Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

- Season 1

(1968)

Mrs. Russellite sends an invitation to Mr. Rogers so he can see her lampshade collection at her home. Lady Elaine's changes to the geography of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe worry King Friday, who begins to impose new rules and restrictions on Make-Believe.

Mr. Rogers shows how a burlap bag can be many different things when one imagines it. After he turns it into a cape Betty (Lady) Aberlin comes to visit and he lends it to her for strength when she goes to visit her great-uncle, King Friday XIII. Meanwhile, King Friday worries about an invasion of people who want to change the Neighborhood of Make-Believe and drafts her as a border guard.

Because of the border guards, Cornflake S. Pecially refuses to visit the castle. King Friday, who is mindful of this, has a cake delivered to the castle to be cut up.

At the Television house, Rogers brings in a playpen and puppy. Mrs. Carol Saunders also makes her first visit. At the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday still wants to protect his province, so he sends Handyman Negri to install punch clocks at both ends of it.

After Rogers plays with them, Betty Aberlin takes some helium balloons to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Tagging them with a message of peace, she floats them above the castle. When King Friday reads the message, he ceases his efforts to stop change.

To prepare for his scientific endeavor, Rogers puts on a lab coat and compares various shells and shell-like objects, including a turtle shell, a conch shell, an armadillo's armored shell and a suit of armor. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Bud Alder compares oil-based and water-based paints. After sharing his wisdom with X the Owl, X teaches Lady Elaine various bird names.

In the Television house, Rogers takes care of a canary while, in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine learns how practice must be needed to learn anything.

The Neighborhood of Make-Believe celebrates a peace party and honors Lynda Martha as a guest, while Lady Elaine Fairchilde dresses up as a dove of peace.

Rogers plays audio tapes of Neighborhood of Make-Believe puppet characters to make the viewers guess who is who. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Royal Coach Saunders plays hide and seek with Lady Elaine and X.

In the Television house, Rogers demonstrates the use of binoculars. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Aberlin dresses up as a snow goose.

Henrietta thinks X always has been spending time with Lady Elaine. X alleviates it by inviting Henrietta bird watching.

Jewell Walker pretends to do a baseball game and then teaches X arithmetic.

Without asking, Lady Elaine steals King Friday's painting of the Bluebird of Happiness.

Rogers improvises on paper how music in a song makes him feel. Professor Joseph Fitzpatrick is also introduced to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe and he discusses Seurat.

Rogers bandages his finger to prove that it is still there. Vivian Richman introduces folk songs about feelings.

A sculptor visits the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Lady Aberlin also knits a sweater for Henrietta and X.

Rogers brings in a Sicilian donkey whose name is Donkey Hodie. Donkey Hodie is also welcomed to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Henrietta learns how he only uses his teeth when he eats his food.

At the Television House, Rogers talks about his boyhood days when he did not practice a clarinet. At the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Donkey Hodie stays in X's tree until he can find a place to live.

Donkey Hodie decides the best place for building a windmill would be in the hills behind the Castle. King Friday objects to this.

Mr. Rogers shows a model windmill to help explain how windmills work. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe decides they should prove to King Friday that Donkey Hodie does not bite anyone. This also gets Donkey Hodie to build the windmill behind the castle.

Chef Brockett is ready for Donkey Hodie to break ground for the windmill. Brockett also brings in a snowman made from dough.

Rogers covers this episode discussing the White House and the U.S. presidents.

Rogers discusses the use of eye glasses. Henrietta also receives glasses.

Rogers has his eyes examined. King Friday wants Donkey Hodie's windmill to be built somewhere else.

Lady Aberlin, X and Henrietta bring housewarming gifts for Donkey Hodie at his unseen home.

Rogers discusses growing and changes a doll's diaper. Nurse Miller also assures Tadpole Frogg he is growing at just the right pace.

Rogers makes a toy bed and pretends to make a doll sleep in it. Lady Elaine also wants Edgar Cooke's pillow.

After he locks his pillow in a safe, Edgar Cooke expresses his different feelings. Lady Elaine Fairchilde finds her special toy, which is a boomerang.

Rogers demonstrates the use of a loom and sees them being operated by Nantucket weavers.

After Rogers demonstrates the use of violins and violas, he invites Michael Grebanier to play his cello. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine makes a new boomerang trick which is turning everything upside down.

Rogers discusses wild animals and Mr. McFeely brings in a Mexican parakeet.

Rogers puts on various masks to prove he doesn't change when he puts one on. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe is trying to trace out what is believed to be a red monster.

Rogers gives some oranges to the members of a ballet company that is set perform "The Sad Monster Ballet".

Rogers plays music by blowing across bottles of water. Mr. McDonald also makes a visit to play a section of Die Miestersinger. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe summons Digger Digorum to search for the mysterious red monster.

Rogers and Chef Brockett make their own tunnels from what is around them. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe finally concludes no red monsters are in the tunnels.

Digger Digorum bears gifts as she leaves the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.

Outside the Television house, Peggy Lipschutz draws with chalk while Vivian Richman's song plays.

Rogers demonstrates exercises by using the handlebars from an exercise machine. Sara Saturday, who had been frightened a week earlier by the monster, is also welcomed to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.

The Neighborhood of Make-Believe is preparing to hold a reception party for Sara Saturday. Handyman Negri goes to a men's fashion show at the Museum-Go-Round so he can find the perfect outfit for the reception.

The reception party for Sara Saturday takes place.

Corny, X and Henrietta have various actions to the rain in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.

Lady Aberlin gives X the scarf that she had promised for him. In turn, X gives her a walnut, and she takes it to the new trading tower that Grand-père has established.

John Reardon appears for the first time. King Friday asks him to make an opera, and Reardon gets started on it right away.

Reardon holds auditions for his opera while Mrs. Frogg provides the costumes. Sara Saturday also has to babysit during the opera so Henrietta decides to be a babysitter in the opera.

During Reardon's opera, Lady Aberlin hires Henrietta to look after Donkey Hodie.

Rogers gets a haircut while discussing with the barber how it doesn't hurt. The same barber also cuts Corny's hair.

Marion and Nicholas Petrov visit the Neighborhood of Make-Believe dressed up as both X the Owl and Henrietta Pussycat. They dance in both costumes and in leotards.

Chef Brockett, who is in apple-giving mood, gives apples, applesauce and apple juice.

Rogers uses drinking straws to demonstrate the use of blowing soap bubbles. Mrs. Rubin also shows paintings that were all done with straws.

Mr. McFeely brings over a battery operated steam shovel. Dr. Marchl enjoys Grand-père's machine because it responds to all French words. Marchl then talks with Henrietta and X about the way boys and girls do things differently.

Mime Walker pantomimes Goldilocks and the Three Bears as Grand-père tells the story. Rogers also gets to see a real trained bear.

In the Television home, Katie Lewin tells Rogers how puzzles are made. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Handyman Negri and Daniel organize their own play retitled as "Benjamin Franklin and the Three Bears" at the request of X.

Rogers discusses Benjamin Franklin and reads about Franklin as a boy. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe expands their play into becoming "Goldilocks, Benjamin Franklin, and the Three Bears".

Alder demonstrates how heat causes things to change. X prints signs to advertise the play. King Friday wants a part in it and the title is expanded to "King Friday, Goldilocks, Benjamin Franklin and the three bears".

The Neighborhood of Make-Believe stages the play "King Friday, Goldilocks, Benjamin Franklin and the three bears".

Rogers brings in a basket of vegetables. Chef Brockett also shows cooked vegetables to both Rogers and the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.

Rogers discusses rabbits. Henrietta gets cheered up by a familiar face.

Rogers talks about the arrival of a new baby. Meanwhile, Corny is too busy to spend a lot of time with Joey Hollingsworth. King Friday is also unwilling to give too much time either.

Rogers demonstrates the use of three tools, a hacksaw, a hammer, and a screwdriver. Handyman Negri also fixes Rogers' sink. Tadpole Frogg expresses his sadness for thinking he had broken a fountain.

Rogers demonstrates using a clown marionette. A dance recital is prepared in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. King Friday tries to blunt the dance rehearsal by forbidding applause and moving the start time forward, so he can woo Sara Saturday.

Rogers makes mud pies and a dam. Professor Fitzpatrick illustrates the difference between a calm sea and a rough sea. Corny and Joey Hollingsworth dig a well for which Hollingsworth is assigned to sell rockers.

With pipes now carrying water into Corny's factory, Corny sends a water-filled goblet and cup to King Friday.

Rogers warms some wiener buns in his oven so that Chef Brockett and Mr. McFeely can enjoy them. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, everyone has turned their attention on the fire that has completely burned down Corny's factory.

Rogers discusses firemen. He also puts on a fireman's outfit. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe gets right to work, rebuilding Corny's factory.

Lady Aberlin, Handyman Negri, and X rebuild all of Corny's factory. Everyone donates something to help, including King Friday.

Rogers dictates how all toys do what you want them to do. His son, John, also makes his first appearance on the show to play with model antique cars. Meanwhile, at the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Corny's 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 changes some of the dedication.

Rogers attends a dance class taught by Miss Nelson and Bruce of Dimension 5 records, and is introduced to Bruce's "musical computer".

Donkey Hodie has had no visitors at his unseen home and wants some to come.

Everyone travels from the Neighborhood of Make-Believe to the unseen home so that Donkey Hodie can get 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, while Sara Saturday returns to the Castle for a dance recital.

King Friday and Handyman Negri take up a campaign against littering in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.

Lady Elaine is derided for throwing litter around as a protest. What she really has wanted is one of Chef Brockett's cookies.

Major Smith gives King Friday a citation to start the Neighborhood of Make-Believe clean-up campaign.

Lady Aberlin dresses up as X so she can welcome Miss Emilie, who has been ill for some time.

Dr. Marchl gets opinions from Corny, Mrs. Frogg, and Lady Aberlin. She is trying to cheer up King Friday, who has been missing Sara Saturday.

Lady Aberlin enlists several teenagers to try and entertain King Friday.

Handyman Negri is making a list for King Friday. At his instructions, Negri writes "Sara Saturday" on the S page and agrees that he will call her within a day.

King Friday gets advice on how to contact Sara Saturday. Once she is reached, Sara invites him to visit her at her home.

For a while, King Friday has been reluctant to see Sara Saturday outside the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. He finally comes to a decision on this.

John Reardon pretends to be a mailman while he visits the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. He sends a note that King Friday 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 both outside Rogers' television house and in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Lady Elaine is using the tents as the centerpiece for her upcoming opera.

Lady Elaine is beginning to develop her own opera, but Reardon has no idea what kind she is making with camping equipment. At Lady Elaine's behest, he gets his own covered wagon.

Lady Elaine is a campsite owner in the opera and is not pleased with some guests that appear.

After he brings in a kitten, Rogers and Miss Emile reflect on one of Vija Vetra's dances.

Lady Elaine won't remove the tents from the castle garden, so Handyman Negri dresses as a great crested grebe to try and scare her away.

Rogers has got a new aquarium. His first fish to go in it are two catfish. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Aberlin tries to remove the tents from the Castle garden.

Mr. McFeely brings two piglets into the television house. A visitor to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe coaxes Lady Elaine to move her tents to Someplace Else.

Having been away for a while, King Friday returns to the neighborhood bearing gifts.

King Friday announces that everyone will get a big surprise next week.

Rogers builds a wood frame. Handyman Negri is building a new balcony on the castle.

Rogers and Mr. McFeely take care of two ducks that have wondered onto 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. But the guest's identity remains a secret, and in her frustration Lady Aberlin accidentally turns King Friday upside down.

Lady Aberlin pantomimes the growth of a plant in the television house. She also presents a flower arrangement for Sara Saturday, who is revealed to be the special guest.

King Friday prepares Sara Saturday's room in the castle.

Mr. McFeely shows Rogers how to blow bubbles by using liquid detergent. He also gives out liquid detergent samples to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Meanwhile, Daniel thinks that King Friday and Sara Saturday will marry.

After Rogers tries on different shoes, Handyman Negri sees that communication with the Neighborhood of Make-Believe is intact. A dance teacher and her students also perform a few steps.

Mr. Farnham and his daughter Cindy Farnum 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. Mr. Anybody gives stones to several neighbors in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. King Friday selects a stone for mounting on rings.

The Neighborhood of Make-Believe celebrates Scottish Day.

Rogers shows the comparison between two different scales: one to weigh groceries and one to weigh humans. Nurse Miller gives physicals to the neighbors. Lady Elaine refuses to cooperate, turning King Friday upside-down.

Rogers demonstrates several types of different whistles. Mr. Anybody plays a whistle in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe and gives one to the Trolley.

Rogers pretends to give aid to a sick person. Nurse Miller also gives a shot to Tadpole Frogg who is sick.

Rogers talks of playing with toys and reads the poem of The Land of Counterpane by Robert Louis Stevenson. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Tadpole Frogg and Lady Aberlin pretend to roller skate. Lady Aberlin finds out that King Friday and Sara Saturday are in the R Room of the Castle.

Rogers makes drums out of tin cans and listens to a real drummer. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Mr. Anybody anchors a neighborhood orchestra.

Rogers demonstrates how the xylophone works. John Costa, who is on the accordion, joins Rogers on several song duets. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe orchestra holds a concert for King Friday and Sara Saturday.

Rogers discusses fairy tales. He reads Little Red Riding Hood and explains what parkas are. Mr. McFeely shows a parka his children sent him for his upcoming birthday. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Aberlin and Daniel play peek-a-boo, which involves some other neighbors. As a kind act, Lady Aberlin gives hoods to several neighbors.

Rogers is weaving a basket for Mr. McFeely's birthday. Bernie Jessol, Lowell Meek, and Akeba Blazia also perform gymnastics at the Castle.

Rogers brings in a mother turtle and a baby turtle. Miss Emilie shares a book about animals. She also shares with Corny and Henrietta what gifts they will give for Mr. McFeely's birthday.

Jan Zandhuis presents a small glass bicycle to Rogers that he made for Mr. McFeely's birthday. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Daniel has a gift for Mr. McFeely, but accidentally he breaks it.

Rogers' television house is the site of Mr. McFeely's birthday party. King Friday and Sara Saturday offer a gift.

Rogers discusses how a piano works and then shows a film on how people make pianos. Van Cliburn plays piano at the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.

Rogers shows how to express your anger on the drums. Dr. Marchl tells Lady Elaine Fairchilde the difference between reality and dreams.

Lady Elaine has trouble sleeping in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.

Lady Elaine wants to turn King Friday upside-down with her Boomerang, but it backfires and the whole Neighborhood turns upside-down.

Rogers pretends to ride a camel through the sand, while Donkey Hodie is bothered by sand blowing from Lady Elaine's sandbox.

Lady Aberlin and Handyman Negri don a horse costume in which they dance for King Friday and Sara Saturday.

Rogers shows how a foot measurer works. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe begins preparations for a fair.

Rogers displays an assortment of Native American clothing and witnesses Native American dancers. 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 a badge represents. He then issues a permit for the Neighborhood of Make-Believe street fair.

It's raining in the neighborhood, so Rogers brings in his umbrella. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe appears sad because the rain there is threatening to spoil the street fair.

Rogers, Chef Brockett, and Mr. McFeely decorate doughnuts. Joey Hollingsworth returns to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe and shares with Chef Brockett a magic recipe for peanut butter cookies.

Rogers shows how to use a pair of flippers and an inner tube for scuba. A scuba diver discusses the equipment that she uses. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Joey Hollingsworth and Daniel Tiger sail a boat in the Froggs' pond.

Rogers brings in light bulbs. Scientist Alder has flashlights and the batteries that make them work. X anticipates his gift from Joey Hollingsworth.

Rogers talks about all sorts of sports that are played with a ball (such as football, soccer and baseball). 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, saying that rules must be followed in boxing. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe has a surprise for Joey Hollingsworth.

Rogers discusses the difference between a rooster and a hen. He also makes a chicken marionette.

Lady Aberlin draws portraits of Corny and Daniel for a book 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 because he wants to see Sara Saturday in Westwood. However, he 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. She is about to meet with King Friday.