The following is a list of episodes from the fifteenth season of PBS

Public Broadcasting Service

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 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, also known as Mister Rogers, is an American children's television series that was created and hosted by Fred Rogers. The series is aimed primarily at preschool ages, 2-5, but has been stated by Public Broadcasting Service as "appropriate for all ages"...

which aired in late 1984 and early 1985.

Episode 1 (Food)

Rogers enters with Hischer Booptrunk and tells a story of how his sister tried to feed Hischer, thinking he was hungry. Mr. Rogers shows a video clip of human babies and baby animals drinking milk

Breastfeeding

Breastfeeding is the feeding of an infant or young child with breast milk directly from female human breasts rather than from a baby bottle or other container. Babies have a sucking reflex that enables them to suck and swallow milk. It is recommended that mothers breastfeed for six months or...

 from their mothers. Rogers then visits a place where applesauce

Applesauce

Apple sauce or applesauce is a purée made of apples. It can be made with peeled or unpeeled apples and a variety of spices . Fruit flavorings or sweeteners such as sugar, high-fructose corn syrup, or sucralose are also commonly added...

 is made. X wants to grow vegetables of his own, but he must be patient because what he believes to be "speedy seeds" take a day to grow.

• Aired on November 19, 1984.

Episode 2 (Food)

Rogers does some mixing of granola

Granola

Granola is a breakfast food and snack food, popular in North America, consisting of rolled oats, nuts, honey, and sometimes rice, that is usually baked until crisp. During the baking process the mixture is stirred to maintain a loose, breakfast cereal-type consistency...

 for several neighbors and also shows how tofu

Tofu

is a food made by coagulating soy milk and then pressing the resulting curds into soft white blocks. It is part of East Asian and Southeast Asian cuisine such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indonesian, Vietnamese, and others. There are many different varieties of tofu, including fresh tofu and tofu...

 is manufactured. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, X is puzzled that the food grown from his speedy seeds has been taken.

• Aired on November 20, 1984.

Episode 3 (Food)

In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, the "garden guards" catch the hungry culprit who is the Old Goat from Northwood. Only then do they realize Northwood has no food. King Friday arranges for an all-out effort to grow food for their Northwood neighbors.

• Aired on November 21, 1984.

Episode 4 (Food)

Rogers goes to the soup division of Heinz Foods to see how soup is made. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe keeps its promise to grow food for Northwood but Daniel thinks he can grow a vegetable soup

Vegetable Soup

Vegetable Soup is an American educational children's television program produced by the New York State Education Department that originally ran on PBS from September 22, 1975 to December 14, 1978.-Concept:...

 tree.

• Aired on November 22, 1984.

Episode 5 (Food)

Rogers visits the home of music director and close friend John Costa, who is preparing a pasta

Pasta

Pasta is a staple food of traditional Italian cuisine, now of worldwide renown. It takes the form of unleavened dough, made in Italy, mostly of durum wheat , water and sometimes eggs. Pasta comes in a variety of different shapes that serve for both decoration and to act as a carrier for the...

 dinner. As the all-out effort for Northwood comes to a close, Bob tells Daniel the truth about the "vegetable soup tree".

• Aired on November 23, 1984.

Episode 6 (No and Yes)

After a game of peekaboo, Rogers presents a portrait of his father, painted by Dianne Dengle. She has asked Rogers to pose for his own portrait, which she paints with bits of rolled-up newspaper. The Neighborhood of Make-Believe welcomes James Michael Jones, a specialist in "Exactly Like Me" portraits. Jones announces that he is moving to Southwood, where he will marry Betty Okonak Templeton.

• Aired on February 4, 1985.

Episode 7 (No and Yes)

Rogers brings flowers to remind those of a lesson he learned when he was a boy. Mr. McFeely brings a video on how tricycle

Tricycle

A tricycle is a three-wheeled vehicle. While tricycles are often associated with the small three-wheeled vehicles used by pre-school-age children, they are also used by adults for a variety of purposes. In the United States and Canada, adult-sized tricycles are used primarily by older persons for...

s are made. Prince Tuesday disobeys an order from King Friday and is punished for trying to ride the royal tricycle. Meanwhile, Daniel expresses doubts in being the ring bearer at the wedding of James Michael Jones and Betty Okonak Templeton. Dianne Dengle is ready to present her portrait of Rogers. It shows him encircled with some of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe characters.

• Aired on February 5, 1985.

Episode 8 (No and Yes)

Rogers gets a visit from a young breakdancer named Jermaine, before he is reunited with Chrissie Thompson, one of Mr. McFeely's granddaughters. Rogers presents her with a butterfly necklace as a symbol of freedom. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Ana Platypus is mad that she does not have an active role in the upcoming wedding. Lady Aberlin tells Ana her attending the service is of an importance that all will see.

• Aired on February 6, 1985.

Episode 9 (No and Yes)

Rogers goes to Brockett's Bakery to see José Cisneros' new specialty, which is rice with milk. Lady Aberlin and Betty Okonak Templeton give ring-bearer Daniel a tip on how to keep the wedding ring on the pillow.

• Aired on February 7, 1985.

Episode 10 (No and Yes)

Rogers visits Eva Kwong at her house. Several from the Neighborhood of Make-Believe go to Southwood to attend the wedding of Betty Okonak Templeton and James Michael Jones.

• Aired on February 8, 1985.

Episode 11 (Music)

Rogers walks off stage to meet the show's house band. King Friday agrees to hold a Bass Violin Festival but not everyone can play the bass violin

Bass violin

Bass violin is the generic modern term used to denote various 16th- and 17th-century forms of bass instruments of the violin family. They were the direct ancestor of the modern cello. Bass violins were usually somewhat larger than the modern cello, but tuned the same or sometimes just one step...

. Lady Elaine begins to see around that problem.

• Aired on May 13, 1985.

Episode 12 (Music)

Yo-Yo Ma, one of Rogers' closest friends, plays his cello

Cello

The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...

at Negri's Music Shop. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Lady Aberlin ponders her dilemma of how to honor King Friday's adamant request that she can play the bass, even though it is not one of her talents.

• Aired on May 14, 1985.

Episode 13 (Music)

Ella Jenkins and Chuck Aber stop by for folk songs that keep everyone moving. Lady Aberlin doesn't know how to approach her offer to dance with a bass violin for the festival. Daniel suggests Lady Aberlin tell the truth to King Friday.

• Aired on May 15, 1985.

Episode 14 (Music)

Rogers visits a brass quintet and Lady Aberlin and Handyman Negri meet the Royal trumpeters.

• Aired on May 16, 1985.

Episode 15 (Music)

Rogers visits a man with a wide assortment of musical instruments. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, everyone hurries over to Westwood, where the Bass Violin Festival is held.

• Aired on May 17, 1985.