TV-YSeason 18
Won't you be my neighbor?
Synopsis
Season 18 of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (1968) is up to watch online on iFILM — fifteen 1987 episodes that hand small children words for things they can't quite name yet.
The year is built in blocks. The first looks at alike and different: everyone is one of a kind, yet we share more than we'd guess, and Bob Dog shows where a pretend pup and a real one line up. The second block is the bravest thing a preschool show could try — nighttime, the dark, being scared. Rogers dims the lights at home, folds out the sofa bed, and deliberately checks underneath for "monsters." The closing run turns to kindness, to ourselves as much as to anyone else.
There's no pressure to any of it. The same level voice that ran the PBS program since the late sixties fits these subjects best — few shows talk about a child's fear this calmly. Stream Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Season 18 online on iFILM.
15 episodes
- S18·E1
Alike and Different
Rogers attends a show full of antique cars. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Mayor Maggie and Queen Sara agree to change jobs for a day.
- S18·E2
Alike and Different
- S18·E3
Alike and Different
Each Person is Unique -- Yet We All Have Much in Common Actor Bob Trow, who plays Bob Dog, stops by to demonstrate how Bob Dog and real dogs are alike and different.
- S18·E4
Alike and Different
- S18·E5
Alike and Different
Jeff Gabel surprises Rogers by showing a few peeps. Rogers goes to a circus, where Gabel puts on his clown make-up. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe finds Lady Aberlin in a chicken costume, much to Daniel's dismay. Aberlin gives sound advice to Daniel and to Nancy Caterpillar.
- S18·E6
Nighttime
Concerns About Nighttime and Other Scary Things Mister Rogers pretends it is nighttime in his house as he turns out the lights, pulls out his sofa bed, and checks underneath it for "monsters."
- S18·E7
Nighttime
- S18·E8
Nighttime
Concerns About Nighttime and Other Scary Things Mister Rogers talks about scuba divers who explore the ocean's perpetual darkness.
- S18·E9
Nighttime
- S18·E10
Nighttime
- S18·E11
Kindness and Unkindness
- S18·E12
Kindness and Unkindness
- S18·E13
Kindness and Unkindness
Being Kind to Ourselves and Others Exercise teacher Marilyn Barnett and her young students show Mister Rogers some fancy jump-rope tricks.
- S18·E14
Kindness and Unkindness
- S18·E15
Kindness and Unkindness
"Sir Thomas T. Tune" convinces King Friday to allow the new schooling method.
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