8.2/1051 votes#1 - Change: The First Program
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 2/19/1968
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.
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- 7.9/1023 votes
#2 - King Friday Challenges Change
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 2/20/1968
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.
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- 7.9/1021 votes
#3 - Chef Brockett bakes a cake fit for a king
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 2/21/1968
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.
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- 8.1/1018 votes
#4 - Early whimsy, fun and frolic in the neighborhood
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 2/22/1968
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.
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- 8.1/1017 votes
#5 - The end of the first week
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/23/1968
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.
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- 8.3/1013 votes
#6 - Feeling scientific
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/26/1968
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.
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- 7.8/1012 votes
#7 - Different ways of thinking about birds
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 2/27/1968
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.
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- 8.3/1013 votes
#8 - A “Peace Party” to celebrate peace
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 2/28/1968
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.
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- 7.4/1012 votes
#9 - People look and sound different
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 2/29/1968
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.
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- 7.6/1012 votes
#10 - Looking closely
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 3/1/1968
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.
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- 7.2/1012 votes
#11 - Spending time together
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 3/4/1968
Title number 0011. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with oatmeal and Picture Picture explains how it's made.
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- 7.4/1012 votes
#12 - A visit with a toucan, a mime and a French horn
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 3/5/1968
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.
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- 7.4/1012 votes
#13 - Ask for permission to borrow things
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 3/6/1968
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.
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- 8.0/1012 votes
#14 - A visit with a chimp
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 3/7/1968
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.
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- NaN/100 votes
#15 - Talking about feelings
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 3/8/1968
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.
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- NaN/100 votes
#16 - Making things for others
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 3/11/1968
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.
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- 7.8/1011 votes
#17 - Donkey Hodie comes to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 3/12/1968
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.
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- 8.0/1011 votes
#18 - Practicing and playing the clarinet
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 3/13/1968
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.
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- 7.4/1011 votes
#19 - Looking for a place for a windmill
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 3/14/1968
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.
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- NaN/100 votes
#20 - How windmills work
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 3/15/1968
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.
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- NaN/100 votes
#21 - Groundbreaking for the windmill
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 3/18/1968
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.
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- NaN/100 votes
#22 - Nurse Miller’s check up
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/19/1968
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.
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- 8.2/1010 votes
#23 - All about eyeglasses
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/20/1968
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.
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- 8.0/1012 votes
#24 - Mister Rogers gets an eye exam
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/21/1968
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.
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- NaN/100 votes
#25 - Donkey Hodie’s new home
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/22/1968
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".
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The Best Episodes of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Season 1
Every episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Season 1!
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Change: The First Program" is the best rated episode of "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" season 1. It scored 8.2/10 based on 51 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 2/19/1968. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "King Friday Challenges Change".