaine is over not being able to draw Grandpere's Tower. In an angry fit, Lady Elaine turns the tower upside-down. Can Lady Elaine get over her anger and make things right in the Neighborhood again? Maggie Stewart brings a water-and-oil motion sculpture to the television house. Jay Styperk, a wheelchair basketball specialist, gives Rogers a few exercises.
Lady Elaine Fairchilde is distraught that, in a fit of anger, she had turned Mr. McFeely into a doll.
Betty Okonak Templeton visits the Neighborhood of Make-Believe in an effort to ease Lady Elaine's mean mood.
Mister Rogers visits a rehearsal of the international sensation STOMP. He meets the members and sees how they use everyday things like buckets, brooms, pipes, and their hands and feet to make exciting music. In Make-Believe, all the neighbors are unhappy over the upside-down tower and Lady Elaine's behavior. Lady Elaine, realizing that her anger got out of control, rights the tower and finds that apologizing is a good first step towards making amends.
Mr. McFeely presents Rogers with a ""hide-and-find ball,"" with which they play a little hide-and-seek. Later in the program, Rogers hears a storyteller at Mrs. McFeely's house. In between, the Neighborhood of Make-Believe gets puzzled by a gift for Purple Panda—one that he is not supposed to open.
Mister Rogers arrives with an African violet and takes a long look at the flower before he sings Look and Listen. Mr. McFeely stops by a small green ball which he and Mister Rogers take outside where they meet a talented juggler named JoAnn Swaim. Ms. Swaim provides a very simple juggling lesson before showcasing her talents by juggling as many as seven balls. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Prince Tuesday is looking carefully at an African violet and King Friday does not understand the use of what his son is doing. The King departs for the J Room where his juggling instructor is waiting. Recognizing Prince Tuesday's love for the flower, Handyman Negri listens and Mayor Maggie sings and signs Then Your Heart is Full of Love. Mayor Maggie and Neighbor Aber have still been unsuccessful in delivering the strange package to Purple Panda. At the Museum-Go-Round, they show the package to Lady Elaine before Neighbor Aber tosses it in the air and it disappears. Surfacing in the hands of Handyman Negri, the package has changed colors once again. Handyman Negri also loses the package by tossing it in the air but quickly finds it sitting on the Trolley. Back at the house, Mister Rogers shares a Neighborhood photo album featuring pictures of several of his neighbors as children and adults. Mr. McFeely returns with a video showing various time-lapse images of things changing in nature. The video includes a caterpillar changing into a butterfly which makes Mister Rogers think to take out toy caterpillar. The toy changes into a butterfly as well.
Rogers demonstrates that he doesn't change when he wears dark glasses or a hat. 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.
Rogers fixes the ball float in his toilet. Maggie Stewart demonstrates some sign language, using a book in the process. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe is still perplexed by that mysterious package for Purple Panda. And things don't get any better once Purple Panda arrives.
Rogers shows a wooden egg containing 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.
Lady Elaine frets about all the noise made by someone's ""vacuum sweeper.""
Jabali Afrika performs at Negri's Music Shop. Lady Elaine Fairchilde has a bad dream about ""vacuum sweepers,"" and tries to rid them from the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
Rogers visits B. Smith's restaurant and reunites with B. Smith herself, who had appeared in a Neighborhood of Make-Believe segment back in 1969. Smith returns to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe and leaves a napkin for Queen Sara. But that napkin is swept away, thanks to Lady Elaine's army of ""vacuum sweepers.""
After Rogers draws with colored chalk, he sees a videotape on how such chalk is made. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Purple Panda is called on to help Lady Elaine overcome her fear of ""vacuum sweepers.""
Mister Rogers arrives with a megaphone he has borrowed from Marilyn Barnett. After showing how it amplifies his voice, Mister Rogers uses a cardboard tube to make his own megaphone. Ms. Barnett stops by to pick up her megaphone and to do some exercises with Mister Rogers. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, everyone is still working to recover all of the missing vacuum sweepers. Lady Aberlin, Neighbor Aber, Prince Tuesday, and Purple Panda are outside the Museum-Go-Round when Lady Elaine uses an newly installed megaphone to announce that the Museum is closed for cleaning. After Lady Elaine finally admits that she is afraid of vacuum sweepers, Purple Panda sings a song that helped him get over his own fear of vacuums. Feeling more comfortable, Lady Elaine agrees to return all of the vacuum sweepers she has taken. Back at the house, Mister Rogers talks about the importance of talking about your feelings when you are afraid or worried. Visiting the Inner-City Arts Center, Mister Rogers meets Bob Bates who shows him around. Throughout the center, young artists are working on a variety of projects including sculpture, painting, and music. Returning to his house, Mister Rogers concludes by singing It's You I Like.
The Neighborhood of Make-Believe has witnessed cereal falling like snow over a couple of areas. It stopped snowing cereal over at the Platypus Mound, but not at Daniel's Clock.
Rogers' friend Brad Brewer, a knitter and puppeteer, talks of the puppets and puppet shows he has performed. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Elsie Jean Platypus explains the cereal stopped falling on the Platypus Mound when she wasn't afraid of it. But Daniel is afraid of the cereal snowfall on his Clock.
Rogers visits the McFeelys' house to see the lambs they are babysitting. Later Mr. McFeely plays a videotape on how lambs are sheared. In between, the Neighborhood of Make-Believe sends its armor-clad King to the Clock, where he will attempt to command the cereal stop falling. But only Daniel's presence at the Clock can stop the downpour.
Rogers doesn't immediately put on his sweater, and already people sense this television visit will break the mold. He takes viewers to see his immunization at a doctor's office. It is designed to alleviate children's fears. Daniel Striped Tiger finally faces his fears, with the aid of Chuck Aber and Lady Aberlin. They give him an inflatable boat prior to appearing at the Clock. Only Daniel can stop the falling cereal at the Clock, and he does.
With the crisis at the Neighborhood of Make-Believe over, Daniel Striped Tiger asks that his pile of cereal be distributed to the people who need it most. A forklift is just the tool to cart boxes of cereal from the Clock.
After a swim, King Friday XIII is startled to find that his crown has been taken.
Rogers displays a horse Leonard Streckfus constructed from found objects. Later he visits Streckfus at his barn/workshop, where other found-objects sculptures are on display. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Mayor Maggie learns the Westwood town sign is missing. It appears Lady Elaine has taken it for her ""found"" objects exhibit.
Mr. McFeely shows a videotape on how apple juice is made. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe continues to see things disappear, just as Lady Elaine is ready to hold a "found objects" exhibit at her Museum-Go-Round.
Rogers visits Gonzales at his studio to see goupet-goupet sculptures. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, more things have gone missing, including Edgar Cooke's refrigerator and Daniel's truck.
Mr. McFeely shows a videotape on people using heavy equipment. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine agrees to display and return all those ""borrowed"" things. But there is a trick or two involved.
Rogers visits a theater to see a juggling act called the Flying Karamazov Brothers. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, X the Owl is preparing to give flying lessons.
X the Owl gives his first simple flying lesson to Prince Tuesday, along with the first rule: ""Be careful."" This isn't quite what Lady Elaine has in mind with her flying lessons.
Rogers hears the Uptown String Quartet perform. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, a vulnerable Prince Tuesday falls prey to Lady Elaine's ""flying lessons.""
Rogers brings a sleeping bag to the television house. Mr. McFeely brings a tape on how people make sleeping bags. For most of the last ten minutes, Rogers visits a dollmaker, Ida Clowney. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, X the Owl feels responsible for the fall Prince Tuesday incurred. Lady Aberlin and Chuck Aber deter Lady Elaine from further ""flying lessons.""
Mister Rogers arrives with a hula hoop and talks about how it got its name. Taking it outside, he does his best to show how it is used but is unable to keep the hula hoop around his waist. Luckily, Paul Tifford is in the Neighborhood offering hula hoop lessons and Mister Rogers decides to pay him a visit. At Mr. Tifford's studio, Mister Rogers listens to a few suggestions and is able to successfully keep the hula hoop spinning around his waist. He then steps back and watches in amazement as Mr. Tifford demonstrates his ability to spin multiple hula hoops at the same time. Mister Rogers continues observing as Maggie Stewart stops by for her hula hoop lesson. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Prince Tuesday is about to share the details of his accident with Mayor Maggie when King Friday interrupts. As Lady Aberlin and Lady Elaine Fairchilde arrive, King Friday announces that all flying lessons are to stop. Lady Elaine apologizes to Prince Tuesday for making him think the propeller hat she gave him would make him fly. Prince Tuesday suggests that Lady Elaine teach hula hoop lessons instead. Inside the tree, Lady Aberlin and Prince Tuesday talk with X the Owl who is still feeling somewhat responsible for the Prince's accident. Prince Tuesday explains that X's instruction to be careful could have prevented his fall. X feels much better knowing that he was a good teacher. Outside, Lady Elaine's first hula hoop lesson is underway with Mayor Maggie. Back at the house, Mister Rogers spends some time thinking about children who are just learning to walk. He concludes by talking about practicing skills in order to get better and sings I'm Proud of You.
Mister Rogers arrives with a box of fortune cookies. Opening up one of the cookies, he reads his fortune: "You will have a visitor." Mr. McFeely stops by with a videotape about how people make fortune cookies. After watching the video, Mister Rogers gives two fortune cookies to Mr. McFeely and explains that seeing the Mr. McFeely's excitement was like receiving a gift himself. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday is looking for "great things" and is unimpressed when Mr. McFeely tries to give him a box of fortune cookies. With his feelings hurt, Mr. McFeely shares his disappointment with a reassuring Mayor Maggie. As Neighbor Aber passes through, Mayor Maggie offers him a fortune cookie. Opening the cookie, they are surprised to release a Spanish-speaking Fortune Cookie Man who is eager to distribute cookies throughout the Neighborhood. At the clock, the Fortune Cookie Man introduces himself to Daniel Striped Tiger who is surprised to meet a "live speaking fortune cookie." Back at the house, Mister Rogers visits the studio of author Eric Carle. Mr. Carle shows how he paints the images used in his children's books. Together they read one of Mr. Carle's books -- Head to Toe -- which is given to Mister Rogers as he leaves.
Saihou Njie gives Rogers a demonstration on making batik vests. Later in the program, Mr. McFeely shows a videotape on how bagels are made.
Rogers brings back the Potty book he had introduced nine years earlier, and reads it in full. Later in the program, Mr. McFeely shows a nvideotape of people mking toilets. In between, Betty Okonak Templeton visits the Neighborhood of Make-Believe in search of Lady Elaine.
Mister Rogers creates a simple merry-go-round from paper plates and a cardboard tube. Later in the program, Mr. McFeely shows a videotape on how people make carousel horses.
Rogers presents a gift for Mr. McFeely just as he delivers a book for guest LeVar Burton to read. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, the finder balloons reveal Lady Elaine and her friend in a disused room of the Museum-Go-Round.
Rogers sees people operating a lifting device that elevates a wheelchair into a van. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday XIII commands Mayor Maggie, who had arrived in a wheelchair, to visit Dr. Bill Platypus for a clean bill of health.
Close to ten minutes of the program shows Rogers' comforting visit with Koko the Gorilla (who is credited as a neighbor). No such warmth can be found in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe when a different gorilla visits. The lone exception is Lady Aberlin, who finds the gorilla tame.
Rogers visits his eye doctor to have his vision checked. Mr. McFeely presents a video on how people make eyeglass lenses. In between, Lady Elaine is bent on warning the Neighborhood of Make-Believe about the visiting gorilla.
Rogers shows a variety of sticks is similar to a group of words: the more you have, the better you can work with them. Mr. McFeely shows a video of a service dog aiding a handicapped child. (The dog's name is C.D., and is credited as a neighbor.) In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Dr. Bill Platypus tries to ensure Lady Elaine that the gorilla, called Kevin Wendell, is tame.
Mister Rogers starts out by explaining that he only zips his sweater half-way because he wears a microphone on his tie. He then heads to the kitchen where he draws a rainbow before reflecting on a local place where children visit to play with toys. This is followed by a brief lesson on people being unique. Leading into make-believe, Mister Rogers uses common items from his kitchen to set the scene rather than his models. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Aberlin is talking to Queen Sara about Kevin Wendell Gorilla and suggests that he may not be a real gorilla. Meanwhile, at the clock, Daniel and Kevin agree to be friends as they sing You Are Special. After singing, Kevin Wendell Gorilla reveals that he is really Neighbor Aber wearing a gorilla costume. He was doing an experiment to see how people would treat him if he didn't look like himself. Back at the house, Mr. McFeely stops by to pick up Zak: The One-of-a-Kind Dog for the library and reads it with Mister Rogers. Outside, Mr. McFeely demonstrates a unique wind-up toy he calls a "speedy critter."
Prince Tuesday is a natural at working a yo-yo, much to King Friday's chagrin (he can't work them). To everyone's dismay, Friday disallows any yo-yos in the neighborhood.
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.
Lady Elaine is trying to send messages for her neighbors to get her down from her stuck helicopter. Unfortunately, Bob Dog grabs on her hat message—and gets stuck himself.
Mr. McFeely shows a videotape of his visit to inventor Chuck Hoberman. Before Make-Believe, Rogers gets a visit from Mrs. McFeely. At the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Handyman Negri rescues both Bob Dog and Lady Elaine. Late in the show, Rogers plays a cassette tape of cello music and reflects on Yo-Yo Ma and his son Nicholas.
Rogers visits the studio apartment of an innovative architect. She explains how an appreciation of the earth inspired her to design certain tables, seats, and couches. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Cornflake S. Pecially improves King Friday's mood with a ""Royal Automated Yo-Yo."" Further reason to repeal the ""no yo-yos"" rule comes from a videotape of Yo-Yo Ma.
Rogers witnesses the Westminster Choir College (of Rider University) Bell Choir. Later in the program, Mr. McFeely shows a video on how people make bells. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Mayor Maggie presents a loud bell to Henrietta Pussycat. That bell quickly becomes a big irritant to the others.
Rogers attends the rehearsals for a dance team that performs with long ribbons. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Henrietta Pussycat, X the Owl, and a muted Bob Dog are frightened when they see so many of their neighbors in strange costumes. What they don't know is that these costumed neighbors are staging a parade.
Rogers visits drum performer/teacher Tim Adams. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, X and Henrietta have rigged their tree so that, at the first sign of anything unnatural, everyone will hear constant drumming.
Rogers recounts his snorkeling adventure with Sylvia Earle (extracted from the show of April 19, 1990). Later in the program, Sylvia Earle visits the television house, where screen 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.
Chuck Aber, dressed as a marching-band leader, visits the television house to borrow one of Rogers' noisemakers. Contrasting the noise is Rogers' contention that a smile is quiet and lovable. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe is ready for its costume-laden parade, but must convince X and Henrietta of the parade's nature.
Mister Rogers assembles a fountain in his kitchen. This leads to a videotape of numerous fountains from around the world. Mr. McFeely shows a videotape of his own, on how people make raincoats. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday XIII donates the old castle fountain to Mayor Maggie and the people of Westwood. Lady Elaine gets a gift as well. Chuck Aber gives her a nozzle to squirt water.
Mister Rogers and Chuck Aber discuss the proper safety gear for in-line skating. Those in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe think they have made progress to curb Lady Elaine's random squirts. Afterward, Mr. McFeely shows a video on making concrete sidewalks.
Rogers visits Marc Brown, creator of the Arthur books. Marc Brown talks about how his Grandma Thora had saved his childhood drawings. (Of course, Grandma Thora is the name of Arthur's grandmother, just as some of the other characters are reminders of Marc's family and friends.) The two men share a scene from Rogers' guest appearance on Arthur in early fall 1997 (first half of ""Arthur Meets Mister Rogers / Draw!""). Arthur shows up in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, greeting several neighbors—including Lady Elaine.
Rogers takes an extended trip to a fire station. The lessons learned there, extend to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, as several neighbors become volunteer fire fighters.
Rogers witnesses a school fire drill. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe gives support to the Platypus family following the previous day's fire. King Friday gives an award to Lady Elaine for her action.
Rogers enters with a computer mouse and introduces viewers to the one room of the television house we have never seen. He introduces viewers to the online neighborhood (pbskids.org/rogers). Later in the program, Mr. McFeely shows a video on fixing a computer mouse. At the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, the King and Queen are searching for the ""royal mouse."" He has been in the Museum-Go-Round, busily planning a surprise with Lady Elaine.
Rogers reads the library book When the TV Broke before visiting the neighborhood library. Once there, he finds a title the librarian recommends. Before he reads, Rogers sits in on a kids' crafts group. At the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday insists that the royal HulaMouse must return to the Castle. Chuck Aber sees him first, and when he takes HulaMouse to the Castle, they learn King Friday is flying around the world in search of him.
Rogers visits the studio of George Rhodes. He watches as Rhodes 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 XIII returns, not at all pleased by HulaMouse's absence. At the height of his anger, he breaks a toy that Lady Aberlin has brought.
Joe Negri visits the television house to repair a ukulele. Mr. McFeely shows a videotape on how people make bread. In between, not everyone in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe has recovered from the shock of the day before. After King Friday tries an apology, Lady Elaine feels everything is ready for her (and HulaMouse's) surprise.
Rogers starts with a visit to a children's dance studio, where participants act out a story. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday truly apologizes for his acts. He joins everyone else at the Museum-Go-Round for Lady Elaine's exhibit.
Rogers uses a frame to concentrate on small sections of a large mural. Seeing a set of vegetables in one section of the mural, he reflects on a visit to an "edible school yard" (vegetable garden). In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday XIII is irritated when Purple Panda and his compatriot, Little Panda, fool him. He commands that they cancel all curiosity. (This costs the entire Neighborhood a chance to see a rolled-up piece of paper Mayor Maggie has brought.)
Rogers makes a shaker out of small lid tops and a can before seeing several homemade instruments played at Negri's Music Shop. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Chuck Aber begins to build a truck frame around curious Daniel's Clock. Little Panda tries to show Prince Tuesday how to travel "the Purple way," but both get lost.
Rogers visits a friend who takes him on a "bucket lift" prior to trimming trees. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Purple Panda suggests--to Lady Aberlin's dismay--that Little Panda and Prince Tuesday may not be on anyplace familiar.
Rogers gives a final discussion on false faces (he holds up masks of King Friday XIII and Daniel Tiger). He then visits a new studio set--the toy-and-book store run by a new neighbor, Tony Chiroldes. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, everyone is still looking for Little Panda and Prince Tuesday. Betty Okonak Templeton uses a telescope, as do the others, to discover just the planet to seek. It is up to HulaMouse to rescue Tuesday and Little Panda.
Rogers reads his own book, Daniel Striped Tiger Gets Ready for Bed. Later in the program, he finds violinist Hilary Hahn at Negri's Music Shop. In between, nighttime grips the Neighborhood of Make-Believe with worry over Little Panda and Prince Tuesday.
Rogers immediately goes to see elephants, full-sized ones and a baby one. He also shows a video on how people make backpacks. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, an over-curious King Friday XIII asks that Cornflake S. Pecially build a machine to look inside of things.
Mister Rogers visits guitarist Manuel Barrueco at Negri's Music Shop. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Queen Sara gives HulaMouse a picture with several hoops and a few hidden letters.
Rogers witnesses a majestic ballet dancer and her teacher. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine reveals her plans for a new game show.
Mister Rogers arrives with a new toy truck and watches a film about different types of real trucks. Chuck Aber stops by with H.J. Elephant III and a book called I Read Signs. He talks with Mister Rogers about playing with puppets and beginning to read. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Aberlin discovers H.J. Elephant III knows sign language but H.J. is still hesitant to get involved in The Reading Game. Meanwhile, King Friday is not happy with Corney's "seeing inside things machine" even though it seems to work quite well for Neighbor Aber. Back at the house, Mister Rogers talks about your thoughts being your own before he sings You're the Only One. Before wrapping up for the day, Mr. McFeely stops by with a film about how people make homemade paper.
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 people make ball caps.
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 people make adult tricycles. In between, Cousin Mary returns to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe to show her videotape of various trees.
Rogers takes one last visit to his sand table, leading to a video insert of people playing with sand at a beach. Afterward, Rogers makes only the second trip to Tony Chiroldes' toy-and-book store. King Friday XIII pronounces the Neighborhood of Make-Believe will hold an art festival. That doesn't impress Lady Elaine, who appoints herself the art judge.
Just 2¾ minutes in, 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 creating a tiny mobile. Before we leave the Clock one last time, Daniel Striped Tiger suggests why Lady Elaine might be hurting people's feelings. The rest of the show is devoted to Rogers' visit to a lady's pottery (video insert).
Rogers makes his last visit to Negri's Music Shop. There he meets an expert playing the glass armonica (this is spelled correctly). In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, several discover just why Lady Elaine is hurting people's feelings.
Mister Rogers arrives with various drawings of the Trolley made by some young Neighbors. Sharing the drawings, he notices the differences between each artist's work -- even though they were all drawing the same thing. After he talks about sharing creations with other people you care about, Mister Rogers thinks of many people showing love in different ways. Mr. McFeely arrives with a video compilation of different types of artists which he and Mister Rogers share on Picture-Picture. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, the arts festival is ready to begin as Betty Okonak Templeton is looking for Lady Elaine. At Corney's factore, Mayor Maggie is wearing a smock and cap she has made for the festival. She compliments Corney on his contribution to the festival -- an artistic rocking chair that rocks itself. At the castle, King Friday is dressed up in a special robe for the festival. Neighbor Aber is about to demonstrate his festival contribution when Betty Templeton arrives having found Lady Elaine. Promptly, Lady Elaine arrives at the castle with her own masterpiece -- a portrait of most everyone in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. As judge of the festival, she awards first prize to all of the festival's entries including Neighbor Aber's contribution -- a Trolley attached to a parachute. Back at the house, Mister Rogers concludes by singing I'm Proud of You.
This rarely-televised special shows Rogers at his neighborly best, extending holiday wishes and attending a children's dance. Lady Elaine Fairchilde has a touch of Dickens in the invaluable lesson she is taught.
Betty's Little Theater springs a leak in its roof. To raise money to fix it, everyone in the neighborhood stages a performance. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine fantasizes about being a princess.
CGI rendering of the intro to Mister Rogers with encouraging message, using recorded audio.
Fred Rogers used puppets and play to explore complex social issues: race, disability, equality and tragedy, helping form the American concept of childhood. He spoke directly to children and they responded enthusiastically. Yet today, his impact is unclear. Have we lived up to Fred's ideal of good neighbors?
