Episode List: |
Episode Name | Season | Year | Disc | Disc Order | Directors | Writers | Synopsis | IMDB |
1462: Mr. Rogers Goes to School | 10 | 1979 | 1 | 1 | Hugh Martin | Fred Rogers | Mister Rogers visits a first-grade classroom and shows some of the things children will find there, like desks. Children talk about their first day at school. In Make-Believe, there are lots of different feelings about starting school. | 8.6 |
1470: Superheroes | 10 | 1980 | 1 | 2 | Hugh Martin | Fred Rogers | Mister Rogers visits a construction site to learn how a backhoe works. In Make-Believe, the neighbors work together to catch the dinosaur. It's Purple Panda dressed up in a costume. Lady Elaine learns not to make jokes that scare people. | |
1477: Divorce | 11 | 1981 | 1 | 3 | Hugh Martin | Fred Rogers | Mister Rogers visits a pretzel factory to see how people make pretzels. In Make-Believe, the King and Queen have an argument, and Prince Tuesday worries he has caused his parents anger. He runs away to the home of his friend Daniel Tiger. | 8.3 |
1479: Divorce | 11 | 1981 | 1 | 4 | Hugh Martin | Fred Rogers | A visit with Dr. Earl Grollman, author of books for parents and children about divorce, who helps children understand that some things, like musical instruments, can be fixed, - but other things, like relationships, can't always be fixed. | 8.3 |
1480: Divorce | 11 | 1981 | 1 | 5 | Hugh Martin | Fred Rogers | Go on a field trip with Mister Rogers to see what it's like on an airplane. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe there's someone dressed as a clown who learns to feel good about just being himself. | 8.4 |
1482: Competition | 11 | 1981 | 1 | 6 | Hugh Martin | Fred Rogers | Mister Rogers visits an art museum to help children learn and appreciate art and artists. In Make-Believe, Henrietta Pussycat feels jealous and afraid of losing X's friendship. | 8.6 |
1484: Competition | 11 | 1981 | 1 | 7 | Hugh Martin | Fred Rogers | Mister Rogers visits a dance studio where football great Lynn Swann shows his football uniform and how he dances ballet. In Make-Believe the neighbors lost their football game and talk about their feelings about winning and losing. | 8.7 |
1498: Pets | 12 | 1982 | 1 | 8 | Paul Lally | Fred Rogers | Different pets are visiting Mister Rogers - Bob Trow's dog named "Barney" and a parrot named Daisy that Mrs. McFeely brings. In Make-Believe the neighbors are making all kinds of different gifts for Ana Platypus's birthday. | 8.0 |
1501: Creativity | 12 | 1982 | 2 | 1 | Paul Lally | Fred Rogers | Mister Rogers visits with a person who plays the spoons and shows a video of how people make spoons. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday issues a royal decree to build a mountain, and a baton twirler entertains the neighbors. | |
1502: Creativity | 12 | 1982 | 2 | 2 | Paul Lally | Fred Rogers | Mister Rogers visits an emergency room and shows some things that happen there- in the waiting room, the x-ray room and the suture room. In Make-Believe, the neighbors use their creativity to build a mountain for King Friday. | 8.2 |
Episode Name | Season | Year | Disc | Disc Order | Directors | Writers | Synopsis | IMDB |
1504: Creativity | 12 | 1982 | 2 | 3 | Paul Lally | Fred Rogers | Mister Rogers makes popcorn, then visits Negri's Music Shop to hear different kinds of horns. In Make-Believe, the King likes Chef Brockett's popcorn balls and insists that the Neighbors find a way to include popcorn in tomorrow's opera. | |
1516: Day Care and Night Care | 13 | 1983 | 2 | 4 | Paul Lally | Fred Rogers | Mister Rogers visits a child care home and talks with the child care provider about what it's like there. In Make-Believe, the King and Queen are going on a trip without Prince Tuesday. He thinks that maybe they're going because he was bad. | |
1518: Day Care and Night Care | 13 | 1983 | 2 | 5 | Paul Lally | Fred Rogers | Mister Rogers shows a factory tour of how people make balloons. In Make-Believe, the King and Queen are away on official business and Prince Tuesday is worried that maybe his parents will not return. | |
1526: Work | 14 | 1984 | 2 | 6 | Paul Lally | Fred Rogers | Mister Rogers takes a field trip to the US Postal Service to see how people design and make postage stamps. In Make-Believe there's a heat wave and King Friday plans the "spectacular" addition of a swimming pool. | 8.4 |
1527: Work | 14 | 1984 | 2 | 7 | Paul Lally | Fred Rogers | Mister Rogers visits a dairy farm to see how cows are milked and milk is bottled. In Make-Believe, a contractor helps King Friday plan a budget for a swimming pool. Ana talks about being sad that her father is so often away at work. | 8.4 |
1529: Work | 14 | 1984 | 2 | 8 | Paul Lally | Fred Rogers | Mister Rogers visits a grocery store. He explains that "nobody can have everything he or she wants." In Make-Believe, the neighbors must make a big decision because there isn't enough money or resources to do everything. | 8.9 |
1533: Grandparents | 14 | 1984 | 3 | 1 | Paul Lally | Fred Rogers | Mister Rogers remembers his own childhood and his grandparents and an old car his grandparents used to drive. In Make-Believe, Collette, Grandpere's granddaughter, visits and the King announces there will be a new opera. | 8.0 |
1585: Alike and Different | 18 | 1987 | 3 | 2 | Paul Lally | Fred Rogers | Mister Rogers and Betty Aberlin visit the circus to see acrobats, elephants and tigers. They go backstage to watch a clown put on his make up. In Make-Believe, Daniel's friends help him overcome his fear of clowns and other costumes. | 8.2 |
1592: Kindness and Unkindness | 18 | 1988 | 3 | 3 | Paul Lally | Fred Rogers | Mister Rogers takes a trip through Luray Caverns where he and a blind saxophonist play music. In Make-Believe, King Friday looks for a tutor for his son and is working on being kind. Mister Rogers talks about the importance of teachers. | 8.7 |
1594: Kindness and Unkindness | 18 | 1988 | 3 | 4 | Paul Lally | Fred Rogers | Mr. McFeely brings a videotape of how bicycle helmets are made. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe is surprised to see "Sir Thomas T. Tune". | 8.3 |
Episode Name | Season | Year | Disc | Disc Order | Directors | Writers | Synopsis | IMDB |
1606: Josephine the Short Neck Giraffe | 19 | 1989 | 3 | 5 | Paul Lally | Fred Rogers | Mister Rogers visits San Diego's Wild Animal Park to see lots of different animals including elephants, tigers and giraffes. They're much like the pretend ones the neighbors are talking about as they plan a special musical in Make-Believe. | 8.8 |
1639: Dress-Up | 21 | 1991 | 3 | 6 | Bob Walsh | Fred Rogers | Mister Rogers visits the Boys' Choir of Harlem, meeting young singers with disciplined voices who dress in fancy choir robes to perform. In Make-Believe, King Friday's crown is found after the Neighborhood is literally turned upside-down. | 8.3 |
1662: Love | 23 | 1993 | 3 | 7 | Bob Walsh | Fred Rogers | Mister Rogers goes to the aviary to see lots of different kinds of birds and talk with the ornithologist there about how he feeds and cares for them. In Make-Believe, Lady Elaine plans an exhibit and a "soap opera" about love. | 8.4 |
1703: Helping | 26 | 1996 | 3 | 8 | Bob Walsh | Fred Rogers | Mister Rogers visits B. Smith at her restaurant in New York and meets others who work there, too. Together they make a sweet treat. In Make-Believe, Lady Elaine has been gathering up every vacuum cleaner so they can't scare her. | 8.2 |
1715: Sharing | 27 | 1997 | 4 | 7 | Bob Walsh | Fred Rogers | Bill Nye "the Science Guy" stops by to show a science experiment using baking soda and vinegar to blow up a balloon. Mister Rogers shows a video of dump trucks at a construction site, and In Make-Believe, all that was lost is found. | 8.4 |
1736: Noisy and Quiet | 29 | 1999 | 4 | 1 | Bob Walsh | Fred Rogers | Mister Rogers visits the Westminster Handbell Choir and listens to different bell sounds - loud and quiet. Then Mr. McFeely brings him a video of how people make handbells. In Make-Believe, Henrietta gets a new bell -- with a loud sound! | 8.0 |
1744: Go Stop Go | 29 | 1999 | 4 | 2 | Bob Walsh | Fred Rogers | Rogers takes an extended trip to a fire station. The lessons learned there, extend to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, as several neighbors become volunteer fire fighters when the Platypus mound catches fire. | 8.2 |
1746: When Things Get Broken | 29 | 1999 | 4 | 3 | Bob Walsh | Fred Rogers | Mister Rogers uses a computer and suggests that children use imagination for what computers can't do. He shows what's inside a computer mouse, and there's a missing mouse in Make-Believe. Mr. McFeely mows a lawn in a "Funny, fast, film." | 8.0 |
1747: When Things Get Broken | 29 | 1999 | 4 | 4 | Bob Walsh | Fred Rogers | Mister Rogers visits the library to take out a book and sees children doing lots of different things like studying, reading and doing crafts. In Make-Believe, the neighbors find the missing mouse -- a Spanish-speaking, hula-twirling mouse! | 7.8 |
1750: When Things Get Broken | 29 | 1999 | 4 | 5 | Bob Walsh | Fred Rogers | Mister Rogers visits children and adult dancers who tell a story in dance. In Make-Believe, King Friday is genuinely sorry for breaking something in anger. Mister Rogers helps children know it's safe to talk about all kinds of feelings. | 8.0 |
Episode Name | Season | Year | Disc | Disc Order | Directors | Writers | Synopsis | IMDB |
1752: Curiosity | 30 | 2000 | 4 | 6 | Bob Walsh | Fred Rogers | Mister Rogers visits musicians who make instruments from found objects. In Make-Believe, the King has banned curiosity, but the neighbors can't stop being curious. And Mister Rogers is curious about how people make ice cream cones. | 8.2 |