Mister Rogers' Neighborhood - Season 5
Season 5
Network
DatesFeb 21, 1972 - May 19, 1972
Episodes
Season 5Episode 130 min
Show 1196
Mary Sweenie arrives late at Betty's Little Theater for her bird dance. X wants to read poetry alone.
Feb 21, 1972
Season 5Episode 230 min
Show 1197
Rogers and Mr. McFeely do a bit of secret communicating, with neither one understanding the other. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine is impatient with X's call for privacy while he writes poetry.
Feb 22, 1972
Season 5Episode 330 min
Show 1198
X is afraid others will laugh at his poetry should he read it aloud. Lady Elaine is eager to hear this poetry and is already in position to hide her feelings about it.
Feb 23, 1972
Season 5Episode 430 min
Show 1199
While seeing the breads at Brockett's Bakery, Rogers learns how a bread slicer works. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe discovers a floating loaf of bread from the Owl Correspondence School. X registers himself for a course.
Feb 24, 1972
Season 5Episode 530 min
Show 1200
Bob Trow repairs Mr. McFeely's bicycle, although he is slightly embarrassed because Bob doesn't yet know how to ride a bike. This pours into the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, as Robert Troll begins to learn to ride. This also puzzles Cornflake S. Pecially.
Feb 25, 1972
Season 5Episode 630 min
Show 1201
Audrey Roth brings three unidentified cheerleaders to Rogers' television house. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Cornflake S. Pecially must juggle both tasks for Miss Paulifficate and a gift for Prince Tuesday.
Feb 28, 1972
Season 5Episode 730 min
Show 1202
Rogers' son Jamie and a friend play with a toy on the floor of the television house. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Robert Troll starts a game of catch, but doesn't want to throw because he thinks no one will throw back.
Feb 29, 1972
Season 5Episode 830 min
Show 1203
Rogers shows steam from a tea kettle. Mr. McFeely shows him the use of a steam engine. Robert Troll plays ball with Lady Aberlin, Handyman Negri and Daniel.
Mar 1, 1972
Season 5Episode 930 min
Show 1204
Corny asks Robert Troll to dump an excess amount of paint stain into a creek. The resulting pollution leaves a bad smell and tars the Castle fountain. King Friday orders Corny not to manufacture until he can clean up the mess.
Mar 2, 1972
Season 5Episode 1030 min
Show 1205
Corny and Robert Troll need some help to clean up the paint stain that they caused. Lady Elaine uses her boomerang to return the paint to its can. Afterward, Rogers goes to the McFeelys' house and Brockett's Bakery to see what can be made from scraps of old material.
Mar 3, 1972
Season 5Episode 1130 min
Show 1206
Susan Linn performs her puppets, Audrey Duck and Cat-a-Lion, at Betty's Little Theater. King Friday plans to buy a large TV.
Mar 6, 1972
Season 5Episode 1230 min
Show 1207
Rogers needs Joe Negri's help to get a crystal radio working. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Handyman Negri has to figure out why the TV set for King Friday isn't working yet.
Mar 7, 1972
Season 5Episode 1330 min
Show 1208
Rogers buys a TV set from Negri's Music Shop with a credit card. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday turns the new TV set on, finds a program he likes, and implores that everyone should watch it.
Mar 8, 1972
Season 5Episode 1430 min
Show 1209
King Friday commands that everyone should watch a television show at the Castle. He borrows a TV set from Lady Elaine so that everyone (except him) will watch it. Bored, everyone else leans toward Lady Elaine, who has a plan brewing at her Museum-Go-Round.
Mar 9, 1972
Season 5Episode 1530 min
Show 1210
Rogers goes to traffic court to plead the case that led to his parking ticket. Lady Elaine leads a march on the Castle to show that everyone has different interests.
Mar 10, 1972
Season 5Episode 1630 min
Show 1211
Rogers demonstrates the different sounds made from bells and crystal glasses filled with water. Joey Hollingsworth tap dances in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. King Friday and Queen Sara present Henrietta a bell for babysitting Prince Tuesday, but it makes X jealous.
Mar 13, 1972
Season 5Episode 1730 min
Show 1212
Tom Flynn and the Southminister Bell Ringers perform at Negri's Music Shop. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Henrietta's constant bell-ringing proves a nuisance to X the Owl. But he refuses to tell why the bell annoys him.
Mar 14, 1972
Season 5Episode 1830 min
Show 1213
Rogers makes a musical instrument out of an oatmeal box, a large button, and some string. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Henrietta's bell goes missing. This leads Lady Aberlin to talk to a jealous X.
Mar 15, 1972
Season 5Episode 1930 min
Show 1214
X wants to ask King Friday for a job. He earns the title printer of Royal calling cards.
Mar 16, 1972
Season 5Episode 2030 min
Show 1215
A plumber replaces the clogged elbow in Rogers' sink drain. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe sees the same plumber retool the Castle Fountain so it can re-circulate water.
Mar 17, 1972
Season 5Episode 2130 min
Arts Foundation (1)
A magician performs part of his act at Betty Aberlin's theater. He is seen again in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, but on harder times.
Mar 20, 1972
Season 5Episode 2230 min
Arts Foundation (2)
Andrew Wyeth illustrates to Rogers the work behind an animated film based on Rogers' song "You've Got To Do It". The Neighborhood of Make-Believe establishes the King Friday and Queen Sara Saturday Foundation for the Performing Arts.
Mar 21, 1972
Season 5Episode 2330 min
Arts Foundation (3)
Rogers explains the size of things by having a tailor alter a suit jacket. Those in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe donate things to the Appel family.
Mar 22, 1972
Season 5Episode 2430 min
Arts Foundation (4)
Lady Aberlin is asking those in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe to donate to the new performing arts program. Lady Elaine refuses to contribute until she learns what King Friday is donating.
Mar 23, 1972
Season 5Episode 2530 min
Arts Foundation (5)
Mr. Appel is named the first recipient from the Neighborhood of Make-Believe's foundation for the performing arts.
Mar 24, 1972
Season 5Episode 2630 min
Show 1221
It's Mrs. McFeely's birthday, and Rogers isn't the only one giving presents. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine is trying to get attention, much to the dismay of her neighbors.
Mar 27, 1972
Season 5Episode 2730 min
Show 1222
Attempting to make a merry-go-round, Lady Elaine doesn't feel that her animals look perfect. Rogers introduces viewers to Elsie Neal's Craft Shop.
Mar 28, 1972
Season 5Episode 2830 min
Show 1223
Handyman Negri gives X the Owl a lesson in music history from the Owl Correspondence School. The record is an owl history music lesson that X has been hoping for.
Mar 29, 1972
Season 5Episode 2930 min
Show 1224
Bob Dog is saddened because Daniel doesn't want him near the Clock. Still, Bob Dog wants to talk with Daniel.
Mar 30, 1972
Season 5Episode 3030 min
Show 1225
Rogers takes some vegetables to Bob Trow. X the Owl wants to play the harmonica alongside the King's bass violin.
Mar 31, 1972
Season 5Episode 3130 min
Show 1226
Rogers helps Bob Trow inflate one tire of a tandem bicycle. Fog in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe causes Bob Dog to lose a stone intended for King Friday.
Apr 3, 1972
Season 5Episode 3230 min
Show 1227
Astronaut Al Worden stops by the television house to show how his space suit works. His scheduled arrival in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe the next day, prompts various reactions from the neighbors.
Apr 4, 1972
Season 5Episode 3330 min
Show 1228
Lady Elaine is prepared to go to the Moon by any means. Later in the visit, Rogers goes to the Brown Marionette studio to work on a piece with Chef Brockett.
Apr 5, 1972
Season 5Episode 3430 min
Show 1229
Rogers and Al Worden recall the question-and-answer period they conducted with children about going to the Moon. Worden shows the envelope of questions he took with him on his mission. Lady Elaine turns him upside-down with her boomerang.
Apr 6, 1972
Season 5Episode 3530 min
Show 1230
Al Worden shows more equipment that he took to the Moon, and he discusses the one side of the Moon that is never seen on Earth. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday gives Worden a model Solar System.
Apr 7, 1972
Season 5Episode 3630 min
Lady Elaine Flies Into Space (1)
Rogers makes a crayon rubbing of leaves. Mrs. McFeely invites him to their house to see a fern and a reptile called a caiman. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine is still thinking about space travel. She sends Mrs. McFeely for leaves on which, Lady Elaine thinks, she can ride to Jupiter.
Apr 10, 1972
Season 5Episode 3730 min
Lady Elaine Flies Into Space (2)
Rogers plays with blocks and then with clay. Later he calls François Clemmons, offering him a position as voice teacher. In between, Lady Elaine insists she will fly from the Neighborhood of Make-Believe to Jupiter. She goes through a day of preparation.
Apr 11, 1972
Season 5Episode 3830 min
Lady Elaine Flies Into Space (3)
Mr. McFeely shows Rogers a duck. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine commands attention as she begins her flight into space on a ship made of leaves.
Apr 12, 1972
Season 5Episode 3930 min
Lady Elaine Flies Into Space (4)
The Brown Marionette Company opens one room in their studio for François Clemmons to give voice lessons. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine radios back about her flight through space.
Apr 13, 1972
Season 5Episode 4030 min
Lady Elaine Flies Into Space (5)
Lady Elaine radios back to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, saying she will stay in space because she has made the most extraordinary discovery.
Apr 14, 1972
Season 5Episode 4130 min
Lady Elaine's Purple Phase (1)
Lady Elaine splashes down in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. While some think she is going to get married, Lady Elaine keeps her extraordinary discovery a secret.
Apr 17, 1972
Season 5Episode 4230 min
Lady Elaine's Purple Phase (2)
Rogers hears a harpist at Negri's Music Shop. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine announces she has discovered the Planet Purple, where everything is purple.
Apr 18, 1972
Season 5Episode 4330 min
Lady Elaine's Purple Phase (3)
A purple disk drops into the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, giving Lady Elaine and others information on Planet Purple. She tries to emulate the lifestyle of all the Pauls and Paulines on the planet.
Apr 19, 1972
Season 5Episode 4430 min
Lady Elaine's Purple Phase (4)
Rogers visits François Clemmons's music class. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine is reluctant to shake off living like the Pauls and Paulines of Planet Purple. She even refuses to talk to X.
Apr 20, 1972
Season 5Episode 4530 min
Lady Elaine's Purple Phase (5)
Lady Aberlin and Robert Troll must convince Lady Elaine of her rightful place in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
Apr 21, 1972
Season 5Episode 4630 min
Snow People (1)
Chef Brockett presents snow pudding to Rogers at the bakery. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine wants to make snow, but she can't get it just right.
Apr 24, 1972
Season 5Episode 4730 min
Snow People (2)
Rogers talks about practice by showing different pairs of skates. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine's snow-making succeeds, which doesn't exactly bear well with everyone. It does persuade John Reardon to make an opera about snow.
Apr 25, 1972
Season 5Episode 4830 min
Snow People (3)
Rogers explains how only grown-ups can change light bulbs with a ladder. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Elaine experiments to make multi-colored snow, which backfires and plugs up the sky.
Apr 26, 1972
Season 5Episode 4930 min
Snow People (4)
Rogers uses the heater for the fish tank and shows the room's radiator. He also sees that the Brown Marionette Theater is heated with a furnace. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Henrietta begs for a role in the upcoming opera.
Apr 27, 1972
Season 5Episode 5030 min
Snow People (5)
The snow opera features an angry girl who has interrupted a badminton game. She makes snow and turns the badminton players into snow people, but she needs help to get the snow to melt.
Apr 28, 1972
Season 5Episode 5130 min
Telecan Crisis (1)
The bulb burns out in Picture-Picture, so Rogers gets a new bulb at Negri's Music Shop. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, the telecan kiosk by the Tree begins to bob up and down uncontrollably.
May 1, 1972
Season 5Episode 5230 min
Telecan Crisis (2)
Mr. McFeely has been taken ill because he has been in too much of a hurry. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, X gets a lesson from the Owl Correspondence School.
May 2, 1972
Season 5Episode 5330 min
Telecan Crisis (3)
Rogers talks about staying still, something that Mr. McFeely will need to practice. The same thing occurs for the telecan kiosk. Handyman Negri tries to tie it up, but that interferes with King Friday's calls.
May 3, 1972
Season 5Episode 5430 min
Show 1249
Rogers uses a pitch pipe at his television house and with François Clemmons. Mr. McFeely demonstrates one of his sitting-still exercises. The crisis in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe is stopped in conjecture, as Rogers tells viewers they will have to decide the outcome on their own.
May 4, 1972
Season 5Episode 5530 min
Show 1250
King Friday wants to fool Lady Aberlin and others with a marionette of the king pretending to fly.
May 5, 1972
Season 5Episode 5630 min
Show 1251
The Castle has lost its XIII plaque. It's up to Lady Aberlin and Handyman Negri to find it.
May 8, 1972
Season 5Episode 5730 min
Show 1252
Ezra Jack Keats visits the Neighborhood of Make-Believe and tells a story about a bad king. Keats must report his story to King Friday.
May 9, 1972
Season 5Episode 5830 min
Show 1253
Rogers goes to Betty's Little Theater with an idea for Susan Linn's puppets to act out.
May 10, 1972
Season 5Episode 5930 min
Show 1254
Bob Dog is sad that Queen Sara is too busy with Prince Tuesday.
May 11, 1972
Season 5Episode 6030 min
Show 1255
Lady Elaine decides to turn the Neighborhood of Make-Believe purple with her Boomerang. It does not sit well with the neighbors.
May 12, 1972
Season 5Episode 6130 min
Show 1256
Lady Elaine has yet to remove purple residue from Grand-père's sign. But the Boomerang doesn't seem to get it off.
May 15, 1972
Season 5Episode 6230 min
Show 1257
King Friday sends Mr. McFeely to deliver things for the water skiers who will appear later in the week. Rogers watches ballet dancers and demonstrates a musical triangle.
May 16, 1972
Season 5Episode 6330 min
Show 1258
Rogers shows that even when things are hidden, those things still exist. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Mrs. McFeely and Handyman Negri look for Mr. McFeely. Lady Elaine helps a tired Mr. McFeely do his job.
May 17, 1972
Season 5Episode 6430 min
Show 1259
The McFeelys bring two African lion cubs to Rogers' television house. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Aberlin helps Handyman Negri with his tasks.
May 18, 1972
Season 5Episode 6530 min
Show 1260
Rogers and Elsie Neal make clay figures of a person and a horse. Handyman Negri and Lady Aberlin, wearing a horse costume, give Henrietta a ride. X must face his feelings about being alone. This is the last episode of the series where "Tomorrow" is the closing song. This is also the last season to use "The Weekend Song" which was only done as the closing song on Friday episodes.
May 19, 1972
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