Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

Season 1 Episode 17: 17

31 Seasons Mar 12, 1968 TV-Y 28m 7.8

Rogers brings in a Sicilian donkey whose name is Donkey Hodie. Donkey Hodie is also welcomed to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Henrietta learns how he only uses his teeth when he eats his food.

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Season 1 Episodes:

Episode 1 1

1. 1

Aired: Feb 19, 1968

Mrs. Russellite sends an invitation to Mr. Rogers so he can see her lampshade...

Episode 2 2

2. 2

Aired: Feb 20, 1968

Mr. Rogers shows how a burlap bag can be many different things when one imagi...

Episode 3 3

3. 3

Aired: Feb 21, 1968

Because of the border guards, Cornflake S. Pecially refuses to visit the cast...

Episode 4 4

4. 4

Aired: Feb 22, 1968

At the Television house, Rogers brings in a playpen and puppy. Mrs. Carol Sau...

Episode 5 5

5. 5

Aired: Feb 23, 1968

After Rogers plays with them, Betty Aberlin takes some helium balloons to the...

Episode 6 6

6. 6

Aired: Feb 26, 1968

To prepare for his scientific endeavor, Rogers puts on a lab coat and compare...

Episode 7 7

7. 7

Aired: Feb 27, 1968

In the Television house, Rogers takes care of a canary while, in the Neighbor...

Episode 8 8

8. 8

Aired: Feb 28, 1968

The Neighborhood of Make-Believe celebrates a peace party and honors Lynda Ma...

Episode 9 9

9. 9

Aired: Feb 29, 1968

Rogers plays audio tapes of Neighborhood of Make-Believe puppet characters to...

Episode 10 10

10. 10

Aired: Mar 1, 1968

In the Television house, Rogers demonstrates the use of binoculars. In the Ne...

Episode 11 11

11. 11

Aired: Mar 4, 1968

Henrietta thinks X always has been spending time with Lady Elaine. X alleviat...

Episode 12 12

12. 12

Aired: Mar 5, 1968

Jewell Walker pretends to do a baseball game and then teaches X arithmetic.

Episode 13 13

13. 13

Aired: Mar 6, 1968

Without asking, Lady Elaine steals King Friday's painting of the Bluebird of ...

Episode 14 14

14. 14

Aired: Mar 7, 1968

Rogers improvises on paper how music in a song makes him feel. Professor Jose...

Episode 15 15

15. 15

Aired: Mar 8, 1968

Rogers bandages his finger to prove that it is still there. Vivian Richman in...

Episode 16 16

16. 16

Aired: Mar 11, 1968

A sculptor visits the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Lady Aberlin also knits a...

Episode 17 17

17. 17

Aired: Mar 12, 1968

Rogers brings in a Sicilian donkey whose name is Donkey Hodie. Donkey Hodie i...

Episode 18 18

18. 18

Aired: Mar 13, 1968

At the Television House, Rogers talks about his boyhood days when he did not ...

Episode 19 19

19. 19

Aired: Mar 14, 1968

Donkey Hodie decides the best place for building a windmill would be in the h...

Episode 20 20

20. 20

Aired: Mar 15, 1968

Mr. Rogers shows a model windmill to help explain how windmills work. The Nei...

Episode 21 21

21. 21

Aired: Mar 18, 1968

Chef Brockett is ready for Donkey Hodie to break ground for the windmill. Bro...

Episode 22 22

22. 22

Aired: Mar 19, 1968

Rogers covers this episode discussing the White House and the U.S. presidents.

Episode 23 23

23. 23

Aired: Mar 20, 1968

Rogers discusses the use of eye glasses. Henrietta also receives glasses.

Episode 24 24

24. 24

Aired: Mar 21, 1968

Rogers has his eyes examined. King Friday wants Donkey Hodie's windmill to be...

Episode 25 25

25. 25

Aired: Mar 22, 1968

Lady Aberlin, X and Henrietta bring housewarming gifts for Donkey Hodie at hi...

Episode 26 26

26. 26

Aired: Mar 25, 1968

Rogers discusses growing and changes a doll's diaper. Nurse Miller also assur...

Episode 27 27

27. 27

Aired: Mar 26, 1968

Rogers makes a toy bed and pretends to make a doll sleep in it. Lady Elaine a...

Episode 28 28

28. 28

Aired: Mar 27, 1968

After he locks his pillow in a safe, Edgar Cooke expresses his different feel...

Episode 29 29

29. 29

Aired: Mar 28, 1968

Rogers demonstrates the use of a loom and sees them being operated by Nantuck...

Episode 30 30

30. 30

Aired: Mar 29, 1968

After Rogers demonstrates the use of violins and violas, he invites Michael G...

Episode 31 31

31. 31

Aired: Apr 1, 1968

Rogers discusses wild animals and Mr. McFeely brings in a Mexican parakeet.

Episode 32 32

32. 32

Aired: Apr 2, 1968

Rogers puts on various masks to prove he doesn't change when he puts one on. ...

Episode 33 33

33. 33

Aired: Apr 3, 1968

Rogers gives some oranges to the members of a ballet company that is set perf...

Episode 34 34

34. 34

Aired: Apr 4, 1968

Rogers plays music by blowing across bottles of water. Mr. McDonald also make...

Episode 35 35

35. 35

Aired: Apr 5, 1968

Rogers and Chef Brockett make their own tunnels from what is around them. The...

Episode 36 36

36. 36

Aired: Apr 8, 1968

Digger Digorum bears gifts as she leaves the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.

Episode 37 37

37. 37

Aired: Apr 9, 1968

Outside the Television house, Peggy Lipschutz draws with chalk while Vivian R...

Episode 38 38

38. 38

Aired: Apr 10, 1968

Rogers demonstrates exercises by using the handlebars from an exercise machin...

Episode 39 39

39. 39

Aired: Apr 11, 1968

The Neighborhood of Make-Believe is preparing to hold a reception party for S...

Episode 40 40

40. 40

Aired: Apr 12, 1968

The reception party for Sara Saturday takes place.

Episode 41 41

41. 41

Aired: Apr 15, 1968

Corny, X and Henrietta have various actions to the rain in the Neighborhood o...

Episode 42 42

42. 42

Aired: Apr 16, 1968

Lady Aberlin gives X the scarf that she had promised for him. In turn, X give...

Episode 43 43

43. 43

Aired: Apr 17, 1968

John Reardon appears for the first time. King Friday asks him to make an oper...

Episode 44 44

44. 44

Aired: Apr 18, 1968

Reardon holds auditions for his opera while Mrs. Frogg provides the costumes....

Episode 45 45: Babysitter Opera

45. 45: Babysitter Opera

Aired: Apr 19, 1968

During Reardon's opera, Lady Aberlin hires Henrietta to look after Donkey Hodie.

Episode 46 46

46. 46

Aired: Apr 22, 1968

Rogers gets a haircut while discussing with the barber how it doesn't hurt. T...

Episode 47 47

47. 47

Aired: Apr 23, 1968

Marion and Nicholas Petrov visit the Neighborhood of Make-Believe dressed up ...

Episode 48 48

48. 48

Aired: Apr 24, 1968

Chef Brockett, who is in apple-giving mood, gives apples, applesauce and appl...

Episode 49 49

49. 49

Aired: Apr 25, 1968

Rogers uses drinking straws to demonstrate the use of blowing soap bubbles. M...

Episode 50 50

50. 50

Aired: Apr 26, 1968

Mr. McFeely brings over a battery operated steam shovel. Dr. Marchl enjoys Gr...

Episode 51 51

51. 51

Aired: Apr 29, 1968

Mime Walker pantomimes Goldilocks and the Three Bears as Grand-père tells the...

Episode 52 52

52. 52

Aired: Apr 30, 1968

In the Television home, Katie Lewin tells Rogers how puzzles are made. In the...

Episode 53 53

53. 53

Aired: May 1, 1968

Rogers discusses Benjamin Franklin and reads about Franklin as a boy. The Nei...

Episode 54 54

54. 54

Aired: May 2, 1968

Alder demonstrates how heat causes things to change. X prints signs to advert...

Episode 56 56

56. 56

Aired: May 6, 1968

Rogers brings in a basket of vegetables. Chef Brockett also shows cooked vege...

Episode 57 57

57. 57

Aired: May 7, 1968

Rogers discusses rabbits. Henrietta gets cheered up by a familiar face.

Episode 58 58

58. 58

Aired: May 8, 1968

Rogers talks about the arrival of a new baby. Meanwhile, Corny is too busy to...

Episode 59 59

59. 59

Aired: May 9, 1968

Rogers demonstrates the use of three tools, a hacksaw, a hammer, and a screwd...

Episode 60 60

60. 60

Aired: May 10, 1968

Rogers demonstrates using a clown marionette. A dance recital is prepared in ...

Episode 61 61

61. 61

Aired: May 13, 1968

Rogers makes mud pies and a dam. Professor Fitzpatrick illustrates the differ...

Episode 62 62

62. 62

Aired: May 14, 1968

With pipes now carrying water into Corny's factory, Corny sends a water-fille...

Episode 63 63

63. 63

Aired: May 15, 1968

Rogers warms some wiener buns in his oven so that Chef Brockett and Mr. McFee...

Episode 64 64

64. 64

Aired: May 16, 1968

Rogers discusses firemen. He also puts on a fireman's outfit. The Neighborhoo...

Episode 65 65

65. 65

Aired: May 17, 1968

Lady Aberlin, Handyman Negri, and X rebuild all of Corny's factory. Everyone ...

Episode 66 66

66. 66

Aired: May 20, 1968

Rogers dictates how all toys do what you want them to do. His son, John, also...

Episode 67 67

67. 67

Aired: May 21, 1968

King Friday is ready to dedicate the new factory, but Lady Elaine senses he i...

Episode 68 68

68. 68

Aired: May 22, 1968

Rogers attends a dance class taught by Miss Nelson and Bruce of Dimension 5 r...

Episode 69 69

69. 69

Aired: May 23, 1968

Donkey Hodie has had no visitors at his unseen home and wants some to come.

Episode 70 70

70. 70

Aired: May 24, 1968

Everyone travels from the Neighborhood of Make-Believe to the unseen home so ...

Episode 71 71

71. 71

Aired: May 27, 1968

Rogers brushes his teeth in the kitchen sink. In the Neighborhood of Make-Bel...

Episode 72 72

72. 72

Aired: May 28, 1968

King Friday and Handyman Negri take up a campaign against littering in the Ne...

Episode 73 73

73. 73

Aired: May 29, 1968

Lady Elaine is derided for throwing litter around as a protest. What she real...

Episode 74 74

74. 74

Aired: May 30, 1968

Major Smith gives King Friday a citation to start the Neighborhood of Make-Be...

Episode 75 75

75. 75

Aired: May 31, 1968

Lady Aberlin dresses up as X so she can welcome Miss Emilie, who has been ill...

Episode 76 76

76. 76

Aired: Jun 3, 1968

Dr. Marchl gets opinions from Corny, Mrs. Frogg, and Lady Aberlin. She is try...

Episode 77 77

77. 77

Aired: Jun 4, 1968

Lady Aberlin enlists several teenagers to try and entertain King Friday.

Episode 78 78

78. 78

Aired: Jun 5, 1968

Handyman Negri is making a list for King Friday. At his instructions, Negri w...

Episode 79 79

79. 79

Aired: Jun 6, 1968

King Friday gets advice on how to contact Sara Saturday. Once she is reached,...

Episode 80 80

80. 80

Aired: Jun 19, 1968

For a while, King Friday has been reluctant to see Sara Saturday outside the ...

Episode 81 81

81. 81

Aired: Jun 10, 1968

John Reardon pretends to be a mailman while he visits the Neighborhood of Mak...

Episode 82 82

82. 82

Aired: Jun 11, 1968

Hugh Wright sets up a tent both outside Rogers' television house and in the N...

Episode 83 83

83. 83

Aired: Jun 12, 1968

Lady Elaine is beginning to develop her own opera, but Reardon has no idea wh...

Episode 85 85

85. 85

Aired: Jun 14, 1968

After he brings in a kitten, Rogers and Miss Emile reflect on one of Vija Vet...

Episode 86 86

86. 86

Aired: Jun 17, 1968

Lady Elaine won't remove the tents from the castle garden, so Handyman Negri ...

Episode 87 87

87. 87

Aired: Jun 18, 1968

Rogers has got a new aquarium. His first fish to go in it are two catfish. In...

Episode 88 Moving tents

88. Moving tents

Aired: Jun 19, 1968

Mr. McFeely brings two piglets into the television house. A visitor to the Ne...

Episode 89 89

89. 89

Aired: Jun 20, 1968

Having been away for a while, King Friday returns to the neighborhood bearing...

Episode 90 90

90. 90

Aired: Jun 21, 1968

King Friday announces that everyone will get a big surprise next week.

Episode 91 91

91. 91

Aired: Jun 24, 1968

Rogers builds a wood frame. Handyman Negri is building a new balcony on the c...

Episode 92 92

92. 92

Aired: Jun 25, 1968

Rogers and Mr. McFeely take care of two ducks that have wondered onto the por...

Episode 93 93

93. 93

Aired: Jun 26, 1968

A special guest is supposed to enter the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Lady A...

Episode 94 94

94. 94

Aired: Jun 27, 1968

Lady Aberlin pantomimes the growth of a plant in the television house. She al...

Episode 95 95

95. 95

Aired: Jun 28, 1968

King Friday prepares Sara Saturday's room in the castle.

Episode 96 96

96. 96

Aired: Jul 1, 1968

Mr. McFeely shows Rogers how to blow bubbles by using liquid detergent. He al...

Episode 97 97

97. 97

Aired: Jul 2, 1968

After Rogers tries on different shoes, Handyman Negri sees that communication...

Episode 98 98

98. 98

Aired: Jul 3, 1968

Mr. Farnham and his daughter Cindy Farnum discuss stones and how they are cut...

Episode 99 99

99. 99

Aired: Jul 4, 1968

The Neighborhood of Make-Believe celebrates Scottish Day.

Episode 100 100

100. 100

Aired: Jul 5, 1968

Rogers shows the comparison between two different scales: one to weigh grocer...

Episode 101 101

101. 101

Aired: Jul 8, 1968

Rogers demonstrates several types of different whistles. Mr. Anybody plays a ...

Episode 102 102

102. 102

Aired: Jul 9, 1968

Rogers pretends to give aid to a sick person. Nurse Miller also gives a shot ...

Episode 103 103

103. 103

Aired: Jul 10, 1968

Rogers talks of playing with toys and reads the poem of The Land of Counterpa...

Episode 104 104

104. 104

Aired: Jul 11, 1968

Rogers makes drums out of tin cans and listens to a real drummer. In the Neig...

Episode 105 105

105. 105

Aired: Jul 12, 1968

Rogers demonstrates how the xylophone works. John Costa, who is on the accord...

Episode 106 106

106. 106

Aired: Jul 15, 1968

Rogers discusses fairy tales. He reads Little Red Riding Hood and explains wh...

Episode 107 107

107. 107

Aired: Jul 16, 1968

Rogers is weaving a basket for Mr. McFeely's birthday. Bernie Jessol, Lowell ...

Episode 108 108

108. 108

Aired: Jul 17, 1968

Rogers brings in a mother turtle and a baby turtle. Miss Emilie shares a book...

Episode 109 109

109. 109

Aired: Jul 18, 1968

Jan Zandhuis presents a small glass bicycle to Rogers that he made for Mr. Mc...

Episode 110 110

110. 110

Aired: Jul 19, 1968

Rogers' television house is the site of Mr. McFeely's birthday party. King Fr...

Episode 111 111

111. 111

Aired: Jul 22, 1968

Rogers discusses how a piano works and then shows a film on how people make p...

Episode 112 112

112. 112

Aired: Jul 23, 1968

Rogers shows how to express your anger on the drums. Dr. Marchl tells Lady El...

Episode 113 113

113. 113

Aired: Jul 24, 1968

Lady Elaine has trouble sleeping in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.

Episode 114 114

114. 114

Aired: Jul 25, 1968

Lady Elaine wants to turn King Friday upside-down with her Boomerang, but it ...

Episode 115 115

115. 115

Aired: Jul 26, 1968

Rogers pretends to ride a camel through the sand, while Donkey Hodie is bothe...

Episode 116 116

116. 116

Aired: Jul 29, 1968

Lady Aberlin and Handyman Negri don a horse costume in which they dance for K...

Episode 117 117

117. 117

Aired: Jul 30, 1968

Rogers shows how a foot measurer works. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe begi...

Episode 118 118

118. 118

Aired: Jul 31, 1968

Rogers displays an assortment of Native American clothing and witnesses Nativ...

Episode 119 119

119. 119

Aired: Aug 1, 1968

Officer Clemmons arrives to show what a badge represents. He then issues a pe...

Episode 120 120

120. 120

Aired: Aug 2, 1968

It's raining in the neighborhood, so Rogers brings in his umbrella. The Neigh...

Episode 121 121

121. 121

Aired: Aug 5, 1968

Rogers, Chef Brockett, and Mr. McFeely decorate doughnuts. Joey Hollingsworth...

Episode 122 122

122. 122

Aired: Aug 6, 1968

Rogers shows how to use a pair of flippers and an inner tube for scuba. A scu...

Episode 123 123

123. 123

Aired: Aug 7, 1968

Rogers brings in light bulbs. Scientist Alder has flashlights and the batteri...

Episode 124 124

124. 124

Aired: Aug 8, 1968

Rogers talks about all sorts of sports that are played with a ball (such as f...

Episode 125 125

125. 125

Aired: Aug 9, 1968

Rogers sets up a punching bag, explaining how some people punch a bag when th...

Episode 126 126

126. 126

Aired: Aug 12, 1968

Rogers discusses the difference between a rooster and a hen. He also makes a ...

Episode 127 127

127. 127

Aired: Aug 13, 1968

Lady Aberlin draws portraits of Corny and Daniel for a book for Sara Saturday...

Episode 128 128

128. 128

Aired: Aug 14, 1968

Rogers explains the meaning of the word "disappear," which isn't always liter...

Episode 129 129

129. 129

Aired: Aug 15, 1968

Robert Troll makes his first visit to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe becaus...

Episode 130 130

130. 130

Aired: Aug 16, 1968

Robert Troll is still appreciative. Fortunately he meets Gloria Onque, one of...

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Genres: Family, Fantasy, Music