Name: Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: Behind the Scenes in Make-Believe
Uploaded: 1974-05-08T17:00:00-07:00
Duration: 28 min 30 s
Description: Mister Rogers arrives with the puppets from the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. He explains that some things are pretend, and shows that he is the one that makes the puppets move and talk.

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Mister Rogers talks about learning to tie his shoes. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Mr. Negri meets with King Friday who instructs him to find Lady Elaine Fairchilde. Mr. Negri and Daniel ask Mister Rogers for his help.

Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

The First Week: The First Program

Mister Rogers encourages viewers to be imaginative as they play. He uses a burlap bag for a variety of things including a table cloth and a cape. Lady Aberlin stops by to talk about recent events in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.

The First Week: King Friday Challenges Change

Mister Rogers arrives with a package he was given by Chef Brockett and opens it to find only a note inside. Still curious about what Chef Brockett will be bringing, Mister Rogers asks Picture Picture for help.

The First Week: A Cake Fit for a King

Mister Rogers arrives with a playpen and a blanket to set up for a puppy. Mr. McFeely arrives with a delivery from King Friday.

The First Week: Fun and Frolic

Mister Rogers talks about feathers, balloons, and other floating things with the help of the Picture. Lady Aberlin has an idea to use the balloons to encourage peace in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. She practices with Mister Rogers.

The First Week: End of the First Week

Mister Rogers talks about fairytales. He reads Little Red Riding Hood. Mr. McFeely stops by and shows a gift that was given to him for his birthday. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Aberlin pretends she is Little Red Riding Hood.

Mister Rogers Shares Fairytales

The Neighborhood of Make-Believe celebrates a peace party and honors Lynda Martha as a guest, while Lady Elaine Fairchilde dresses up as a dove of peace.

A Peace Party Celebration

Mister Rogers plays audio tapes of a Neighborhood of Make-Believe puppet characters to make the viewers guess who is who. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Royal Coach Saunders plays hide and seek with Lady Elaine and X.

Mister Rogers Plays Guess Who

In the Television house, Rogers demonstrates the use of binoculars. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Aberlin dresses up as a snow goose.

Mister Rogers Uses Binoculars

Mister Rogers shows a film about how oatmeal is made. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Mime Walker performs at the castle for King Friday. X the Owl teaches Henrietta about bird watching. Fred's son, Jamie Rogers, works with clay.

How Oatmeal Is Made

Mister Rogers enters with a toucan in a birdcage. He offers the bird a banana and talks about its many features. Jewel Walker discusses his work as a mime. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, X and Lady Elaine talk about birds.

Mister Rogers Brings a Toucan

Mister Rogers begins at the porch, listening to a symphony rehearsing. Ballerina Marion Petrov performs. He sets up dominoes and knocks them down. King Friday is missing a painting.  Joe Negri finds it.

King Friday's Painting Is Missing

Mister Rogers arrives with drawing supplies and a record. Mr. McFeely brings a baby chimpanzee. Professor Fitzpatrick visits with King on Friday. Back at the house, Ms. Ivanov talks about her dance classes.

Mr. McFeely and the Baby Chimpanzee

Mister Rogers plays a pretend game with a picture, picture. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Dr. Bill Marchl visits X the Owl and helps Daniel fix his clock. At home, Vivian Richman brings a guitar and shares folk songs.

Vivian Richman Performs Folk Songs

Mister Rogers brings wood pieces and uses a hammer and nails. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Virgil Cantini shows King Friday his art sculptures made with nails. Lady Aberlin knits a sweater for Henrietta and meets Donkey Hodie.

Making Things with a Hammer and Nails

Mister Rogers introduces a donkey named Jenny. He feeds her an apple. Mr. McFeely takes the donkey back to the farm. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Donkey Hodie looks for a place to live. Mrs. Frogg and Lady Aberlin try to help.

A Donkey Named Jenny

Mister Rogers brings a clarinet. Clarinetist Louis Paul performs for King Friday in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Mrs. Russell visits Mister Rogers. He gives her a pinwheel, which she brings to Henrietta and Donkey Hodie.

A Pinwheel for Donkey Hodie

Mister Rogers brings a toy raft made from straws. He wears a sailing jacket and plays with the raft in water. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Scientist Alder checks wind speeds to help Donkey Hodie find a place to build a windmill.

A Windmill for Donkey Hodie

Mister Rogers shows a model windmill and takes a pretend trip to a real windmill. Judy Rubin visits with craft materials and windmills. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday gives Donkey Hodie permission to build a windmill.

All About Windmills

Chef Brockett makes two snowmen -- one out of ice cream and another out of cupcake dough. The one made of dough is for Donkey Hodie. Donkey Hodie is ready to break ground for the windmill.

Breaking Ground on the Windmill

Nurse Miller is providing yearly check-ups to those in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. At the tree, she examines X the Owl before moving on to the castle, where she sings “Once Upon Each Lovely Day” and checks Donkey Hodie.

It's Annual Check-Up Time!

Mister Rogers talks about wanting to wear glasses when he was a child, even though he did not need them. With her new glasses on, Henrietta passes her eye exam. X the Owl expresses his desire for glasses. Nurse Miller convinces X otherwise.

All About Eyeglasses

Mister Rogers has his eyes examined. After seeing the size of the windmill's arms, King Friday orders Donkey Hodie to find a new location “someplace else.”

King Friday Wants the Windmill to Move

This interview features Woody Straub discussing his hobby of repairing old furniture. X the Owl and Henrietta Pussycat join Lady Aberlin on a visit to deliver housewarming gifts to Donkey Hodie, who has found a new home at Someplace Else.

A Housewarming for Donkey Hodie

Mister Rogers talks about the excitement created by having a baby in the house. He shares a film about a 14-month-old child -- Jamie Rogers when he was younger. Jamie stops by the house and sings Tomorrow with Mister Rogers.

Mister Rogers Talks About Babies

Lady Elaine Fairchilde is trying to take Edgar Cooke's pillow when Nurse Miller explains that there are some things that people should not be expected to share. Lady Elaine leaves in frustration. Daniel has grown a new stripe.

Not Everything Should Be Shared

Mister Rogers arrives with a set of nesting boxes. He finds a thimble inside the smallest box. Edgar Cooke locked his pillow in the safe. Lady Elaine Fairchilde stops by and assures Edgar that she will never try to take it again.

Edgar Cooke's Pillow

Mister Rogers talks about weaving. Mrs. Mauldin shares some of her recent work on a loom and explains how it works.  A string quartet performs a piece by Haydn for King Friday.

All About Weaving

Mr. Grebanier plays a piece of music by Bach on his cello. Lady Elaine turns the Neighborhood upside down with her boomerang. X is unhappy, so Lady Elaine returns everything to normal.

Mr. Grebanier Plays the Cello

Mr. McFeely stops by with Pedro, a Mexican parakeet. Handyman Negri is nervous to play his song in front of King Friday. He is preparing to perform for King Friday when Edgar Cooke claims a lady in distress is being followed by a monster.

Mister Rogers Feeds a Parakeet

Mister Rogers talks about monsters and pretending. King Friday has installed a radar system to detect any presence of a monster. Handyman Negri reports that no one has seen the monster that frightened Sara Saturday.

King Friday's Monster Detector

Mister Rogers makes orange juice and sees "The Sad Monster Ballet," in which a monster is sad because he has scared everyone away. He becomes happy when he learns to be friendly.

The Sad Monster Ballet

Mister Rogers fills bottles to different heights with liquid and blows into them. Digger Digorum is in the neighborhood to explore the tunnels in search of the red monster. She has been summoned by the king.

Digger Digorum Explores Tunnels

Mister Rogers makes a tunnel from a blanket and four chairs.  Digger Digorum, Daniel and X see a flashing red light they think might be the red monster. When they find it is a red flashlight, they agree that there are no monsters.

Is That a Monster?

Mister Rogers shows how chairs are caned.  Corny gives Digger Digorum a rocking chair and Lady Aberlin gives her a blanket. The king gives her a citation for discovering that there are no monsters.

An Award for Digger Digorum

Mister Rogers finds two pieces of chalk on his porch. Peggy Lipschutz uses the chalk for drawing while Vivien Richman sings. Coach Saunders exercises with X and Daniel.

Chalk Drawings and Singing

Mister Rogers demonstrates running in place and lifting weights. King Friday wears his best crown for his appointment with Sara Saturday. She admires his eyes, not his crown. She has made him some custard.

King Friday Meets Sara Saturday

Mister Rogers is invited to a reception in honor of Sara Saturday. Handyman Negri doesn't have anything to wear so he goes to the Museum-Go-Round's men's fashion show. Costumes such as a caveman's fur are modeled. He decides on a tuxedo.

A Reception for Sara Saturday

Mister Rogers wears a tuxedo for the Sara Saturday reception. Lady Aberlin arranges the entertainment. King Friday does not immediately recognize Handyman Negri, who is wearing a tuxedo. They all hope Sara will come back.

Mister Rogers Wears a Tuxedo

Mister Rogers shows how  lining zips out of a raincoat. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, it is raining. Corny has closed his factory to look for a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Henrietta is afraid of the thunder and lightning.

All About Rain

Mister Rogers makes a paper airplane. Mr. Goldberg plays Bach on the flute for King Friday. Grandpere is starting a trading tower. Lady Aberlin trades a walnut X gives her for a chocolate bar. She looks for King Friday to share it with her.

All About Trading

Mister Rogers plays a harmonica.  King Friday tells John Reardon that he wants an opera on Friday. The opera is about missing someone. Reardon trades a song for Granpere's staff paper.

A New Opera for King Friday

Mister Rogers feeds a baby chimpanzee. Reardon auditions Donkey Hodie for the role of Prince in the opera. Henrietta wants to play a babysitter. Reardon is going to be Grandfather, Lady Aberlin is going to play Mother. X is stage manager.

Auditions for the New Opera

Mister Rogers brings a cape, top hat and opera glasses because it is Opera Day. In the opera, a baby prince misses his mother who is going out. The baby prince objects, but mother leaves him with his grandfather and a babysitter.

It's Opera Day!

Mister Rogers goes to the barbershop and talks about how haircuts don't hurt. Bernie Jessol shows Daniel some gymnastic tricks, then goes to get a haircut  Mr. Spampinato cuts Corney's hair and inspects the king's hair.

All About Haircuts

Mister Rogers reads a book about fur, feathers, and hair. Betty Aberlin borrows the book to take to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Marion and Nicholas Petrov dance dressed as X the Owl and Henrietta Pussycat.

A Book About Fur, Feathers, and Hair

Mister Rogers brings a dachshund. Chef Brockett gives Daniel an apple & leaves apples at the Museum. He gives applesauce to X and apple juice to King Friday. Mr. McFeely brings a French poodle. Chef Brockett & Mister Rogers bob for apples.

All About Apples

Mister Rogers uses drinking straws to blow bubbles in soapy water. Mrs. Rubin shows paintings done with straws. The trolley brings a letter from Lady Aberlin inviting Mister Rogers to the castle for a surprise. Paul Draper tap dances.

All About Straws

Mister Rogers plays a matching game with fruit. Mr. McFeely brings a battery-operated steam shovel. Grandpere's machine produces whatever is asked for. Henrietta wishes she could play like a boy and X wishes he could do things girls do.

Mister Rogers Plays a Matching Game

Mister Rogers scares Trolley by dressing up like a bear. A trainer from the zoo brings a live bear cub. Jewel Walker goes to Grandpere for a copy of the "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" storybook and mimes the story.

All About Bears

Pluto

Mister Rogers arrives with the puppets from the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. He explains that some things are pretend, and  shows that he is the one that makes the puppets move and talk.

Behind the Scenes in Make-Believe

Mister Rogers arrives empty-handed but takes a shoe-shine kit out of the closet as he enters the house. Going out to the front porch, he quietly cleans a pair of shoes. Chrissy Thompson stops by for a visit.

Disabilities: Using Leg Braces

For more than 30 years, MISTER ROGERS' NEIGHBORHOOD made kids feel like they were visiting with a trusted friend. The series explores early childhood themes through interactions with friends and visits to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.

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