The BEST episodes of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood season 5
Every episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood season 5!
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 - Birds and Flight; Importance of Pretending
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/21/1972
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.
#2 - Snow People (4)
Season 5 - Episode 49 - Aired 4/27/1972
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.
#3 - Snow People (5)
Season 5 - Episode 50 - Aired 4/28/1972
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.
#4 - Snow People (3)
Season 5 - Episode 48 - Aired 4/26/1972
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).
#5 - Snow People (2)
Season 5 - Episode 47 - Aired 4/25/1972
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.
#6 - Snow People (1)
Season 5 - Episode 46 - Aired 4/24/1972
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.
#7 - Lady Elaine's Purple Phase (5)
Season 5 - Episode 45 - Aired 4/21/1972
Lady Aberlin and Robert Troll must convince Lady Elaine of her rightful place in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
#8 - Lady Elaine's Purple Phase (4)
Season 5 - Episode 44 - Aired 4/20/1972
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.
#9 - Lady Elaine's Purple Phase (3)
Season 5 - Episode 43 - Aired 4/19/1972
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.
#10 - Lady Elaine's Purple Phase (2)
Season 5 - Episode 42 - Aired 4/18/1972
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.
#11 - Lady Elaine's Purple Phase (1)
Season 5 - Episode 41 - Aired 4/17/1972
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.
#12 - Lady Elaine Flies into Space (5)
Season 5 - Episode 40 - Aired 4/14/1972
Lady Elaine radios back to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, saying she will stay in space because she has made the most extraordinary discovery.
#13 - Lady Elaine Flies into Space (4)
Season 5 - Episode 39 - Aired 4/13/1972
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.
#14 - Lady Elaine Flies into Space (3)
Season 5 - Episode 38 - Aired 4/12/1972
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.
#15 - Lady Elaine Flies into Space (2)
Season 5 - Episode 37 - Aired 4/11/1972
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.
#16 - Lady Elaine Flies into Space (1)
Season 5 - Episode 36 - Aired 4/10/1972
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.
#17 - Show 1230
Season 5 - Episode 35 - Aired 4/7/1972
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.
#18 - Show 1228
Season 5 - Episode 33 - Aired 4/5/1972
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.
#19 - Telecan Crisis (1)
Season 5 - Episode 51 - Aired 5/1/1972
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.
#20 - Telecan Crisis (2)
Season 5 - Episode 52 - Aired 5/2/1972
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.
#21 - Telecan Crisis (3)
Season 5 - Episode 53 - Aired 5/3/1972
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.
#22 - Show 1249
Season 5 - Episode 54 - Aired 5/4/1972
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.
#23 - Show 1250
Season 5 - Episode 55 - Aired 5/5/1972
King Friday XIII wants to fool Lady Aberlin and others with a marionette of the king pretending to fly.
#24 - Show 1251
Season 5 - Episode 56 - Aired 5/8/1972
The Castle has lost its XIII plaque. It's up to Lady Aberlin and Handyman Negri to find it.
#25 - Show 1252
Season 5 - Episode 57 - Aired 5/9/1972
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.