Mister Rogers' Neighborhood — Season 1, Episode 2: King Friday Challenges Change

Episode synopsis

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.

About Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

Mister Rogers' Neighborhood is an American children's television series that was created and hosted by namesake Fred Rogers. The series originated in 1963 as Misterogers on CBC Television, and was later debuted in 1966 as Misterogers' Neighborhood on the regional Eastern Educational Network, followed by its US network debut on February 19, 1968, and it aired on NET and its successor, PBS, until August 31, 2001. The series is aimed primarily at preschool ages 2 to 5, but has been stated by PBS as "appropriate for all ages". Mister Rogers' Neighborhood was produced by Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA public broadcaster WQED and Rogers' non-profit production company Family Communications, Inc.; previously known as Small World Enterprises prior to 1971, the company was renamed The Fred Rogers Company after Rogers' death.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Change: The First Program
• E3Chef Brockett bakes a cake fit for a king
• E4Early whimsy, fun and frolic in the neighborhood
• E5The end of the first week
• E6Feeling scientific
• E7Different ways of thinking about birds
• E8A “Peace Party” to celebrate peace
• E9People look and sound different
• E10Looking closely
• E11Spending time together
• E12A visit with a toucan, a mime and a French horn
• E13Ask for permission to borrow things