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Mister Rogers arrives with his ventriloquist dummy, Hischer Booptrunk. Hischer is dressed just like Mister Rogers and Mister Rogers spends a moment talking about he and Hischer are alike and different. On her way to teach a sign language class, Maggie Stewart stops by to invite Mister Rogers to come see Chuck Aber and his car at the Neighborhood car show. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday is playing the bass violin when his is visited briefly by a beautiful butterfly named Darrelle.
Rogers brings to the television house a set of children's books in different languages. Mr. McFeely brings a videotape of children's TV shows from three different countries. The longest sequence (four minutes) is from a popular Russian kids' show.
Robert Trow dresses up in his Bob Dog costume so that Mister Rogers can compare a real hound (which he brought) to a man in a dog costume. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, everyone except Prince Tuesday knows Mayor Maggie and Queen Sara will trade places for a day. This leads to the inevitable misunderstanding.
Jeffrey Gabel, a circus clown and cook, prepares strudel at Brockett's Bakery. In Make-Believe, Queen Sara and Mayor Maggie trade places for a day, or at least until a mix-up occurs with two clowns (Gabel and Brockett).
Jeff Gabel surprises Mister Rogers by showing a few peeps. Later in the program, Rogers goes to the circus, where Gabel puts on his clown make-up. In between, the Neighborhood of Make-Believe finds Lady Aberlin in a chicken costume, much to Daniel Striped Tiger's dismay. Aberlin gives sound advice to Daniel and to Nancy Caterpillar.
Mister Rogers closes the curtains in his television house to resemble nighttime. It's the perfect backdrop for Mr. McFeely's delivery: a video on how people make flashlights. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe has a nighttime story of its own. Lady Elaine frightens X the Owl with talk of stars falling from the sky.
Mister Rogers recalls his visit to a Russian TV studio, guest-starring on Tatiana Vedeneeva's nighttime children's show. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe still has to contend with Lady Elaine's talk of falling stars.
Mr. McFeely brings a firefighter's outfit for Rogers to try on. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Chuck Aber is preparing to scuba dive at night, but first he must help his neighbors in Southwood.
Tatiana Vedeneeva visits Rogers' television house and brings a videotape of how people make matrouska dolls. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe welcomes an unexpected visitor from the stars.
Mr. McFeely shows a video of different people doing their jobs at night. Dawn nears in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe and still no one can understand the night visitor.
Another client reprimanded Mr. McFeely for delivering the wrong tape (which Mister Rogers received by mistake). Rogers soon reassures Mr. McFeely how important he and his service are. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, a difficult King Friday hears that Prince Tuesday and his classmates at school were playing music. Friday decides that Tuesday needs a different type of schooling.
Mister Rogers and his saxophonist friend, Eric Kloss, visits a cave with Betty Aberlin as tour guide. This cave has its own organ, on which Rogers accompanies Kloss's sax. Events accelerate at the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, as King Friday has arranged for ""Sir Thomas T. Tune"" to be Prince Tuesday's new tutor. X the Owl's Cousin Mary arrives with a new Owl Correspondence School lesson.
Marilyn Barnett shows how to start jumping rope and invites several expert rope-jumpers. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday is ready to take Prince Tuesday out of the school at Someplace Else.
Mr. McFeely brings a videotape of how people make bicycle helmets (something no bicyclist would be seen without in all future episodes of this series). The Neighborhood of Make-Believe is surprised to see "Sir Thomas T. Tune."
Mister Rogers arrives with a homemade crown made by a friend. Before a visit from accordian player Guy Klucevsek, Mister Rogers uses his dictionary to look up the word "accordian." In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, X the Owl and his cousin Mary continue their OCS course in people watching. Meanwhile, Sir Thomas Tune gains a great deal of popularity among the school children and convinces King Friday to allow both the new schooling method and the old.
