Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: Season 3
Season 3 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Season 2.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 3 Progress Shield
The NOM Models Pt 1 - Models of the homes in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe
Feb 2, 1970
Title number 1066. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a box labeled 'clock'. Rogers presents a model of Daniel's clock and visits the man who designed it who is Robert Trow. At
The NOM Models Pt 2 - Wishes don’t come true just by wishing
Feb 3, 1970
Title number 1067. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with some slides of trees. Mr. McFeely delivers Bob Trow's model of X's Tree. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, X learns th
The NOM Models Pt 3 - A handy lady
Feb 4, 1970
Title number 1068. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with book of caricatures. Rogers puts signs outside his front and back doors advising visitors to knock or ring. He also receiv
The NOM Models Pt 4 - Learning about police work
Feb 5, 1970
Title number 1069. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a big box containing Bob Trow's model of the Platypus Mound. Officer Clemmons shows Rogers the workings at his police stat
The NOM Models Pt 5 - Making mud pies
Feb 6, 1970
Title number 1070. Opens with Mister Rogers arriving with a small cup and spoon from the ice cream shop. Rogers receives the Factory model from Robert Trow. Beforehand, Rogers make
The Pie Restaurant Pt 1 - Groceries
Feb 9, 1970
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-G
The Pie Restaurant Pt 2 - Money
Feb 10, 1970
Mr. McFeely finds a puppy, which Rogers looks after until someone finds its home.
The Pie Restaurant Pt 3 - Pies
Feb 11, 1970
Chef Brockett shows how turnovers are made and helps run the new pie restaurant.
The Pie Restaurant Pt 4 - Repairing a fence
Feb 12, 1970
Bad manners cost Bob Dog after he eats all the pies in Lady Elaine's restaurant.
The Pie Restaurant Pt 5 - Opening of the pie restaurant
Feb 13, 1970
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 rest
Shoes
Feb 16, 1970
Rogers polishes his shoes. The Pittsburgh Junior Tamburitzans also visit the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, and Bob Dog emerges to dance with them.
Uses for an empty shoe box
Feb 17, 1970
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.
A visit with Johnny Costa
Feb 18, 1970
Johnny Costa and his grandson visit both Rogers' television house and the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
Growing from a baby into an adult
Feb 19, 1970
Rogers discusses growing both on the inside and on the outside. Mr. McFeely brings a dry aquarium holding frogs and tadpoles. Later Mr. McFeely visits the Westwood Children's Zoo.
Rules of the road
Feb 20, 1970
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.
Episode 16
Feb 23, 1970
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.
Episode 17
Feb 24, 1970
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.
Episode 18
Feb 25, 1970
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 Sar
Episode 19
Feb 26, 1970
King Friday shares his secret with Mime Walker, informing him not to mention a word of it to anyone else.
Episode 20
Feb 27, 1970
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 st
The Clemmonses are Moving Pt 1 - A new baby on the way
Mar 2, 1970
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.
The Clemmonses are Moving Pt 2 - How people make crayons
Mar 3, 1970
Lady Elaine and Mrs. Saunders tie up Officer Clemmons in a frantic attempt to keep him from moving to New York.
The Clemmonses are Moving Pt 3 - Fish
Mar 4, 1970
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 Pussyc
The Clemmonses are Moving Pt 4 - Raspberry delight
Mar 5, 1970
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 wi
The Clemmonses are Moving Pt 5 - Goodbye Officer Clemmons
Mar 6, 1970
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.
Episode 26
Mar 9, 1970
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 D
Episode 27
Mar 10, 1970
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
Episode 28
Mar 11, 1970
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.
Episode 29
Mar 12, 1970
When Coach Saunders informs how athletic and exercise equipment can protect oneself, King Friday orders all the equipment for the new royal baby.
Episode 30
Mar 13, 1970
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 c
Episode 31
Mar 16, 1970
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.
Episode 32
Mar 17, 1970
Rogers plays rhyming games and flash cards with Bob Trow. Lady Elaine and several others participate in the boomerang contest.
Episode 33
Mar 18, 1970
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.
Episode 34
Mar 19, 1970
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
Episode 35
Mar 20, 1970
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
Death of a Goldfish
Mar 23, 1970
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,
Episode 37
Mar 24, 1970
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-Belie
Episode 38
Mar 25, 1970
Lady Aberlin finds everybody, except Lady Elaine, is at the Platypus Mound, waiting for the egg to hatch.
Birth of Ana Platypus
Mar 26, 1970
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,
Episode 40
Mar 27, 1970
Handyman Negri is among those with a gift for the baby Platypus. It's a song to fit her Latin name, Ornithorhynchus anatinus.
The NOM Models Pt 7
Mar 30, 1970
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.
Episode 42
Mar 31, 1970
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 th
Episode 43
Apr 1, 1970
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
Episode 44
Apr 2, 1970
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 D
Episode 45
Apr 3, 1970
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.
Episode 47
Apr 7, 1970
Dr. Bill Platypus talks about time to X and Henrietta, who have discovered the newborn platypus is too small to play with them.
Episode 48
Apr 8, 1970
Mr. McFeely delivers a fortune teller's costume, which Mr. Anybody wears to predict the future.
Episode 49
Apr 9, 1970
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
Episode 50
Apr 10, 1970
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 messag
Episode 51
Apr 13, 1970
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.
Birth of Prince Tuesday
Apr 14, 1970
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 T
Episode 53
Apr 15, 1970
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.
Episode 54
Apr 16, 1970
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
Episode 55
Apr 17, 1970
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.
Episode 56
Apr 20, 1970
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.
Episode 57
Apr 21, 1970
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.
Episode 58
Apr 22, 1970
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.
Episode 59
Apr 23, 1970
Reardon fears that he doesn't have enough time to write an opera for Friday, but he assembles the basics quickly.
Pineapples and Tomatoes
Apr 24, 1970
The Neighborhood of Make-Believe holds its opera about the Pineapple Can Telephone Company.
Episode 61
Apr 27, 1970
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 some
Episode 62
Apr 28, 1970
Rogers visits Jan Zandhuis, a glassblower, who is doing a project for Mrs. Saunders. King Friday feels baby Prince Tuesday should be taught subtraction.
Episode 63
Apr 29, 1970
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.
Episode 64
Apr 30, 1970
Rogers relates the lessons on teeth that he learned as a child.
Episode 65
May 1, 1970
Rogers and Chef Brockett play games in which one doesn't see, but hears or feels.