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United States | | No. of episodes | 895 | | Production | | Running time | Aprox. 28 minutes (No Commercials) | | Broadcast | | Original channel | NET (1968–1970), PBS (1970-2001) | | Original run | February 19, 1968 – August 31, 2001 | | External links | | IMDb profile | Mister Rogers' Neighborhood or Mister Rogers is an American children's television series that was created and hosted by Fred Rogers. Mister Rogers' Neighborhood was produced by Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA public broadcaster WQED and Rogers' non-profit production company Family Communications, Inc.[1] (named Small World Enterprises prior to 1971). It is the longest running series on PBS. (Sesame Street began a year and a half later.) Image File history File links This is a copyrighted promotional photo with a known source. ...
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The Reverend Frederick McFeely Fred Rogers (March 20, 1928 â February 27, 2003) was an American educator, minister, songwriter and television host. ...
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History of the show
The series began in 1962 as Mister Rogers, a 15-minute program on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Ernie Coombs, a.k.a. Mister Dressup, got his start as a puppeteer on Mister Rogers. Year 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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The first broadcast of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood was on the National Educational Television network on February 19, 1968. When NET ceased broadcasting in 1970, the series moved to PBS. The first series of episodes were produced and aired from 1968 to 1976. The second series of episodes were produced and aired from 1970 to 2001 (modern series). The color NET logo was incorporated into a model building at the beginning and end of Mister Rogers Neighborhood from 1969 to 1970. ...
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Mister Rogers' Neighborhood was characterized by its quiet simplicity and gentleness. Episodes did not have a plot, and consisted of Rogers speaking directly to the viewer about various issues, taking the viewer on tours of factories, demonstrating experiments, crafts, and music, and interacting with his friends. The half-hour episodes were punctuated by a puppet segment chronicling occurrences in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. An animatronic version of Daniel Stripèd Tiger The Neighborhood of Make-Believe is the fictional kingdom inhabited by the hand puppet characters on the childrens television program Mister Rogers Neighborhood, produced from 1968 to 2001. ...
At the beginning of each episode, Fred Rogers enters his television studio house, singing "Won't You Be My Neighbor?" He hangs his coat in a closet and puts on a cardigan sweater and removes his dress shoes to put on sneakers. One of Rogers' sweaters now hangs in the Smithsonian Institution, a testament to the cultural influence of his simple daily ritual.[2] A cardigan is a type of sweater/jumper with buttons or zips down the front; by contrast, a pullover does not open in front, but forms a solid tube around the torso. ...
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Starting in 1979, episodes were grouped into week-long series, with each series focused on a particular topic. Rogers' monologues throughout the week explore various facets of the topic, and the ongoing story from the Neighborhood of Make-Believe serves as illustration. Rogers covered a broad range of topics over the years, and the series did not gloss over issues that other children's programming avoided. In fact, Rogers endeared many when, on March 23, 1970, he dealt with the death of one of his pet goldfish. The series also dealt with competition, divorce and war. Rogers returned to the topic of anger regularly and focused on peaceful ways of dealing with angry feelings. is the 82nd day of the year (83rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Mister Rogers always made a clear distinction between the realistic world of his television neighborhood and the fantasy world of Make-Believe. He often discussed what was going to happen in Make-Believe before the next fantasy segment was shown ("Let's pretend that Prince Tuesday has been having scary dreams..."), and sometimes acted out bits of Make-Believe with models on a table before the camera transitioned to the live-action puppet rendition. The miniature motorized trolley, with its accompanying piano theme music, was the only element that appeared regularly in both the realistic world and Make-Believe: it was used to transport viewers from one realm to the other. Rogers, however, was mentioned from time to time in Make-Believe, particularly by Mr. McFeeley, who appeared occasionally in the Make-Believe segments and seemed to form a link between the two worlds. This article refers to public transport vehicles running on rails. ...
This reality/fantasy distinction put Rogers' series in sharp contrast with other children's series, such as fellow PBS program Sesame Street, which freely mixed realistic and fantastic elements. Sesame Street is an American educational childrens television series for preschoolers and is a pioneer of the contemporary educational television standard, combining both education and entertainment. ...
The series was also notable for its use of jazz-inspired music, mostly arranged and performed by Rogers' long-time friend Johnny Costa, until Costa's death in 1996, when he was succeeded by Michael Moricz for the remainder of the series. The music was unique in its simplicity and flow that blended with the series' sketches and features. The music was usually played live during taping. Lyrics and melodies were written and sung by Rogers—in total, he created more than 200 original songs. The final episode of the series aired on August 31, 2001. For other uses, see Jazz (disambiguation). ...
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When Fred Rogers died in 2003, PBS' website communicated some ways to make children not be scared about Mr. Rogers' passing away; it presented suggestions to parents on what to say to them about Mr. Rogers and how to approach a child who asks about him.[3] Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Broadcast history The first broadcast of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood was on the National Educational Television network on February 19, 1968; the color NET logo appeared on a model building at the beginning and end of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood from 1969 to 1970. When NET ceased broadcasting, the series moved to PBS. (The former NET model house was "remodeled", first to a small yellow orange sided house, and then into a red apartment building. The roof's lopsided slant from its days as a NET logo remained.) The series changed to its 3-worded name, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, in 1970. The color NET logo was incorporated into a model building at the beginning and end of Mister Rogers Neighborhood from 1969 to 1970. ...
The final week of original episodes of the "first series", first broadcast starting February 16, 1976, featured Mister Rogers in his workshop, watching scenes of past episodes of his series, which he recorded on videocassettes and kept on the shelf in his workshop. On the Friday episode of that week, he reminded viewers that they, too, can watch many of those old episodes beginning the following week. is the 47th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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As of August 11, 1995, all of the episodes of the first half are no longer shown on television, since there is already an ample supply of the second series in circulation, and since many of the episodes of the first series have become outdated. Most episodes from the first half exist in the Museum of Television & Radio, including the first episode of the series and the first color episode. is the 223rd day of the year (224th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Reruns When PBS began rerunning the first 460 color episodes of the series in 1976, some of the early color episodes from 1969 and 1970 were re-edited with new voice-overs or footage. For example, in one 1969 episode where Mister Rogers demonstrates the noise-proof ear protectors that airport workers use on the tarmac, the film footage used featured a worker directing a United Airlines jet with its stylised "U" logo—which wasn't introduced until 1974. All of the episodes revised from the first series also included an extra segment following the closing credits, mentioning the episode number and additional companies that provided funding since these episodes originally aired, even though they had not provided funding at the time of original production. United Airlines, also known as United Air Lines, Inc. ...
Almost all of the 1979–2001 episodes are in active rotation on PBS. The only exception is the week-long "Conflict" series (episodes #1521–#1525), first aired in November of 1983 to coincide with ABC's airing of the television film The Day After, and designed for children to cope with the aftereffects of that film. The series/story arc covered the topics of war, bombs, and an arms race. The "Conflict" series was last aired starting April 1, 1996, due to the bombing in Oklahoma City in 1995 and again during the week November 12, 2001 due to 9/11. This article is about the American broadcast network. ...
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In that week of episodes, Corny's factory was making oddly-shaped parts for a project in Southwood. The king originally determined that they were parts for a bomb, so he ordered Corny to make extra "bomb" parts for the Neighborhood of Make Believe. Furthermore, King Friday had most of the human characters of the Neighborhood of Make Believe trained as generals, but forgot to train regular soldiers. In the end, they found out that the parts were for a bridge that the Southwooders were building and the Neighborhood was able to use the parts King Friday had bought to make record players. At the end of the Friday episode, instead of Mister Rogers singing the Good Feeling song, he sang a lullaby, "Peace and Quiet", wishing his television friends "peace". This was followed by an on-screen display of Isaiah 2:4: - "And they shall beat their swords into plowshares,
- And their spears into pruning forks;
- Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
- Neither shall they learn war any more."
On September 3, 2007 (Labor Day), the show will no longer be aired by some PBS affiliates to make way for the shows Super Why and Word World.
Funding From 1968 to 1976, the sponsor credits were part of the series credits; the ones used in the opening are silent other than the theme, and an announcer or Fred Rogers reads the sponsor credits aloud during the closing credits. From 1976 onward, repeats of episodes from 1969 to 1974 have additional closing sponsor credits over a still of the trolley with the series logo and episode number. From 1979 onward, the sponsor credits were in a separate segment at the start and end of each episode, announced by Fred Rogers. Only the sponsors' names were shown on screen. Credited sponsors include: Sears, Roebuck and Company is an American mid-range chain of international department stores, founded by Richard Sears and Alvah Roebuck in the late 19th century. ...
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Characters Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Characters on the series include: Mr. McFeely (David Newell) the delivery man, who was named for Fred Rogers' maternal grandfather, Fred McFeely[4]; Neighbor Aber (Chuck Aber); Lady Aberlin (Betty Aberlin); Marilyn Barnett; Chef Brockett (Don Brockett); Tony Chiroldes; Jose Cisneros; Officer Clemmons (François Clemmons); Music Director from 1968 - 1996 (Johnny Costa); Keith David; Mrs. McFeely (Betsy Nadas); Music Director from 1996 - 2001 (Michael Morciz); Handy Man Negri (Joe Negri); Sergio Pinto; John Reardon; Audrey Roth; Maggie Stewart; and Bob Trow. Other regular puppeteers included Michael Horton, Lenny Meledandri (born 1958 in New Kensington) 1980-2001, and Carole Switala. David Newell as Mr. ...
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Don Brockett (January 30, 1930 - May 2, 1995) was an actor, comedian, and producer and director from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, best known for his portrayal of Chef Brockett on Mister Rogers Neighborhood. ...
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Neighborhood of Make-Believe Here is a list of the puppet characters appearing in the "Neighborhood of Make-Believe" segment: Thirteen in-series "operas" took place during the course of the series within the Make-Believe segments.[4] Many of them feature American baritone John Reardon as a main character. Among these operas are "A Star for Kitty", "Pineapples & Tomatoes", "Key to Otherland", "All in the Laundry", "Potato Bugs and Cows", "A Granddad for Daniel", "Spoon Mountain", "Windstorm in Bubbleland" and "Josephine The Short-Necked Giraffe". Bob Dog was a character on the long running television program Mister Rogers Neighborhood. ...
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An animatronic version of Daniel Stripèd Tiger The Neighborhood of Make-Believe is the fictional kingdom inhabited by the hand puppet characters on the childrens television program Mister Rogers Neighborhood, produced from 1968 to 2001. ...
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Pittsburgh-area native Michael Keaton received his first major acting break as a "Neighborhood of Make-Believe" character in 1975. Keaton played an acrobat in a troup called The Flying Zookeenies that performed for King Friday's birthday. He was also in charge of running the Trolley.[5] Michael John Douglas (born September 5, 1951), better known by the stage name Michael Keaton, is an American actor, perhaps best known for his early comedic roles in films such as Night Shift, Beetlejuice, and his portrayal of Batman in the two Tim Burton directed films of the series. ...
Guests
Fred Rogers and Yo-Yo Ma discuss how music can be used to deal with angry feelings. Guests on the series ranged from cellist Yo-Yo Ma to actor and bodybuilder Lou Ferrigno of TV's The Incredible Hulk. (In a 2001 piece where celebrities were asked about their heroes, Rogers cited Ma as one of his heroes.) A 1968 visit by electronic music pioneer Bruce Haack resurfaced in the 2004 documentary Haack: King of Techno. Image File history File links Fred_Rogers_and_Yo_Yo_Ma. ...
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Guests on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood were often surprised to find that although Rogers was just as gentle and patient as he was on his series, he was nevertheless a perfectionist who did not allow ad-libbing;[6] he believed that children were thoughtful people who deserved programming as good as anything produced for adults on television.[7] Perfectionism can refer to: perfectionism (philosophy) perfectionism (psychology) perfectionist movement a utopian societal movement in the late 19th, early 20th century United States from which hails Oneida Society and which is historically related to the Modern Spiritualist movement. ...
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Rogers appeared as a guest on some other series. On the children's animated cartoon series Arthur, for example, Rogers plays himself as an aardvark like Arthur. Prior to this, Arthur appears as a guest in hand-puppet form in an episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. Bill Nye (the Science Guy) and Rogers also exchanged appearances on each other's series, as did Rogers and Captain Kangaroo. Rogers appeared in an episode of Sesame Street where he explains to Big Bird, that after he beat out Mr. Snufflelupagus in a running race, that even if one loses the race, that there are no hard feelings to ever break the two of them apart. Big Bird himself also appeared in one episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood in the Neighborhood of Make Believe. An animated cartoon is a short, hand-drawn (or made with computers to look similar to something hand-drawn) film for the cinema, television or computer screen, featuring some kind of story or plot (even if it is a very short one). ...
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Specials A Christmas Special aired in 1978. This special had François Clemmons introducing a storyteller and flutist friend to Rogers. They filmed a couple of narrated segments of the stories Francois' friend told. The special also had the Neighborhood of Make-Believe segment which shows how they celebrated Christmas. Even the trolley had a banner on the roof that said "Merry Christmas" on one side, and "Happy Hannukah" on the other. This special was aired every Christmas season until 1982. This special's opening and close have Rogers walking through a real neighborhood while the titles roll rather than the model neighborhood used in the series. Dr. François Scarborough Clemmons (b. ...
An animatronic version of Daniel Stripèd Tiger The Neighborhood of Make-Believe is the fictional kingdom inhabited by the hand puppet characters on the childrens television program Mister Rogers Neighborhood, produced from 1968 to 2001. ...
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In 1994, Rogers created another one-time special for PBS called Fred Rogers' Heroes which consisted of documentary portraits of four real-life people whose work helped make their communities better. Rogers, uncharacteristically dressed in a suit and tie, hosted in wraparound segments which did not use the "Neighborhood" set. For a time Rogers produced specials for the parents as a precursor to the subject of the week on the Neighborhood called "Mister Rogers Talks To Parents About (whatever the topic was)". Rogers didn't host those specials though as other people like Joan Lunden, who hosted the Conflict special, and other news announcers played MC duties in front of a gallery of parents while Rogers answered questions from them. These specials were made to prep the parents for any questions the children might ask after watching the episodes on that topic of the week. Joan Lunden Joan Lunden (born September 19, 1950) is an American broadcaster, most recently the host of the CBS Network reality series Wickedly Perfect, and prior was a popular co-host of ABCs Good Morning America from 1980 through 1997. ...
Legacy outside television - Ligonier, Pennsylvania theme park Idlewild and Soak Zone has an attraction called "Mister Rogers Neighborhood of Make-Believe" featuring a life-size trolley ride.[8]
- The planetarium show "The Sky Above Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" is a computer animated adaptation of the television show for preschool-aged children.[9]
- After three years as a traveling exhibit, the Pittsburgh Children's Museum[10] had Welcome to Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood installed as a permanent exhibit in 2004.[11]
- It is falsely rumored that Rogers was a sniper or Navy Seal.
- The music of the show was interpreted by an eclectic mix of modern artists for the 2005 album Songs From the Neighborhood: The Music of Mister Rogers. Other artists have paid homage to the show's music, including:
- "Hank and Fred," a song on Loudon Wainwright III's 2005 album Here Come the Choppers, deals with Fred Rogers' death.[12]
- "Intermezzo: M. Good v M. Trolley", an attempt by Matthew Good to play the Trolley's trademark music. On the track, he claims that "no human being can play that." It appears on the album Loser Anthems (2001).
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Parodies Fred Rogers and his television series are often parodied for their gentleness and kind demeanor. Notable parodies include: - The recurring Saturday Night Live sketch Mister Robinson's Neighborhood, which starred Eddie Murphy in the title role of a considerably grittier version of the series. He hosted the series from a run-down row home in a slum district. Like Rogers, Robinson's speaking manner was similarly stilted, although he constantly had to dodge the law and landlords wanting the rent. On occasion, Gilbert Gottfried appeared as Mr. McFeely.
- A sketch on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson featured Carson in a sketch as an evil "Mister Rogers" who, like Soupy Sales, wanted children to steal money from their parents in order to give the funding to him, if he still wanted to be their friends. (Soupy Sales received a week's suspension for this similar act on his series.) In addition, he used small dolls to explain what happens when the parents of a child commit adultery or have an affair, resulting in lawsuits and counter-lawsuits against each other. Fred Rogers, in real life, shunned this sketch as a direct insult to his integrity.
- A series of 1984 Burger King commercials featured "Mr. Rodney." Most of the commercials ended with the question of why anyone would go to any other burger place, to which he would respond, "even Mr. Rodney doesn't know that." Fred Rogers strongly objected to these commercials fearing that children would mistake the character for him, and they were pulled.[13][14]
- A sketch titled "Battle of the PBS Stars Part 1: Boxing" on the sketch comedy series Second City Television featured Mr. Rogers (portrayed by Martin Short) facing Julia Child (portrayed by John Candy) with Howard Cosell (portrayed by Eugene Levy) commentating at ringside. The fight is close until Mr. McFeely surreptitiously hands Rogers the loaded King Friday puppet which Rogers then uses to club Julia Child. Rogers is declared the winner despite the "weapon". Cosell states that it is a dark day in Mr. Rogers' neighborhood.
- The Flash animation Ultimate Showdown has Mr. Rogers as the winner of the Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny.
- In the Family Guy episode "Brian in Love", Stewie dreams about destroying the Neighborhood of Make-Believe and murdering Fred Rogers. Family Guy spoofed the show again in the episode "No Chris Left Behind" using puppets to further drive in the reference, portraying Stewie as King Friday. Stewie then complained about how a king can live next to the train tracks, yelling, "What is this, Mexico!?"
- Robin Williams has spoofed Mr. Rogers in stand-up routines, particularly the "Pop goes the weasel" routine ("Let's put Mr. Hamster in the microwave . . . that's severe radiation. Can you say 'severe radiation'?") from Reality... What a Concept.
- An episode of Hangin' With Mr. Cooper that saw some of the characters spending time in a jail cell featured a pyromaniac whose look and personality was modeled on Mr. Rogers. During their stay in the cell, he changed from shoes to sneakers several times.
- In Robot Chicken he was parodied as a murderous taskmaster, drowning a member of his crew in an artificial lake on the train track construct. The show was spoofed again in the episode "Celebutard Mountain" where Mister Rogers speaks Japanese and was voiced by Masi Oka.
- In The Simpsons he was parodied in an episode featuring many members of the PBS station hunting down Homer. A brief glimpse of Mr. Rogers shows him saying "It's a beautiful day... to kick your ass!", referencing his "It's A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood" catchphrase. Another episode features Bart and Milhouse discovering a lost tape labeled "Mister Rogers drunk".
- Garfield has a recurring television show hosted by Uncle Roy, and is similar to Mister Roger's Neighborhood.
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Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
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Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
is the 147th day of the year (148th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
is the 151st day of the year (152nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
is the 151st day of the year (152nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ...
is the 243rd day of the year (244th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
is the 151st day of the year (152nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
is the 58th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
is the 151st day of the year (152nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
is the 151st day of the year (152nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
is the 304th day of the year (305th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
is the 151st day of the year (152nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
is the 151st day of the year (152nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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