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.