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Private Notes
Rogers and McFeely go on a bus ride through the neighborhood, observing various hats certain people wear. None wears the hat Rogers brought to show viewers: a three-cornered hat from the 18th Century. Thus the dilemma in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Upon gaining interest in them, King Friday XIII orders everyone (and everything) to wear three-cornered hats.
Rogers dons the Bob Dog costume (inevitably fooling Marilyn Barnett). Later in the program, Mr. McFeely shows a videotape on how people make blue jeans. In between, Lady Elaine Fairchilde provides the only resistance to King Friday's insistence that everyone and everything in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe wear the three-cornered hat from the 18th Century.
Rogers sees Alan Morrison play the organ at a nearby church. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine Fairchilde squirts water at anyone who mentions ""three-cornered hat"" to her. King Friday hardens his position with a rule (one with a loophole).
Chef Brockett visits, explaining how he uses canes to walk following his operation. Later Rogers returns to see Alan Morrison play alongside a flutist and a clarinetist. In between, Betty Okonak Templeton visits the Neighborhood of Make-Believe with a way to break the impasse between King Friday XIII and Lady Elaine.
Given a portable sewing machine, Mister Rogers shows the stark contrast between clothing of today and clothes of the 1700s. Thus he visits a building in Colonial Williamsburg. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine and Betty Okonak Templeton exploit the loophole in King Friday's three-cornered rule. Finally, everyone else takes off those hats.
On the back of an old floor covering, a friend of Mister Rogers painted a map of the world. Rogers deomnstrates traveling from place to place, on boat or plane, and coming back. Later in the program, Dan Kamin demonstrates his mime act. He appears as a mime character in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
Three minutes into the program, the Neighborhood of Make-Believe finds a newcomer, Stephen Owl (X's cousin), in search of a tunnel believed to be in the neighborhood. But the bulk of the show has Mister Rogers showing the ins and outs of an ambulance.
Rogers gets a feel for shooting a basketball from a chair. This segues eventually to his visit with a wheelchair basketball team called the Steelwheelers. In between, more residents in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe join in Cousin Steve's search for a hidden tunnel. One clue comes from a scrap of paper.
Rogers uses a long piece of plumbing pipe to simulate a tunnel in which blocks and a car could travel back and forth. Mr. McFeely shows a video of his ""tunneling"" through a car wash. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday XIII hears of the search for the lost tunnel. Lady Aberlin finds all the pieces to the old parable about this tunnel, which is very close to X's tree.
Chuck Aber surprises Fred Rogers at his television house with what Rogers calls his ""piece of equipment."" It's heavy machinery used for digging dirt. Later in the program, Mr. McFeely shows a videotape on how people make tortilla chips from blue corn. In between, friends in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe discover the secret tunnel and learn where it goes.
