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  • 1972-02-21T05:00:00Z on National Educational Television
  • 30m
  • 1d 8h 26m (65 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Children
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.

65 episodes

Season Premiere

1972-02-21T05:00:00Z

5x01 Birds and Flight; Importance of Pretending

Season Premiere

5x01 Birds and Flight; Importance of Pretending

  • 1972-02-21T05:00:00Z30m

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.

Rogers and Mr. McFeely do a bit of secret communication, with neither one understanding the other. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine is impatient with X's call for privacy while he writes poetry.

X is afraid others will laugh at his poetry should he read it aloud. Lady Elaine is eager to hear this poetry and is in position to hide her feelings about it.

5x04 Fears of Unfamiliar Things

  • 1972-02-24T05:00:00Z30m

While seeing the breads at Brockett's Bakery, Rogers learns how a bread slicer works. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe discovers a floating loaf of bread from the Owl Correspondence School. X registers himself for a course.

Bob Trow repairs Mr. McFeely's bicycle, slightly embarrassed because Bob doesn't yet know how to ride a bike. This pours into the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, as Robert Troll begins to learn to ride. This puzzles Cornflake S. Pecially.

1972-02-28T05:00:00Z

5x06 Encouraging Creativity

5x06 Encouraging Creativity

  • 1972-02-28T05:00:00Z30m

Audrey Roth brings three unidentified cheerleaders to Rogers' television house. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Cornflake S. Pecially must juggle tasks for Miss Paulifficate and a gift for Prince Tuesday.

1972-02-29T05:00:00Z

5x07 Separation & Return

5x07 Separation & Return

  • 1972-02-29T05:00:00Z28m

Rogers' son Jamie and a friend play with a toy on the floor of the television house. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Robert Troll starts a game of catch, but doesn't want to throe because he thinks no one will throw back.

1972-03-01T05:00:00Z

5x08 Help With Waiting

5x08 Help With Waiting

  • 1972-03-01T05:00:00Z30m

Rogers shows steam from a tea kettle. Later in the program Mr. McFeely shows him a steam engine. In between, Robert Troll plays ball with Lady Aberlin, Handyman Negri and Daniel Striped Tiger.

Corny asks Robert Troll to dump an excess amount of stain into into a creek. The resulting pollution leaves a bad smell and tars the Castle fountain. King Friday orders Corny not to manufacture until he can clean up the mess.

1972-03-03T05:00:00Z

5x10 Recycling Household Items

5x10 Recycling Household Items

  • 1972-03-03T05:00:00Z30m

Corny and Robert Troll need some help to clean up the paint stain that they caused. Lady Elaine uses her boomerang to return the paint to its can. Afterward, Mister Rogers goes to the McFeelys' house and Brockett's Bakery to see what can be made from scraps of old material.

Susan Linn performs her puppets, Audrey Duck and Cat-a-Lion, at Betty's Little Theater. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday plans to buy a large TV.

Rogers needs Joe Negri's help to get a crystal radio working. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Handyman Negri has to figure out why the TV set for King Friday XIII isn't working yet.

Rogers buys a TV set from Negri's Music Shop with a credit card. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday turns the TV set on, finds a program he likes, and implores that everyone watch it.

1972-03-09T05:00:00Z

5x14 Clocks and Time

5x14 Clocks and Time

  • 1972-03-09T05:00:00Z30m

King Friday commands that everyone watch a television show at the Castle. He borrows a TV set from Lady Elaine so that everyone (but he) will watch. Bored, everyone else leans toward Lady Elaine, who has a plan brewing at her Museum-Go-Round.

Rogers goes to traffic court to plead the case that led to his parking ticket. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine leads a march on the Castle to show that everyone has different interests.

1972-03-13T05:00:00Z

5x16 Show 1211

5x16 Show 1211

  • 1972-03-13T05:00:00Z30m

Rogers demonstrates the different sounds made from bells and crystal glasses filled with water. Joey Hollingsworth tap dances in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. King Friday and Queen Sara present Henrietta a bell for babysitting Prince Tuesday. The bell makes X the Owl jealous.

1972-03-14T05:00:00Z

5x17 Show 1212

5x17 Show 1212

  • 1972-03-14T05:00:00Z30m

Tom Flynn and the Southminister Bell Ringers perform at Negri's Music Shop. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Henrietta's constant bell-ringing proves a nuisance to X the Owl. But he won't tell why the bell annoys him.

1972-03-15T05:00:00Z

5x18 Show 1213

5x18 Show 1213

  • 1972-03-15T05:00:00Z30m

Rogers makes a musical instrument out of an oatmeal box, a large button, and some string. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Henrietta's bell is missing. This leads Lady Aberlin to talk to a jealous X the Owl.

1972-03-16T05:00:00Z

5x19 Show 1214

5x19 Show 1214

  • 1972-03-16T05:00:00Z30m

X wants to ask King Friday for a job. He earns the title printer of Royal calling cards.

1972-03-17T05:00:00Z

5x20 Show 1215

5x20 Show 1215

  • 1972-03-17T05:00:00Z30m

A plumber replaces the clogged elbow in Mister Rogers' sink drain. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe sees the same plumber retool the Castle Fountain so it can re-circulate water.

1972-03-20T05:00:00Z

5x21 Arts Foundation (1)

5x21 Arts Foundation (1)

  • 1972-03-20T05:00:00Z30m

A magician performs part of his act at Betty Aberlin's theater. He is seen again in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, but on harder times.

1972-03-21T05:00:00Z

5x22 Arts Foundation (2)

5x22 Arts Foundation (2)

  • 1972-03-21T05:00:00Z30m

Andrew Wyeth illustrates to Rogers the work behind an animated film based on Rogers' song You've Got To Do It. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe establishes the King Friday, Queen Sara Saturday Foundation for the Performing Arts.

1972-03-22T05:00:00Z

5x23 Arts Foundation (3)

5x23 Arts Foundation (3)

  • 1972-03-22T05:00:00Z30m

Rogers explains the size of things by having a tailor alter a suit jacket. Those in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe donate things to the Appel family.

1972-03-23T05:00:00Z

5x24 Arts Foundation (4)

5x24 Arts Foundation (4)

  • 1972-03-23T05:00:00Z30m

Lady Aberlin is asking those in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe to donate to the new performing arts program. Lady Elaine refuses to contribute until she learns what King Friday is donating.

1972-03-24T05:00:00Z

5x25 Arts Foundation (5)

5x25 Arts Foundation (5)

  • 1972-03-24T05:00:00Z30m

Mr. Appel is named the first recipient from the Neighborhood of Make-Believe's foundation for the performing arts.

1972-03-27T05:00:00Z

5x26 Show 1221

5x26 Show 1221

  • 1972-03-27T05:00:00Z30m

It's Mrs. McFeely's birthday, and Rogers isn't the only one giving presents. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine is trying to get attention, much to the dismay of her neighbors.

1972-03-28T05:00:00Z

5x27 Show 1222

5x27 Show 1222

  • 1972-03-28T05:00:00Z30m

Attempting to make a merry-go-round, Lady Elaine doesn't feel that her animals look perfect. Rogers introduces viewers to Elsie Neal's Craft Shop.

1972-03-29T05:00:00Z

5x28 Show 1223

5x28 Show 1223

  • 1972-03-29T05:00:00Z30m

Handyman Negri gives X the Owl a lesson in music history from the Owl Correspondence School. The record is an owl history music lesson that X had been hoping for.

1972-03-30T05:00:00Z

5x29 Show 1224

5x29 Show 1224

  • 1972-03-30T05:00:00Z30m

Bob Dog is saddened because Daniel Tiger doesn't want him near the Clock. Still, Bob Dog wants to talk with Daniel.

1972-03-31T05:00:00Z

5x30 Show 1225

5x30 Show 1225

  • 1972-03-31T05:00:00Z30m

Rogers takes some vegetables to Bob Trow. X the Owl wants to play the harmonica alongside the King's bass violin.

1972-04-03T05:00:00Z

5x31 Show 1226

5x31 Show 1226

  • 1972-04-03T05:00:00Z30m

Rogers helps Bob Trow inflate one tire of a tandem bicycle. Fog in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe causes Bob Dog to lose a stone intended for King Friday XIII.

1972-04-04T05:00:00Z

5x32 Show 1227

5x32 Show 1227

  • 1972-04-04T05:00:00Z30m

Astronaut Al Worden stops by the television house to show his space suit works. His scheduled arrival in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe the next day, prompts various reactions from the neighbors.

1972-04-05T05:00:00Z

5x33 Show 1228

5x33 Show 1228

  • 1972-04-05T05:00:00Z30m

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.

1972-04-06T05:00:00Z

5x34 Show 1229

5x34 Show 1229

  • 1972-04-06T05:00:00Z30m

Rogers and astronaut Al Worden recall the question-and-answer period they conducted with children about going to the moon. Worden shows the envelope of questions he took with him on his mission. He also appears in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, where Lady Elaine turns him upside-down.

1972-04-07T05:00:00Z

5x35 Show 1230

5x35 Show 1230

  • 1972-04-07T05:00:00Z30m

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lady Elaine radios back to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, saying she will stay in space because she has made the most extraordinary discovery.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lady Aberlin and Robert Troll must convince Lady Elaine of her rightful place in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.

1972-04-24T05:00:00Z

5x46 Snow People (1)

5x46 Snow People (1)

  • 1972-04-24T05:00:00Z30m

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.

1972-04-25T05:00:00Z

5x47 Snow People (2)

5x47 Snow People (2)

  • 1972-04-25T05:00:00Z30m

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.

1972-04-26T05:00:00Z

5x48 Snow People (3)

5x48 Snow People (3)

  • 1972-04-26T05:00:00Z30m

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).

1972-04-27T05:00:00Z

5x49 Snow People (4)

5x49 Snow People (4)

  • 1972-04-27T05:00:00Z30m

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.

1972-04-28T05:00:00Z

5x50 Snow People (5)

5x50 Snow People (5)

  • 1972-04-28T05:00:00Z30m

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.

1972-05-01T04:00:00Z

5x51 Telecan Crisis (1)

5x51 Telecan Crisis (1)

  • 1972-05-01T04:00:00Z30m

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.

1972-05-02T04:00:00Z

5x52 Telecan Crisis (2)

5x52 Telecan Crisis (2)

  • 1972-05-02T04:00:00Z30m

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.

1972-05-03T04:00:00Z

5x53 Telecan Crisis (3)

5x53 Telecan Crisis (3)

  • 1972-05-03T04:00:00Z30m

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.

1972-05-04T04:00:00Z

5x54 Show 1249

5x54 Show 1249

  • 1972-05-04T04:00:00Z30m

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.

1972-05-05T04:00:00Z

5x55 Show 1250

5x55 Show 1250

  • 1972-05-05T04:00:00Z30m

King Friday XIII wants to fool Lady Aberlin and others with a marionette of the king pretending to fly.

1972-05-08T04:00:00Z

5x56 Show 1251

5x56 Show 1251

  • 1972-05-08T04:00:00Z30m

The Castle has lost its XIII plaque. It's up to Lady Aberlin and Handyman Negri to find it.

1972-05-09T04:00:00Z

5x57 Show 1252

5x57 Show 1252

  • 1972-05-09T04:00:00Z30m

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.

1972-05-10T04:00:00Z

5x58 Show 1253

5x58 Show 1253

  • 1972-05-10T04:00:00Z30m

Rogers goes to Betty's Little Theater with an idea for Susan Linn's puppets to act out.

1972-05-11T04:00:00Z

5x59 Show 1254

5x59 Show 1254

  • 1972-05-11T04:00:00Z30m

Bob Dog is sad that Queen Sara is too busy with Prince Tuesday.

1972-05-12T04:00:00Z

5x60 Show 1255

5x60 Show 1255

  • 1972-05-12T04:00:00Z30m

Lady Elaine decides to turn the Nrighborhood of Make-Believe purple with her Boomerang-Toomerang-Soomerang. It does not sit well with the neighbors.

1972-05-15T04:00:00Z

5x61 Show 1256

5x61 Show 1256

  • 1972-05-15T04:00:00Z30m

Lady Elaine has yet to remove purple residue from Grandpere's sign. But the Boomerang doesn't seem to get it off.

1972-05-16T04:00:00Z

5x62 Show 1257

5x62 Show 1257

  • 1972-05-16T04:00:00Z30m

King Friday XIII sends Mr. McFeely to deliver things for the water skiers who will appear later in the week. Mr. Rogers watches ballet dancers and demonstrates a musical triangle.

1972-05-17T04:00:00Z

5x63 Show 1258

5x63 Show 1258

  • 1972-05-17T04:00:00Z30m

Rogers shows that even when things are hidden, those things still exist. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Mrs. McFeely and Handyman Negri look for Mr. McFeely. Lady Elaine helps a tired Mr. McFeely do his job (or so she claims).

1972-05-18T04:00:00Z

5x64 Show 1259

5x64 Show 1259

  • 1972-05-18T04:00:00Z30m

The McFeelys bring two African lion cubs to Rogers' television house. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Aberlin helps Handyman Negri with his tasks.

Season Finale

1972-05-19T04:00:00Z

5x65 Show 1260

Season Finale

5x65 Show 1260

  • 1972-05-19T04:00:00Z30m

Rogers and Elsie Neal make clay figures of a person and a horse. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Handyman Negri and Lady Aberlin, wearing a horse costume, give Henrietta Pussycat a ride. X the Owl must face his feelings about being alone.

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