Mister Rogers&#x27; Neighborhood

Betty Aberlin

Lady Aberlin

David Newell

Mr. McFeely

Joe Negri

Handyman Negri

Seasons

Season 1

130 episodes

Premiered Feb 19, 1968

Season 2

65 episodes

Premiered Feb 10, 1969

Season 3

65 episodes

Premiered Feb 2, 1970

Season 4

65 episodes

Premiered Feb 15, 1971

Season 5

65 episodes

Premiered Feb 21, 1972

Season 6

65 episodes

Premiered Feb 19, 1973

Season 7

65 episodes

Premiered Feb 18, 1974

Season 8

30 episodes

Premiered Feb 17, 1975

Season 9

5 episodes

Premiered Feb 16, 1976

Season 10

17 episodes

Premiered May 22, 1980

Season 11

18 episodes

Premiered Feb 16, 1981

Season 12

18 episodes

Premiered Feb 28, 1982

Season 13

16 episodes

Premiered Nov 15, 1982

Season 14

16 episodes

Premiered Nov 7, 1983

Season 15

15 episodes

Premiered May 24, 1985

Season 16

16 episodes

Premiered May 20, 1986

Season 17

15 episodes

Premiered Nov 24, 1986

Season 18

15 episodes

Premiered Nov 23, 1987

Season 19

15 episodes

Premiered Apr 7, 1989

Season 20

15 episodes

Premiered Jun 1, 1990

Season 21

15 episodes

Premiered Sep 5, 1991

Season 22

15 episodes

Premiered Nov 25, 1991

Season 23

15 episodes

Premiered Nov 23, 1992

Season 24

10 episodes

Premiered Feb 22, 1994

Season 25

10 episodes

Premiered Sep 26, 1995

Season 26

20 episodes

Premiered Aug 16, 1996

Season 27

10 episodes

Premiered Sep 5, 1997

Season 28

15 episodes

Premiered Feb 16, 1998

Season 29

15 episodes

Premiered Feb 15, 1999

Season 30

10 episodes

Premiered Sep 7, 2000

Season 31

5 episodes

Premiered Sep 7, 2001

Episodes

1–6 of 130

Ep 1

Change: The First Program

Feb 19, 1968

28m

Title number 0001. Opens with Mr. Rogers talks about tying his shoes. Mrs. Russellite sends an invitation to Mr. Rogers to see her lampshade collection. Lady Elaine's changes to the geography of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe worry King Friday, who begins to impose new rules and restrictions in Make-Believe, and builds a wall.

Ep 2

King Friday Challenges Change

Feb 20, 1968

Title number 0002. Opens with Mr. Rogers arrives with a painting. Mr. Rogers shows how a burlap bag can be many different things when one imagines it. After he turns it into a cape, Betty (Lady) Aberlin comes to visit and he lends it to her for strength when she goes to visit her great-uncle, King Friday XIII. Meanwhile, King Friday worries about an invasion of people who want to change the Neighborhood of Make-Believe and drafts her as a border guard.

Ep 3

Chef Brockett bakes a cake fit for a king

Feb 21, 1968

Title number 0003. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a package from Chef Brockett. Because of the new rules and restrictions in Make-Believe, Cornflake S. Pecially refuses to visit the castle. Chef Brockett delivers a cake to King Friday, who is suspicious of more changes, cuts the cake into many pieces to inspect it.

Ep 4

Early whimsy, fun and frolic in the neighborhood

Feb 22, 1968

Title number 0004. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a playpen and puppy. Mrs. Carol Saunders also makes her first visit. At the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday still wants to protect his province, so he sends Handyman Negri to install punch clocks at both ends of it.

Ep 5

The end of the first week

Feb 23, 1968

Title number 0005. Opens with Mister Rogers playing with a feather on the porch. After Mr. Rogers plays with them, Betty Aberlin takes some helium balloons to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Tagging them with a message of peace, she floats them above the castle. When King Friday reads the message, he ceases his efforts to stop change. The wall is taken down. Mister Rogers sings his special family bedtime song called, "Good Night, God" for the first time.

Ep 6

Feeling scientific

Feb 26, 1968