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'''Fred McFeely Rogers''' (March 20, 1928 – February 27, 2003), known professionally as '''Mister Rogers''', was an American television personality, [[Presbyterianism|Presbyterian]] [[Presbyterian polity|minister]], and author. He was the creator, [[showrunner]], and host of the preschool television series ''[[Mister Rogers' Neighborhood]]'', which ran from 1968 to 2001.

Born in [[Latrobe, Pennsylvania]], Rogers earned a bachelor's degree in music from [[Rollins College]] in 1951. He began his television career at [[NBC]] in [[New York City]], returning to [[Pittsburgh]] in 1953 to work for children's programming at NET (later [[PBS]]) television station [[WQED (TV)|WQED]]. He graduated from [[Pittsburgh Theological Seminary]] with a bachelor's degree in [[Divinity (academic discipline)|divinity]] in 1962 and became a Presbyterian minister in 1963. He attended the [[University of Pittsburgh]]'s Graduate School of Child Development, where he began his thirty-year collaboration with child psychologist [[Margaret McFarland]]. He also helped develop the children's shows ''The Children's Corner'' (1955) for WQED in Pittsburgh and ''Misterogers'' (1963) in Canada for the [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]]. In 1968, he returned to Pittsburgh and adapted the format of his Canadian series to create ''Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.'' It ran for 33 years and was critically acclaimed for focusing on children's emotional and physical concerns, such as death, sibling rivalry, school enrollment, and divorce.

Rogers died of [[stomach cancer]] in 2003, aged 74. His work in children's television has been widely lauded, and he received more than forty honorary degrees and several awards, including a [[Lifetime Achievement Emmy]] in 1997 and the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] in 2002. He was inducted into the [[Television Hall of Fame]] in 1999. Rogers influenced many writers and producers of [[Children's television series|children's television]] shows, and his broadcasts provided comfort during tragic events, even after his death.

==Early life==
Rogers was born in 1928, at 705 Main Street in [[Latrobe, Pennsylvania]].<ref name="Burlington Free Press 2018">{{cite web |last=Harpaz |first=Beth J. |title=Mister Rogers: 'Won't you be my neighbor?' fans can check out Fred Rogers Trail |website=Burlington Free Press |date=July 18, 2018 |url=https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/entertainment/2018/07/18/mister-rogers-fans-documentary-show-can-visit-fred-rogers-trail/795861002/ |agency=Associated Press| access-date=November 1, 2018}}</ref> His father, James Hillis Rogers, was "a very successful businessman"<ref name="EarlyLife">{{cite web |title=Early Life |website=Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning & Children's Media |url=http://www.fredrogerscenter.org/about-us/about-fred/early-life/ |access-date=October 30, 2018 |archive-date=October 15, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191015125316/https://www.fredrogerscenter.org/about-us/about-fred/early-life/ |url-status=live }}</ref> who was president of the McFeely Brick Company, one of Latrobe's most prominent businesses and founded in 1900. His mother, Nancy (''née'' McFeely), knitted sweaters for American soldiers from western Pennsylvania who were fighting in Europe and regularly volunteered at the [[Latrobe Hospital]]. Initially dreaming of becoming a doctor, she settled for a life of [[hospital volunteer]] work. Her father, Fred Brooks McFeely, after whom Rogers was named, was an entrepreneur.<ref name="latimes 20032">{{cite news |last=Woo |first=Elaine |date=February 28, 2003 |title=It's a Sad Day in This Neighborhood |work=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-feb-28-me-rogers28-story.html |access-date=October 30, 2018 |archive-date=September 15, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180915102400/http://articles.latimes.com/2003/feb/28/local/me-rogers28 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Rogers grew up in a large three-story brick house at 737 Weldon Street in Latrobe.<ref name="Burlington Free Press 2018"/><ref name="king-19">King (2018), p. 19.</ref> He had a sister, Elaine, whom the Rogerses adopted when he was eleven years old.<ref name="king-19"/> Rogers spent much of his childhood alone, playing with puppets, and spending time with his grandfather. He began playing the piano when he was five.<ref name="DeFranceso">{{cite news |url=http://www.wqed.org/mag/0403_remember3.shtml |title=Remembering Fred Rogers: A Life Well-Lived: A look back at Fred Rogers' life |last=DeFranceso |first=Joyce |date=April 2003 |work=[[Pittsburgh Magazine]] |access-date=January 17, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050103143529/http://www.wqed.org/mag/0403_remember3.shtml |archive-date=January 3, 2005}}</ref>

Rogers had a difficult childhood. Shy, introverted, and overweight, he was frequently homebound after suffering bouts of [[asthma]].<ref name="EarlyLife"/> He was bullied as a child for his weight and called "Fat Freddy".<ref name="EW.com 2018">{{cite web |url=https://ew.com/movies/2018/06/09/mister-rogers-relics-wont-you-be-my-neighbor/ |title=The relics of Mister Rogers: 7 emotional items from the new film Won't You Be My Neighbor? |last=Breznican |first=Anthony |date=June 9, 2018 |website=EW.com |access-date=October 20, 2018 |archive-date=August 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190802212419/https://ew.com/movies/2018/06/09/mister-rogers-relics-wont-you-be-my-neighbor/ |url-status=live }}</ref> According to [[Morgan Neville]], director of the 2018 documentary ''[[Won't You Be My Neighbor? (film)|Won't You Be My Neighbor?]]'', Rogers had a "lonely childhood{{nbsp}}... I think he made friends with himself as much as he could. He had a [[ventriloquist dummy]], he had [stuffed] animals, and he would create his own worlds in his childhood bedroom".<ref name="EW.com 2018"/>

[[File:Mr-rogers-hs-yearbook.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Rogers in Latrobe High School's 1946 yearbook.]]
Rogers attended [[Greater Latrobe School District|Latrobe High School]], where he overcame his shyness.<ref name="legendary locals">{{cite book |last=Comm |first=Joseph A. |title=Legendary Locals of Latrobe |location=Charleston, South Carolina |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |year=2015 |isbn=978-1-4671-0184-4 |page=52}}</ref> "It was tough for me at the beginning," Rogers told NPR's [[Terry Gross]] in 1984, "and then I made a couple friends who found out that the core of me was okay. And one of them was{{nbsp}}... the head of the football team".<ref>Gross (1984), event occurs at 4.27.</ref> Rogers became president of the student council, a member of the [[National Honor Society]], and editor-in-chief of the school [[yearbook]].<ref name="legendary locals"/> He registered for the draft in [[Greensburg, Pennsylvania]], in 1948 at age 20, where he was classified 1-A (available for military service);<ref name="archives.gov">[https://www.archives.gov/news/articles/celebrating-mr-rogers-at-the-national-archives Celebrating Mr. Rogers at the National Archives] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220105163629/https://www.archives.gov/news/articles/celebrating-mr-rogers-at-the-national-archives |date=January 5, 2022 }} [[National Archives and Records Administration|U.S. National Archives]]. Retrieved September 14, 2021.</ref> however, his status was changed to unqualified for military service following an Armed Forces physical on October 12, 1950.<ref name="archives.gov"/> He attended [[Dartmouth College]] for one year before transferring to [[Rollins College]],<ref name="DeFranceso"/> where he graduated ''[[magna cum laude]]''<ref name="latimes 20032"/> in 1951 with a [[Bachelor of Music]].<ref name="bachelor">{{cite news |title=Fred M. Rogers Receives Degree From Seminary |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52624931/fred-rogers-graduates-from-pittsburgh/ |access-date=June 2, 2020 |work=The Latrobe Bulletin |issue=121 |date=May 10, 1962 |volume=60 |archive-date=October 13, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201013213402/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52624931/fred-rogers-graduates-from-pittsburgh/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

He then attended [[Pittsburgh Theological Seminary]], from which he graduated ''magna cum laude'' in 1962 with a [[Bachelor of Divinity]], and was ordained a Presbyterian minister by the [[Synod of the Trinity|Pittsburgh Presbytery]] of the [[United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America|United Presbyterian Church]] in 1963.<ref name="bachelor"/><ref>{{cite web |date=1965 |title=Vol 1960–1965: Annual Catalogue of the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary |url=https://archive.org/details/annualcatalogue196065pitt/page/n393/mode/2up |access-date=April 27, 2020 |website=Internet Archive |publisher=Pittsburgh Theological Seminary |page=394}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=On Sunday: Fred M. Rogers To Be Ordained |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/56740444/fred-rogers-ordained-a-minister/ |access-date=August 5, 2020 |work=The Latrobe Bulletin |volume=LXI |issue=145 |date=June 8, 1963 |archive-date=October 13, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201013213503/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/56740444/fred-rogers-ordained-a-minister/ |url-status=live }}</ref> His work as an ordained minister, rather than pastoring a church, was ministering to children and their families through television. He regularly appeared before church officials to maintain his ordination.<ref name="danielburke">{{cite web |last=Burke |first=Daniel |title=Mr. Rogers was a televangelist to toddlers |url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/23/entertainment/mister-rogers-faith-religion/index.html |date=November 23, 2019 |work=CNN.com |access-date=November 23, 2019 |archive-date=October 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201003172935/https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/23/entertainment/mister-rogers-faith-religion/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Career==
===Early work===
Rogers wanted to enter [[seminary]] after college,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://interviews.televisionacademy.com/interviews/fred-rogers?clip=48375 |title=Fred Rogers: On his college years |last=Herman |first=Karen |date=October 22, 2017 |website=Television Academy Interviews |publisher=Academy of Television Arts & Sciences |language=en |access-date=November 23, 2019 |archive-date=October 13, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201013213431/https://interviews.televisionacademy.com/interviews/fred-rogers?clip=48375 |url-status=live }}</ref> but instead chose to go into the nascent medium of television after experiencing TV at his parents' home in 1951, during his senior year at [[Rollins College]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/05/arts/television/mister-rogers-neighborhood-at-50.html |title='Mister Rogers' Neighborhood' at 50: 5 Memorable Moments |last=Deb |first=Sopan |date=March 5, 2018 |work=The New York Times |access-date=November 23, 2019 |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=April 2, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200402040003/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/05/arts/television/mister-rogers-neighborhood-at-50.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In a [[CNN]] interview, he said, "I went into television because I hated it so, and I thought there's some way of using this fabulous instrument to nurture those who would watch and listen".<ref>{{cite news |last=Schuster |first=Henry |title=Fred and me: An appreciation |url=http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/TV/02/27/rogers.appreciation/ |access-date=January 21, 2019 |work=CNN.com |date=February 27, 2003 |archive-date=February 24, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200224014346/http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/TV/02/27/rogers.appreciation/ |url-status=live }}</ref>{{refn|group=note|According to ''Mister Rogers' Neighborhood'' producer Hedda Sharapan, Rogers used television to communicate his message;<ref name="king-266">King, p. 266.</ref> [[David Newell]], who played Mr. McFeely on the ''Neighborhood'', said, "Television was a vehicle for Fred, to reach children and families; it was sort of a necessary evil".<ref>King, p. 265.</ref>}} After graduating in 1951, he worked at [[NBC]] in New York City as floor director of ''[[Your Hit Parade]]'', ''[[Kate Smith|The Kate Smith Hour]]'', and [[Gabby Hayes]]'s children's show, and as an assistant producer of ''[[The Voice of Firestone]]''.<ref name="Washington Post 1982">{{cite news |last=Hendrickson |first=Paul |title=In the Land of Make Believe, The Real Mister Rogers |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=November 18, 1982 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1982/11/18/in-the-land-of-make-believe-the-real-mister-rogers/7ca0e14f-5f91-48e0-932c-898e24970890/ |access-date=October 20, 2018 |archive-date=July 9, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200709110442/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1982/11/18/in-the-land-of-make-believe-the-real-mister-rogers/7ca0e14f-5f91-48e0-932c-898e24970890/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>Gross (1984), event occurs at 6.38.</ref><ref name="highlights">{{cite news |title=Highlights in the life and career of Fred Rogers |url=http://old.post-gazette.com/localnews/20030227timelinep5.asp |access-date=January 21, 2019 |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |date=February 27, 2003 |archive-date=August 4, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804025550/http://old.post-gazette.com/localnews/20030227timelinep5.asp |url-status=dead }}</ref>

[[File:Josie Carey, Fred Rogers, and Various Puppets.jpg|thumb|upright|Josie Carey and Rogers filming an Attic scene in ''The Children's Corner''. Over Carey's shoulder is Daniel S. (Striped) Tiger, and to the right of Rogers is King Friday XIII.]]
In 1953, Rogers returned to Pittsburgh to work as a program developer at [[public television]] station [[WQED (TV)|WQED]]. [[Josie Carey]] worked with him to develop the children's show ''The Children's Corner'', which Carey hosted. Rogers worked off-camera to develop puppets, characters, and music for the show. He used many puppet characters developed during this time, such as Daniel the Striped Tiger (named after WQED's station manager, Dorothy Daniel, who gave Rogers a tiger puppet before the show's premiere),<ref>Tiech, p. 10.</ref> King Friday XIII, Queen Sara Saturday (named after Rogers' wife),<ref>{{cite web |title=Fred Rogers |url=https://www.pbs.org/wnet/pioneers-of-television/pioneering-people/fred-rogers/ |website=Pioneers of Television |publisher=PBS.org |access-date=January 22, 2019 |date=2014 |archive-date=January 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220107035320/https://www.pbs.org/wnet/pioneers-of-television/pioneering-people/fred-rogers/ |url-status=live }}</ref> X the Owl, Henrietta, and Lady Elaine, in his later work.<ref name="Early Years">{{cite web |title=Early Years in Television |website=Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning & Children's Media |url=http://www.fredrogerscenter.org/about-us/about-fred/mister-rogers-neighborhood/early-years-in-television/ |access-date=November 1, 2018 |archive-date=December 14, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191214194452/https://www.fredrogerscenter.org/about-us/about-fred/mister-rogers-neighborhood/early-years-in-television/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>Tiech, p. 9.</ref> Children's television entertainer [[Ernie Coombs]] was an assistant puppeteer.<ref name="Broughton 1986 p. 51"/> ''The Children's Corner'' won a [[Sylvania Award]] for best locally produced children's programming in 1955 and was broadcast nationally on NBC.<ref name="Presbyterian Historical Society 2018">{{cite web |title=Sunday on the Children's Corner, Revisited |website=Presbyterian Historical Society |date=February 15, 2018 |url=https://www.history.pcusa.org/blog/2018/02/sunday-childrens-corner-revisited |access-date=November 1, 2018 |archive-date=September 19, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919194336/https://www.history.pcusa.org/blog/2018/02/sunday-childrens-corner-revisited |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Schultz">{{cite web |url=http://uv201.com/TV_Pages/sylvania_award.htm |title=Sylvania Award |last=Schultz |first=Mike |publisher=uv201.com |access-date=January 22, 2019 |archive-date=November 9, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191109191338/http://uv201.com/TV_Pages/sylvania_award.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Fred Rogers Official Bio">{{cite web |title=Fred Rogers Biography |website=Fred Rogers Productions |date=2018 |url=https://www.fredrogers.org/fred-rogers/bio/ |access-date=November 1, 2018 |archive-date=July 29, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180729173153/https://www.fredrogers.org/fred-rogers/bio/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> While working on the show, Rogers attended Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and was ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1963. He also attended the [[University of Pittsburgh]]'s Graduate School of Child Development,<ref name="Fred Rogers Official Bio"/><ref name="Flecker">{{cite web |last=Flecker |first=Sally Ann |title=When Fred Met Margaret: Fred Rogers' Mentor |date=Winter 2014 |website=Pitt Med |publisher=University of Pittsburgh |url=https://www.pittmed.health.pitt.edu/story/when-fred-met-margaret |access-date=October 26, 2018 |archive-date=July 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200730212846/https://www.pittmed.health.pitt.edu/story/when-fred-met-margaret |url-status=live }}</ref> where he began working with child psychologist [[Margaret McFarland]]—who, according to Rogers' biographer Maxwell King, became his "key advisor and collaborator" and "child-education guru".<ref name="king-126">King, p. 126.</ref> Much of Rogers' "thinking about and appreciation for children was shaped and informed" by McFarland.<ref name="Flecker"/> She was his consultant for most of ''Mister Rogers' Neighborhood''{{'}}s scripts and songs for 30 years.<ref name="king-126"/>

[[File:Fred-Rogers 1988 (cropped).jpg|thumb|left|upright|Rogers in 1988, with his signature red sweater]]
In 1963, the [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]] (CBC) in [[Toronto]] contracted Rogers to come develop and host the 15-minute black-and-white children's program ''Misterogers;'' it lasted from 1963 to 1967.<ref name="Broughton 1986 p. 51">{{cite book |last=Broughton |first=Irv |title=Producers on Producing: The Making of Film and Television |publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc. |year=1986 |isbn=978-0-7864-1207-5 |page=51}}</ref><ref>King (2018), p. 145.</ref> It was the first time Rogers appeared on camera. CBC's children's programming head Fred Rainsberry insisted on it, telling Rogers, "Fred, I've seen you talk with kids. Let's put you yourself on the air".<ref name="Roberts 2018">{{cite web |last=Roberts |first=Soraya |title=The Fred Rogers We Know |date=June 26, 2018 |url=https://hazlitt.net/longreads/fred-rogers-we-know |work=Hazlitt Magazine |publisher=Penguin Random House |access-date=October 28, 2018 |archive-date=January 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220105162500/https://hazlitt.net/longreads/fred-rogers-we-know |url-status=live }}</ref> Coombs joined Rogers in Toronto as an assistant puppeteer.<ref name="Broughton 1986 p. 51"/> Rogers also worked with Coombs on the children's show ''[[Butternut Square]]'' from 1964 to 1967. Rogers acquired the rights to ''Misterogers'' in 1967 and returned to Pittsburgh with his wife, two young sons, and the sets he developed, despite a potentially promising career with CBC and no job prospects in Pittsburgh.<ref name=":1">{{cite book |last=Matheson |first=Sue |chapter=Good Neighbors, Moral Philosophy and the Masculine Ideal|editor1-last=Merlock Jackson |editor1-first=Sandra |editor2-last=Emmanuel |editor2-first=Steven M. |title=Revisiting Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: Essays on Lessons about Self and Community |date=2016 |publisher=McFarland & Company, Publishers |location=Jefferson, North Carolina |isbn=978-1-4766-2341-2 |page=25}}</ref><ref>King, p. 150.</ref> On Rogers' recommendation, Coombs remained in Toronto and became Rogers' Canadian equivalent of an iconic television personality, creating the children's program ''[[Mr. Dressup]]'', which ran from 1967 to 1996.<ref name="National Post 2018">{{Cite news |url=https://nationalpost.com/entertainment/television/how-mr-rogers-and-mr-dressups-road-trip-from-pittsburgh-to-toronto-changed-childrens-television-forever |title=How Mr. Rogers and Mr. Dressup's road trip from Pittsburgh to Toronto changed children's television forever |last=Gillmor |first=Don |date=July 11, 2018 |website=National Post |access-date=October 26, 2018}}</ref> Rogers' work for CBC "helped shape and develop the concept and style of his later program for the [[PBS|Public Broadcasting Service]] (PBS) in the U.S."<ref name="FredRogersCenter">{{Cite web |title=Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and Beyond |url=http://www.fredrogerscenter.org/about-us/about-fred/mister-rogers-neighborhood/mister-rogers-neighborhood-and-beyond/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331095125/http://www.fredrogerscenter.org/about-us/about-fred/mister-rogers-neighborhood/mister-rogers-neighborhood-and-beyond/ |archive-date=March 31, 2019 |access-date=October 28, 2018 |website=Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning & Children's Media}}</ref>

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''Mister Rogers' Neighborhood'' (also called the ''Neighborhood''), a half-hour educational children's program starring Rogers, began airing nationally in 1968 and ran for 895 episodes.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Bahr |first=Lindsey |title=Mister Rogers pic in development with 'Little Miss Sunshine' directors |url=https://ew.com/article/2013/09/27/mister-rogers-movie-development/ |access-date=March 21, 2019 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |date=September 27, 2013 |archive-date=January 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220105163630/https://ew.com/article/2013/09/27/mister-rogers-movie-development/ |url-status=live }}</ref> It was videotaped at [[WQED (TV)|WQED]] in Pittsburgh and broadcast by [[National Educational Television]] (NET), which later became the [[Public Broadcasting Service]] (PBS).<ref>{{cite news |title=Children's TV Host Fred Rogers Dies At 74 |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/remember-jan-june03-rogers_02-27 |access-date=March 21, 2019 |work=[[PBS NewsHour]] |date=February 27, 2003 |archive-date=January 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220105162615/https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/remember-jan-june03-rogers_02-27 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Burns |first=Asia Simone |title=Mister Rogers Is Coming Back To Your Neighborhood, On A Stamp |url=https://www.npr.org/2018/02/07/583970831/mister-rogers-will-appear-forever-on-a-stamp |access-date=March 21, 2019 |work=NPR.org |date=February 7, 2018 |archive-date=January 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220105162431/https://www.npr.org/2018/02/07/583970831/mister-rogers-will-appear-forever-on-a-stamp |url-status=live }}</ref> Its first season had 180 black-and-white episodes. Each subsequent season, filmed in color and funded by PBS, the [[Sears-Roebuck]] Foundation, and other charities, consisted of 65 episodes.<ref>King, p. 164.</ref><ref name="wapostobit">{{cite news |last=Estrada |first=Louie |title=Children's TV Icon Fred Rogers Dies at 74 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2003/02/28/childrens-tv-icon-fred-rogers-dies-at-74/8f5b9796-3588-42cf-aa84-45daec1f0583/ |access-date=March 31, 2019 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=February 28, 2003 |archive-date=February 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210206060251/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2003/02/28/childrens-tv-icon-fred-rogers-dies-at-74/8f5b9796-3588-42cf-aa84-45daec1f0583/ |url-status=live }}</ref> By the time it ended production in December 2000, its average rating was about 0.7% of television households or 680,000 homes, and it aired on 384 PBS stations. At its peak in 1985–1986, its ratings were 2.1%, or 1.8 million homes.<ref>{{cite news |last=DeFranceso |first=Joyce |title=A Life Well-Lived |url=http://www.wqed.org/mag/0403_remember3.shtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050103143529/http://www.wqed.org/mag/0403_remember3.shtml |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 3, 2005 |access-date=March 22, 2019 |work=Pittsburgh Magazine |date=April 2003}}</ref><ref name="finalday">{{cite news |last=Montgomery |first=David |title=For Mister Rogers, a Final Day in the Neighborhood |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2001/09/01/for-mister-rogers-a-final-day-in-the-neighborhood/6c6b6bdd-82f6-4a7e-92c0-af5493837953/ |access-date=March 22, 2019 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=September 1, 2001 |archive-date=October 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029203142/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2001/09/01/for-mister-rogers-a-final-day-in-the-neighborhood/6c6b6bdd-82f6-4a7e-92c0-af5493837953/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The last original episode aired in 2001, but PBS continued to air reruns, and by 2016 it was the third-longest-running program in PBS history.<ref name="wapostobit"/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Jackson |first1=Kathy Merlock |last2=Emmanuel |first2=Steven M |title=Revisiting Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: Essays on Lessons about Self and Community |date=2016 |publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc. |location=Jefferson, North Carolina |isbn=978-1-4766-2341-2 |page=1 |chapter=Introduction}}</ref>

Many of the sets and props in ''Mister Rogers' Neighborhood'', like the trolley, the sneakers, and the castle, were created for Rogers' show in Toronto by CBC designers and producers. The program also "incorporated most of the highly imaginative elements that later became famous",<ref name="King, p. 158">King, p. 158.</ref> such as its slow pace and its host's quiet manner.<ref name="King, p. 158"/><ref>King, p. 146.</ref> The format of ''Mister Rogers' Neighborhood'' "remained virtually unchanged" for the entire run of the program.<ref>{{cite book |last=Wolfe |first=Mark J. P. |title=The World of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood |date=2017 |publisher=Routledge Publishers |location=New York |isbn=978-1-315-11008-0 |page=16}}</ref> Every episode begins with a camera's-eye view of a model of a neighborhood, then panning in closer to a representation of a house while a piano instrumental of the theme song, "Won't You be My Neighbor?", performed by music director [[Johnny Costa]] and inspired by a [[Ludwig van Beethoven|Beethoven]] [[sonata]], is played.<ref>{{cite news |last=Woo |first=Elaine |title=From the Archives: It's a Sad Day in This Neighborhood |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-fred-rogers-20030228-story.html |access-date=April 25, 2019 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=February 28, 2003 |archive-date=January 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220105163606/https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-fred-rogers-20030228-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The camera zooms in to a model representing Mr. Rogers' house, then cuts to the house's interior and pans across the room to the front door, which Rogers opens as he sings the theme song to greet his visitors while changing his suit jacket to a cardigan (knitted by his mother, Nancy)<ref>{{cite web |last=Jackson |first=Christine |title=The Importance of Sweaters and Sneakers in Mister Rogers' Neighborhood |url=https://www.rewire.org/pbs/sweaters-sneakers-rogers-neighborhood/ |website=Rewire.org |publisher=PBS |access-date=April 10, 2019 |date=March 20, 2017 |archive-date=February 7, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200207163832/https://www.rewire.org/pbs/sweaters-sneakers-rogers-neighborhood/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and his dress shoes to [[sneakers]], "complete with a shoe tossed from one hand to another".<ref>Wolfe, p. 11.</ref> The episode's theme is introduced, and Mr. Rogers leaves his home to visit another location, the camera panning back to the neighborhood model and zooming in to the new location as he enters it. Once this segment ends, Mr. Rogers leaves and returns to his home, indicating that it is time to visit the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Mr. Rogers proceeds to the window seat by the trolley track and sets up the action there as the Trolley comes out. The camera follows it down a tunnel in the back wall of the house as it enters the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. The stories and lessons take place over a week's worth of episodes and involve puppets and human characters. The end of the visit occurs when the Trolley returns to the same tunnel from which it emerged, reappearing in Mr. Rogers' home. He then talks to the viewers before concluding the episode. He often feeds his fish, cleans up any props he has used, and returns to the front room, where he sings the closing song while changing back into his dress shoes and jacket. He exits the front door as he ends the song, and the camera zooms out of his home and pans across the neighborhood model as the episode ends.{{refn|group=note|See Wolfe, pp. 9–16, for a complete description of the structure of ''Mister Rogers' Neighborhood''.}}

[[File:Fred Rogers and X the Owl Look Magazine photo 1969.png|thumb|left|upright|Rogers on the cover of [[Look (American magazine)|Look Magazine]] in 1969]]
''Mister Rogers' Neighborhood'' emphasized young children's social and emotional needs, and unlike another PBS show, ''[[Sesame Street]]'', which premiered in 1969, did not focus on cognitive learning.<ref>King, p. 145.</ref> Writer Kathy Merlock Jackson said, "While both shows target the same preschool audience and prepare children for kindergarten, ''Sesame Street'' concentrates on school-readiness skills while ''Mister Rogers Neighborhood'' focuses on the child's developing psyche and feelings and sense of moral and ethical reasoning".<ref>{{cite book |last=Jackson |first=Kathy Merlock |editor1-last=Jackson |editor1-first=Kathy Merlock |editor2-last=Emmanuel |editor2-first=Steven M. |title=Revisiting Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: Essays on Lessons about Self and Community |publisher=McFarland & Company, Publishers |location=Jefferson, North Carolina |isbn=978-1-4766-2341-2 |page=11 |chapter=Social Activism for the Small Set |date=February 17, 2016}}</ref> The ''Neighborhood'' also spent fewer resources on research than ''Sesame Street'', but Rogers used [[early childhood education]] concepts taught by his mentor Margaret McFarland, [[Benjamin Spock]], [[Erik Erikson]], and [[T. Berry Brazelton]] in his lessons.<ref>King, p. 134.</ref> As ''[[The Washington Post]]'' noted, Rogers taught young children about civility, tolerance, sharing, and self-worth "in a reassuring tone and leisurely cadence".<ref name="postobit">{{cite news |last=Estrada |first=Louie |title=Children's TV Icon Fred Rogers Dies at 74 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2003/02/28/childrens-tv-icon-fred-rogers-dies-at-74/8f5b9796-3588-42cf-aa84-45daec1f0583/ |access-date=April 10, 2019 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=February 28, 2003 |archive-date=February 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210206060251/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2003/02/28/childrens-tv-icon-fred-rogers-dies-at-74/8f5b9796-3588-42cf-aa84-45daec1f0583/ |url-status=live }}</ref> He tackled difficult topics such as the death of a family pet, sibling rivalry, the addition of a newborn into a family, moving and enrolling in a new school, and divorce.<ref name="postobit"/> For example, he wrote a special segment that dealt with the [[assassination of Robert F. Kennedy]] that aired on June 7, 1968, two days after the assassination occurred.<ref>King, p. 192.</ref>

[[File:Fred Rogers 1968.jpg|thumb|upright|Rogers in 1968]]
According to King, the process of putting each episode of ''Mister Rogers' Neighborhood'' together was "painstaking"<ref>King, p. 184.</ref> and Rogers' contribution to the program was "astounding". Rogers wrote and edited all the episodes, played the piano and sang for most of the songs, wrote 200 songs and 13 operas, created all the characters (both puppet and human), played most of the significant puppet roles, hosted every episode, and produced and approved every detail of the program.<ref>King, p. 204.</ref> The puppets created for the Neighborhood of Make-Believe "included an extraordinary variety of personalities".<ref>King, p. 216.</ref> They were simple puppets but "complex, complicated, and utterly honest beings".<ref>King, p. 219.</ref> In 1971, Rogers formed Family Communications, Inc. (FCI, now [[Fred Rogers Productions]]), to produce the ''Neighborhood'', other programs, and non-broadcast materials.<ref name="FredRogersCenter" /><ref>{{cite news |last=Jefferson |first=Robin Seaton |title=Siefken Heads Up Fred Rogers Company, Keeping Mister Rogers' Message Relevant For Next Generation |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/robinseatonjefferson/2017/03/23/siefken-heads-up-the-fred-rogers-company-keeping-mister-rogers-message-relevant-for-next-generation/#7ef935881e9b |access-date=April 25, 2019 |work=Forbes |date=March 23, 2017 |archive-date=January 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220107040858/https://www.forbes.com/sites/robinseatonjefferson/2017/03/23/siefken-heads-up-the-fred-rogers-company-keeping-mister-rogers-message-relevant-for-next-generation/#7ef935881e9b |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1975, Rogers stopped producing ''Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood'' to focus on adult programming. Reruns of the ''Neighborhood'' continued to air on PBS.<ref>King, pp. 230–231.</ref> King reports that the decision caught many of his coworkers and supporters "off guard".<ref>King, p. 231.</ref> Rogers continued to confer with McFarland about child development and early childhood education, however.<ref>King, p. 240.</ref> In 1979, after an almost five-year hiatus, Rogers returned to producing the ''Neighborhood''; King calls the new version "stronger and more sophisticated than ever".<ref>King, p. 243.</ref> King writes that by the program's second run in the 1980s, it was "such a cultural touchstone that it had inspired numerous parodies",<ref name="king-266"/> most notably [[Eddie Murphy]]'s parody on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' in the early 1980s.<ref name="king-266"/>

Rogers retired from producing the ''Neighborhood'' in 2001 at age 73, although reruns continued to air. He and FCI had been making about two or three weeks of new programs per year for many years, "filling the rest of his time slots from a library of about 300 shows made since 1979".<ref name="finalday"/> The final original episode of ''Mister Rogers' Neighborhood'' aired on August 31, 2001.<ref>King, p. 338.</ref>

===Other work and appearances===
{{Further|Fred Rogers's 1969 United States Senate testimony}}
[[File:Fred Rogers testifies before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications, 1969.ogv|thumb|left|[[Fred Rogers' 1969 Senate Testimony on Public Broadcasting Funding|Rogers testified]] before the [[Senate Subcommittee on Communications]], chaired by [[John Pastore]], on May 1, 1969. As part of his testimony, he recites the lyrics to "[[What Do You Do with the Mad that You Feel?]]"]]
In 1969, [[Fred Rogers' 1969 Senate Testimony on Public Broadcasting Funding|Rogers testified]] before the [[U.S. Senate]] Subcommittee on Communications, which was chaired by Democratic Senator [[John Pastore]] of Rhode Island. U.S. President [[Lyndon Johnson]] had proposed a $20 million bill for the creation of PBS before he left office, but his successor, [[Richard Nixon]], wanted to cut the funding to $10 million.<ref name="frankmsnbc">{{cite news |last=Frank |first=Steve |title=Mr. Rogers offers timeless defense of PBS funding…in 1969 |url=http://www.msnbc.com/the-ed-show/mr |access-date=November 13, 2019 |work=MSNBC.com |date=September 6, 2013 |archive-date=November 13, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191113183811/http://www.msnbc.com/the-ed-show/mr |url-status=live }}</ref> Even though Rogers was not yet nationally known, he was chosen to testify because of his ability to make persuasive arguments and to connect emotionally with his audience. The clip of Rogers' testimony, which was televised and has since been viewed by millions of people on the internet, helped to secure funding for PBS for many years afterward.<ref>King, pp. 170–171.</ref><ref>King, p. 176.</ref> According to King, Rogers' testimony was "considered one of the most powerful pieces of testimony ever offered before Congress, and one of the most powerful pieces of video presentation ever filmed".<ref name="king-172">King, p. 172.</ref> It brought Pastore to tears and, according to King, has been studied by public relations experts and academics.<ref name="king-172"/> Congressional funding for PBS increased from $9 million to $22 million.<ref name="frankmsnbc"/> In 1970, Nixon appointed Rogers as chair of the [[White House Conference on Children and Youth]].<ref>King, p. 175.</ref>

[[File:Fred Rogers and Willie Stargell.jpg|thumb|upright|Rogers and [[Willie Stargell]] in 1980]]
In 1978, while on hiatus from ''Mister Rogers' Neighborhood'', Rogers wrote, produced, and hosted a 30-minute interview program for adults on PBS called ''[[Old Friends ... New Friends|Old Friends{{nbsp}}... New Friends]]''.<ref name="newneighborhood">{{cite news |last=Neuhaus |first=Cable |title=Fred Rogers Moves into a New Neighborhood—and So Does His Rebellious Son |url=https://people.com/archive/fred-rogers-moves-into-a-new-neighborhood-and-so-does-his-rebellious-son-vol-9-no-19/ |access-date=May 25, 2019 |work=People |date=May 15, 1978 |archive-date=January 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220105162501/https://people.com/archive/fred-rogers-moves-into-a-new-neighborhood-and-so-does-his-rebellious-son-vol-9-no-19/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>King, p. 230.</ref> It lasted 20 episodes. Rogers' guests included [[Hoagy Carmichael]], [[Helen Hayes]], [[Milton Berle]], [[Lorin Hollander]], poet [[Robert Frost]]'s daughter Lesley, and [[Willie Stargell]].<ref name="newneighborhood"/><ref>King, p. 233.</ref>

In September 1987, Rogers visited Moscow to appear as the first guest on the long-running Soviet children's TV show ''[[Good Night, Little Ones!]]'' with host [[Tatyana Vedeneyeva]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Mesce |first=Deborah |title=Beautiful Day For Mr. Rogers And Soviet Counterpart |url=https://apnews.com/2fd550e6546cf0745419821966f207f2 |access-date=June 10, 2020 |work=Associated Press |date=November 20, 1987 |archive-date=January 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220105163828/https://apnews.com/2fd550e6546cf0745419821966f207f2 |url-status=live }}</ref> The appearance was broadcast in the [[Soviet Union]] on December 7, coinciding with the [[Washington Summit (1987)|Washington Summit]] meeting between Soviet leader [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] and U.S. President [[Ronald Reagan]] in [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref>{{cite news |last=Ogintz |first=Eileen |title=Neighborhood Hero |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1988-03-06-8804050228-story.html |access-date=May 25, 2019 |work=Chicago Tribune |date=March 6, 1988 |archive-date=January 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220105162501/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1988-03-06-8804050228-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Vedeneyeva visited the set of ''Mister Rogers' Neighborhood'' in November, the occasion taped and later aired in March 1988 as part of Rogers' program.<ref>{{cite news |last=Brennan |first=Patricia |title='Neighborhood' Detente |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/tv/1988/03/06/neighborhood-detente/7d383212-b74d-4d0b-bc38-2dee4689ea11/ |access-date=June 10, 2020 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=March 6, 1988 |archive-date=June 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200611003138/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/tv/1988/03/06/neighborhood-detente/7d383212-b74d-4d0b-bc38-2dee4689ea11/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1994, Rogers wrote, produced, and hosted a special for PBS called ''Fred Rogers' Heroes'', which featured interviews and portraits of four people from across the country who were having a positive impact on children and education.<ref>King, p. 232.</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Williams |first=Scott |title='Mr. Rogers' Heroes' Looks at Who's Helping America's Children |url=https://apnews.com/97b26c623a7b246ce802492b7be046dd |access-date=May 25, 2019 |work=AP News |agency=Associated Press |date=September 2, 1994 |archive-date=January 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220105163807/https://apnews.com/97b26c623a7b246ce802492b7be046dd |url-status=live }}</ref> The first time Rogers appeared on television as an actor, and not as himself, was in a 1996 episode of ''[[Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman]]'', playing a preacher.<ref name="DeFranceso"/>

Rogers gave "scores of interviews".<ref name="king-326">King, p. 326.</ref> Though reluctant to appear on television talk shows, he would usually "charm the host with his quick wit and ability to ad-lib on a moment's notice".<ref>King (2018), p. 308.</ref> Rogers was "one of the country's most sought-after commencement speakers",<ref name="ntyobit"/> making over 150 speeches.<ref name="king-326"/> His friend and colleague David Newell reported that Rogers would "agonize over a speech",<ref>King (2018), p. 326.</ref> and King reported that Rogers was at his least guarded during his speeches, which were about children, television, education, his view of the world, how to make the world a better place, and his quest for self-knowledge. His tone was quiet and informal but "commanded attention".<ref name="king-326"/> In many speeches, including the ones he made accepting a [[24th Daytime Emmy Awards|Lifetime Achievement Emmy]] in 1997,<ref name="tomjunod"/> for his induction into the [[Television Academy Hall of Fame]] in 1999,<ref name="ntyobit"/> and his final commencement speech at [[Dartmouth College]] in 2002, he instructed his audiences to remain silent and think for a moment about someone who had a good influence on them.<ref>{{cite web |title=About Fred Rogers |url=https://www.misterrogers.org/about-fred-rogers/ |website=Mister Rogers.org |publisher=The Fred Rogers Company |access-date=July 30, 2019 |archive-date=January 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220105162448/https://www.misterrogers.org/about-fred-rogers/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Personal life==
[[File:Fred and Joanne Rogers Sitting at Piano.jpg|thumb|upright|alt=Rogers and wife Joanne Byrd sitting at a piano, 1975.|Rogers and wife [[Joanne Rogers|Joanne Byrd]], 1975.]]
Rogers met [[Joanne Rogers|Sara Joanne Byrd]] (called "Joanne") from [[Jacksonville, Florida]], while attending Rollins College. They were married from 1952 until he died in 2003. They had two sons, James and John.<ref>{{cite news |last=Dawn |first=Randee |title=Fred Rogers' widow reveals the way he proposed marriage—and it's so sweet |url=https://www.today.com/popculture/fred-rogers-widow-reveals-way-he-proposed-marriage-it-s-t130799 |access-date=July 25, 2019 |work=Today.com |date=June 12, 2018 |archive-date=January 6, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220106131317/https://www.today.com/popculture/fred-rogers-widow-reveals-way-he-proposed-marriage-it-s-t130799 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>King (2018), p. 54.</ref> Joanne was an accomplished pianist,<ref name="joannerogers">{{cite web |last=Schlageter |first=Bill |title=Children's Museum of Pittsburgh to honor Joanne Rogers with its 2016 Great Friend of Children Award |url=https://pittsburghkids.org/pages/children-s-museum-of-pittsburgh-to-honor-joanne-rogers-with-its-2016-great-friend-of-children-award |publisher=Children's Museum of Pittsburgh |access-date=July 25, 2019 |date=February 3, 2016 |archive-date=September 25, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200925100313/https://pittsburghkids.org/pages/children-s-museum-of-pittsburgh-to-honor-joanne-rogers-with-its-2016-great-friend-of-children-award |url-status=live }}</ref> who, like Fred, earned a Bachelor of Music from Rollins, and went on to earn a Master of Music from [[Florida State University]]. She performed publicly with her college classmate, Jeannine Morrison, from 1976 to 2008.<ref name="joannerogers"/><ref>{{cite news |last=Owen |first=Rob |title=Music plays key role in Mrs. Rogers' relationship with husband Fred |url=http://old.post-gazette.com/ae/20020409rogers0409fnp3.asp |access-date=July 25, 2019 |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |date=April 9, 2002 |archive-date=January 6, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220106134429/http://old.post-gazette.com/ae/20020409rogers0409fnp3.asp |url-status=dead }}</ref> According to biographer Maxwell King, Rogers' close associates said he was "absolutely faithful to his marriage vows".<ref name=":7">King (2018), p. 208.</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2021/01/14/joanne-rogers-mister-fred-rogers-widow-dies-obituary/ |title=Joanne Rogers, Widow Of Fred Rogers, Dies At Age 92 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114221912/https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2021/01/14/joanne-rogers-mister-fred-rogers-widow-dies-obituary/ |work=[[KDKA-TV]] |url-status=live |date=January 14, 2021 |archive-date=January 14, 2021 |access-date=January 14, 2021}}</ref>

Rogers was red-green [[color-blind]].<ref name="tomjunod"/><ref>King (2018), p. 87.</ref> He became a [[pescatarian|pescetarian]] in 1970, after the death of his father, and a [[Vegetarianism|vegetarian]] in the early 1980s,<ref>{{cite AV media | people=Rick Sebak (host/producer)| date=October 19, 1987| title=My Interview with Fred| medium = video clip| url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvDUUqcUP3Y| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211029/BvDUUqcUP3Y| archive-date=October 29, 2021| access-date=December 7, 2019| publisher=WQED |via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref> saying he "couldn't eat anything that had a mother".<ref name="king-9">King (2018), p. 9.</ref> He became a co-owner of ''[[Vegetarian Times]]'' in the mid-1980s,<ref name="king-9"/> and said in one issue, "I love [[Veggie burger|tofu burgers]] and beets".<ref name="vegetarian">{{Cite magazine |last=Obis |first=Paul |date=November 1983 |title=Fred Rogers: America's Favorite Neighbor |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eQgAAAAAMBAJ&q=god&pg=PA26 |magazine=[[Vegetarian Times]] |page=26 |access-date=July 25, 2019}}</ref> He told ''Vegetarian Times'' that he became a vegetarian for both ethical and health reasons.<ref name="vegetarian"/> According to his biographer Maxwell King, Rogers also signed his name on a statement [[Fur clothing#Anti-fur campaigns|protesting wearing animal furs]].<ref name="king-9"/>

Rogers was a registered [[Republican Party (U.S.)|Republican]], but according to his wife Joanne, he was "very independent in the way he voted", choosing not to talk about politics because he wanted to be impartial.<ref>{{cite news |last=Kaufman |first=Amy |title=How befriending Mister Rogers' widow allowed me to learn the true meaning of his legacy |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2019-11-26/mister-rogers-widow-legacy-a-beautiful-day-in-the-neighborhood |access-date=November 27, 2019 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=November 26, 2019 |archive-date=January 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220121160912/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2019-11-26/mister-rogers-widow-legacy-a-beautiful-day-in-the-neighborhood |url-status=live }}</ref>

Rogers was a [[Presbyterian Church (USA)|Presbyterian]], and many of the messages he expressed in ''Mister Rogers' Neighborhood'' were inspired by the core tenets of [[Christianity]]. Rogers rarely spoke about his faith on air; he believed that teaching through example was as powerful as preaching. He said, "You don't need to speak overtly about religion in order to get a message across". According to writer Shea Tuttle, Rogers considered his faith a fundamental part of his personality and "called the space between the viewer and the television set 'holy ground'". He also studied [[Catholic mysticism]], [[Judaism]], [[Buddhism]], and other faiths and cultures.<ref name="king-9"/><ref name="king-313">King (2018), p. 313.</ref> King called him "that unique television star with a real spiritual life",<ref name="king-313"/> emphasizing the values of patience, reflection, and "silence in a noisy world".<ref name="king-9"/>

King reported that despite Rogers' family's wealth, he cared little about making money, and lived frugally, especially as he and his wife grew older.<ref>King (2018), p. 10.</ref><ref>King (2018), p. 336.</ref> King reported that Rogers' relationship with his young audience was important to him. For example, since hosting ''Misterogers'' in Canada, he answered every letter sent to him by hand. After ''Mister Rogers' Neighborhood'' began airing in the United States, the letters increased in volume, and he hired staff member and producer Hedda Sharapan to answer them, but he read, edited, and signed each one. King wrote that Rogers saw responding to his viewers' letters as "a pastoral duty of sorts".<ref>King (2018), p. 328.</ref>

''The New York Times'' called Rogers "a dedicated lap-swimmer",<ref name="ntyobit">{{cite news |last=Lewis |first=Daniel |title=Mister Rogers, TV's Friend For Children, Is Dead at 74 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/28/arts/mister-rogers-tv-s-friend-for-children-is-dead-at-74.html |page=A00001 |access-date=July 29, 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=February 28, 2003 |archive-date=January 6, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220106131313/https://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/28/arts/mister-rogers-tv-s-friend-for-children-is-dead-at-74.html |url-status=live }}</ref> and [[Tom Junod]], author of "Can You Say{{nbsp}}... Hero?", the 1998 ''[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]'' profile of Rogers, said, "Nearly every morning of his life, Mister Rogers has gone swimming".<ref name="tomjunod">{{cite magazine |last=Junod |first=Tom |title=Can You Say…Hero? |url=https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a27134/can-you-say-hero-esq1198/ |access-date=July 29, 2019 |magazine=Esquire |date=November 1998 |archive-date=February 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200211033745/https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a27134/can-you-say-hero-esq1198/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Rogers began swimming when he was a child at his family's vacation home outside Latrobe, where they owned a pool, and during their winter trips to Florida. King wrote that swimming and playing the piano were "lifelong passions" and that "both gave him a chance to feel capable and in charge of his destiny",<ref>King (2018), p. 318.</ref> and that swimming became "an important part of the strong sense of self-discipline he cultivated". Rogers swam daily at the [[Pittsburgh Athletic Association]], after waking every morning between 4:30 and 5:30 A.M. to pray and to "read the [[Bible]] and prepare himself for the day".<ref name="king-317">King (2018), p. 317.</ref> He did not smoke or drink.<ref name="ntyobit"/> According to Junod, he did nothing to change his weight from the {{convert|143|lb|kg}} he weighed for most of his adult life; by 1998, this also included napping daily, going to bed at 9:30 P.M., and sleeping eight hours per night without interruption. Junod said Rogers saw his weight "as a destiny fulfilled", telling Junod, "the number 143 means 'I love you.' It takes one letter to say 'I' and four letters to say 'love' and three letters to say 'you'".<ref name="tomjunod"/>

Through an ancestor who emigrated from [[Germany]] to the U.S., Johannes Meffert (born 1732), Rogers is the sixth cousin of actor [[Tom Hanks]], who portrays him in the film ''[[A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood]]'' (2019).<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/19/entertainment/tom-hanks-fred-rogers-related-trnd/index.html |title=Tom Hanks just found out he's related to Mister Rogers |last1=Capron |first1=Maddie |last2=Zdanowicz |first2=Christina |website=CNN |date=November 19, 2019 |access-date=November 20, 2019 |archive-date=October 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201003201824/https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/19/entertainment/tom-hanks-fred-rogers-related-trnd/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Sexuality ===
According to biographer Michael Long in a 2014 ''[[HuffPost]]'' essay, Rogers' sexuality had long been a topic of curiosity due to his lack of traditional [[machismo]].<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |last=Ross |first=Martha |date=2019-03-07 |title=Fred Rogers celebrated as 'bisexual icon' after his comments on sexual attraction resurface |url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/03/07/fred-rogers-celebrated-as-bisexual-icon-after-his-comments-on-sexual-attraction-resurface/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190404025316/https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/03/07/fred-rogers-celebrated-as-bisexual-icon-after-his-comments-on-sexual-attraction-resurface/ |archive-date=2019-04-04 |access-date=2024-06-07 |website=[[The Mercury News]] |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite web |last=Long |first=Michael |date=2014-10-22 |title='Wasn't He Gay?': A Revealing Question About Mister Rogers |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/wasnt-he-gay-a-revealing-_b_6014538 |access-date=2024-06-07 |website=[[HuffPost]] |language=en}}</ref> The 2018 documentary [[Won't You Be My Neighbor? (film)|''Won't You Be My Neighbor?'']] featured an interview with [[François Clemmons]], the gay actor who played Officer Clemmons on ''Mister Rogers' Neighborhood'', in which he denied that Rogers was gay or that he had ever gotten a "gay vibe" from him.<ref name=":4"/> According to the 2015 biography ''The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers'' by Maxwell King, Rogers once told openly gay friend Dr. William Hirsch that he "must be right smack in the middle" of a sexuality scale because "I have found women attractive, and I have found men attractive."<ref name=":4"/><ref name=":6">{{Cite web |last=Street |first=Mikelle |date=2019-03-06 |title=Mr. Rogers Was Apparently Queer, Says 2015 Book |url=https://www.out.com/television/2019/3/06/mr-rogers-has-found-men-and-women-attractive |access-date=2024-06-07 |website=[[Out (magazine)|Out]] |language=en}}</ref> This excerpt resurfaced in 2019 and led many social media users to celebrate him as [[Bisexuality|bisexual]], though there is no record of him identifying as such during his lifetime.<ref name=":4"/><ref name=":6"/>

==Death and memorials==
After Rogers' retirement in 2001, he remained busy working with FCI, studying religion and spirituality, making public appearances, traveling, and working on a children's media center named after him at [[Saint Vincent College]] in Latrobe with [[Archabbot]] [[Douglas Robert Nowicki|Douglas Nowicki]], chancellor of the college.<ref>King, pp. 338, 344.</ref> By the summer of 2002, his chronic stomach pain became severe enough for him to see a doctor about it, and in October 2002, he was diagnosed with [[stomach cancer]].<ref>King, pp. 343–344.</ref> He delayed treatment until after he served as Grand Marshal of the 2003 [[Rose Parade]], with [[Art Linkletter]] and [[Bill Cosby]], in January.<ref>King, p. 344.</ref> On January 6, Rogers underwent stomach surgery. He died less than two months later at his Pittsburgh home on February 27, 2003, at the age of 74,<ref>{{cite news |last=De Vinck |first=Christopher |title=My friend, Mr. Rogers |url=https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/Op-Ed/2013/02/24/My-friend-Mr-Rogers/stories/201302240297 |access-date=July 5, 2019 |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |date=February 24, 2013 |archive-date=January 6, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220106131317/https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/Op-Ed/2013/02/24/My-friend-Mr-Rogers/stories/201302240297 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="postgazetteobit">{{cite news |last1=Owen |first1=Rob |last2=Vancheri |first2=Barbara |title=Fred Rogers dies at 74 |url=http://old.post-gazette.com/ae/20030228rogersae1p1.asp |access-date=July 5, 2019 |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |date=February 28, 2003 |archive-date=January 6, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220106134512/http://old.post-gazette.com/ae/20030228rogersae1p1.asp |url-status=dead }}</ref> with his wife of 50 years, Joanne, at his side. While comatose shortly before his death, he received the [[Last rites#Catholic Church|last rites]] of the [[Catholic Church]] from [[Archabbot]] Nowicki.<ref name="DeFranceso"/><ref name="postgazetteobit"/><ref>King, p. 348.</ref><ref name=EpicPew>{{cite web|accessdate=September 1, 2025 |url=https://epicpew.com/mister-rogerss-surprising-ties-with-catholicism/ |title=Mister Rogers's Surprising Ties with Catholicism|first=Melissa |last=Guerrero|quote=Although Mr. Rogers remained a Presbyterian throughout his entire life, his wife allowed Archabbot Nowicki (with whom he’d traveled to Mexico to visit orphanages) to administer the Last Rites to him.|website=EpicPew.com |date=January 30, 2019 }}</ref>

The following day, the ''[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]'' covered Rogers' death on the front page and dedicated an entire section to his death and impact.<ref name="postgazetteobit"/> The newspaper also reported that by noon, the internet "was already full of appreciative pieces" by parents, viewers, producers, and writers.<ref>{{cite news |last=Kalson |first=Sally |title=Lasting connection his legacy: Children felt Mister Rogers was talking just to them |url=http://old.post-gazette.com/ae/20030228frconnectfnp6.asp |access-date=July 5, 2019 |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |date=February 28, 2003 |archive-date=January 6, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220106134441/http://old.post-gazette.com/ae/20030228frconnectfnp6.asp |url-status=dead }}</ref> Rogers' death was widely lamented. Most American metropolitan newspapers ran his [[obituary]] on their front page and some dedicated entire sections to coverage of his death.<ref name="simonich"/> WQED aired programs about Rogers the evening he died; the ''Post-Gazette'' reported that the ratings for their coverage were three times higher than their normal ratings.<ref name="simonich"/> That same evening, ''[[Nightline]]'' on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] broadcast a rerun of a recent interview with Rogers; the program got the highest ratings of the day, beating the February average ratings of ''[[Late Show with David Letterman]]'' and ''[[The Tonight Show with Jay Leno]]''.<ref name="simonich">{{cite news |last=Simonich |first=Milan |title=Rogers' death gets front-page headlines |url=http://old.post-gazette.com/ae/20030302fredcoverage6.asp |access-date=July 6, 2019 |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |date=March 2, 2003 |archive-date=January 6, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220106134542/http://old.post-gazette.com/ae/20030302fredcoverage6.asp |url-status=dead }}</ref> On March 4, the [[U.S. House of Representatives]] unanimously passed a resolution honoring Rogers sponsored by Representative [[Mike Doyle (American politician)|Mike Doyle]] from Pennsylvania.<ref>{{cite news |last=McFeatters |first=Ann |title=It's a beautiful day in the U.S. House as Congress honors Fred Rogers |url=http://old.post-gazette.com/ae/20030305rogers0305p4.asp |access-date=July 6, 2019 |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |date=March 5, 2003 |archive-date=January 6, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220106134426/http://old.post-gazette.com/ae/20030305rogers0305p4.asp |url-status=dead }}</ref>

On March 1, 2003, a private funeral was held for Rogers in Unity Chapel, which was restored by Rogers' father, at Unity Cemetery in his hometown of Latrobe. About 80 relatives, co-workers, and close friends attended the service, which "was planned in great secrecy so that those closest to him could grieve in private".<ref name="privatefuneral">{{cite news |last=Rodgers-Melnick |first=Ann |title=Friends, relatives mourn death of Mr. Rogers |url=http://old.post-gazette.com/ae/20030302rogers7.asp |access-date=July 6, 2019 |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |date=March 2, 2003 |archive-date=January 6, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220106134602/http://old.post-gazette.com/ae/20030302rogers7.asp |url-status=dead }}</ref> Reverend John McCall, pastor of the Rogers family's church, Sixth Presbyterian Church in [[Squirrel Hill]], gave the [[homily]]; Reverend William Barker, a retired Presbyterian minister who was a "close friend of Mr. Rogers and the voice of Mr. Platypus on his show",<ref name="privatefuneral"/> read Rogers' favorite Bible passages. Rogers was subsequently interred in a [[mausoleum]] owned by his mother's family.<ref name="privatefuneral"/>

On May 3, 2003, a public memorial was held at [[Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts|Heinz Hall]] in Pittsburgh. According to the ''Post-Gazette'', 2,700 people attended. Violinist [[Itzhak Perlman]], cellist [[Yo-Yo Ma]] (via video), and organist [[Alan Morrison (organist)|Alan Morrison]] performed in honor of Rogers. Barker officiated the service; also in attendance were Pittsburgh philanthropist [[Elsie Hillman]], former ''[[Good Morning America]]'' host [[David Hartman (TV personality)|David Hartman]], ''[[The Very Hungry Caterpillar]]'' author [[Eric Carle]], and ''[[Arthur (TV series)|Arthur]]'' creator [[Marc Brown (author)|Marc Brown]]. Businesswoman and philanthropist [[Teresa Heinz]], PBS President [[Pat Mitchell]], and executive director of The Pittsburgh Project Saleem Ghubril gave remarks.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Vancheri |first1=Barbara |last2=Owen |first2=Rob |title=Pittsburgh bids farewell to Fred Rogers with moving public tribute |url=http://old.post-gazette.com/localnews/20030504rogers0504p1.asp |access-date=July 6, 2019 |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |date=May 4, 2003 |archive-date=January 6, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220106134558/http://old.post-gazette.com/localnews/20030504rogers0504p1.asp |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Jeff Erlanger]], who at age 10 appeared on ''Mister Rogers' Neighborhood'' in 1981 to explain his electric wheelchair, also spoke.<ref>{{cite news |last=Vancheri |first=Barbara |title=Memorable guest: It's you, Fred, that I like |url=http://old.post-gazette.com/localnews/20030504erlanger0504p3.asp |access-date=July 6, 2019 |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |date=May 4, 2003 |archive-date=January 6, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220106134638/http://old.post-gazette.com/localnews/20030504erlanger0504p3.asp |url-status=dead }}</ref> The memorial was broadcast several times on Pittsburgh television stations and websites throughout the day.<ref>{{cite news |last=Owen |first=Rob |title=Appreciation: Mister Rogers will always be part of our neighborhood |url=http://old.post-gazette.com/tv/20030503rogers0503fnp4.asp |access-date=July 6, 2019 |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |date=May 3, 2003 |archive-date=January 6, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220106134416/http://old.post-gazette.com/tv/20030503rogers0503fnp4.asp |url-status=dead }}</ref>
[[File:MrRogersStatue2023.jpg|thumb|Statue of Rogers, Pittsburgh 2023.]]

==Legacy==
{{quote box
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| quote = When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping." To this day, especially in times of "disaster", I remember my mother's words and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers—so many caring people in this world.<br> —Fred Rogers<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Rothman |first=Lily |title=The Backstory: The Moving Mr. Rogers Clip Everyone Is Talking About |url=https://entertainment.time.com/2013/04/16/the-backstory-the-moving-mr-rogers-clip-everyone-is-talking-about/ |access-date=November 11, 2019 |magazine=Time |date=April 16, 2013 |archive-date=April 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210416233956/https://entertainment.time.com/2013/04/16/the-backstory-the-moving-mr-rogers-clip-everyone-is-talking-about/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

{{break}}Whenever a great tragedy strikes—war, famine, mass shootings, or even an outbreak of populist rage—millions of people turn to Fred's messages about life. Then the web is filled with his words and images. With fascinating frequency, his written messages and video clips surge across the internet, reaching hundreds of thousands of people who, confronted with a tough issue or ominous development, open themselves to Rogers' messages of quiet contemplation, of simplicity, of [[active listening]] and the practice of human kindness.<br>—Rogers biographer Maxwell King<ref>King, p. 357.</ref>
}}
[[Marc Brown (author)|Marc Brown]], creator of another PBS children's show, ''[[Arthur (TV show)|Arthur]]'', considered Rogers both a friend and "a terrific role model for how to use television and the media to be helpful to kids and families".<ref>{{cite news |last=Juul |first=Matt |title=Creator Marc Brown on Mr. Rogers, Memes, and 20 Years of ''Arthur'' |url=https://www.bostonmagazine.com/arts-entertainment/2016/10/07/marc-brown-20-years-arthur/ |access-date=June 5, 2019 |work=Boston Magazine |date=October 10, 2016 |archive-date=March 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210310162456/https://www.bostonmagazine.com/arts-entertainment/2016/10/07/marc-brown-20-years-arthur/ |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Josh Selig]], creator of ''[[Wonder Pets]]'', credits Rogers with influencing his use of structure and predictability, and his use of music, opera, and originality.<ref>King, pp. 353–354.</ref>

Rogers inspired [[Angela Santomero]], co-creator of the children's television show ''[[Blue's Clues]]'', to earn a degree in [[developmental psychology]] and go into educational television.<ref name="santomero"/> She and the other producers of ''Blue's Clues'' used many of Rogers' techniques, such as using child developmental and educational research and having the host speak directly to the camera and transition to a make-believe world.<ref>King, p. 353.</ref> In 2006, three years after Rogers' death and the end of production of ''Blue's Clues'', the Fred Rogers Company contacted Santomero to create a show that would promote Rogers' legacy.<ref name="santomero">{{cite news |last=Santomero |first=Angela C. |date=September 21, 2012 |title=Mister Rogers Changed My Life |work=The New York Times |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/21/mister-rogers-changed-my-life |access-date=June 6, 2023 |archive-date=April 8, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230408141716/https://archive.nytimes.com/parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/21/mister-rogers-changed-my-life/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2012, ''[[Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood]]'', with characters from and based upon ''Mister Rogers' Neighborhood'', premiered on PBS.<ref>{{cite news |last=Owen |first=Rob |date=September 2, 2013 |title=A 'very Fred-ish' birthday for 'Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood' |url=http://www.post-gazette.com/tv-radio/2013/09/02/A-very-Fred-ish-birthday-for-Daniel-Tiger-s-Neighborhood/stories/201309020110 |newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |access-date=June 14, 2019 |archive-date=January 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220121155113/https://www.post-gazette.com/tv-radio/2013/09/02/A-very-Fred-ish-birthday-for-Daniel-Tiger-s-Neighborhood/stories/201309020110 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Rogers' style and approach to children's television and early childhood education also "begged to be parodied".<ref>{{cite web |title=Pioneers of Television: Fred Rogers |url=https://www.pbs.org/wnet/pioneers-of-television/pioneering-people/fred-rogers/ |website=PBS.org |access-date=June 14, 2019 |date=2014 |archive-date=January 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220107035320/https://www.pbs.org/wnet/pioneers-of-television/pioneering-people/fred-rogers/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Comedian Eddie Murphy parodied ''Mister Rogers' Neighborhood'' on ''Saturday Night Live'' during the 1980s.<ref name="king-266"/><ref name="burnsnpr"/> Rogers told interviewer [[David Letterman]] in 1982 that he believed parodies like Murphy's were done "with kindness in their hearts".<ref>King, p. 267.</ref>

Video of [[Fred Rogers' 1969 Senate Testimony on Public Broadcasting Funding|Rogers' 1969 testimony in defense of public programming]] has experienced a resurgence since 2012, going [[Viral video|viral]] at least twice. It first resurfaced after then presidential candidate [[Mitt Romney]] suggested cutting funding for PBS.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |url=https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/tv-radio/2017/03/17/Mister-Rogers-testimony-Trump-budget-cuts-Pittsburgh-PBS-kids-shows/stories/201703180040 |title=Fred Rogers re-emerges as champion for PBS |last=Eberson |first=Sharon |date=March 17, 2019 |website=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |language=en |access-date=November 14, 2019 |archive-date=March 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308154742/https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/tv-radio/2017/03/17/Mister-Rogers-testimony-Trump-budget-cuts-Pittsburgh-PBS-kids-shows/stories/201703180040 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://slate.com/culture/2012/10/mister-rogers-senate-testimony-defending-pbs-watch-video.html |title=Watch Mister Rogers Defend PBS In Front of the U.S. Senate |last=Harris |first=Aisha |date=October 5, 2012 |website=Slate Magazine |language=en |access-date=November 14, 2019 |archive-date=August 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210810185951/https://slate.com/culture/2012/10/mister-rogers-senate-testimony-defending-pbs-watch-video.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2017, video of the testimony again went viral after U.S. President [[Donald Trump]] proposed defunding several arts-related government programs including PBS and the [[National Endowment for the Arts]].<ref name=":0"/><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mr-rogers-pbs-budget-cuts_n_58ca8d6fe4b0be71dcf1d440 |title=The Best Argument For Saving Public Media Was Made By Mr. Rogers In 1969 |last=Strachan |first=Maxwell |date=March 16, 2017 |website=HuffPost |language=en |access-date=November 14, 2019 |archive-date=February 11, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220211215819/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mr-rogers-pbs-budget-cuts_n_58ca8d6fe4b0be71dcf1d440 |url-status=live }}</ref>

A roadside Pennsylvania Historical Marker dedicated to Rogers to be installed in Latrobe was approved<ref>{{cite web |title=Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Approves 21 New State Historical Markers |url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/pennsylvania-historical-and-museum-commission-approves-21-new-state-historical-markers-248424551.html |website=PR Newswire |publisher=PR Newswire Association LLC |access-date=June 2, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200602050755/https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/pennsylvania-historical-and-museum-commission-approves-21-new-state-historical-markers-248424551.html |archive-date=June 2, 2020 |date=March 4, 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref> by the [[Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission]] on March 4, 2014.<ref>{{cite web |title=State Marker in Latrobe to Honor Mr. Rogers |url=https://www.fredrogerscenter.org/2014/03/state-marker-in-latrobe-to-honor-mr-rogers/ |website=Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children's Media at Saint Vincent College |publisher=Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children's Media |access-date=June 2, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200602045514/https://www.fredrogerscenter.org/2014/03/state-marker-in-latrobe-to-honor-mr-rogers/ |archive-date=June 2, 2020 |date=March 5, 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref> It was installed on June 11, 2016, with the title "Fred McFeely Rogers (1928–2003)".<ref>{{cite web |title=Pennsylvania Historical Marker Search |url=http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/apps/historical-markers.html |website=Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission |access-date=June 2, 2020 |archive-date=March 29, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180329102807/http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/apps/historical-markers.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[Won't You Be My Neighbor? (film)|''Won't You Be My Neighbor?'']] director Morgan Neville's 2018 documentary about Rogers' life, grossed over $22 million and became the top-grossing biographical documentary ever produced, the highest-grossing documentary in five years, and the twelfth-largest-grossing documentary ever made.<ref name="gibson"/><ref>{{cite news |last=McNary |first=Dave |title='Won't You Be My Neighbor', 'RBG' Nab Producers Guild Documentary Nominations |url=https://variety.com/2018/film/news/producers-guild-documentary-nominations-2019-1203033482/ |access-date=August 18, 2019 |work=Variety |date=November 20, 2019 |archive-date=November 22, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181122092109/https://variety.com/2018/film/news/producers-guild-documentary-nominations-2019-1203033482/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The 2019 drama film ''[[A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood]]'' tells the story of Rogers and his television series, with Rogers' distant relation Tom Hanks portraying him.

According to Caitlin Gibson of ''The Washington Post'', Rogers became a source for parenting advice; she called him "a timeless oracle against a backdrop of ever-shifting parenting philosophies and cultural trends".<ref name="gibson">{{cite news |last=Gibson |first=Caitlin |title=How Mister Rogers became a timeless oracle of parenting wisdom |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/on-parenting/how-mister-rogers-became-a-timeless-oracle-of-parenting-wisdom/2019/08/10/810f79dc-b488-11e9-951e-de024209545d_story.html?wpisrc=nl_optimist&wpmm=1 |access-date=August 18, 2019 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=August 12, 2019 |archive-date=August 18, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190818180117/https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/on-parenting/how-mister-rogers-became-a-timeless-oracle-of-parenting-wisdom/2019/08/10/810f79dc-b488-11e9-951e-de024209545d_story.html%3Fwpisrc%3Dnl_optimist%26wpmm%3D1 |url-status=live }}</ref> Robert Thompson of [[Syracuse University]] noted that Rogers "took American childhood—and I think Americans in general—through some very turbulent and trying times",<ref name="burnsnpr"/> from the [[Vietnam War]] and the assassination of Robert Kennedy in 1968 to the [[September 11 attacks|9/11 attacks in 2001]]. According to Asia Simone Burns of [[National Public Radio]], in the years following the end of production on ''Mister Rogers' Neighborhood'' in 2001 and his death in 2003, Rogers became "a source of comfort, sometimes in the wake of tragedy".<ref name="burnsnpr">{{cite news |last=Burns |first=Asia Simone |title=Mister Rogers Still Lives In Your Neighborhood |url=https://www.npr.org/2018/02/18/584669284/mister-rogers-still-lives-in-your-neighborhood |access-date=June 14, 2019 |work=NPR.org |date=February 18, 2018 |archive-date=January 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220120212019/https://www.npr.org/2018/02/18/584669284/mister-rogers-still-lives-in-your-neighborhood |url-status=live }}</ref> Burns has said Rogers' words of comfort "began circulating on social media"<ref name="burnsnpr"/> following tragedies such as the [[Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting]] in 2012, the [[Manchester Arena bombing]] in [[Manchester|Manchester, England]], in 2017, and the [[Stoneman Douglas High School shooting]] in [[Parkland, Florida]], in 2018.

===Awards and honors===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! scope="col" | Year
! scope="col" | Honor
! class="unsortable" scope="col" | Notes
! class="unsortable" scope="col" | Ref.
|-
| 1970
| Outstanding Rollins Alumnus of 1970
| Given by Rollins College.
| <ref name="rollins">{{cite web |title=The Fred Rogers Collection – '51 '74H (1928–2003) |url=https://lib.rollins.edu/olin/oldsite/archives/rogers.htm |website=Rollins |publisher=Rollins College |access-date=June 1, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200601041326/https://lib.rollins.edu/olin/oldsite/archives/rogers.htm |archive-date=June 1, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| 1975
| [[Ralph Lowell]] Award
| Given by the [[Corporation for Public Broadcasting]] in recognition of "outstanding contributions and achievements to public television".
| <ref>{{cite web |title=Public Media Awards: Ralph Lowell Award |date=July 20, 2015 |url=https://www.cpb.org/aboutpb/awards/lowell/ |publisher=Corporation for Public Broadcasting |access-date=July 21, 2019 |archive-date=September 11, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190911003227/https://www.cpb.org/aboutpb/awards/lowell/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| 1977
| Myrtle Wreath Award
| Awarded for "outstanding contributions to the community"
| <ref>{{cite news |title=What's Happening: Thanksgiving Ball, Sewickley Event |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/56986357/pittsburgh-post-gazette/ |access-date=August 9, 2020 |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |issue=100 |date=November 24, 1977 |volume=51 |archive-date=September 23, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200923194101/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/56986357/pittsburgh-post-gazette/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| 1977
| Other's Award
| Given at the 13th Annual Civic Luncheon of the [[The Salvation Army|Salvation Army]] Association of Greater Pittsburgh. Awarded for humanitarianism.
| <ref>{{cite news |last=Fanning |first=Win |title=On the Air: CBS Drops 10 Shows; 'Two Men' to Debut |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/56984465/pittsburgh-post-gazette/ |access-date=August 9, 2020 |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |issue=235 |date=May 2, 1977|volume=50 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Among the Churches: Address By General Motors Minister To Highlight Salvation Army Week |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/56984574/the-pittsburgh-press/ |access-date=August 9, 2020 |work=The Pittsburgh Press |issue=314 |date=May 7, 1977 |volume=93 |archive-date=September 23, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200923192905/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/56984574/the-pittsburgh-press/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| 1978
| Distinguished Alumnus Award
| Given by [[Pittsburgh Theological Seminary]].
| <ref name="honorary">{{cite web |last1=Newell |first1=David |last2=Hamilton |first2=Lisa Belcher |title=Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Program Notes: Honorary Degrees Awarded to Fred Rogers |url=http://digitalcollections.library.cmu.edu/awweb/awarchive?type=file&item=578166 |publisher=Family Communications, Inc. |access-date=July 14, 2019 |location=Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |archive-date=September 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200930061920/http://digitalcollections.library.cmu.edu/awweb/awarchive?type=file&item=578166 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|-
| 1978
| 1977-78 Lay Leader Award
| Given by the Three Rivers Chapter, University of Pittsburgh, [[PDK International|Phi Delta Kappa]] fraternity
| <ref>{{cite news |title=Mister Rogers Gets Pitt Fraternity Honor |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/56984272/the-pittsburgh-press/ |access-date=August 9, 2020 |work=The Pittsburgh Press |issue=216 |date=January 29, 1978 |volume=91 |archive-date=September 19, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919031757/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/56984272/the-pittsburgh-press/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| 1978
| Gabriel awardee
| Given by the Catholic Broadcasting Association
| <ref>{{cite news |last=Fanning |first=Win |title=On the Air: 'Supertrain' Has Super Set |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/56984362/pittsburgh-post-gazette/ |access-date=August 9, 2020 |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |issue=130 |date=December 29, 1978 |volume=52 |archive-date=September 19, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919024044/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/56984362/pittsburgh-post-gazette/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| 1981
| Distinguished Communications Recognition Award
| Awarded at the 12th national Abe Lincoln Awards banquet for his work in children's television.
| <ref>{{cite news |last=Darovich |first=Donna |title=Award-winning Rogers: kids' special-izer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/56983809/fort-worth-star-telegram/ |access-date=August 9, 2020 |work=Fort Worth Star-Telegram |date=February 13, 1981 |archive-date=September 23, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200923205457/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/56983809/fort-worth-star-telegram/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| 1982
| Media Arts Award
| Given as part of the third annual Governor's Day Awards in the Arts.
| <ref>{{cite news |title=Valley Viewing – Profiles in Excellence '82 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52505257/fred-rogers-receives-media-arts-award/ |access-date=May 31, 2020 |newspaper=The Morning Call |issue=((29,352)) |date=June 16, 1982 |archive-date=September 19, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919022201/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52505257/fred-rogers-receives-media-arts-award/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| 1986
| [[CINE Golden Eagle Award]]
| Awarded for Rogers' educational special for children "Let's Talk About Going to the Doctor."
| <ref name="cine">{{cite web |title=Distinguished Alumni |url=https://cine.org/about-cine/distinguished-alumni/ |website=CINE |access-date=April 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160506014727/https://cine.org/about-cine/distinguished-alumni/ |archive-date=May 6, 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
| 1987
| CINE Golden Eagle Award
| Awarded for Rogers' educational special for children "Mister Rogers Talks With Children About Saying Goodbye to Friends."
| <ref name="cine"/>
|-
| 1987
| Honorary member, [[Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia]]
| Fraternity for male musicians who have adopted music as a career.
| <ref>{{cite web |title=Famous Sinfonians |url=http://winthrop.sinfonia.org/famous-sinfonians |publisher=Nu Kappa Fraternity |access-date=July 28, 2019 |location=Rock Hill, South Carolina |archive-date=March 16, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190316081806/http://winthrop.sinfonia.org/famous-sinfonians |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|-
| 1988
| Immaculata Medal
| Given by [[Immaculata College]]. It is the college's highest honor.
| <ref>{{cite web |title=Mr. Fred Rogers Commencement Speech - Immaculata College 1988 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUN9pIpjWGg |website=YouTube |publisher=Immaculata University |access-date=April 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200411105114/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUN9pIpjWGg |archive-date=April 11, 2020 |date=May 15, 1988 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Commencement Highlights |url=https://www.immaculata.edu/news/commencement-highlights/ |website=Immaculata University |publisher=Immaculata News |access-date=April 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200411231532/https://www.immaculata.edu/news/commencement-highlights/ |archive-date=April 11, 2020 |date=November 24, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| 1989
| 1989 Man of the Year
| Named by the Vectors/Pittsburgh.
| <ref>{{cite news |title=Vector awards |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52504521/fred-rogers-named-the-1989-man-of-the/ |access-date=May 31, 2020 |work=The Pittsburgh Press |issue=165 |date=December 7, 1989 |volume=106 |archive-date=September 19, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919024005/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52504521/fred-rogers-named-the-1989-man-of-the/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| 1990
| Gold Medal for Distinguished Achievement
| Given by [[The Pennsylvania Society]], which recognizes Pennsylvanians who made significant contributions to the Commonwealth. The Society donated $25,000 to the McFarland Fund of the Pittsburgh Foundation (named after Margaret McFarland) in Rogers' honor.
| <ref>{{cite news |title=PA Society To Honor Mr. Rogers |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52504275/fred-rogers-receives-the-pennsylvania/ |access-date=May 31, 2020 |work=News-Herald |issue=109th Year – 5710 |date=October 31, 1990 |archive-date=September 19, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919034919/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52504275/fred-rogers-receives-the-pennsylvania/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| 1991
| [[Pittsburgh Penguins]] Celebrity Captain
| Part of the [[National Hockey League]] (NHL)'s 75th anniversary. Rogers was one of 12 celebrity captains to be selected for the 1992 [[Pro Set trading cards|Pro Set]] Platinum collection.
| <ref>{{cite news|title=Can you say…captain?|work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|date=October 7, 1991|volume=65|number=58|page=1|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1129&dat=19911007&id=jtlRAAAAIBAJ&pg=3150,2070580|access-date=July 22, 2019|archive-date=March 10, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210310163042/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1129&dat=19911007&id=jtlRAAAAIBAJ&pg=3150,2070580|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Sal |first=Barry |date=March 21, 2016 |url=http://puckjunk.com/2016/03/21/mister-rogers-had-a-hockey-card/ |title=Mister Rogers' Hockey Card |publisher=Puck Junk |access-date=July 22, 2019 |archive-date=August 1, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190801194207/http://puckjunk.com/2016/03/21/mister-rogers-had-a-hockey-card/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| 1991
| Rollins College Walk of Fame
| Honored by Rollins College.
| <ref name="rollins"/>
|-
| 1992
| Comenius Medallion
| Given by [[Moravian College]] along with an honorary degree. It is the college's highest honor.
| <ref>{{cite web |last=Hay |first=Bryan |title=From Cardigan to Graduate's Gown Mister Fred Rogers Speaks at Moravian Baccalaureate |url=https://www.mcall.com/news/mc-xpm-1992-05-31-2854156-story.html |website=The Morning Call |access-date=April 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200411232741/https://www.mcall.com/news/mc-xpm-1992-05-31-2854156-story.html |archive-date=April 11, 2020 |date=May 31, 1992 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| 1992
| [[Peabody Award]]
| Awarded "in recognition of 25&nbsp;years of beautiful days in the neighborhood".<ref>{{cite web |title=Personal Award: Fred Rogers |url=http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/personal-award-fred-rogers |publisher=Peabody Awards |access-date=July 21, 2019 |archive-date=July 21, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190721234209/http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/personal-award-fred-rogers |url-status=live }}</ref>
| <ref>{{cite news |last=Sciullo |first=Maria |title=2018 Peabody Awards honor The Fred Rogers Company |url=https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/tv-radio/2018/04/19/Fred-Rogers-Company-Peabody-Award/stories/201804190108 |access-date=July 21, 2019 |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |date=April 19, 2018 |archive-date=July 21, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190721234211/https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/tv-radio/2018/04/19/Fred-Rogers-Company-Peabody-Award/stories/201804190108 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| 1994
| President's Distinguished Service Medal
| Given by [[Colgate Rochester Divinity School]]. Rogers spoke at the commencement of the school's Bexley–Hall–Crozer Theological Seminary on the date of receipt. The award is the school's equivalent of an honorary degree.
| <ref>{{cite news |title=Mr. Rogers, Heimlich among grad speakers |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52504918/fred-rogers-receives-the-presidents/ |access-date=May 31, 2020 |work=Press and Sun-Bulletin |agency=Associated Press |date=May 15, 1994 |archive-date=November 24, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201124130953/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52504918/fred-rogers-receives-the-presidents/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Evans | first=James H. Jr. |title=Remembering Mr. Rogers' Rochester visit, and an important message |url=https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/opinion/guest-column/2019/11/27/remembering-mr-rogers-rochester-visit-and-important-message/4311993002/ |website=Democrat and Chronicle |access-date=May 31, 2020 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200531090402/https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/opinion/guest-column/2019/11/27/remembering-mr-rogers-rochester-visit-and-important-message/4311993002/ |archive-date=May 31, 2020 |date=November 27, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| 1995
| National Patron, [[Delta Omicron]]
| Awarded by the international professional music fraternity to musicians who have attained "a national reputation in his or her field".<ref>{{cite web |title=National Patrons & Patronesses |url=http://www.delta-omicron.org/national/patrons.html#R |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080317051706/http://www.delta-omicron.org/national/patrons.html#R |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 17, 2008 |publisher=Delta Omicron |access-date=July 21, 2019}}</ref>
| <ref>{{cite journal |editor1-last=Fetters |editor1-first=Elizabeth Rusch |title=Mr. Rogers Golden Anniversary |journal=The Wheel: Educational Journal of Delta Omicron |date=Spring 2018 |volume=108 |issue=1 |page=28 |url=https://www.delta-omicron.org/file/9/Spring%202018.pdf |access-date=July 21, 2019 |archive-date=September 19, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919150442/https://www.delta-omicron.org/file/9/Spring%202018.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| 1995
| Joseph F. Mulach Jr. Award
| Presented by the Vocational Rehabilitation Center board of directors in Pittsburgh. The award is given to a person who made major improvements to the quality of life of the disabled.
| <ref>{{cite news |title=Fred Rogers To Be Given Award In Pittsburgh |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52503970/fred-rogers-receives-joseph-f-mulach/ |access-date=May 31, 2020 |work=Latrobe Bulletin |issue=45 |date=February 11, 1995 |volume=93 |archive-date=September 19, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919034816/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52503970/fred-rogers-receives-joseph-f-mulach/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| 1997
| [[24th Daytime Emmy Awards|Lifetime Achievement Emmy]]
| Awarded "for giving generation upon generation of children confidence in themselves, for being their friend, for telling them again and again and again that they are special and that they have worth."<ref>{{cite web |title=Fred Rogers Acceptance Speech - 1997 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Upm9LnuCBUM |website=YouTube |publisher=The Emmy Awards |access-date=April 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200411235959/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Upm9LnuCBUM |archive-date=April 11, 2020 |date=May 21, 1997 |url-status=live}}</ref>
| <ref name="ntyobit"/>
|-
| 1997
| [[Television Critics Association]] Career Achievement
| Awarded for Rogers' "longevity and influence."
| <ref>{{cite web |title=TCA Awards |url=https://tvcritics.org/tca-awards/ |website=Television Critics Association |access-date=April 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200412044744/https://tvcritics.org/tca-awards/ |archive-date=April 12, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Goodman |first=Tim |title='Bastard Out of Carolina' also tops TV award-winners |url=https://www.sfgate.com/style/article/Bastard-Out-of-Carolina-also-tops-TV-3108318.php |website=SFGate |publisher=Hearst Communications |access-date=April 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200412050304/https://www.sfgate.com/style/article/Bastard-Out-of-Carolina-also-tops-TV-3108318.php |archive-date=April 12, 2020 |date=July 21, 1997 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| 1998
| [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] star
| Located at 6600 [[Hollywood Boulevard]]
| <ref>{{cite web |title=Fred Mister Rogers |url=https://walkoffame.com/fred-mister-rogers/ |website=Hollywood Walk of Fame |date=October 25, 2019 |publisher=Hollywood Chamber of Commerce |access-date=April 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200412043532/https://walkoffame.com/fred-mister-rogers/ |archive-date=April 12, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| 1999
| [[Television Hall of Fame]] inductee
| [[Jeff Erlanger]] appeared as a surprise guest during the ceremony.
| <ref>{{cite news |last=Owen |first=Rob |title=Obituary: Jeffrey Erlanger / Quadriplegic who endeared himself to Mister Rogers |url=https://www.post-gazette.com/news/obituaries/2007/06/14/Obituary-Jeffrey-Erlanger-Quadriplegic-who-endeared-himself-to-Mister-Rogers/stories/200706140325 |access-date=July 21, 2019 |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |date=June 14, 2017 |archive-date=September 30, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190930232652/https://www.post-gazette.com/news/obituaries/2007/06/14/Obituary-Jeffrey-Erlanger-Quadriplegic-who-endeared-himself-to-Mister-Rogers/stories/200706140325 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| 1999
| Pennsylvania Founder's Award
| The award was created in 1997 to recognize a Pennsylvanian who has made major contributions to their state. [[Governor of Pennsylvania|Governor]] [[Tom Ridge]] presented the award.
| <ref>{{cite news |title=Ridge honors 'Mister Rogers' with award |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52503486/fred-rogers-receives-pennsylvania/ |access-date=May 31, 2020 |work=Public Opinion |agency=Associated Press |date=June 9, 1999 |archive-date=September 19, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919032720/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52503486/fred-rogers-receives-pennsylvania/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| 2000
| Presidential Medal of Honor
| Presented by St. Vincent College. Rogers was a guest speaker for the college's 154th commencement on the date of receipt.
| <ref>{{cite news |last=Moranelli |first=Mandi L. |title=Mister Rogers: Real Drama Of Life Not On Center Stage |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52503739/fred-rogers-receives-presidential-medal/ |access-date=May 31, 2020 |work=Latrobe Bulletin |agency=Latrobe Bulletin |issue=125 |date=May 15, 2000 |volume=98 |archive-date=September 19, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919024448/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52503739/fred-rogers-receives-presidential-medal/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| 2001
| Fred Rogers Award
| Presented by the [[Corporation for Public Broadcasting]]. Rogers was the first recipient of this award.
| <ref>{{cite news |title=The Buzz – Recognition |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52504630/fred-rogers-receives-fred-rogers-award/ |access-date=May 31, 2020 |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |issue=208 |date=February 24, 2001 |volume=74 |archive-date=November 24, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201124130728/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52504630/fred-rogers-receives-fred-rogers-award/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| 2002
| Elsie Award
| Awarded for community service.
| <ref>{{cite news |title=Mrs. Bush, Fred Rogers service award winners |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52504795/fred-rogers-receives-elsie-award/ |access-date=May 31, 2020 |work=Courier-Post |date=February 24, 2002 |archive-date=September 19, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919031702/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52504795/fred-rogers-receives-elsie-award/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| 2002
| [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]]
| The highest American civilian honor; awarded by President [[George W. Bush]].
| <ref>{{cite web |title=Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipients |url=https://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/reference/two_column_table/Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom_Recipients.htm |publisher=United States Senate |access-date=July 22, 2019 |archive-date=July 9, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170709124451/https://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/reference/two_column_table/Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom_Recipients.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>
<ref>{{cite news |last=McFeatters |first=Ann |title=Fred Rogers gets Presidential Medal of Freedom |url=http://old.post-gazette.com/ae/20020710fredrogersp1.asp |access-date=July 22, 2019 |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |date=July 10, 2002 |archive-date=July 22, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190722234822/http://old.post-gazette.com/ae/20020710fredrogersp1.asp |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|-
| 2002
| Common Wealth Award
| Given by [[PNC Financial Services]], "celebrating the best of human achievement".
| <ref>{{cite press release |title=PNC Honors Six Achievers Who Enrich The World |url=http://pnc.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=3473&item=73673 |publisher=PNC Media Room |location=Wilmington, Delaware |access-date=July 22, 2019 |archive-date=March 24, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190324092543/http://pnc.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=3473&item=73673 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| 2003
| [[International Astronomical Union]] asteroid designation
| Asteroid [[26858 Misterrogers]] named in Rogers' honor, discovered by [[Eleanor Helin]] in 1993.
| <ref>{{cite web |title=(26858) Misterrogers = 1952 SU = 1993 FR = 2000 EK107 |website=IAU Minor Planet Center |publisher=International Astronomical Union |url=https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=26858 |access-date=July 22, 2019 |archive-date=March 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210309042121/https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=26858 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Asteroid is named after Mister Rogers |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-may-03-et-quick3-story.html |access-date=July 22, 2019 |work=Los Angeles Times |agency=Associated Press |date=May 3, 2003 |archive-date=July 24, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190724034201/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-may-03-et-quick3-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| 2006
| Television Hall of Fame inductee
| Awarded by the Online Film & Television Association. In 2010, ''Mister Rogers' Neighborhood'' was inducted into the Hall of Fame.
| <ref>{{cite web |title=Television Hall of Fame: Actors |url=http://www.oftaawards.com/tv-hall-of-fame/television-hall-of-fame-actors/ |website=Online Film & Television Association |access-date=April 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200412055717/http://www.oftaawards.com/tv-hall-of-fame/television-hall-of-fame-actors/ |archive-date=April 12, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Television Hall of Fame: Productions |url=http://www.oftaawards.com/tv-hall-of-fame/television-hall-of-fame-productions/ |website=Online Film & Television Association |access-date=April 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200412060241/http://www.oftaawards.com/tv-hall-of-fame/television-hall-of-fame-productions/ |archive-date=April 12, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| 2008
| "Sweater Day"
| Tribute to Rogers on what would have been his 80th birthday (March 20) by FCI. People worldwide were encouraged to wear a sweater honoring Rogers' legacy and the final event in a six-day celebration in Pittsburgh.
| <ref name="today">{{cite news |title=Wear a sweater, honor Mr. Rogers |url=http://www.today.com/id/23370703/ns/today-today_entertainment/t/wear-sweater-honor-mr-rogers/#.XTKiFehKjIU |access-date=July 20, 2019 |work=Today.com |agency=Associated Press |date=February 27, 2008 |archive-date=March 24, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190324092540/http://www.today.com/id/23370703/ns/today-today_entertainment/t/wear-sweater-honor-mr-rogers/#.XTKiFehKjIU |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=McCoy |first=Adrian |title=Sweater day to honor Mister Rogers |url=https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/2008/02/27/Sweater-day-to-honor-Mister-Rogers/stories/200802270300 |access-date=July 20, 2019 |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |date=February 27, 2008 |archive-date=July 20, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190720052828/https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/2008/02/27/Sweater-day-to-honor-Mister-Rogers/stories/200802270300 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| 2015
| "Sweater drive"
| Rogers honored by the [[Altoona Curve]], a [[Double-A (baseball)|Double-A]] affiliate of the [[Pittsburgh Pirates]]. The team wore commemorative jerseys that featured a printed facsimile of Rogers' cardigan and tie ensemble, which were then auctioned off, with the proceeds going to the local PBS station, [[WPSU-TV]].
| <ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2015/06/11/pittsburgh-pirates-minor-league-mr-rogers-uniforms |title=Minor league team honors Mr. Rogers with cardigan uniforms |date=June 11, 2015 |access-date=July 24, 2019 |magazine=Sports Illustrated |first=Brendan |last=Maloy |archive-date=March 31, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331133638/https://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2015/06/11/pittsburgh-pirates-minor-league-mr-rogers-uniforms |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| 2018
| [[Forever stamp|First-class/Forever postage stamp]] issued by the [[United States Postal Service|U.S. Postal Service]]
| Dedicated on March 23 at WQED.
| <ref>{{cite web |title=Mister Rogers Forever Stamp dedicated today |url=https://about.usps.com/news/national-releases/2018/pr18_022.htm |publisher=United States Postal Service |access-date=July 24, 2019 |date=March 23, 2018 |archive-date=July 24, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190724203938/https://about.usps.com/news/national-releases/2018/pr18_022.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Hauser |first=Christine |title=A Mister Rogers Postage Stamp, and a Legacy That's Anything but Make-Believe |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/13/arts/mister-rogers-stamp.html |access-date=July 24, 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=February 13, 2018 |archive-date=July 24, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190724203934/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/13/arts/mister-rogers-stamp.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| 2018
| [[Google Doodle]]
| In honor of the 51st anniversary of the premiere of ''Mister Rogers' Neighborhood'' (September 21). Created in collaboration with Fred Rogers Productions, The Fred Rogers Center, and BixPix Entertainment.
| <ref>{{cite web |title=Celebrating Mister Rogers |url=https://doodles.google/doodle/celebrating-mister-rogers/ |website=Google.com |access-date=July 24, 2019 |date=September 21, 2018 |archive-date=July 27, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190727195727/https://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-mister-rogers |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Elassar |first1=Alaa |last2=Muaddi |first2=Nadeem |title=Today's Google Doodle is a heartwarming tribute to Mr. Rogers |url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/21/entertainment/fred-rogers-google-doodle-trnd/index.html |access-date=July 24, 2019 |work=CNN |date=September 21, 2018 |archive-date=July 24, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190724222435/https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/21/entertainment/fred-rogers-google-doodle-trnd/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| 2019
| Unforgettable Nonfiction Subject of 2018
| Awarded by [[Cinema Eye Honors]] for being a "notable and significant nonfiction film subject" in ''Won't You Be My Neighbor?''
| <ref>{{cite web |title=Here are the First Honors Announcements for 2019 |url=https://cinemaeyehonors.com/press/2019-first-honors-announcements/ |website=Cinema Eye Honors |access-date=April 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200412011512/https://cinemaeyehonors.com/press/2019-first-honors-announcements/ |archive-date=April 12, 2020 |date=October 25, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| 2021
| [[63rd Annual Grammy Awards|Grammy Award]]
| Awarded posthumously by [[The Recording Academy]] for [[Grammy Award for Best Historical Album|Best Historical Album]] for ''It's Such a Good Feeling: The Best of Mister Rogers''. Fred Rogers and [[Michael Graves (audio engineer)|Michael Graves]], mastering engineers; Lee Lodyga and [[Cheryl Pawelski]], compilation producers.
| <ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/grammys-2021-winners-and-nominees/ |title=Grammys 2021: Complete list of winners and nominees |date=March 14, 2021 |access-date=March 14, 2021 |work=CBS News |first=Jordan |last=Frieman |archive-date=March 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210314191414/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/grammys-2021-winners-and-nominees/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|}
[[File:President George W. Bush Presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom Award to Fred Rogers.jpg|thumb|right|Rogers being presented the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] by President [[George W. Bush]] in the [[East Room]] of the [[White House]] on July 9, 2002]]
====Museum exhibits====
[[File:Fred Rogers sweater.jpg|thumb|Hand-made sweater worn by Rogers, on display in the [[Smithsonian Institution]]'s Museum of American History. Fred Rogers' mother, Nancy Rogers, knitted all the sweaters he wore on the program.]]
* [[Smithsonian Institution]] permanent collection. In 1984, Rogers donated one of his sweaters to the Smithsonian.<ref name="highlights"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Mister Rogers' Sweater |url=https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_680637 |publisher=Smithsonian National Museum of American History |access-date=July 21, 2019}}</ref>
* [[Children's Museum of Pittsburgh]]. Exhibit created by Rogers and FCI in 1998. It attracted hundreds of thousands of visitors over ten years. It included, from ''Mister Rogers' Neighborhood'', one of his sweaters, a pair of his sneakers, original puppets from the program, and photographs of Rogers. The exhibit traveled to children's museums throughout the country for eight years until it was given to the Louisiana Children's Museum in [[New Orleans]] as a permanent exhibit to help them recover from [[Hurricane Katrina]] in 2005. In 2007, the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh created a traveling exhibit based on the factory tours featured in episodes of ''Mister Rogers' Neighborhood''.<ref name="lcm">{{cite news |last=Lorando |first=Mark |title=Mister Rogers to open a New Orleans neighborhood |url=https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/article_d7e9f16a-e900-54ea-a154-d1c18d91d78e.html |access-date=July 24, 2019 |work=The Times-Picayune |date=June 19, 2017 |location=New Orleans, Louisiana}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Kids explore exhibit featuring Mister Rogers |url=https://www.wcax.com/content/news/Kids-explore-exhibit-featuring-Mister-Rogers-490671631.html |access-date=July 24, 2019 |work=WCAX.com |date=August 12, 2018 |archive-date=July 24, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190724034156/https://www.wcax.com/content/news/Kids-explore-exhibit-featuring-Mister-Rogers-490671631.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Hamill |first=Sean D. |title=It's Still a Beautiful Day in His Neighborhood |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/17/us/17pittsburgh.html |access-date=July 24, 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=March 16, 2010 |archive-date=July 24, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190724204208/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/17/us/17pittsburgh.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Heinz History Center]] permanent collection (2018). In honor of the 50th anniversary of ''Mister Rogers' Neighborhood'' and what would have been Rogers' 90th birthday.<ref>{{cite news |last=McMarlin |first=Shirley |title=New Mister Rogers 50th anniversary display opens March 20 at Heinz History Center |url=https://archive.triblive.com/aande/museums/new-mister-rogers-50th-anniversary-display-opens-march-20-at-heinz-history-center/ |access-date=July 23, 2019 |work=Trib Total Media |date=March 19, 2018 |archive-date=July 24, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190724034159/https://archive.triblive.com/aande/museums/new-mister-rogers-50th-anniversary-display-opens-march-20-at-heinz-history-center/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Exhibits include the iconic [[King Friday]]'s blue castle, the [[Neighborhood of Make-Believe#Regular puppets|Owl's tree]] and a tricycle ridden by courier [[Mr. McFeely]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.heinzhistorycenter.org/visit/heinz-history-center | title=Heinz History Center | access-date=November 25, 2022 | archive-date=November 25, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221125214012/https://www.heinzhistorycenter.org/visit/heinz-history-center/ | url-status=live }}</ref>
* Louisiana Children's Museum. The museum contains an exhibit of ''Mister Rogers' Neighborhood'', which debuted in 2007. The Children's Museum of Pittsburgh donated the exhibit.<ref name="lcm"/>
* Fred Rogers Exhibit. The Exhibit displays the life, career, and legacy of Rogers and includes photos, artifacts from ''Mister Rogers' Neighborhood'' and clips of the program and interviews featuring Rogers. It is located at the Fred Rogers Center.<ref>{{cite web |title=Visit the Exhibit |url=https://www.fredrogerscenter.org/about-the-center/visit-the-exhibit |website=Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children's Media |access-date=May 31, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200531224613/https://www.fredrogerscenter.org/about-the-center/visit-the-exhibit |archive-date=May 31, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>

====Art pieces====
Several pieces of art are dedicated to Rogers throughout Pittsburgh, including an {{convert|11|ft|adj=on|spell=in}} tall, {{convert|7000|lb|adj=on}} bronze statue of him in the North Shore neighborhood. In the [[Oakland (Pittsburgh)|Oakland]] neighborhood, his portrait is included in the [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] and "Interpretations of Oakland" murals. A dinosaur statue titled "Fredasaurus Rex Friday XIII" originally stood in front of the WQED building and, as of 2014, stood in front of the building containing the Fred Rogers Company offices. There is a "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood of Make-Believe" in [[Idlewild Park]] and a kiosk of ''Mister Rogers' Neighborhood'' artifacts at [[Pittsburgh International Airport]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Visual Legacy |url=https://www.pittsburghmagazine.com/Pittsburgh-Magazine/January-2015/Visual-Legacy/ |access-date=July 23, 2019 |work=Pittsburgh Magazine |date=December 18, 2014 |archive-date=July 24, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190724034206/https://www.pittsburghmagazine.com/Pittsburgh-Magazine/January-2015/Visual-Legacy/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The Carnegie Science Center's Miniature Railroad and Village debuted a miniature recreation of Rogers' house from ''Mister Rogers' Neighborhood'' in 2005.<ref>{{cite news |last=Yates |first=Jennifer C. |title=Science Center celebrates Mister Rogers |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52542077/indiana-gazette/ |access-date=May 31, 2020 |work=The Indiana Gazette |agency=Associated Press |issue=206 |date=March 19, 2005|volume=101 }}</ref> In Rogers' hometown of Latrobe, a statue of Rogers on a bench is situated in James H. Rogers Park, named for Rogers' father.<ref name="2019-12-10 Chicago Tribune">{{cite news |last1=Bertrand |first1=Amy |author2=St. Louis Post-Dispatch |author2-link=St. Louis Post-Dispatch |date=2019-12-10 |title=It's a beautiful day in Mr. Rogers' neighborhood: the town of Latrobe, Pa. |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2019/12/10/its-a-beautiful-day-in-mr-rogers-neighborhood-the-town-of-latrobe-pa/ |url-status=live |work=[[Chicago Tribune]] |language=en |issn=2165-171X |oclc=7960243 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240815163921/https://www.chicagotribune.com/2019/12/10/its-a-beautiful-day-in-mr-rogers-neighborhood-the-town-of-latrobe-pa/ |archive-date=2024-08-15 |access-date=2024-08-15}}</ref> In 2021, ''A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood''—a {{convert|7|ft|spell=in|adj=on}} tall, {{convert|3000|lb|adj=on}} bronze statue by [[Paul Day (sculptor)|Paul Day]]—was dedicated at Rollins College. The memorial depicts Rogers and Daniel S. Tiger speaking with a group of children and features lyrics from ''Mister Rogers' Neighborhood's'' theme on the base.<ref name="2021-05-28 Rollins">{{cite news |last1=Humphreys |first1=Rob |date=2021-05-28 |title=Crafting an Icon |url=https://www.rollins.edu/news/crafting-an-icon/ |url-status=live |language=en |publisher=[[Rollins College]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230501035830/https://www.rollins.edu/news/crafting-an-icon/ |archive-date=2023-05-01 |access-date=2024-08-15 |quote=How renowned British sculptor Paul Day created a Rollins monument to the College's most famous alum.}}</ref>

====Honorary degrees====
[[File:Fred Rogers Giving Commencement Speech at Middlebury College in 2001.ogg|thumb|Rogers giving a commencement speech at [[Middlebury College]] in 2001]]

Rogers has received [[Honorary degree|honorary degrees]] from over 43 colleges and universities. After 1973, two commemorative [[Quilt|quilts]], created by two of Rogers' friends and archived at the Fred Rogers Center at St. Vincent College in Latrobe, were made out of the academic hoods he received during various graduation ceremonies.<ref name="thiel">{{cite news|last=Erdley|first=Debra|date=March 23, 2018|title=Thiel College remembers Mister Rogers|work=Tribune-Review|location=Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania|url=https://archive.triblive.com/local/regional/thiel-college-remembers-mister-rogers/|access-date=September 1, 2021|archive-date=September 1, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210901025824/https://archive.triblive.com/local/regional/thiel-college-remembers-mister-rogers/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="quilt">{{cite web |title=Academic Hood Quilt |url=https://www.fredrogerscenter.org/portfolio_page/academic-hood-quilt/ |website=Fred Rogers Center |access-date=July 15, 2019 |location=Latrobe, Pennsylvania |date=2018 |archive-date=July 16, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190716223346/https://www.fredrogerscenter.org/portfolio_page/academic-hood-quilt/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

''Note: Much of the below list is taken from "Honorary Degrees Awarded to Fred Rogers",<ref name="honorary"/> unless otherwise stated.''
{{Incomplete list|date=August 2019}}{{div col|colwidth=22em}}
* [[Thiel College]], 1969. Thiel also awards a yearly scholarship named for Rogers.<ref name="thiel"/>
* [[Eastern Michigan University]], 1973
* [[Saint Vincent College]], 1973
* [[Christian Theological Seminary]], 1973
* [[Rollins College]], 1974
* [[Yale University]], 1974
* [[Chatham College]], 1975<ref>{{cite news |title=Versatile Reardon Returns To Musicals |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/56922493/fred-rogers-received-honorary-doctorate/ |access-date=August 8, 2020 |work=The Pittsburgh Press |issue=31 |date=July 24, 1977 |volume=94 |archive-date=September 23, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200923193424/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/56922493/fred-rogers-received-honorary-doctorate/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Carnegie Mellon University]], 1976
* [[Lafayette College]], 1977
* [[Waynesburg College]], 1978
* [[Linfield College]], 1982
* [[Slippery Rock State College]], 1982
* [[Duquesne University]], 1982
* [[Washington & Jefferson College]], 1984
* [[University of South Carolina]], 1985
* [[Hobart and William Smith Colleges]], 1985
* [[Drury College]], 1986<ref>{{cite web |title=Four to receive recognition at Drury weekend ceremonies |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/310826617/ |website=Newspapers.com |publisher=Springfield News-Leader |access-date=April 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200411081013/https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/310826617/ |archive-date=April 11, 2020 |date=May 8, 1986 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[MacMurray College]], 1986<ref>{{cite web |title=Mr. Rogers in the neighborhood |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/jacksonville-journal-courier-may-19-1986-p-14/ |website=NewspaperArchive.com |publisher=Jacksonville Journal Courier |access-date=April 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200411052044/https://newspaperarchive.com/jacksonville-journal-courier-may-19-1986-p-14/ |archive-date=April 11, 2020 |page=14 |date=May 19, 1986 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Bowling Green State University]], 1987<ref>{{cite news |last=Obereigner |first=Dagmar |title=Father Jenco, Mister Rogers Among Graduation Speakers |url=https://www.apnews.com/045d8f7af45ac61971220e8d8c494bd5 |access-date=July 16, 2019 |work=AP News |agency=Associated Press |date=May 9, 1987 |archive-date=July 16, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190716223339/https://www.apnews.com/045d8f7af45ac61971220e8d8c494bd5 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Westminster College (Pennsylvania)]], 1987<ref>{{cite news |title=Dr. Rogers |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52505524/fred-rogers-receives-honorary-degree/ |access-date=May 31, 2020 |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |issue=261 |publisher=PG Publishing Co. |date=June 1, 1987 |volume=60 |archive-date=September 19, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919034520/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52505524/fred-rogers-receives-honorary-degree/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[University of Indianapolis]], 1988<ref>{{cite web |title=Eighty-Third Annual Baccalaureate/Commencement |url=https://uindy.edu/archives/files/commencement/1988.pdf |website=University of Indianapolis |publisher=Frederick D. Hill Archives |access-date=April 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200411062926/https://uindy.edu/archives/files/commencement/1988.pdf |archive-date=April 11, 2020 |page=6 |date=May 21, 1988 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[University of Connecticut]], 1991<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://honorarydegree.uconn.edu/honorary-degree-recipients/1990s/ |title=Honorary Degree Recipients—1990s |publisher=University of Connecticut |access-date=July 17, 2019 |date=August 29, 2016 |archive-date=August 4, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180804110244/https://honorarydegree.uconn.edu/honorary-degree-recipients/1990s/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Boston University]], 1992<ref>{{cite news |title=BU Yesterday |url=https://www.bu.edu/bridge/archive/2001/09-14/bu-yesterday.html |access-date=July 17, 2019 |work=B.U. Bridge |publisher=Boston University Office of University Relations |volume=5 |number=5 |date=September 14, 2001 |archive-date=March 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308042512/https://www.bu.edu/bridge/archive/2001/09-14/bu-yesterday.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Indiana University of Pennsylvania]], 1992<ref>{{cite news |last=Slater |first=Mary Ann |title='It was a beautiful day in the neighborhood' as 2,900 received degrees |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/indiana-gazette-it-was-a-beautiful-day/186785691/ |access-date=May 31, 2020 |work=The Indiana Gazette |agency=The Indiana Gazette |issue=228 |publisher=Indiana Printing and Publishing Company |date=May 18, 1992 |volume=88 |archive-date=December 14, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251214050641/https://www.newspapers.com/article/indiana-gazette-it-was-a-beautiful-day/186785691/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Moravian College]], 1992<ref>{{cite news |last=Muschick |first=Paul |title=What celebrities have honorary degrees from Lehigh Valley colleges? |url=https://www.mcall.com/opinion/mc-opi-honorary-degrees-desales-moravian-muhlenberg-lafayette-muschick-20180502-story.html |access-date=July 16, 2019 |work=The Morning Call |date=May 7, 2018 |location=Allentown, Pennsylvania}}</ref>
* [[Goucher College]], 1993<ref>{{cite web |last=Maushard |first=Mary |title=Mr. Rogers Brings Message to Goucher |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1993-05-15-1993135031-story.html |work=The Baltimore Sun |access-date=April 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200411052855/https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1993-05-15-1993135031-story.html |archive-date=April 11, 2020 |date=May 15, 1993 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[University of Pittsburgh]], 1993<ref>{{cite web |title=Fred Rogers to Deliver Pitt's 1993 Commencement Address |url=https://documenting.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt:pittpressreleases19930100 |website=Documenting Pitt - Historic Records of the University of Pittsburgh |publisher=University of Pittsburgh |access-date=April 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200411072356/https://documenting.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt:pittpressreleases19930100 |archive-date=April 11, 2020 |page=1 |date=April 9, 1993 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[West Virginia University]], 1995<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.deseretnews.com/article/413703/WV-UNIVERSITY-TO-HONOR-A-NEIGHBOR-MR-ROGERS.html |title=W.V. University to Honor a Neighbor: Mr. Rogers |date=April 6, 1995 |work=Deseret News |location=Salt Lake City, Utah |access-date=July 17, 2019 |archive-date=March 31, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331121553/https://www.deseretnews.com/article/413703/WV-UNIVERSITY-TO-HONOR-A-NEIGHBOR-MR-ROGERS.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[North Carolina State University]], 1996<ref>{{cite web |title=1996 Spring Commencement |url=https://ocr.lib.ncsu.edu/ocr/LD/LD3928-A23-1996/LD3928-A23-1996.pdf |website=NC State University Libraries |publisher=North Carolina State University |access-date=April 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200411063945/https://ocr.lib.ncsu.edu/ocr/LD/LD3928-A23-1996/LD3928-A23-1996.pdf |archive-date=April 11, 2020 |page=6 |date=May 11, 1996 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Edinboro University of Pennsylvania]], 1998<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://edinboro.edu/news/detail.html?inode=6d993663-5526-48d0-afb1-edb24721aa38 |title=Pa. Physician General, nearly 800 EU students receive degrees |website=edinboro.edu |publisher=Edinboro University |access-date=July 17, 2019 |archive-date=March 31, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331150517/http://edinboro.edu/news/detail.html?inode=6d993663-5526-48d0-afb1-edb24721aa38 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Marist College]], 1999<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/23/nyregion/commencement-fordham-class-hears-magician-and-peacemaker.html |title=Commencement; Fordham Class Hears Magician and Peacemaker |work=The New York Times |date=May 23, 1999 |page=1001036 |access-date=July 17, 2019 |archive-date=March 31, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331094236/https://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/23/nyregion/commencement-fordham-class-hears-magician-and-peacemaker.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Westminster Choir College]], 1999<ref>{{cite web |title=Commencement Speakers, Charges and Honorary Degrees |url=https://www.rider.edu/wcc/about/historic-westminster/commencement-speakers-charges-and-honorary-degrees |website=Westminster Choir College |date=August 11, 2010 |access-date=April 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200411045341/https://www.rider.edu/wcc/about/historic-westminster/commencement-speakers-charges-and-honorary-degrees |archive-date=April 11, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Old Dominion University]], 2000<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.odu.edu/news/news-archive/2000/05/MISTERROGERSO_5190#.XZvt40ZKiUk |title=Mister Rogers of PBS Fame Gives Old Dominion Graduates Advice for Life |access-date=October 7, 2019 |publisher=Old Dominion University |location=Norfolk, Virginia |date=July 3, 2014 |archive-date=March 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308193939/https://www.odu.edu/news/news-archive/2000/05/MISTERROGERSO_5190#.XZvt40ZKiUk |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Marquette University]], 2001<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.marquette.edu/universityhonors/speakers-rogers.shtml |title=Honorary Degrees:Fred Rogers |publisher=Marquette University |date=2001 |location=Milwaukee, Wisconsin |access-date=July 17, 2019 |archive-date=April 3, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190403082805/https://www.marquette.edu/universityhonors/speakers-rogers.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Middlebury College]], 2001<ref>{{cite web |title=Middlebury to Award Honorary Degrees to Rogers and Six Others |url=http://www.middlebury.edu/newsroom/archive/archive/2001/node/263948 |website=Middlebury |publisher=Middlebury News |access-date=April 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200411041235/http://www.middlebury.edu/newsroom/archive/archive/2001/node/263948 |archive-date=April 11, 2020 |date=April 11, 2001 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Dartmouth College]], 2002<ref name="quilt"/>
* [[Seton Hill University]], 2003 (posthumous)<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.michigansthumb.com/news/article/Seton-Hall-Will-Have-Tribute-to-Rogers-7351821.php |title=Seton Hall Will Have Tribute to Rogers |date=April 17, 2003 |work=Huron Daily Tribune |location=Bad Axe, Michigan |access-date=July 17, 2019 |archive-date=March 31, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331151848/https://www.michigansthumb.com/news/article/Seton-Hall-Will-Have-Tribute-to-Rogers-7351821.php |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Union College]], 2003 (posthumous)<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://muse.union.edu/newsarchives/2003/06/15/joanne-rogers-accepts-husbands-41st-honorary-degree/ |title=Joanne Rogers accepts husband's 41st honorary degree |date=June 15, 2003 |work=Union College News Archives |location=Schenectady, New York |access-date=July 17, 2019 |archive-date=March 31, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331150312/https://muse.union.edu/newsarchives/2003/06/15/joanne-rogers-accepts-husbands-41st-honorary-degree/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Roanoke College]], 2003 (posthumous)<ref name="quilt"/>
{{div col end}}

==Filmography==
===Television===
{|class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
|-
| 1954–1961
| ''The Children's Corner''<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=swv53KTLriAC&q=%22Children's+Corner%22+%221954%22+%221961%22&pg=PA2 |title=Air Wars: The Fight to Reclaim Public Broadcasting |last=Starr |first=Jerold M. |date=2001 |publisher=Temple University Press |isbn=978-1-56639-913-5 |pages=2 |language=en}}</ref>
|-
| 1963–1966

| ''Misterogers''<ref name=":1"/>
|-
| 1964–1967
| ''[[Butternut Square]]''<ref name=":1"/>
|-
| 1968–2001
| ''[[Mister Rogers' Neighborhood]]''<ref name=":1"/>

|-
| 1977–1982
| ''Christmastime with Mister Rogers''<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ceI-AAAAQBAJ&q=%22Christmastime+with+Mister+Rogers%22+%221977%22&pg=PA1972 |title=Mister Rogers: A Biography of the Wonderful Life of Fred Rogers |last=Warner |first=Jennifer |date=August 8, 2013 |publisher=BookCaps Study Guides |isbn=978-1-62917-046-6 |language=en}}</ref>
|-
| 1978–1980

| ''[[Old Friends ... New Friends|Old Friends{{nbsp}}... New Friends]]''
|-
| 1981

| ''[[Sesame Street]]''<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.avclub.com/why-not-punch-yourself-in-the-gut-with-this-picture-of-1835533915 |title=Why not punch yourself in the gut with this picture of Elmo looking sadly at Mr. Rogers' old sweater? |last=Hughes |first=William |date=June 14, 2019 |website=AV Club News |language=en-US |access-date=November 17, 2019 |archive-date=March 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210310163116/https://news.avclub.com/why-not-punch-yourself-in-the-gut-with-this-picture-of-1835533915 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| 1988

| ''[[Good Night, Little Ones!]]''<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qFmBDwAAQBAJ&q=%22Good+Night,+Little+Ones%22+%22Fred+Rogers%22+%221988%22&pg=PA90 |title=Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: A Visual History |author=Fred Rogers Productions |last2=Lybarger |first2=Tim |last3=Wagner |first3=Melissa |last4=McGuiggan |first4=Jenna |date=October 29, 2019 |publisher=Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale |isbn=978-1-9848-2622-0 |pages=90–91 |language=en}}</ref>
|-

| 1991

| ''[[Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? (game show)|Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?]]''

|-
| 1994

|[[Mr. Dressup|''Mr. Dressup's 25th Anniversary'']]

|-
| 1994

| ''Fred Rogers' Heroes''<ref name=":3">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JUzIAgAAQBAJ&q=%22Heroes%22+%22Fred+Rogers%22+%221994%22&pg=PA1949 |title=Encyclopedia of Television |last=Williams-Rautiolla |first=Suzanne |date=2014 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-19479-6|editor-last=Newcomb|editor-first=Horace |pages=1949 |language=en}}</ref>

|-
| 1996

| ''[[Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman]]''<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-02-02-ca-31543-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |date=February 2, 1996 |access-date=November 16, 2019 |title=Mister Rogers Pays a Visit to 'Dr. Quinn' |archive-date=November 16, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191116223437/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-02-02-ca-31543-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

|-
| 1997

| ''[[Arthur (season 2)#ep31a|Arthur]]''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/arthur/episode-1-season-2/arthur-meets-mister-rogers/194495/ |publisher=TV Guide |access-date=November 16, 2019 |title=Arthur}}</ref>

|-
| 1998
| ''[[Wheel of Fortune (U.S. game show)|Wheel of Fortune]]''<ref>{{cite tweet |number=1043299316473856000 |user=WheelofFortune |date=September 21, 2018 |access-date=November 16, 2019 |title=In honor of Mister Rogers' 51st anniversary, here's one of our favorite memories—when he visited our neighborhood on #WheelOfFortune!}}</ref>
|-
| 2003
| ''[[Rose Parade|114th Annual Tournament of Roses Parade]]''<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/tv/2002/12/29/this-weeks-picks/4f4d971e-f349-41d3-b91a-db7360fe5611/ |newspaper=The Washington Post |title=This Week's Picks |date=December 29, 2002 |access-date=November 16, 2019 |archive-date=November 16, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191116222951/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/tv/2002/12/29/this-weeks-picks/4f4d971e-f349-41d3-b91a-db7360fe5611/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|}

==Published works==
===Children's books===
* ''Our Small World'' (with Josie Carey, illustrated by Norb Nathanson), 1954, Reed and Witting, {{OCLC|236163646}}
* ''The Elves, the Shoemaker, & the Shoemaker's Wife'' (illustrated by Richard Hefter), 1973, Small World Enterprises, {{OCLC|969517}}
* ''The Matter of the Mittens'', 1973, Small World Enterprises, {{OCLC|983991}}
* ''Speedy Delivery'' (illustrated by Richard Hefter), 1973, Hubbard, {{OCLC|11464480}}
* ''Henrietta Meets Someone New'' (illustrated by Jason Art Studios), 1974, Golden Press, {{OCLC|950967676}}
* ''Mister Rogers Talks About'', 1974, [[Platt & Munk]], {{OCLC|1093164}}
* ''Time to Be Friends'', 1974, [[Hallmark Cards]], {{OCLC|1694547}}
* ''Everyone is Special'' (illustrated by Jason Art Studios), 1975, [[Western Publishing]], {{OCLC|61280957}}
* ''Tell Me, Mister Rogers'', 1975, Platt & Munk, {{OCLC|1525780}}<!--
* ''Trolley Golden Shape Book'' (illustrated by Jason Art Studios), 1975-->
* ''The Costume Party'' (illustrated by Jason Art Studios), 1976, Golden Press, {{OCLC|3357187}}
* ''Planet Purple'' (illustrated by Dennis Hockerman), 1986, [[Texas Instruments]], {{ISBN|978-0-89512-092-2}}
* ''If We Were All the Same'' (illustrated by Pat Sustendal), 1987, [[Random House]], {{OCLC|15083194}}
* ''A Trolley Visit to Make-Believe'' (illustrated by Pat Sustendal), 1987, Random House, {{OCLC|17237650}}
* ''Wishes Don't Make Things Come True'' (illustrated Pat Sustendal), 1987, Random House, {{OCLC|15196769}}
* ''No One Can Ever Take Your Place'' (illustrated by Pat Sustendal), 1988, Random House, {{OCLC|990550735}}
* ''When Monsters Seem Real'' (illustrated by Pat Sustendal), 1988, Random House, {{OCLC|762290817}}
* ''You Can Never Go Down the Drain'' (illustrated by Pat Sustendal), 1988, Random House, {{ISBN|978-0-394-80430-9}}
* ''The Giving Box'' (illustrated by Jennifer Herbert), 2000, Running Press, {{OCLC|45616325}}
* ''Good Weather or Not'' (with Hedda Bluestone Sharapan, illustrated by James Mellet), 2005, [[Family Communications]], {{OCLC|31597516}}
* ''Josephine the Short Neck-Giraffe'', 2006, Family Communications, {{OCLC|1048459379}}
* ''A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: The Poetry of Mister Rogers Neighborhood'' (illustrated by Luke Flowers), 2009, [[Quirk Books]], {{OCLC|1042097615}}
;First Experiences series illustrated by Jim Judkis:
* ''Going to Day Care'', 1985, [[G. P. Putnam's Sons|Putnam]], {{OCLC|11397421}}
* ''The New Baby'', 1985, Putnam, {{OCLC|11470082}}
* ''Going to the Potty'', 1986, Putnam, {{OCLC|1123224708}}
* ''Going to the Doctor'', 1986, Putnam, {{OCLC|12751383}}
* ''Making Friends'', 1987, Putnam, {{OCLC|1016110382}}
* ''Moving'', 1987, Putnam, {{OCLC|13526459}}
* ''Going to the Hospital'', 1988, Putnam, {{OCLC|16472458}}
* ''When a Pet Dies'', 1988, Putnam, {{OCLC|16130718}}
* ''Going on an Airplane'', 1989, Putnam, {{OCLC|18589040}}
* ''Going to the Dentist'', 1989, Putnam, {{OCLC|17954325}}
;Let's Talk About It series:
* ''Going to the Hospital''<!-- (illustrated by William Panos)-->, 1977, Family Communications, {{OCLC|11287782}}
* ''Having an Operation''<!-- (illustrated by Ruth Brunner-Strosser)-->, 1977, Family Communications, {{OCLC|11394237}}
* ''So Many Things To See!''<!-- (illustrated by Lynn Dahoney)-->, 1977, Family Communications, {{OCLC|704507774}}
* ''Wearing a Cast''<!-- (illustrated by George Gaadt)-->, 1977, Family Communications, {{OCLC|11287804}}
* ''Adoption'', 1993, Putnam, {{OCLC|608811678}}
* ''Divorce'', 1994, Putnam, {{OCLC|228437876}}
* ''Extraordinary Friends'', 2000, Putnam, {{OCLC|40838701}}
* ''Stepfamilies'', 2001, Putnam, {{OCLC|35192315}}

===Songbooks===
* ''Tomorrow on the Children's Corner'' (with Josie Carey, illustrated by Mal Wittman), 1960, Vernon Music Corporation, {{OCLC|12316162}}
* ''Mister Rogers' Songbook'' (with Johnny Costa, illustrated by Steven Kellogg), 1970, Random House, {{OCLC|34224058}}<!--
* ''Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (Five Finger Pattern Piano)'', 1984
* ''Mister Rogers' Songbook (Big Note Piano)'', 1984
* ''Mister Rogers' Songbook (Easy Piano)'', 1997
* ''Mister Rogers' Songbook (EZ Play)'', 2018-->

===Books for adults===
* ''Mister Rogers Talks to Parents''<!-- (with Barry Head, illustrated by Jim Prokell)-->, 1983, Family Communications, {{OCLC|704903806}}
* ''Mister Rogers' Playbook'' (with Barry Head, illustrated by Jamie Adams), 1986, [[Berkley Books]], {{OCLC|1016158916}}
* ''Mister Rogers Talks with Families About Divorce'' (with Clare O'Brien), 1987, Berkley Books, {{OCLC|229152864}}
* ''Mister Rogers' How Families Grow'' (with Barry Head and Jim Prokell), 1988, Berkley Books, {{OCLC|20133117}}
* ''You Are Special: Words of Wisdom from America's Most Beloved Neighbor'', 1994, [[Penguin Books]], {{OCLC|1007556599}}
* ''Dear Mister Rogers'', 1996, Penguin Books, {{OCLC|1084686063}}
* ''Mister Rogers' Playtime'', 2001, [[Running Press]], {{OCLC|48118722}}
* ''The Mister Rogers Parenting Book'', 2002, Running Press, {{OCLC|50757046}}
* ''You are special: Neighborly Wisdom from Mister Rogers'', 2002, Running Press, {{OCLC|50402664}}
* ''The World According to Mister Rogers'', 2003, [[Hachette Books|Hyperion Books]], {{OCLC|52520625}}
* ''Life's Journeys According to Mister Rogers'', 2005, Hyperion Books, {{OCLC|56686439}}
* ''The Mister Rogers Parenting Resource Book'', 2005, [[Courage Books]], {{OCLC|60452524}}
* ''Many Ways to Say I Love You: Wisdom For Parents And Children'', 2019, [[Hachette Books]], {{OCLC|1082231639}}

==Discography==
* ''Around the Children's Corner'' (with Josey Carey), 1958, Vernon Music Corporation, {{OCLC|12310040}}
* ''Tomorrow on the Children's Corner'' (with Josie Carey), 1959<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i_G4DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA131 |title=Horne's: The Best Place to Shop After All |last=Savage |first=Letitia Stuart |date=November 18, 2019 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |isbn=978-1-4671-3835-2 |pages=131 |language=en}}</ref>
* ''King Friday XIII Celebrates'', 1964<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/39155656/misterogers_neighborhood_of/ |title=Misterogers' neighborhood of make-believe is on records |date=June 13, 1964 |work=The Ottawa Citizen |department=TV Weekly |pages=22 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |access-date=November 17, 2019 |archive-date=November 17, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191117152539/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/39155656/misterogers_neighborhood_of/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* ''Won't You Be My Neighbor?'', 1967<ref name="H. W. Wilson">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kvgZAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Won't+You+Be+My+Neighbor |title=Current Biography Yearbook |date=1972 |publisher=H. W. Wilson Company |pages=355 |language=en}}</ref>
* ''Let's Be Together Today'', 1968<ref name="H. W. Wilson"/>
* ''Josephine the Short-Neck Giraffe'', 1969<ref name="H. W. Wilson"/>
* ''You Are Special'', 1969<ref name="H. W. Wilson"/>
* ''A Place of Our Own'', 1970<ref name="H. W. Wilson"/>
* ''Come On and Wake Up'', 1972<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kbw7nzfOgQsC |title=Biography Today Performing Artists: Profiles of People of Interest to Young Readers |date=February 1, 2004 |publisher=Omnigraphics Incorporated |isbn=978-0-7808-0709-9|editor-last=Abbey|editor-first=Cherie D. |pages=126 |language=en|editor-last2=Hillstrom|editor-first2=Kevin}}</ref><!--
* ''21 Favorite Songs from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood'', 1973
* ''Mister Rogers Sings for Those Times When{{nbsp}}...'', 1973-->
* ''Growing'', 1992<ref name=":3"/>
* ''Bedtime'', 1992<ref name=":2"/>
* ''Won't You Be My Neighbor?'' (cassette and book), 1994, [[Hal Leonard LLC|Hal Leonard]], {{OCLC|36965578}}
* ''Coming and Going'', 1997<ref>{{Cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iQ0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA70 |title=Almost 30, 'Neighborhood' Is Still Central To Kids' TV; Youngheart Eyes Mainstream |last=McCormick |first=Moira |date=January 31, 1998 |magazine=Billboard|access-date=November 17, 2019 |pages=70}}</ref>
* ''It's Such a Good Feeling: The Best of Mister Rogers'', 2019, Omnivore Recordings, posthumous release<ref>{{Cite web|date=October 4, 2019|title=Mister Rogers — It's Such A Good Feeling: The Best Of Mister Rogers|url=https://omnivorerecordings.com/shop/its-such-a-good-feeling/|access-date=July 9, 2020|publisher=Omnivore Recordings|language=en-US|archive-date=July 9, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200709180538/https://omnivorerecordings.com/shop/its-such-a-good-feeling/|url-status=live}}</ref>

==See also==
* ''[[Won't You Be My Neighbor? (film)|Won't You Be My Neighbor?]]'', 2018 documentary
* ''[[Mister Rogers: It's You I Like]]'', 2018 documentary
* ''[[A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood]]'', 2019 biographical drama film
* [[List of vegetarians]]

==Notes==
{{reflist|group=note}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Works cited==
* Gross, Terry (1984). [https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1178498 "Terry Gross and Fred Rogers".] ''Fresh Air''. NPR.
* King, Maxwell (2018). [https://books.google.com/books?id=aNdQDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT269 ''The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers''.] Abrams Press. {{ISBN|978-1-68335-349-2}}.
* Tiech, John (2012). ''Pittsburgh Film History: On Set in the Steel City''. Charleston, North Carolina: The History Press. {{ISBN|978-1-60949-709-5}}.

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* [http://www.fredrogers.org/ Fred Rogers Productions] (formerly known as Family Communications)
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* {{Cite news |title=It's a Beautiful 50th Birthday for 'Mister Rogers' Neighborhood' |date=February 19, 2018 |work=[[Fresh Air]] |publisher=[[NPR]]}} 1984 interview with Fred Rogers.
* [https://sites.google.com/site/pittsburghmusichistory/pittsburgh-music-story/pop/fred-rogers The Music of Mister Rogers—Pittsburgh Music History]
* {{Discogs artist|Fred Rogers}}
* [http://voicechasers.com/database/showactor.php?actorid=6391 Fred Rogers at Voice Chasers] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181120070946/http://voicechasers.com/database/showactor.php?actorid=6391 |date=November 20, 2018 }}
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