Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

Jeff Erlanger, a young boy who uses an electric wheelchair, visits Mister Rogers and talks openly and honestly about his disability. Together they sing "It's You I Like."

Mister Rogers shows a video of how people make crayons and talks about drawing and how each person's picture would be different. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday decides to have a "Draw the Neighborhood" contest!

A whimsical musical story about timid Daniel Tiger who is in search of his long-lost grandfather. There's an aquarium with starfish, an old goat and a Trolley Conductor, all helping each other realize how important families are.

Mister Rogers visits with STOMP, a performance group who make rhythmic percussion-type sounds with ordinary household things like brooms and pails.

Bill Nye "the Science Guy" stops by to show a science experiment using baking soda and vinegar to blow up a balloon. Mister Rogers shows a video of dump trucks at a construction site, and In Make-Believe, all that was lost is found.

There's a visit with the juggling group, the Flying Karamazov Brothers, a video of how people in a pasta factory make macaroni and talk about liking you "just the way you are." In Make-Believe, X the Owl is giving free flying lessons.

Magician David Copperfield teaches Mister Rogers how to do a magic trick. It takes lots of practice. In Make-Believe, X is giving flying lessons, and there's a video of what the world looks like from a bird's point of view.

Mister Rogers visits with Koko the gorilla who has learned how to communicate in sign language. In Make-Believe, there's a gorilla, too, who seems scary until the neighbors get to know him. And there's a video of how people make play balls.

Mister Rogers visits with Maya Lin at her studio to see how she first makes small models of big things she is working on. They go to Penn Station to see what she created there. In Make-Believe, there's a video visit with cellist Yo-Yo Ma.

Mister Rogers encourages his "television friends" to appreciate the wide variety of art at the Neighborhood of Make-Believe's arts festival!