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The Best Episodes of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Season 1

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Season 1 Episode 46 - Visiting the barbershop
    8.9/10(16 votes)

    S1:E46

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Season 1 Episode 6 - Feeling scientific
    8.4/10(18 votes)

    S1:E6

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Season 1 Episode 45 - The Babysitter Opera
    8.4/10(15 votes)

    S1:E45

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Season 1 Episode 47 - Fur, feathers, and hair
    8.4/10(14 votes)

    S1:E47

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Season 1 Episode 4 - Early whimsy, fun and frolic in the neighborhood
    8.3/10(24 votes)

    S1:E4

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Season 1 Episode 8 - A “Peace Party” to celebrate peace
    8.3/10(19 votes)

    S1:E8

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Season 1 Episode 63 - Fire in the factory
    8.3/10(13 votes)

    S1:E63

    Title number 0063. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with hot dog buns in a brown bag. Mister Rogers warms some wiener buns in his oven so that Chef Brockett and Mr. McFeely can enjoy them. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, everyone has turned their attention on the fire that has completely burned down Corny's factory. King Friday and Henrietta are especially frightened. Chef Brockett and Lady Aberlin help to put out the fire. Corny is devastated, so Daniel shows kindness by inviting him to stay with him at his Clock until the factory is ready again. Mr. Rogers talks about how many things can be scary when they are out of control, such as fires.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Season 1 Episode 1 - 0001 - Change: The First Program
    8.2/10(64 votes)

    S1:E1

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Season 1 Episode 5 - The end of the first week
    8.2/10(22 votes)

    S1:E5

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  10. Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Season 1 Episode 7 - Different ways of thinking about birds
    8.2/10(19 votes)

    S1:E7

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Season 1 Episode 44 - Auditions for the opera
    8.2/10(14 votes)

    S1:E44

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  12. Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Season 1 Episode 51 - Bears everywhere
    8.2/10(13 votes)

    S1:E51

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Season 1 Episode 77 - Entertaining King Friday
    8.2/10(13 votes)

    S1:E77

    Title number 0077. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with an electric amplifier. Lady Aberlin enlists several teenagers to try to entertain King Friday.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Season 1 Episode 2 - King Friday Challenges Change
    8.1/10(31 votes)

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  15. Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Season 1 Episode 3 - Chef Brockett bakes a cake fit for a king
    8.1/10(29 votes)

    S1:E3

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  16. Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Season 1 Episode 14 - A visit with a chimp
    8.1/10(16 votes)

    S1:E14

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Season 1 Episode 43 - Reardon plans an Opera
    8.1/10(14 votes)

    S1:E43

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  18. Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Season 1 Episode 104 - Playing instruments together
    8.1/10(14 votes)

    S1:E104

    Mister Rogers makes drums out of tin cans and listens to a real drummer. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Mr. Anybody is a "one-man-band" and decides to anchor a neighborhood orchestra.

    Director:Unknown
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  19. Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Season 1 Episode 10 - Looking closely
    8.0/10(17 votes)

    S1:E10

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  20. Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Season 1 Episode 23 - All about eyeglasses
    8.0/10(13 votes)

    S1:E23

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  21. Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Season 1 Episode 24 - Mister Rogers gets an eye exam
    8.0/10(15 votes)

    S1:E24

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  22. Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Season 1 Episode 38 - King Friday meets Sara Saturday
    8.0/10(12 votes)

    S1:E38

    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".

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Season 1 Episode 52 - Puzzles
    8.0/10(13 votes)

    S1:E52

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Season 1 Episode 61 - All about water
    8.0/10(13 votes)

    S1:E61

    Title number 0061. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a bucket. Mister Rogers makes mud pies and a dam with dirt and water. Professor Fitzpatrick illustrates the difference between a calm sea and a rough sea through showing famous paintings and then drawing with charcoal. Corny and Joey Hollingsworth are digging a well together and as a result, they will be able to sell more rockers. Joey is ready to go on another selling trip for Corny but before he goes, Joey shows Daniel how a water pump works and gives one more little dance.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Season 1 Episode 72 - Stop litterbugs
    8.0/10(12 votes)

    S1:E72

    Title number 0072. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with plant food and talks about how plants and people grow. Judy Ruben shows crafts that kids made with recycled containers. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday and Handyman Negri start a campaign against littering and they learn that everyone is interested in cleaning up the environment.

    Director:David Fu-Ying Chen
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Visiting the barbershop" is the best rated episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood season 1. It scored 8.9/10 from 16 votes. Written and directed by Unknown, it aired on April 22, 1968. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "Feeling scientific".