Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: Season 8

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Season Details & Credits

PBS | Season Premiere Date: February 17, 1975

Starring: David Newell, Marilyn Barnett, Maggie Stewart

Summary: "In a little toy neighborhood, a tiny trolley rolls past a house at the end of a street.
Welcome to Mister Rogers' Neighborhood."
In the annals of children's TV, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood ranks among the longest-lasting and beloved shows. Upon its conclusion, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood was the longest-running series in PBS history"In a little toy neighborhood, a tiny trolley rolls past a house at the end of a street.
Welcome to Mister Rogers' Neighborhood."

In the annals of children's TV, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood ranks among the longest-lasting and beloved shows. Upon its conclusion, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood was the longest-running series in PBS history (a record eclipsed by Sesame Street in 2003).

Host Fred Rogers (known to millions as simply "Mister Rogers") used his gentle charm and mannerisms to communicate with his audience of children.

Topics centered on nearly every inconceivable matter of concern to children, ranging from everyday fears related to going to sleep, getting immunizations and disappointment about not getting one's way to losing a loved one to death and physical handicaps.

Rogers used simple songs and, on nearly every show, segments from the Neighborhood of Make-Believe (NOM) to make his point. A scale-model trolley was often (but not always) used to segue into the Make-Believe segments, said neighborhood being inhabited by puppet characters including King Friday XIII, Lady Elaine Fairchild and Daniel Striped Tiger.

Many shows also featured visits from cast members – most often Mr. McFeely (tagline: "Speedy Delivery"), Robert Trow, Joe Negri and Chef Brockett (the local baker). Many times, Rogers also visited the neighborhood shops of both the regulars and guests. Each show began and ended with a camera panning over a scale neighborhood (said to represent the town where Rogers lived).

Production History

While today's longer-running PBS Kids shows reinvent themselves every five years, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood achieved, throughout its 31 seasons, that rarest of elements: consistency. It is a legacy that can all be traced through every aspect of Fred Rogers' television career.

Some of the characters in Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, both real and imagined, had appeared in two of Fred Rogers' earlier programs, The Children's Corner for Pittsburgh's WQED in 1954 and the CBC's Misterogers in 1963. It was for Misterogers that Fred first appeared on-camera.

Rogers returned to WQED in Pittsburgh to begin writing and hosting Mister Rogers' Neighborhood May 22, 1967. Several other public television stations from Chicago to Boston carried the show on a trial basis that year.

Beginning February 19, 1968, the Mister Rogers' Neighborhood program that we know today, began airing nationwide on National Educational Television (NET), the predecessor to PBS. This was also the year David Newell, returned from Europe, began work for Rogers. He was in charge of the production as well as the neighborhood's Speedy Delivery service.

(AN ASIDE: Rogers wanted to call the delivery man Mr. McCurdy after the man at the Sears-Roebuck Foundation, whose support launched Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. But the people at Sears-Roebuck called Rogers and said "Mr. McCurdy" was too self-serving. Thus Rogers went to his roots to rename Newell's deliveryman. "McFeely" was Rogers' middle name and the last name of his maternal grandfather.)

Shows were produced as a daily strip from 1968 to 1976, at which time production was suspended. Counting black-and-white episodes, 590 shows were produced in that span.

Production resumed at the beginning of the remote video age in 1979. Rogers went on location more, supervising videos of how people make things (a precursor to the TVO series Here's How!). Other characters would be introduced in the subsequent two decades. In all, 305 new programs were taped from 1979 through 2001. Of that volume, the most notable shows came in 1991, with Rogers focusing on calming children's fears during the first U.S. war with Iraq.

PBS gradually narrowed the window for the 460 "pre-79" episodes with each new season from 1980 onward. When the number of "post-75" episodes was enough to cover entire years, the classic shows were retired, last airing on PBS in the summer of 1995. Despite the production stoppage and the subsequent passing of Fred Rogers on February 27, 2003, PBS continues to repeat Mister Roger's Neighborhood in all its original glory–an accomplishment unique among all PBS Kids shows.
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Genre(s): Comedy, Kids, Educational

Season 8 Episodes

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S8:E65. Show 1455
Air Date: May 16, 1975
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S8:E64. Show 1454
Air Date: May 15, 1975
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S8:E63. Show 1453
Air Date: May 14, 1975

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Series Overview
Season 99

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- Season 99 Overview
  Air Date: February 19, 1968
Season 31

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- Season 31 Overview
  Air Date: August 27, 2001
Season 30

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  Air Date: February 21, 2000
Season 29

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  Air Date: February 15, 1999
Season 28

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- Season 28 Overview
  Air Date: February 16, 1998
Season 27

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- Season 27 Overview
  Air Date: February 17, 1997
Season 26

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- Season 26 Overview
  Air Date: October 16, 1995
Season 25

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  Air Date: February 20, 1995
Season 24

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- Season 24 Overview
  Air Date: February 21, 1994
Season 23

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- Season 23 Overview
  Air Date: November 23, 1992
Season 22

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- Season 22 Overview
  Air Date: November 25, 1991
Season 21

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- Season 21 Overview
  Air Date: November 19, 1990
Season 20

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- Season 20 Overview
  Air Date: November 20, 1989
Season 19

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- Season 19 Overview
  Air Date: November 21, 1988
Season 18

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- Season 18 Overview
  Air Date: November 23, 1987
Season 17

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- Season 17 Overview
  Air Date: November 24, 1986
Season 16

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- Season 16 Overview
  Air Date: November 25, 1985
Season 15

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- Season 15 Overview
  Air Date: November 19, 1984
Season 14

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- Season 14 Overview
  Air Date: November 7, 1983
Season 13

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- Season 13 Overview
  Air Date: November 15, 1982
Season 12

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- Season 12 Overview
  Air Date: March 1, 1982
Season 11

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- Season 11 Overview
  Air Date: February 16, 1981
Season 10

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- Season 10 Overview
  Air Date: August 27, 1979
Season 9

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- Season 9 Overview
  Air Date: February 16, 1976
Season 8

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- Season 8 Overview
  Air Date: February 17, 1975
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  S8:E65. Show 1455
  Air Date: May 16, 1975
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  S8:E64. Show 1454
  Air Date: May 15, 1975
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  S8:E63. Show 1453
  Air Date: May 14, 1975
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  S8:E62. Show 1452
  Air Date: May 13, 1975
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  S8:E61. Show 1451
  Air Date: May 12, 1975
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  S8:E60. Show 1450
  Air Date: May 9, 1975
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  S8:E58. Show 1448
  Air Date: May 7, 1975
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  S8:E57. Show 1447
  Air Date: May 6, 1975
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  S8:E56. Show 1446
  Air Date: May 5, 1975
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  S8:E55. A Rainbow for Prince Tuesday (5)
  Air Date: May 2, 1975
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  S8:E54. A Rainbow for Prince Tuesday (4)
  Air Date: May 1, 1975
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  S8:E53. A Rainbow for Prince Tuesday (3)
  Air Date: April 30, 1975
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  S8:E52. A Rainbow for Prince Tuesday (2)
  Air Date: April 29, 1975
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  S8:E51. A Rainbow for Prince Tuesday (1)
  Air Date: April 28, 1975
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  S8:E50. Show 1440
  Air Date: April 25, 1975
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  S8:E49. Show 1439
  Air Date: April 24, 1975
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  S8:E48. Show 1438
  Air Date: April 23, 1975
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  S8:E47. Show 1437
  Air Date: April 22, 1975
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  S8:E46. Show 1436
  Air Date: April 21, 1975
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  S8:E45. Show 1435
  Air Date: April 18, 1975
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  S8:E44. Show 1434
  Air Date: April 17, 1975
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  S8:E43. Show 1433
  Air Date: April 16, 1975
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  S8:E42. Show 1432
  Air Date: April 15, 1975
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  S8:E41. Show 1431
  Air Date: April 14, 1975
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  S8:E40. Show 1430
  Air Date: April 11, 1975
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  S8:E39. Show 1429
  Air Date: April 10, 1975
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  S8:E38. Show 1428
  Air Date: April 9, 1975
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  S8:E37. Show 1427
  Air Date: April 8, 1975
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  S8:E36. Show 1426
  Air Date: April 7, 1975
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  S8:E35. Key to Otherland
  Air Date: April 4, 1975
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  S8:E34. Show 1424
  Air Date: April 3, 1975
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  S8:E33. Show 1423
  Air Date: April 2, 1975
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  S8:E32. Show 1422
  Air Date: April 1, 1975
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  S8:E31. Show 1421
  Air Date: March 31, 1975
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  S8:E30. Show 1420
  Air Date: March 28, 1975
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  S8:E29. Energy Crisis (3)
  Air Date: March 27, 1975
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  S8:E28. Energy Crisis (2)
  Air Date: March 26, 1975
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  S8:E27. Energy Crisis (1)
  Air Date: March 25, 1975
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  S8:E26. A Dentist and a Tooth Fairy
  Air Date: March 24, 1975
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  S8:E25. Show 1415
  Air Date: March 21, 1975
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  S8:E24. Show 1414
  Air Date: March 20, 1975
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  S8:E23. Show 1413
  Air Date: March 19, 1975
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  S8:E22. Show 1412
  Air Date: March 18, 1975
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  S8:E21. Show 1411
  Air Date: March 17, 1975
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  S8:E20. Wishing and Pretending (5)
  Air Date: March 14, 1975
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  S8:E19. Wishing and Pretending (4)
  Air Date: March 13, 1975
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  S8:E18. Wishing and Pretending (3)
  Air Date: March 12, 1975
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  S8:E17. Wishing and Pretending (2)
  Air Date: March 11, 1975
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  S8:E16. Wishing and Pretending (1)
  Air Date: March 10, 1975
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  S8:E15. Show 1405
  Air Date: March 7, 1975
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  S8:E14. Show 1404
  Air Date: March 6, 1975
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  S8:E13. Show 1403
  Air Date: April 5, 1975
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  S8:E12. Show 1402
  Air Date: March 4, 1975
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  S8:E11. Show 1401
  Air Date: March 3, 1975
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  S8:E10. Show 1400
  Air Date: February 28, 1975
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  S8:E9. Show 1399
  Air Date: February 27, 1975
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  S8:E8. Show 1398
  Air Date: February 26, 1975
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  S8:E7. Show 1397
  Air Date: February 25, 1975
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  S8:E6. Show 1396
  Air Date: February 24, 1975
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  S8:E5. Show 1395
  Air Date: February 21, 1975
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  S8:E4. Show 1394
  Air Date: February 20, 1975
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  S8:E3. Show 1393
  Air Date: February 19, 1975
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  S8:E2. Show 1392
  Air Date: February 18, 1975
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  S8:E1. Show 1391
  Air Date: February 17, 1975
Season 7

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- Season 7 Overview
  Air Date: February 18, 1974
Season 6

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- Season 6 Overview
  Air Date: February 19, 1973
Season 5

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- Season 5 Overview
  Air Date: February 21, 1972
Season 4

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- Season 4 Overview
  Air Date: February 15, 1971
Season 3

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- Season 3 Overview
  Air Date: February 2, 1970
Season 2

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- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: February 10, 1969
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: February 19, 1968