Mr. Rogers
I only watched Mr. Rogers as an adult, my childhood shows were about how to learn to speak French via Chez´ Helen along with the antics of Rusty the Rooster, Jerome the Giraffe and a real giant named Friendly that all Canadian kids in the 60’s loved, (oh! Canada – nuf’ said). Mr. R was a giant in his own right and even though he was a Presbyterian minister he never let religion be part of his program and to his credit, every episode was still a spiritual event. Children don’t talk about his show like a cartoon or Disney movie, but they absorb every word. It’s intellectual stuff for them and has great import upon the rest of their lives, they learn how to think properly of themselves and how to accept others, something that is forgotten by many adults and maybe should be a required remedial subject. Mr. Rogers learned from his neighborhood that “everyone was special†and he practiced what he so softly preached world wide and is remembered by many.