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3 unusual facts about Mister Rogers' Neighborhood


Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood

X's feathers are still the same darker shade of blue as they were in Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.

The series centers around four-year-old Daniel Tiger, the son of the original Daniel Striped Tiger on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.

KYUR

The station brought Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and some other PBS programs to Anchorage in the early 1970s, before KAKM signed on in 1975.


American Public Television

APT began in 1961 as the Eastern Educational Television Network (EEN); EEN was one of the first distributors of shows such as The French Chef (with Julia Child), Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, and Washington Week in Review on a national basis.

Out of the Blue Enterprises

Out of the Blue, along with The Fred Rogers Company and 9 Story Entertainment, is also producing a spin-off of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, entitled Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, which debuted on PBS Kids and PBS Kids Sprout on September 3, 2012.

Paul B. Germain

Germain directed and produced Speedy Delivery (2008), a Mister Rogers' Neighborhood retrospective documentary from the perspective of the beloved side character, Mr. McFeely (played by David Newell).

WQED Multimedia

Fred Rogers of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood hosted his namesake show, that was taped in at WQED in Pittsburgh, for over 3 decades on PBS, teaching lifelong lessons to children using storytelling and enforcing them to use their imagination.


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