The BEST episodes of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood season 3
Every episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood season 3!
Fred Rogers hosts this children's television program that teaches children the important issues of life, such as being friendly, sharing, etc. Also features an imaginary world with puppets living in a medieval-type kingdom.
#1 - Shoes
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 2/16/1970
Rogers shines his shoes. The Pittsburgh Junior Tamburitzans visits the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, and Bob Dog emerges to dance with them.
#2 - Uses for an Empty Shoe Box
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/17/1970
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.
#3 - A New Baby on the Way
Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/2/1970
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.
#4 - A Visit with Johnny Costa
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/18/1970
Johnny Costa and his grandson visit Rogers' television house and the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
#5 - Growing from a Baby into an Adult
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/19/1970
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.
#6 - Still There, Underneath
Season 3 - Episode 49 - Aired 4/9/1970
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.
#7 - Death of a Goldfish
Season 3 - Episode 36 - Aired 3/23/1970
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.
#8 - The Fortune Telling Game
Season 3 - Episode 48 - Aired 4/8/1970
Mr. McFeely delivers a fortune teller's costume, which Mr. Anybody wears to predict the future.
#9 - Waiting for Time to Pass
Season 3 - Episode 47 - Aired 4/7/1970
Dr. Bill Platypus talks about time to X and Henrietta, who discover the newborn platypus is too small to play with them.
#10 - Seashells and Shapes
Season 3 - Episode 46 - Aired 4/6/1970
Robert Troll visits to see baby Ana Platypus, as do X and Henrietta.
#11 - Plays Are Playing Pretend
Season 3 - Episode 45 - Aired 4/3/1970
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.
#12 - Play Day With Pets
Season 3 - Episode 44 - Aired 4/2/1970
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.
#13 - Scary, Mad Wishes
Season 3 - Episode 43 - Aired 4/1/1970
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.
#14 - Suitcases Rock
Season 3 - Episode 42 - Aired 3/31/1970
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.
#15 - Playing With a Suitcase
Season 3 - Episode 41 - Aired 3/30/1970
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.
#16 - Johnny Costa Plays Accordion
Season 3 - Episode 40 - Aired 3/27/1970
Handyman Negri is among those with a gift for the baby Platypus. It's a song to fit her name, Ornithorhynchus anatinus.
#17 - The Baby Platypus Hatches
Season 3 - Episode 39 - Aired 3/26/1970
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.
#18 - Waiting for the Egg to Hatch
Season 3 - Episode 38 - Aired 3/25/1970
Lady Aberlin finds everybody except Lady Elaine is at the Platypus Mound, waiting for the egg to hatch.
#19 - Tamburitzans Perform at Negri's Music Shop
Season 3 - Episode 37 - Aired 3/24/1970
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.
#20 - Orange You Glad It’s Real Juice
Season 3 - Episode 65 - Aired 5/1/1970
Rogers and Chef Brockett play games in which one doesn't see, but hears or feels.
#21 - Loving a Puppy
Season 3 - Episode 50 - Aired 4/10/1970
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.
#22 - Sharing and Preparing
Season 3 - Episode 51 - Aired 4/13/1970
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.
#23 - Prince Tuesday Is Born
Season 3 - Episode 52 - Aired 4/14/1970
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.
#24 - Gifts for the New Baby
Season 3 - Episode 53 - Aired 4/15/1970
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.
#25 - The Resting Queen
Season 3 - Episode 54 - Aired 4/16/1970
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.