"You take all of the elements that make good television and do the exact opposite — you have Mister Rogers Neighborhood," the show's producer, Margy ... Rogers dealt with a variety of adult topics like death, divorce and disability while presenting them in conversations with the children on his show. read more
To a large extent, the sequel to Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (which ran from 1968-2001) is the animated PBS Kids show Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, which debuted in 2012). read more
After a year-long stint at NBC, Rogers and his bride moved back to Pittsburgh, where he began working at WQED Pittsburgh, the country’s first community-sponsored educational TV station, where he was asked to develop children’s programming. read more