--- title: Mister Rogers Google Doodle Celebrates Beautiful Day description: Google is celebrating the 51st anniversary of Fred Rogers taping the first episode of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood with a nostalgia-inducing Doodle. canonical: https://time.com/5402922/mister-rogers-google-doodle/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-09-21T14:53:25.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:55:00.715Z og:title: The Mister Rogers Google Doodle Is Making It a Special Day og:description: Celebrate the anniversary of the first episode with a heartwarming animation og:url: https://time.com/5402922/mister-rogers-google-doodle/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt508f2faf5bb4034d/69893ad2457a52afdad5f713/mister-rogers-google-doodle.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 594 og:image:height: 334 og:image:alt: Portrait Of Mister Rogers og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Mister Rogers Google Doodle Is Making It a Special Day twitter:description: Celebrate the anniversary of the first episode with a heartwarming animation twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt508f2faf5bb4034d/69893ad2457a52afdad5f713/mister-rogers-google-doodle.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Mister Rogers Google Doodle Is Doing Its Part to Make It a Beautiful Day on the Internet > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Sep 21, 2018 2:53 PM UTC  Portrait of American educator and television personality Fred Rogers (1928 - 2003) of the television series 'Mister Rogers' Neighborhood,' circa 1980s. Portrait of American educator and television personality Fred Rogers (1928 - 2003) of the television series 'Mister Rogers' Neighborhood,' circa 1980s. Fotos International/Courtesy of Getty Images  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Sep 21, 2018 2:53 PM UTC Google is celebrating the 51st anniversary of [Fred Rogers](http://time.com/5290424/excerpt-mister-rogers-biography/) taping the very first episode of [_Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood_](http://time.com/5123874/tom-hanks-mr-rogers-reactions/)with a nostalgia-inducing [Doodle](http://time.com/5378131/leonard-bernstein-google-doodle/). The initial [homepage](https://www.google.com) Doodle shows a group of children gathered around an old-school television set for another installment of the PBS series. But if you click on the still, you can watch an extended stop motion video that features an animated Mister Rogers taking a stroll through the neighborhood while singing his iconic theme song, “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” The Doodle ends as the the show always began, with Mister Rogers speaking directly to the kids tuned in for the day’s episode. “You help to make each day a special day by just your being yourself,” he says. “There’s nobody else in the whole world who’s exactly like you. And people can like you exactly as you are.” [Rogers died](https://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/27/obituaries/fred-rogers-host-of-mister-rogers-neighborhood-dies-at-74-2003022794209268324.html) at his Pittsburgh home in 2003 at the age of 74\. All 856 episodes of his beloved show are available to watch for free on the [livestreaming site Twitch](https://www.twitch.tv/). 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