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Fred Rogers

Ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1963.

The Presbyterian church ordained him and charged him with a special mission: in effect, to keep on doing what he was doing on television.

From its premiere on February 19, 1968, until its end on August 31, 2001, 895 episodes of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (1968) were produced, all of which he wrote and executive produced.