Mister Rogers plays with a flashlight and pretends that it is nighttime. Mr. McFeely brings a cassette with nighttime sounds and they watch how people make flashlights on Picture-Picture. Later, Mister Rogers learns that he will be receiving a visit from a foreign children’s television program host. Lady Elaine Fairchilde is inadvertently scaring people during the night in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
Mister Rogers shows pictures of the night and day skies. He plays with a star on a string and then remembers his trip to Moscow, where he met Russian children’s television program producers.In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, there is a falling star–a pretend star falling from a string.
Mister Rogers has some scuba diving equipment, as well as a toy scuba diver. When he places the scuba diver in the bathtub, Mister Rogers imagines what a real scuba diver would see in the ocean. Later, Mister Rogers sees a fire fighter’s uniform. He talks about sleepiness. Some of the neighbors in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe are frightened by Chuck Aber and Betty Okonak Templeton Jones in their scuba diving gear.
Mister Rogers demonstrates a twist sculpture toy and plays the song that he has written as a gift for Tatiana Vedeneeva who will be arriving today. Mister Rogers talks about the space visitor’s language and the learning of any language. He then plays the song that will be a gift, but he is interrupted by the appearance of Mr. McFeely, the translator, and Tatiana herself who gives him a Matrouska doll. Mister Rogers shows Tatiana his television home, and Tatiana introduces one of her puppets, a rabbit, to him. Tatiana gives Mister Rogers a film about how people make Matrushka Dolls, which they watch. Then Mister Rogers invites Tatiana to feed the fish and drink some apple juice. She shows Mister Rogers a picture of her son Dimitri and says that he likes to play with toy cars and draw. They compare Soviet children and American children in their joys and fears.In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, it is nighttime. Miss Paulificate shows Handyman Negri a present that she has just received from the Queen, a twist sculpture toy. A twist sculpture appears in the sky carrying a space visitor. Handyman Negri alerts Lady Elaine. The space visitor lands next to them, but they cannot understand it. Lady Aberlin carries the space visitor to King Friday XIII who greets it and invites it to stay at the castle.
Mister Rogers plays with a yo-yo before meeting Tom Parks, a yo-yo expert. Mr. McFeely brings a film about nighttime workers.In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Daniel Striped Tiger talks with Yo-Yo LaBelle, who is sad because he will have to leave the neighborhood at daybreak.King Friday XIII recites “Scintillate, Scintillate Diminutive Stellar Orb.”Mister Rogers shows a globe.