Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (often shortened to simply
Mister Rogers) is an American half-hour
children's television series that was created and hosted by namesake
Fred Rogers. The series originated in 1963 as
Mister Rogers on
CBC Television, and was later debuted in 1966 as
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood on the regional
Eastern Educational Network (EEN, a forerunner of today's
American Public Television), followed by its US network debut on February 19, 1968, and it aired on
NET and its successor,
PBS, until August 31, 2001. The series is aimed primarily at
preschool ages 2 to 5, but has been stated by PBS as "appropriate for all ages".
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood was produced by
Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, public broadcaster
WQED and Rogers' non-profit production company Family Communications, Inc.; previously known as Small World Enterprises prior to 1971, the company was renamed
The Fred Rogers Company after Rogers' death.