Original Air Date: June 29, 1982
EPISODE DESCRIPTIONGUESTS: Various medical professionals
SONGS:
- Won't You Be My Neighbor?
- I Like to Be Told
- It's Such a Good Feeling
- The Weekend Song
Mister Rogers arrives with a small juniper tree which he shows just before Mr. McFeely stops by with pictures of various other trees. Mister Rogers and Mr. McFeely look at the trees on Picture Picture.
In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, everyone is working together to covert the Eifel Tower into a mountain by covering it with trees. Queen Sara takes a spill as she is putting a tree into place and is taken to an emergency room by Handyman Negri and Miss Paulificate.
Back at the house, Mister Rogers talks about accidents and how sometimes people can hurt themselves and need to visit an emergency room. This leads into Mister Rogers remembering a time when he visited a hospital emergency room. He spends and extensive amount of time talking about each of the various areas in an emergency room.
Mister Rogers concludes by singing
I Like to Be Told.
COMMENTARYOften labeled as the "Creativity" series of episodes, the title of this week's programs is actually "Make-Believe."
CREDITSWith Fred Rogers
Neighbors: Kirk Celko, Maureen Cusack R.N., Holly W. Davis M.D., Lois Edmunds R.T., Joe Negri, Audrey Roth, Johnnie Stevenson, Tiffani Stevenson, Lionel W. Young M.D.
Special thanks to: Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
Hospital sequence produced by Arthur Greenwald
Executive Producer: Fred Rogers
Producer: Sam Newbury
Director: Paul Lally
Associate Producer: Margy Whitmer
Music Director: John Costa
Produced in association with WQED/Pittsburgh
A production of Family Communications
© 1982 Family Communications, Inc.
4 comments:
I'm always curious why sometimes the visits to different locales are flashbacks (I remember a time when I visited an Emergency Room), and other times they are done as present day trips. I wonder what determined that. Perhaps it was based on whether or not Fred felt it needed a voice over explanation to clarify things.
I guess I've always assumed that the flashbacks were used when there was a video on hand that was a good fit for the topic being discussed -- a video filmed prior to the current season. Then the "present day" visits were ones filmed for that particular season. I could be way off here, though.
One example of a flash back being filmed for that week is in the You and I Together week, when he visits Koko. I agree that they are used when something needs to be shortened or explained more fully with commentary. This is also another episode where David Newell is not credited. It was also fun to see Mister Rogers getting strapped in the medical 'bed.' I love Mister Rogers'(standard) comments about the different medical procedures.
Paul, I like how he usually asks medical professionals if they can tell what people are thinking when they use their instruments. Is that one of the standard comments you were talking about?
I'm loving this series of posts about Make-Believe week. I hope it's building up to a post about the Spoon Mountain opera. Just like watching the show as a kid when I looked forward to Friday's grand finale of the opera. :-)
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