TV-YSeason 31
Won't you be my neighbor?
Synopsis
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (1968), Season 31 is the final one — just five episodes of the PBS children's show, and you can watch them online on iFILM as Fred Rogers says goodbye.
Art ties the season together. Rogers draws a tiny oak, plays at his sand table one last time, visits a Native American potter, and listens to the rare glass harmonica at Negri's Music Shop. Running underneath all five episodes is a single thread from the Neighborhood of Make-Believe: Lady Elaine keeps hurting people, and bit by bit the reason surfaces — an old wound nobody ever soothed. When the moment comes to judge everyone's artwork, she shows up without a verdict. Kindness, it turns out, is an art of its own.
This is Rogers' last program after three decades on the air — quiet, unsentimental, exactly in his register. Stream Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Season 31 online on iFILM.
5 episodes
- S31·E1
Celebrating the Arts: All About Trees
While tree-sitting for Mr. McFeely, Rogers draws a picture of a tiny oak tree. McFeely compliments the drawing, and later, he shows a video on how adult tricycles are made. Cousin Mary returns to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe to show her videotape of various trees.
- S31·E2
Celebrating the Arts: Sand Art
Rogers takes his final visit to his sand table, leading to a video insert of Jessica Ricciardelli playing with sand at a beach. Afterward, Rogers makes his second and final trip to Tony Chiroldes' toy-and-book store. King Friday pronounces the Neighborhood of Make-Believe will hold an art festival. That doesn't impress Lady Elaine, who appoints herself the art judge.
- S31·E3
Celebrating the Arts: A Native American Potter
The Neighborhood of Make-Believe sees Chuck Aber and HulaMouse's finished sand sculpture. Lady Elaine quickly criticizes it and just about everything else. But the sand sculpture inspires Lady Aberlin to dance, and leads Daniel to create a tiny mobile. Daniel suggests why Lady Elaine might be hurting people's feelings. Rogers does a video insert of his visit to a lady's pottery.
- S31·E4
Celebrating the Arts: The Art of Being Kind
Rogers makes his final visit to Negri's Music Shop, where he meets an expert playing the glass harmonica. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, several discover just why Lady Elaine is hurting people's feelings.
- S31·E5
Celebrating the Arts: The Last Program
Everyone in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe now knows that Lady Elaine is still dwelling on that day long ago when somebody hurt her feelings, but when the time comes to "judge" all the artwork she arrives not with a judgment, but with a collage of all the neighbors. It is Lady Elaine's rightful act of compassion toward those around her. Mr. McFeely and Rogers share a video collage of artists in their various fields.
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