Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood
| Mister Rogers' Neighborhood | |
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Mister Rogers with a model of the neighborhood.
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| Created by | Fred Rogers |
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| Theme music composer | Fred Rogers |
| Opening theme | "Won't You Be My Neighbor?" |
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| Composer(s) | Johnny Costa (musical director) |
| Country of origin | Canada (1963–1966) United States (1966–2001) |
| Original language(s) | English; some episodes feature DVS (from 1968 to 1983) via SAP (from 1983 to 2001) |
| No. of seasons | 31 (NET/PBS) |
| No. of episodes | 100 (EEN) 905 (NET/PBS) |
| Production | |
| Location(s) | CBC Studios Toronto, Ontario (1963–1966) WQED Studios Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1966–2001) |
| Camera setup | Single camera (1963–1992), Multi-camera (1992–2001) |
| Running time | 28 minutes |
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| Picture format | 480i SDTV |
| Audio format | Mono (1963–1990) Stereo (1990–2001) |
| Original release | February 19, 1968 – August 31, 2001 |
| Chronology | |
| Followed by | Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood |
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (often shortened to simply Mister Rogers) is an American half-hour children's television series that was created and hosted by namesake Fred Rogers. The series originated in 1963 as Mister Rogers on CBC Television, and was later re-branded in 1966 as Mister Rogers' Neighborhood on the regional Eastern Educational Network (EEN, a forerunner of today's American Public Television), followed by its U.S. network debut on February 19, 1968, and it aired on NET and its successor, PBS, until August 31, 2001. The series is aimed primarily at preschool ages 2 to 5, but has been stated by PBS as "appropriate for all ages".Mister Rogers' Neighborhood was produced by Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, public broadcaster WQED and Rogers' non-profit production company Family Communications, Inc.; previously known as Small World Enterprises prior to 1971, the company was renamed The Fred Rogers Company after Rogers's death.
The series could be seen in reruns on most PBS stations until August 2007, when it began to be removed by various PBS stations, and then permanently removed by PBS after August 2008 from their daily syndicated schedule. Despite this, a number of stations have chosen to continue airing the reruns independently of the PBS feed. Eleven years after Mister Rogers' Neighborhood concluded, PBS debuted an animated spin-off, Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood.
The series had its genesis in 1953, when public television station WQED debuted The Children's Corner, a program featuring Rogers as puppeteer and Josie Carey as host, in an unscripted live television program. It was this program where many of the puppets, characters and music used in the later series were developed, such as King Friday XIII, and Curious X the Owl. It was also the time when Rogers began wearing his famous sneakers, as he found them to be quieter than his work shoes while he was moving about behind the set. The show won a Sylvania Award for best children's show, and was briefly broadcast nationally on the NBC Television Network.
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