Two Lost Mr. Rogers Episodes Mysteriously ResurfaceAnd Might Be a Message to Trump

[LiberalArkie]

Thirty-four years ago, on five consecutive episodes of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood that never aired again, two feuding sects meant to represent Russia and the United States began stockpiling parts for bombs—at one point explicitly stripping the neighborhood’s funding for the arts to bankroll the war effort.

This might sound like some particularly dark, on-the-nose fan fiction about a Mister Rogers episode written in 2017, but these episodes really did air in November of 1983—and only then. The episodes were pulled from syndication and future releases. While production stills reappeared over the years, and a poor-quality, five-minute clip wound up on YouTube years ago, the individual episodes themselves were never surfaced again.

That was until this week. Two of them were anonymously posted to YouTube on Monday.

(Note: Monday was Mr. Rogers birthday)

Now, the question isn’t, “Where are the tapes?” The question is, “Who did this?”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/25/two-lost-mr-rogers-episodes-mysteriously-resurface-and-might-be-a-message-to-trump.html

[frazzled]

1. They weren't withdrawn from PBS rotation until 1996

So no, they weren't only seen in 1983. I watched Mr. Rogers every day with my children in the 1980s, and I saw them. The first thing that triggered my memory was the trip to the mint, which I recall vividly; then the conflict with the neighboring realms came back to mind. And the variation on the song "Many Ways."

Thanks for posting, though. In the fifth episode, the school actually does get its record players after the misunderstanding is cleared up.

[Omaha Steve]

2. K&R!