The BEST episodes directed by Bill Moates
#1 - Looking Back & Ahead: Play and Pretend Are Important; Making Bread
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 8 - Episode 65
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.
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#2 - Feeling Safe: Playing Safely; Talking Can Help When You're Afraid
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 8 - Episode 2
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.
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#3 - Show 1328
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 7 - Episode 3
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.
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#4 - Feeling Safe: Hide & Seek; A Mobile Home; Wanting to Win
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 8 - Episode 1
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."
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#5 - Moving: Chrissy Makes Tacos; Giving and Keeping
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 8 - Episode 43
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.
#6 - An Opera: Mister Rogers' Sister & Nephew; Opera Plan Begin
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 7 - Episode 41
Rogers' adopted sister visits with her two sons. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine discusses opera roles with John Reardon.
#7 - Potato Festival: Listening to Sounds; Disappointment & Other Solutions
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 7 - Episode 39
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.
#8 - Misunderstanding: Rare Musical Instruments; Wedding in Make-Believe?
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 7 - Episode 57
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.
#9 - Planet Purple: Firefighting; Small Fire in Make-Believe
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 7 - Episode 28
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.
#10 - Feeling Safe: Seat Belt Safety; An Organist; Small vs. Giant
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 8 - Episode 3
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.
#11 - Jealousy: Zippers & Buttons; Wiolinists; When People Go Away
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 8 - Episode 11
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.
#12 - Real vs Imagined: Visiting McFeely's Granddaughter Who Has Spina Bifida
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 7 - Episode 54
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.
#13 - Planet Purple: Waterfalls & Faucets, Controlling Water; An Oboist
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 7 - Episode 26
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.
#14 - Abilities & Disabilities: Film of Chrissy's Mainstreamed Class
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 7 - Episode 61
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.
#15 - Show 1332
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 7 - Episode 7
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.
#16 - Feeling Safe: Feelings about Hand-Me-Downs; Tap Dancers
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 8 - Episode 5
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.
#17 - Planet Purple: Everything's the Same on Planet Purple
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 7 - Episode 30
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.
#18 - Wishing & Pretending: Spinning Flax; Fears of Wishes Coming True
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 8 - Episode 16
Mr. McFeely shows Rogers leopard frogs. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Prince Tuesday wishes the Frogg family would visit.
#19 - Jealousy: Missing People When They Go Away; Sand Toys
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 8 - Episode 15
Rogers talks of the ways people can welcome others. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe welcomes the Royal family home.
#20 - Show 1334
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 7 - Episode 9
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.
#21 - Potato Festival: Repairing a Leaky Wooden Bucket & Making a New One
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 7 - Episode 37
Rogers gets a hole in a bucket repaired. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine wants to go into making maple syrup.
#22 - Wishing & Pretending: Practicing; A Juggler; Tadpoles to Frogs
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 8 - Episode 17
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.
#23 - Wishing and Pretending (4)
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 8 - Episode 19
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.""
#24 - Potato Festival: Crafts of Throwaways; Harvest Time & Being Thankful
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 7 - Episode 40
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.
#25 - Wishing and Pretending (5)
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 8 - Episode 20
Rogers and McFeely take tickets at the Brown's Marionette Studio and watch the Browns' production of Little Red Riding Hood.
#26 - An Opera: Washboard & Kazoo Music; Choosing Roles for Opera
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 7 - Episode 42
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.
#27 - Show 1342
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 7 - Episode 17
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.
#28 - An Opera: What Do Backs of Things Look Like?
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 7 - Episode 43
Francois Clemmons demonstrates his camera to Rogers. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Clemmons asks to be a photographer in the opera.
#29 - A New Friend: Hearing Aid; Deaf Child at Play; Photography
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 7 - Episode 50
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.
#30 - Show 1349
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 7 - Episode 24
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.
#31 - Real vs Imagined: Chrissy, McFeely's Grandchild, Helps Make Lunch
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 7 - Episode 55
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.
#32 - Show 1330
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 7 - Episode 5
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.
#33 - Misunderstanding: Mister Rogers Can't See Audience through TV
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 7 - Episode 58
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.
#34 - Planet Purple: Things Don't Go On & Off by Magic; Zitar Music
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 7 - Episode 27
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.
#35 - Abilities & Disabilities: Making Up Your Own Stories and Plays
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 7 - Episode 65
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.
#36 - Feeling Safe: Removing a Spot; Inkblots; Calm Things
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 8 - Episode 4
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.
#37 - Planet Purple: Julia Child Makes Spaghetti; Smokey Bear & Safety
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 7 - Episode 29
Julia Child makes spaghetti Marco Polo at Brockett's Bakery. Smokey Bear visits the Neighborhood of Make-Believe to console Henrietta Pussycat.
#38 - Show 1399
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 8 - Episode 9
Rogers compares a chromaharp and a standing harp.
#39 - Show 1333
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 7 - Episode 8
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.
#40 - Jealousy: Elephant Statues; Feeling Jealous; Making a Terrarium
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 8 - Episode 13
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.
#41 - Planet Purple: Eyeglasses; People Have Several Names
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 7 - Episode 33
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.
#42 - An Opera: Neighborhood Opera: "All in the Laundry"
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 7 - Episode 45
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.
#43 - Wishing & Pretending: Modeling Dough; A Sculptor; Wishing vs. Doing
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 8 - Episode 18
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.
#44 - Potato Festival: Native American Family-Friendship Dance; Woodpeckers
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 7 - Episode 38
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.
#45 - The Missing Clock (5)
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 7 - Episode 15
Sam Senkow introduces the game of story tag to Rogers. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Mr. Allmine returns Daniel's Clock.
#46 - Show 1346
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 7 - Episode 21
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).
#47 - A New Friend: Tim Scanlon, Deaf Visitor; Communication
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 7 - Episode 46
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.
#48 - A New Friend: Theater of the Deaf; Pantomimes
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 7 - Episode 47
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.
#49 - Show 1347
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 7 - Episode 22
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.
#50 - A New Friend: It Can Be Hard to Understand Deaf People
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 7 - Episode 48
Rogers dyes some Easter eggs. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, X prints all sorts of signs after Professor Scanlon's lessons.