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Mr. Rogers 3rd Began Production on February 2, 1970 to May 1, 1970.

Episode 1 (season premiere) (The NOM Models)[]

To kick off the show's 3rd season, Rogers enters the Television House with 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.

  • Aired on February 2, 1970.

Episode 2 (The NOM Models)[]

Rogers shows 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.

  • Aired on February 3, 1970.

Episode 3 (The NOM Models)[]

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.

  • Aired on February 4, 1970.

Episode 4 (The NOM Models)[]

Rogers brings in 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.

  • Aired on February 5, 1970.

Episode 5 (The NOM Models)[]

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.

  • Aired on February 6, 1970.

Episode 6 (The Pie Restaurant)[]

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.

  • Aired on February 9, 1970.

Episode 7 (The Pie Restaurant)[]

Mr. McFeely finds a puppy, which Rogers looks after until someone finds its home.

  • Aired on February 10, 1970.

Episode 8 (The Pie Restaurant)[]

Chef Brockett shows how turnovers are made and helps run the new pie restaurant.

  • Aired on February 11, 1970.

Episode 9 (The Pie Restaurant)[]

Bad manners cost Bob Dog after he eats all the pies in Lady Elaine's restaurant.

  • Aired on February 12, 1970.

Episode 10 (The Pie Restaurant)[]

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.

  • Aired on February 13, 1970.

Episode 11[edit][]

Rogers polishes his shoes. The Pittsburgh Junior Tamburitzans also visit the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, and Bob Dog emerges to dance with them.

  • Aired on February 16, 1970.

Episode 12[edit][]

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.

  • Aired on February 17, 1970.

Episode 13[edit][]

Johnny Costa and his grandson visit both Rogers' television house and the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.

  • Aired on February 18, 1970.

Episode 14[edit][]

Rogers discusses growing both on the inside and on the outside. Mr. McFeely brings a dry aqaurium 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.

  • Aired on February 19, 1970.

Episode 15[edit][]

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.

  • Aired on February 20, 1970.

Episode 16[edit][]

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.

  • Aired on February 23, 1970.

Episode 17[edit][]

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.

  • Aired on February 24, 1970.

Episode 18[edit][]

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.

  • Aired on February 25, 1970.

Episode 19[edit][]

King Friday shares his secret with Mime Walker, informing him not to mention a word of it to anyone else.

  • Aired on February 26, 1970.

Episode 20[edit][]

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.

  • Aired on February 27, 1970.

Episode 21 (The Clemmonses are Moving)[edit][]

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.

  • Aired on March 2, 1970.

Episode 22 (The Clemmonses are Moving)[edit][]

Lady Elaine and Mrs. Saunders tie up Officer Clemmons in a frantic attempt to keep him from moving to New York.

  • Aired on March 3, 1970.

Episode 23 (The Clemmonses are Moving)[edit][]

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.

  • Aired on March 4, 1970.

Episode 24 (The Clemmonses are Moving)[edit][]

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.

  • Aired on March 5, 1970.

Episode 25 (The Clemmonses are Moving)[edit][]

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.

  • Aired on March 6, 1970.

Episode 26[edit][]

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.

  • Aired on March 9, 1970.

Episode 27[edit][]

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.

  • Aired on March 10, 1970.

Episode 28[edit][]

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.

  • Aired on March 11, 1970.

Episode 29[edit][]

When Coach Saunders informs how athletic and exercise equipment can protect oneself, King Friday orders all the equipment for the new royal baby.

  • Aired on March 12, 1970.

Episode 30[edit][]

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.

  • Aired on March 13, 1970.

Episode 31[edit][]

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.

  • Aired on March 16, 1970.

Episode 32[edit][]

Rogers plays rhyming games and flash cards with Bob Trow. Lady Elaine and several others participate in the boomerang contest.

  • Aired on March 17, 1970.

Episode 33[edit][]

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.

  • Aired on March 18, 1970.

Episode 34[edit][]

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.

  • Aired on March 19, 1970.

Episode 35[edit][]

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.

  • Aired on March 20, 1970.

Episode 36 (Death of a Goldfish)[edit][]

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).

  • Aired on March 23, 1970.

Episode 37[edit][]

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 there egg to hatch.

  • Aired on March 24, 1970.

Episode 38[edit][]

Lady Aberlin finds everybody, except Lady Elaine, is at the Platypus Mound, waiting for the egg to hatch.

  • Aired on March 25, 1970.

Episode 39 (Birth of Ana Platypus)[edit][]

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.

  • Aired on March 26, 1970.

Episode 40[edit][]

Handyman Negri is among those with a gift for the baby Platypus. It's a song to fit her Latin name, Ornithorhynchus anatinus.

  • Aired on March 27, 1970.

Episode 41[edit][]

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.

  • Aired on March 30, 1970.

Episode 42[edit][]

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.

  • Aired on March 31, 1970.

Episode 43[edit][]

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.

  • Aired on April 1, 1970.

Episode 44[edit][]

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.

  • Aired on April 2, 1970.

Episode 45[edit][]

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.

  • Aired on April 3, 1970.

Episode 46[edit][]

Robert Troll visits to see Ana Platypus, as do X and Henrietta.

  • Aired on April 6, 1970.

Episode 47[edit][]

Dr. Bill Platypus talks about time to X and Henrietta, who have discovered the newborn platypus is too small to play with them.

  • Aired on April 7, 1970.

Episode 48[edit][]

Mr. McFeely delivers a fortune teller's costume, which Mr. Anybody wears to predict the future.

  • Aired on April 8, 1970.

Episode 49[edit][]

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.

  • Aired on April 9, 1970.

Episode 50[edit][]

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.

  • Aired on April 10, 1970.

Episode 51[edit][]

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.

  • Aired on April 13, 1970.

Episode 52 (Birth of Prince Tuesday)[edit][]

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.

  • Aired on April 14, 1970.

Episode 53[edit][]

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.

  • Aired on April 15, 1970.

Episode 54[edit][]

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.

  • Aired on April 16, 1970.

Episode 55[edit][]

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.

  • Aired on April 17, 1970.

Episode 56[edit][]

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.

  • Aired on April 20, 1970.

Episode 57[edit][]

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.

  • Aired on April 21, 1970.

Episode 58[edit][]

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.

  • Aired on April 22, 1970.

Episode 59[edit][]

Reardon fears that he doesn't have enough time to write an opera for Friday, but he assembles the basics quickly.

  • Aired on April 23, 1970.

Episode 60 (Pineapples and Tomatoes)[edit][]

The Neighborhood of Make-Believe holds its opera about the Pineapple Can Telephone Company.

  • Aired on April 24, 1970.

Episode 61[]

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.

  • Aired on April 27, 1970.

Episode 62[]

Rogers visits Jan Zandhuis, a glassblower, who is doing a project for Mrs. Saunders. King Friday feels baby Prince Tuesday should be taught subtraction.

  • Aired on April 28, 1970.

Episode 63[]

Rogers makes modeling clay, a perfect spot for son Jamie to discuss clay figurines. Dancer Ethel Winter is toured around the Neighborhood of Make-Believe and Someplace Else.

  • Aired on April 29, 1970.

Episode 64[]

Rogers relates the lessons on teeth that he learned as a child.

  • Aired on April 30, 1970.

Episode 65 (season finale)[]

In the season finale, Rogers and Chef Brockett play games in which one doesn't see, but hears or feels.

  • Aired on May 1, 1970.
  • This is the last episode where the show was originally titled Misterogers' Neighborhood.
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