Happy Birthday, "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood"!

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Daniel Tiger and Mister Rogers Week-long Programming Event
Feb. 26 - March 2

KCPT and PBS KIDS will mark the 50th anniversary milestone with a week-long programming event featuring back-to-back episodes of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood and award-winning animated spin-off Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood from The Fred Rogers Company. The broadcast event takes place throughout the week of February 26 and will include a new episode of Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, as well as a special PBS KIDS Family Night on the 24/7 channel and livestream March 2-4. Each day, PBS KIDS will pair Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood episodes with the Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood episodes that inspired them, with complementary themes such as dealing with loss and coping with angry feelings.

Episodes include:

• February 26: Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood “Daniel’s Fish Dies/Daniel’s Strawberry Seeds” (NEW) and Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood “Death of a Goldfish”
• February 27: Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood “The Tiger Family Grows/Daniel Learns About Being a Big Brother” and Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood “Families”
• February 28: Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood “Visiting Grandpere/The Tiger Family Goes Home” and Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood “Grandparents”
• March 1: Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood “Friends Help Each Other/Daniel Helps O Tell a Story” and Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood “Friends”
• March 2: Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood “Daniel Gets Mad/Katerina Gets Mad” and Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood “Mad Feelings”

Mister Rogers: It's You I Like
Tuesday, March 6 | 7 p.m.

It’s You I Like is a celebrity-filled, hour-long special that celebrates Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, the pioneering PBS series that premiered nationally 50 years ago and became an iconic and enduring landmark in the world of children’s television and beyond. Cast members from the groundbreaking series share their personal perspectives and insights in this new production, which pays tribute to television’s longest-running children’s series, still broadcast on many PBS stations today. The program also features interviews with numerous celebrities who have been influenced and inspired by Fred Rogers, a modest man who always said, “I am not a teacher, I simply help children learn.”

Michael Keaton, who worked as a stagehand and made appearances on the series in the 1970s, hosts the special. Judd Apatow, Joyce DiDonato, Whoopi Goldberg, Chris Kratt, John Lithgow, Yo-Yo Ma and son Nicholas Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Sarah Silverman, Esperanza Spalding and Caroll Spinney reveal their favorite memories from Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, while Joe Negri (“Handyman Negri”), David Newell (“Mr. McFeely”) and Joanne Rogers, Fred’s widow, share their personal stories.

Mister Rogers Kindness Crawl
Saturday, March 24 | 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Must be 18 or older

Join Kansas City PBS and our community partners, including Serve KC, for the KCPT Mister Rogers Kindness Crawl. Adult participants will use the KC Streetcar (aka our Neighborhood Trolley) to make a series of stops with activities focused on helping the community, like making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for a child in need with Initiative PB & J, or assembling welcome materials for a family that will be distributed through KC for Refugees. Participants will also be encouraged to engage in simple acts of kindness while in transit like saying “Hello” to a stranger, picking up litter, and giving a child a Daniel Tiger sticker book. Throughout, participants will be encourage to document and share their activities via social media. The crawl will culminate at the Chesterfield at the Alamo Drafthouse, next to the Power and Light KC Streetcar stop, for a brief presentation, clips from the series and prizes.