The Children's Corner
1953 AD hired
Rogers returned to Pittsburgh to work as a program developer at public television station WQED. Josie Carey worked with him to develop the children's show The Children's Corner, which Carey hosted.
Rogers worked off-camera to develop puppets, characters, and music for the show. He used many of the puppet characters developed during this time, such as Daniel the Striped Tiger (named after WQED's station manager, Dorothy Daniel, who gave Rogers a tiger puppet before the show's premiere),
King Friday XIII, Queen Sara Saturday (named after Rogers's wife), X the Owl, Henrietta, and Lady Elaine, in his later work.
Children's television entertainer Ernie Coombs was an assistant puppeteer.
^The Children's Corner* won a Sylvania Award for best locally produced children's programming in 1955 and was broadcast nationally on NBC.
Lattitude: 40.4397° N
Longitude: 79.9763° W
Region: North America
Modern Day United States
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