Editing Fred Rogers (section)

===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|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 as 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"/>

In 1963, the [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]] (CBC) in Toronto contracted Rogers to come to Toronto to 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 Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in the U.S."<ref>{{cite web |title=Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and Beyond |website=Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning & Children's Media |url=http://www.fredrogerscenter.org/about-us/about-fred/mister-rogers-neighborhood/mister-rogers-neighborhood-and-beyond/ |access-date=October 28, 2018 |archive-date=March 31, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331095125/http://www.fredrogerscenter.org/about-us/about-fred/mister-rogers-neighborhood/mister-rogers-neighborhood-and-beyond/ |url-status=live }}</ref>