<b>Updated edition featuring a new foreword by David "Mr. McFeely" Newell.</b><br><br>Born in 1928 in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, Fred Rogers began his television career in 1951 at NBC. In 1954, he became program director for the newly founded WQED-TV in Pittsburgh, the first community-supported television station in the United States. From 1954 to 1961, Rogers and Josie Carey produced and performed in WQED's <i>The Children's Corner</i>, which became part of the the Saturday morning lineup on NBC in 1955 and 1956.<br><br>It was after Fred Rogers was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1963, with a special charge of serving children and their families through television, that he developed what became the award-winning PBS series <i>Mister Rogers' Neighborhood</i>.