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Episode 12

Uses for an empty shoe box

February 17, 1970

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Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - S3 - E12

Rogers discusses the things children can do with a shoe box. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Queen Sara is escorted to Westwood to visit Dr. Frogg.

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Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: Season 3 - 62 Episode s

3x1 - The NOM Models Pt 1 - Models of the homes in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe
February 2, 1970
Title number 1066. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a box labeled 'clock'. Rogers presents a model of Daniel's clock and visits the man who designed it who is Robert Trow. At his workshop, Trow is finishing a model of the Castle. He asks Rogers to ring the bell when he leaves as well as when he arrives.
3x2 - The NOM Models Pt 2 - Wishes don’t come true just by wishing
February 3, 1970
Title number 1067. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with some slides of trees. Mr. McFeely delivers Bob Trow's model of X's Tree. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, X learns that wishing doesn't make things come true.
3x3 - The NOM Models Pt 3 - A handy lady
February 4, 1970
Title number 1068. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with book of caricatures. Rogers puts signs outside his front and back doors advising visitors to knock or ring. He also receives Bob Trow's model of the Museum-Go-Round.
3x4 - The NOM Models Pt 4 - Learning about police work
February 5, 1970
Title number 1069. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a big box containing Bob Trow's model of the Platypus Mound. Officer Clemmons shows Rogers the workings at his police station. Dr. Bill and Elsie Jean Platypus also share a magic recipe for making pies.
3x5 - The NOM Models Pt 5 - Making mud pies
February 6, 1970
Title number 1070. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a small cup and spoon from the ice cream shop. Rogers receives the Factory model from Robert Trow. Beforehand, Rogers makes simple puppets from wooden spoons. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine orders chairs from Cornflake in preparation for her new pie restaurant.
3x6 - The Pie Restaurant Pt 1 - Groceries
February 9, 1970
Rogers plays a game that uses different shapes and groceries. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine Fairchilde is preparing to open a pie restaurant between her Museum-Go-Round and the Platypus mound.
3x7 - The Pie Restaurant Pt 2 - Money
February 10, 1970
Mr. McFeely finds a puppy, which Rogers looks after until someone finds its home.
3x8 - The Pie Restaurant Pt 3 - Pies
February 11, 1970
Chef Brockett shows how turnovers are made and helps run the new pie restaurant.
3x9 - The Pie Restaurant Pt 4 - Repairing a fence
February 12, 1970
Bad manners cost Bob Dog after he eats all the pies in Lady Elaine's restaurant.
3x10 - The Pie Restaurant Pt 5 - Opening of the pie restaurant
February 13, 1970
Dr. Yen Wang shows two laboratory rats, with which he wishes to show that the study of rats is intended to benefit human beings. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe opens the pie restaurant, but King Friday orders Bob Dog to move it to Someplace Else as a response to what he did in episode 9.
3x11 - Shoes
February 16, 1970
Rogers polishes his shoes. The Pittsburgh Junior Tamburitzans also visit the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, and Bob Dog emerges to dance with them.
3x12 - Uses for an empty shoe box
February 17, 1970
Rogers discusses the things children can do with a shoe box. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Queen Sara is escorted to Westwood to visit Dr. Frogg.
3x13 - A visit with Johnny Costa
February 18, 1970
Johnny Costa and his grandson visit both Rogers' television house and the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
3x14 - Growing from a baby into an adult
February 19, 1970
Rogers discusses growing both on the inside and on the outside. Mr. McFeely brings a dry aquarium holding frogs and tadpoles. Later Mr. McFeely visits the Westwood Children's Zoo. Queen Sara returns to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe from Westwood after two days with Dr. Frogg.
3x15 - Rules of the road
February 20, 1970
Rogers talks about the use of triangles, such as on the Yield sign. Betty Aberlin arrives with Bob Trow's model of the Eiffel Tower.
3x16 - Episode 16
February 23, 1970
Henrietta Pussycat fears Bob Dog's teeth. Lady Aberlin confides in Henrietta and tells everyone the King Friday and Queen Sara have a good secret.
3x17 - Episode 17
February 24, 1970
Bramble, a large horse, stands outside Rogers' television house. King Friday asks for, and receives, a stuffed horse. Daniel, however, is afraid of the model.
3x18 - Episode 18
February 25, 1970
Rogers enters with a typewriter and the many ways to put the word "typewriter" to paper. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, an artist draws paintings of King Friday and Queen Sara.
3x19 - Episode 19
February 26, 1970
King Friday shares his secret with Mime Walker, informing him not to mention a word of it to anyone else.
3x20 - Episode 20
February 27, 1970
Rogers has a recent chest x-ray, and explains what having an x-ray taken is about. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine warns her neighbors that King Friday might be starting a wild animal zoo. That, she feels, is his big secret, although it isn't.
3x21 - The Clemmonses are Moving Pt 1 - A new baby on the way
March 2, 1970
Officer Clemmons announces he has accepted a new job with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. King Friday and Queen Sara announce their secret: they are having a baby.
3x22 - The Clemmonses are Moving Pt 2 - How people make crayons
March 3, 1970
Lady Elaine and Mrs. Saunders tie up Officer Clemmons in a frantic attempt to keep him from moving to New York.
3x23 - The Clemmonses are Moving Pt 3 - Fish
March 4, 1970
Betty Aberlin gives Rogers a black angel fish for his tank. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, she dresses up as one. At the Tree, she introduces a song praising Henrietta Pussycat.
3x24 - The Clemmonses are Moving Pt 4 - Raspberry delight
March 5, 1970
Mrs. Clemmons visits Rogers' television house with a poem about her new job title. Rogers invites her to a going-away party to be held the next day. A highlight of the gathering will be Mrs. Clemmons' favorite: raspberry delight.
3x25 - The Clemmonses are Moving Pt 5 - Goodbye Officer Clemmons
March 6, 1970
Mr. and Mrs. François Clemmons are about to leave for New York. In both the Neighborhood of Make-Believe and Rogers' television house, neighbors hold a farewell party.
3x26 - Episode 26
March 9, 1970
Rogers shows models of a bicycle and a tricycle. Along the way, he introduces the prefixes "bi" and "tri" to compare what each one means. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Bob Dog fears moving wheels.
3x27 - Episode 27
March 10, 1970
Rogers uses a tape recorder to tape the sounds of a xylophone, a drum, and a slide whistle. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday thinks his baby should learn the guitar from birth.
3x28 - Episode 28
March 11, 1970
Rogers shows how he reacts when he is angry. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Aberlin makes a punching bag from rags and knitting. X complements her work.
3x29 - Episode 29
March 12, 1970
When Coach Saunders informs how athletic and exercise equipment can protect oneself, King Friday orders all the equipment for the new royal baby.
3x30 - Episode 30
March 13, 1970
Rogers makes a window out of construction paper. Later he picks up a record album at Negri's Music Shop. In between, Chef Brockett goes to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe with a cake for Grand-père and Lady Elaine. Handyman Negri helps Lady Elaine fix the King Friday's broken window.
3x31 - Episode 31
March 16, 1970
Mr. McFeely delivers Lady Elaine an invitation to a boomerang contest. To show her gratitude, Lady Elaine shows "Funny Fast Films" of Mr. McFeely and Chef Brockett.
3x32 - Episode 32
March 17, 1970
Rogers plays rhyming games and flash cards with Bob Trow. Lady Elaine and several others participate in the boomerang contest.
3x33 - Episode 33
March 18, 1970
Rogers shows different sizes of eggs and the animals who lay them. Elsie Jean Platypus says her newly-laid egg will hatch in ten days.
3x34 - Episode 34
March 19, 1970
King Friday hears about the baby platypus that will emerge soon. He tries to make the Platypus family leave the Neighborhood of Make-Believe so that his new baby will be the first born there.
3x35 - Episode 35
March 20, 1970
Dr. Bill Platypus and Digger Digorum convince King Friday that he will have the first human baby born in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Reminded, King Friday allows the Platypus family to stay. They will have the first animal baby born there.
3x36 - Death of a Goldfish
March 23, 1970
A fish in Rogers' tank has died. Rogers buries it and, with Bob Trow's help, constructs a tombstone with a pentagon that bears a fish drawing. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, concern hits when the Trolley stops at the Castle and doesn't move. Eventually, with help from Bill Platypus, they find out that the Trolley simply suffered a derailment, preventing full electrical pickup (as explained earlier by Mister Rogers).
3x37 - Episode 37
March 24, 1970
At the grave of the fish he had buried, Rogers talks of sad feelings. At Negri's Music Shop, he witnesses the Pittsburgh Junior Tamburitzans play. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, the Platypus family waits for their egg to hatch.
3x38 - Episode 38
March 25, 1970
Lady Aberlin finds everybody, except Lady Elaine, is at the Platypus Mound, waiting for the egg to hatch.
3x39 - Birth of Ana Platypus
March 26, 1970
Rogers demonstrates the use of a cane and shows many ways to write his name. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe celebrates the birth of Dr. Bill and Elsie Jean's baby girl platypus, Ana.
3x40 - Episode 40
March 27, 1970
Handyman Negri is among those with a gift for the baby Platypus. It's a song to fit her Latin name, Ornithorhynchus anatinus.
3x41 - The NOM Models Pt 7
March 30, 1970
Bob Trow has made his own model of the Neighborhood Trolley and its tracks for Rogers. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday is tired of waiting for the baby to be born. Several neighbors decide to hold a play based on what King Friday puts in a suitcase.
3x42 - Episode 42
March 31, 1970
Rogers makes a cardboard suitcase, while in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Mr. Anybody finds his apparently empty suitcase has a heavy rock in it. Lady Elaine had to have put the rock inside.
3x43 - Episode 43
April 1, 1970
Rogers goes to Negri's Music Shop to see Betty Aberlin perform a few simple magic tricks. Lady Elaine has her reservations about the upcoming play the Neighborhood of Make-Believe will stage. Mr. Anybody tells her she can be in the play if she asks to.
3x44 - Episode 44
April 2, 1970
Rogers brings two gerbils to his television house. On a visit to the McFeelys' house, he finds Mr. McFeely looking after a Saint Bernard. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Bob Dog is practicing for his role in the play "Let the Vet Get the Pet", but it isn't easy.
3x45 - Episode 45
April 3, 1970
Rogers looks after two penguins for Mr. McFeely. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe holds its stage play, which is about a vet flying in a jet to check on a pet.
3x46 - Episode 46
April 6, 1970
Robert Troll visits to see Ana Platypus, as do X and Henrietta.
3x47 - Episode 47
April 7, 1970
Dr. Bill Platypus talks about time to X and Henrietta, who have discovered the newborn platypus is too small to play with them.
3x48 - Episode 48
April 8, 1970
Mr. McFeely delivers a fortune teller's costume, which Mr. Anybody wears to predict the future.
3x49 - Episode 49
April 9, 1970
Rogers welcomes Mrs. Franks, who demonstrates how to carve leather. Later he discusses wearing an eye patch. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Handyman Negri assures King Friday that his eye is underneath an eye patch.
3x50 - Episode 50
April 10, 1970
Rogers shows the dog that belongs to his son John. At Bob Trow's workshop, Rogers finds Trow and John working on fingerpaint pictures. Handyman Negri and Lady Aberlin have a message for Bob Dog.
3x51 - Episode 51
April 13, 1970
Gifts have been pouring in for the imminent birth of Queen Sara's baby. One of them is a paper crown, which Henrietta takes without asking.
3x52 - Birth of Prince Tuesday
April 14, 1970
Rogers talks of being able to do certain skills at certain ages. Meanwhile, the Neighborhood of Make-Believe is abuzz with excitement, as Queen Sara gives birth to a prince named Tuesday.
3x53 - Episode 53
April 15, 1970
The gifts keep pouring in for the newborn Prince Tuesday, which makes Lady Elaine jealous. Joey Hollingsworth arrives with gifts for the baby and other neighbors.
3x54 - Episode 54
April 16, 1970
A watch repairman shows Rogers the proper use of his watch-cleaning machine. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Nurse Miller tells all that Queen Sara and the newborn prince will begin to accept visitors next week.
3x55 - Episode 55
April 17, 1970
Instead of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Rogers sees a story played out in Betty's Little Theater. Four dancers, dressed as raccoons, perform a nighttime adventure.
3x56 - Episode 56
April 20, 1970
Lady Elaine is annoyed with Prince Tuesday's constant crying. At one point, she asks King Friday and Queen Sara to send the baby back, although they can't.
3x57 - Episode 57
April 21, 1970
Prince Tuesday is one week old, and the Castle is suitably decorated for a celebration. King Friday gives gifts to everyone, which only rides Lady Elaine's jealousy.
3x58 - Episode 58
April 22, 1970
Rogers shows how he operates Picture-Picture and the Trolley. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday asks that Reardon put together an opera within two days.
3x59 - Episode 59
April 23, 1970
Reardon fears that he doesn't have enough time to write an opera for Friday, but he assembles the basics quickly.
3x60 - Pineapples and Tomatoes
April 24, 1970
The Neighborhood of Make-Believe holds its opera about the Pineapple Can Telephone Company.
3x61 - Episode 61
April 27, 1970
Captain Kangaroo visits Rogers' television house and the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. He sees that Lady Elaine and Donkey Hodie are hopeful that the carrots would grow faster somehow.
3x62 - Episode 62
April 28, 1970
Rogers visits Jan Zandhuis, a glassblower, who is doing a project for Mrs. Saunders. King Friday feels baby Prince Tuesday should be taught subtraction.

3x1 - The NOM Models Pt 1 - Models of the homes in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe

3x2 - The NOM Models Pt 2 - Wishes don’t come true just by wishing

3x3 - The NOM Models Pt 3 - A handy lady

3x4 - The NOM Models Pt 4 - Learning about police work

3x5 - The NOM Models Pt 5 - Making mud pies

3x6 - The Pie Restaurant Pt 1 - Groceries

3x7 - The Pie Restaurant Pt 2 - Money

3x8 - The Pie Restaurant Pt 3 - Pies

3x9 - The Pie Restaurant Pt 4 - Repairing a fence

3x10 - The Pie Restaurant Pt 5 - Opening of the pie restaurant

3x11 - Shoes

3x12 - Uses for an empty shoe box

3x13 - A visit with Johnny Costa

3x14 - Growing from a baby into an adult

3x15 - Rules of the road

3x16 - Episode 16

3x17 - Episode 17

3x18 - Episode 18

3x19 - Episode 19

3x20 - Episode 20

3x21 - The Clemmonses are Moving Pt 1 - A new baby on the way

3x22 - The Clemmonses are Moving Pt 2 - How people make crayons

3x23 - The Clemmonses are Moving Pt 3 - Fish

3x24 - The Clemmonses are Moving Pt 4 - Raspberry delight

3x25 - The Clemmonses are Moving Pt 5 - Goodbye Officer Clemmons

3x26 - Episode 26

3x27 - Episode 27

3x28 - Episode 28

3x29 - Episode 29

3x30 - Episode 30

3x31 - Episode 31

3x32 - Episode 32

3x33 - Episode 33

3x34 - Episode 34

3x35 - Episode 35

3x36 - Death of a Goldfish

3x37 - Episode 37

3x38 - Episode 38

3x39 - Birth of Ana Platypus

3x40 - Episode 40

3x41 - The NOM Models Pt 7

3x42 - Episode 42

3x43 - Episode 43

3x44 - Episode 44

3x45 - Episode 45

3x46 - Episode 46

3x47 - Episode 47

3x48 - Episode 48

3x49 - Episode 49

3x50 - Episode 50

3x51 - Episode 51

3x52 - Birth of Prince Tuesday

3x53 - Episode 53

3x54 - Episode 54

3x55 - Episode 55

3x56 - Episode 56

3x57 - Episode 57

3x58 - Episode 58

3x59 - Episode 59

3x60 - Pineapples and Tomatoes

3x61 - Episode 61

3x62 - Episode 62

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