The BEST episodes written by Fred Rogers
#1 - Shoes
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 3 - Episode 11
Rogers shines his shoes. The Pittsburgh Junior Tamburitzans visits the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, and Bob Dog emerges to dance with them.
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#2 - Misunderstanding: Mister Rogers Shows How He Works His Puppets
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 7 - Episode 59
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.
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#3 - Then & Now: A Dead Bird; Memories; Each One is Unique
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 23 - Episode 14
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.
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#4 - Noisy and Quiet: What You Can Do When Someone Wants Quiet Time
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 29 - Episode 4
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.
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#5 - Day & Night Care: Exercises - Care for Our Bodies; Balloon Factory
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 13 - Episode 13
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.
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#6 - Ready to Read?: Baseball Caps and How People Make Them
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 30 - Episode 10
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.
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#7 - Making Mistakes: Daniel Wonders if He Is a Mistake
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 17 - Episode 13
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.
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#8 - Angry Feelings
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 2 - Episode 56
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.
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#9 - Giving and Receiving: A Visit with Author Eric Carle
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 28 - Episode 1
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.
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#10 - 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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#11 - Trumpets and Triangles
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 2 - Episode 6
Rogers welcomes a trumpet player to his television house. Sara Saturday moves at the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
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#12 - Pets: A Visit with Real Pandas and a Birthday Parade
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 12 - Episode 10
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.""
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#13 - Playthings: Musical Playthings; Wanting Something Too Expensive
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 17 - Episode 4
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.
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#14 - Fun & Games: Hats for Fun; Folk Singers; Making New Friends
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 19 - Episode 6
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.
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#15 - Dance: How People Make Shows; Sam Weber, Tap Dancer
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 17 - Episode 8
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.
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#16 - Art: Picasso as Example of Creative Art; Spanish Singers
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 22 - Episode 2
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.
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#17 - Globes and Maps
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 2 - Episode 25
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.
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#18 - Fast and Slow: How People Make Strollers
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 25 - Episode 1
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.
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#19 - Fast and Slow: A Visit with a Gymnast
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 25 - Episode 4
Chainey Umphrey returns to the neighborhood to demonstrate more gymnastics. Those in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe tries to stop the Trolley and fail.
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#20 - Little and Big: Helicopters
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 28 - Episode 12
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.
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#21 - Go-Stop-Go: A Visit to a Fire Station
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 29 - Episode 9
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.
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#22 - Show 1277
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 6 - Episode 17
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.
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#23 - Fast and Slow: Rollerskating and Rollerskates
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 25 - Episode 2
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.
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#24 - What is Love? (3)
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 6 - Episode 48
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.
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#25 - Giving and Receiving: How People Make Carousel Horses
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 28 - Episode 4
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.
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#26 - Pets: Respecting All Living Creatures
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 12 - Episode 8
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.
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#27 - Discipline: Trying & Practicing; How People Make Piano Rolls
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 12 - Episode 1
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.
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#28 - A New Baby on the Way
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 3 - Episode 21
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.
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#29 - Popsicle Creativity
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 4 - Episode 3
Rogers and Bob Trow make popsicle-stick crafts.
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#30 - Show 1326
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 7 - Episode 1
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.
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#31 - Show 1327
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 7 - Episode 2
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.
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#32 - 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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#33 - Show 1329
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 7 - Episode 4
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.
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#34 - 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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#35 - 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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#36 - Divorce: The McFeely’s Wedding
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 11 - Episode 1
Mr. McFeely relives memories of his wedding. Previewing the Neighborhood of Make-Believe storyline, Prince Tuesday befriends a girl whose parents are divorced.
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#37 - Discipline: Keeping Promises; Mister Rogers Goes Swimming
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 12 - Episode 3
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.
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#38 - Discipline: Practicing; Olympian Peggy Flemming Skates
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 12 - Episode 4
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.
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#39 - Pets: Making Stuffed Animals
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 12 - Episode 6
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.
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#40 - Pets: Sometimes It’s Very Hard to Wait
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 12 - Episode 9
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.
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#41 - Grandparents: Trolley Museum; Homemade Trolley; Pretending
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 14 - Episode 11
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.
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Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 14 - Episode 12
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.
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#43 - Food: How People Make Tofu; Sharing Food with Others
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 15 - Episode 2
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.
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#44 - Food: Chef Brockett Makes Peanut Butter Snack
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 15 - Episode 3
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.
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#45 - Food: Truth Even Though Disappointed; Vegetable Soup
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 15 - Episode 4
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.
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#46 - Food: Costa's Homemade Spaghetti; Friendship
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 15 - Episode 5
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.
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#47 - The Frogg Family Moves
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 2 - Episode 1
Mister Rogers arrives with a blue circle which he compares to several other round objects in the house.
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#48 - Leaves
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 2 - Episode 63
Lady Aberlin has a magic leaf. When she says the correct words, her aunt will sing for her.
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#49 - Cooling Off in a Pool
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 2 - Episode 65
Queen Sara gives a lesson to Lady Aberlin and King Friday about understanding Robert Troll's troll talk.
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#50 - Uses for an Empty Shoe Box
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 3 - Episode 12
Rogers discusses the things children can do with a shoe box. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Queen Sara is escorted to Westwood to visit Dr. Frogg.
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