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King Friday Challenges Change

February 20, 1968

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Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - S1 - E2

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.

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Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: Season 1 - 52 Episode s

1x1 - Change: The First Program
February 19, 1968
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.
1x2 - King Friday Challenges Change
February 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.
1x3 - Chef Brockett bakes a cake fit for a king
February 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.
1x4 - Early whimsy, fun and frolic in the neighborhood
February 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.
1x5 - The end of the first week
February 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.
1x6 - Feeling scientific
February 26, 1968
Title number 0006. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a large box in a lab coat. To prepare for his scientific endeavor, Mr. Rogers puts on a lab coat and compares various shells and shell-like objects, including a turtle shell, a conch shell, an armadillo's armored shell and a suit of armor. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Bud Alder compares oil-based and water-based paints. After sharing his wisdom with X the Owl, X teaches Lady Elaine various bird names.
1x7 - Different ways of thinking about birds
February 27, 1968
Title number 0007. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a birdcage under a blanket. In the Television house, Mr. Rogers takes care of a canary while, in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine is studying birds and learns from Lady Aberlin how practice is needed to learn anything. The "art lady", Mrs. Rubin visits.
1x8 - A “Peace Party” to celebrate peace
February 28, 1968
Title number 0008. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a Peace Party sign and a paper airplane. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe celebrates a peace party and honors sixteen year- old majorette Lynda Martha as a guest, while Lady Elaine Fairchilde dresses up as a dove of peace.
1x9 - People look and sound different
February 29, 1968
Title number 0009. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving in a hat with a stack of pictures. Mr. Rogers plays audio tapes of Neighborhood of Make-Believe puppet characters in an effort to allow the viewers guess who they are. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Royal Coach Saunders plays hide and seek with Lady Elaine and X.
1x10 - Looking closely
March 1, 1968
Title number 0010. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with binoculars in a case. In the Television house, Mr. Rogers demonstrates the use of binoculars. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Aberlin dresses up as a snow goose.
1x11 - Spending time together
March 4, 1968
Title number 0011. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with oatmeal and Picture Picture explains how it's made.
1x12 - A visit with a toucan, a mime and a French horn
March 5, 1968
Title number 0012. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a toucan in a cage under a blanket. Jewel Walker visits the television house, where he transforms into Mime Walker. He heads to Make-Believe, where he helps X learn arithmetic with a musician who is playing a French horn for X.
1x13 - Ask for permission to borrow things
March 6, 1968
Title number 0013. Mister Rogers sits on the porch swing listening to the symphony rehearse, and afterwards plays with two different kinds of dominoes. In Make-Believe, Marion Petrov dances for King Friday and Lady Elaine steals King Friday's painting of the Bluebird of Happiness.
1x14 - A visit with a chimp
March 7, 1968
Title number 0014. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with an easel, supplies, and a record. Mister Rogers plays the 4th movement of Brahm's Symphony No 1 and improvises on paper how music in a song makes him feel. Mr. McFeely treats Mister Rogers to a visit with Honey, a chimpanzee from the zoo. Professor Joseph Fitzpatrick is introduced to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe and he discusses Seurat.
1x15 - Talking about feelings
March 8, 1968
Title number 0015. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving and pinching his finger. Mister Rogers bandages his finger to prove that it is still there even behind the bandage. Vivian Richman introduces folk songs "This Little Light of Mine" and "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands". Dr. Marchl visits the neighborhood of Make-Believe for the first time.
1x16 - Making things for others
March 11, 1968
Title number 0016. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with lumber scraps and uses nails to hammer some of the pieces together to make a boat. In this episode, the puppet character Donkey Hodie appears for the first time. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, artist Virgil Cantini visits and shows King Friday some of his nail sculptures. Lady Aberlin knits a sweater for Henrietta Pussycat. X the Owl wants a gift too, so Lady Aberlin promises to knit him a scarf.
1x17 - Donkey Hodie comes to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe
March 12, 1968
Title number 0017. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with papers in his hand. A young donkey named Jenny is visiting Mister Rogers on the porch. Back in the house, he, Lady Aberlin, and Mr. McFeely play a game of Pin the Tail on the Donkey. In the Neighborhood of Make Believe, Donkey Hodie has just arrived and is looking for a place to live. He assures Lady Aberlin and Henrietta Pussycat that he no longer bites.
1x18 - Practicing and playing the clarinet
March 13, 1968
Title number 0018. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with clarinet in a case. Mister Rogers puts together a clarinet and plays a few notes. He talks about his childhood clarinet lessons and remembers that he did not practice enough. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, clarinetist Loius Paul performs for King Friday and talks about the importance of practice. Mrs. Russellite, played by Barbara Russell brings a pinwheel to Henrietta and is introduced to Donkey Hodie, who is staying in the Tree until he finds a place to live. The pinwheel gives Donkey Hodie the idea to live in a windmill.
1x19 - Looking for a place for a windmill
March 14, 1968
Title number 0019. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a toy raft made out of straws. He plays with it and other floating toys in a tub of water. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Scientist Alder is checking the wind velocity for Donkey Hodie, who is looking for a place with a good wind to build his windmill. He decides the best place would be in the hills behind the Castle, but King Friday objects because he wants his privacy. Back at the house, Mister Rogers shows different kinds of fans.
1x20 - How windmills work
March 15, 1968
Title number 0020. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a model windmill and talks about how windmills work. Judy Rubin, the “Art Lady,” shows some windmills made by children. She and Mister Rogers make windmills of their own. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Daniel tells Handyman Negri he thinks that King Friday is afraid of Donkey Hodie's biting. Maybe that's the reason the King won't allow Donkey Hodie to put his windmill near the castle. When Donkey Hodie convinces the king that he doesn't bite anymore, the king changes his mind.
1x21 - Groundbreaking for the windmill
March 18, 1968
Title number 0021. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a bag in which there are two tubs of ice cream. Chef Brockett is ready for Donkey Hodie to break ground for the windmill. Brockett also brings in a snowman made from dough.
1x22 - Nurse Miller’s check up
March 19, 1968
Title number 0022. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with multiple wooden boxes. Mister Rogers covers this episode discussing the White House and the U.S. presidents. Meanwhile, Coach Saunders and King Friday do exercises inside the castle.
1x23 - All about eyeglasses
March 20, 1968
Title number 0023. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a thin case of eyeglasses. Mister Rogers discusses the use of eyeglasses and Picture Picture shows how they are made. Henrietta also receives glasses from Nurse Miller.
1x24 - Mister Rogers gets an eye exam
March 21, 1968
Title number 0024. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with eye charts. Mr. Rogers has his eyes examined. King Friday wants Donkey Hodie's windmill to be built somewhere else.
1x25 - Donkey Hodie’s new home
March 22, 1968
Title number 0025. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a small house plant and transfers it to a bigger pot. King Friday is visiting with a man who restores antique furniture. Lady Aberlin, X and Henrietta bring housewarming gifts for Donkey Hodie at his home in "someplace else".
1x26 - Jamie Rogers visits
March 25, 1968
Title number 0026. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a baby doll in a bag. Mr. Rogers discusses growing and changes a doll's diapers. A friend brings his 5-month-old baby for a short visit. Nurse Miller also assures Tadpole Frogg he is growing at just the right pace. Mr. Rogers then shows a video of Jamie, his eldest son when he was 14 months old on picture picture. Jamie (a.k.a. James), who is now 8 years old, comes to visit and sing the "tomorrow" song with his dad before they leave.
1x27 - A baby doll bed
March 26, 1968
Title number 0027. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with toy baby crib. Mr. Rogers makes a toy bed and pretends to make a doll sleep in it. Lady Elaine also wants Edgar Cooke's pillow.
1x28 - Things that fit into other things
March 27, 1968
Title number 0028. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with nesting boxes. At the television house, someone sends a rather unusual box. After he locks his pillow in a safe, Edgar Cooke expresses his different feelings. Lady Elaine Fairchilde finds her special toy, which is a boomerang.
1x29 - Weaving
March 28, 1968
Title number 0029. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a small loom. Mister Rogers demonstrates the use of a small loom and takes a trip to see the large ones being operated by Nantucket Weavers. In Make-Believe, a four string quartet plays for King Friday. In closing, Mr Rogers sings and plays "Good Night, God" on his piano.
1x30 - Turning the Neighborhood of Make-Believe upside down
March 29, 1968
Title number 0030. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a violin and a viola in cases. After Mr. Rogers demonstrates the use of violins and violas, he invites Michael Grebanier to play his cello. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine has a new boomerang trick that is turning everything upside down.
1x31 - Red Monster Pt 1: A visit from Pedro the bird
April 1, 1968
Title number 0031. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving and talking about a trip to the zoo. Mr. Rogers discusses wild animals and Mr. McFeely brings in a Mexican parakeet.
1x32 - Red Monster Pt 2: No one has ever seen a monster
April 2, 1968
Title number 0032. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a box of masks. Mr. Rogers puts on various masks to prove he doesn't change when he puts one on. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe is trying to trace out what is believed to be a red monster.
1x33 - Red Monster Pt 3: Oranges for the ballet
April 3, 1968
Title number 0033. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with ballet art and a bag of oranges. Mr. Rogers gives some oranges to the members of a ballet company that is set to perform "The Sad Monster Ballet".
1x34 - Red Monster Pt 4: Musical bottles
April 4, 1968
Title number 0034. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a glass bottle. Mr. Rogers plays music by blowing across bottles of water. Mr. McDonald also makes a visit to play a section of Die Miestersinger on the tuba. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe summons Digger Digorum to search for the mysterious red monster.
1x35 - Red Monster Pt 5: There are no monsters
April 5, 1968
Title number 0035. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving and making a tunnel from chairs and a blanket. Mr. Rogers and Chef Brockett make their own tunnels from what is around them. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe finally concludes no red monsters are in the tunnels.
1x36 - Rocking Chairs
April 8, 1968
Title number 0036. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving a rocking chair. Mister Rogers visits Mr. Dennis who is demonstrating how to make rattan chair seats by hand. In Make-Believe, Digger Digorum bears gifts as she leaves the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
1x37 - Drawing with Chalk
April 9, 1968
Title number 0037. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with paints and paper. Inside the Television house, Peggy Lipschutz draws with chalk while Vivian Richman plays guitar and sings four songs, along with Joe Davidson on banjo, and Charles Kubelik on bass violin. Songs include a song in Hebrew, based on Psalms 133, "John Henry" and "This Land is Your Land".
1x38 - King Friday meets Sara Saturday
April 10, 1968
Title number 0038. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a bicycle handle. Mr. Rogers demonstrates exercises by using a stationary exercise bicycle and free weights. He then sings "I Like You As You Are". Lady Betty Aberlin tries out the exercise bike. In Make-Believe, Sara Saturday, who had been the damsel in distress a week earlier and frightened by the monster, is welcomed to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Lady Aberlin sings "Then Your Heart Is Full Of Love".
1x39 - What to wear?
April 11, 1968
Title number 0039. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a letter. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe is preparing to hold a reception party for Sara Saturday. Handyman Negri goes to a men's fashion show at the Museum-Go-Round so he can find the perfect outfit for the reception.
1x40 - A party for Sara Saturday
April 12, 1968
Title number 0040. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with two cut out S shapes and dressed in a tuxedo. The reception party for Sara Saturday takes place.
1x41 - Rain in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe
April 15, 1968
Title number 0041. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving in a rain coat twirling a bag. Mister Rogers talks about sewing, and shows a needlepoint creation of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Corny, X and Henrietta have various reactions to the rain in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Lady Aberlin and X sing "Creation Duet".
1x42 - Airplanes
April 16, 1968
Title number 0042. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a book about paper airplanes and sits on the porch to sing. Lady Aberlin gives X the scarf that she had promised for him after she visits with Daniel Striped Tiger and they sing "I Like You As You Are". In turn, X gives her a walnut, and she takes it to the new trading tower that Grand-père has established.
1x43 - Reardon plans an Opera
April 17, 1968
Title number 0043. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a harmonica and sits on the porch. Mister Rogers talks about missing people and plays a harmonica, then his piano. He plays about his feelings. In Make Believe, John Reardon appears for the first time. King Friday asks him to make an opera, and Reardon gets started on it right away. Back at the house, Mr Rogers shows how to write music on a chalkboard.
1x44 - Auditions for the opera
April 18, 1968
Title number 0044. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a milk bottle. Mr Rogers takes care of a baby chimpanzee. Reardon holds auditions for his opera while Mrs. Frogg provides the costumes. Sara Saturday has to babysit during the opera so Henrietta decides to be a babysitter in the opera.
1x45 - The Babysitter Opera
April 19, 1968
Title number 0045. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a box with a hat and cape inside. During Reardon's opera, Lady Aberlin hires Henrietta to look after Donkey Hodie.
1x46 - Visiting the barbershop
April 22, 1968
Title number 0046. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a briefcase. Mr. Rogers gets a haircut while discussing with the barber how it doesn't hurt. The same barber also cuts Corny's hair and a gymnast named Bernard is in Make Believe.
1x47 - Fur, feathers, and hair
April 23, 1968
Title number 0047. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a book of Fur, Feathers, and Hair. Mr Rogers reads a book that depicts Henrietta and X the Owl. They are flattered when Lady Aberlin shows them. Nicholas and Marion Petrov visit the Neighborhood of Make-Believe dressed up as X the Owl and Henrietta Pussycat. They dance in both costumes and in leotards.
1x48 - Apples
April 24, 1968
Title number 0048. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a dachshund and shows a book with all types of dogs. Chef Brockett, who is in apple-giving mood, gives apples, applesauce and apple juice. Mr Rogers and Chef Brockett bob for apples in the kitchen. Mr McFeely brings a poodle before they all leave for the day.
1x49 - Bubbles
April 25, 1968
Title number 0049. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a straw in his front pocket. Mr. Rogers uses drinking straws to demonstrate the use of blowing soap bubbles. Mrs. Rubin also shows paintings that were all done with straws. King Friday is missing Sara Saturday. Lady Aberlin invites everyone to the castle to see a dancer named Paul Draper.
1x50 - Playing with Toys
April 26, 1968
Title number 0050. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a picnic basket of fruit. Mr. McFeely brings over a battery operated steam shovel. Dr. Marchl enjoys Grand-père's machine because it responds to all French words. Marchl then talks with Henrietta and X about the way boys and girls do things differently.
1x51 - Bears everywhere
April 29, 1968
Title number 0051. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with stuffed bears. Mime Walker pantomimes Goldilocks and the Three Bears as Grand-père tells the story. Mr. Rogers also gets to see a real trained bear.
1x52 - Puzzles
April 30, 1968
Title number 0052. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a bag and a painting. In the Television house, Katie Lewin tells Mr. Rogers how puzzles are made. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Handyman Negri and Daniel organize their own play retitled as "Benjamin Franklin and the Three Bears" at the request of X.

1x1 - Change: The First Program

1x2 - King Friday Challenges Change

1x3 - Chef Brockett bakes a cake fit for a king

1x4 - Early whimsy, fun and frolic in the neighborhood

1x5 - The end of the first week

1x6 - Feeling scientific

1x7 - Different ways of thinking about birds

1x8 - A “Peace Party” to celebrate peace

1x9 - People look and sound different

1x10 - Looking closely

1x11 - Spending time together

1x12 - A visit with a toucan, a mime and a French horn

1x13 - Ask for permission to borrow things

1x14 - A visit with a chimp

1x15 - Talking about feelings

1x16 - Making things for others

1x17 - Donkey Hodie comes to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe

1x18 - Practicing and playing the clarinet

1x19 - Looking for a place for a windmill

1x20 - How windmills work

1x21 - Groundbreaking for the windmill

1x22 - Nurse Miller’s check up

1x23 - All about eyeglasses

1x24 - Mister Rogers gets an eye exam

1x25 - Donkey Hodie’s new home

1x26 - Jamie Rogers visits

1x27 - A baby doll bed

1x28 - Things that fit into other things

1x29 - Weaving

1x30 - Turning the Neighborhood of Make-Believe upside down

1x31 - Red Monster Pt 1: A visit from Pedro the bird

1x32 - Red Monster Pt 2: No one has ever seen a monster

1x33 - Red Monster Pt 3: Oranges for the ballet

1x34 - Red Monster Pt 4: Musical bottles

1x35 - Red Monster Pt 5: There are no monsters

1x36 - Rocking Chairs

1x37 - Drawing with Chalk

1x38 - King Friday meets Sara Saturday

1x39 - What to wear?

1x40 - A party for Sara Saturday

1x41 - Rain in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe

1x42 - Airplanes

1x43 - Reardon plans an Opera

1x44 - Auditions for the opera

1x45 - The Babysitter Opera

1x46 - Visiting the barbershop

1x47 - Fur, feathers, and hair

1x48 - Apples

1x49 - Bubbles

1x50 - Playing with Toys

1x51 - Bears everywhere

1x52 - Puzzles

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