‘Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood’ At 50 / ‘The Shape of Water’ Actor Doug Jones

‘Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood’ At 50 / ‘The Shape of Water’ Actor Doug Jones

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‘Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood’ had its first national broadcast on public television 50 years ago. TV critic David Bianculli has an appreciation. And we listen back to Rogers’ interview with Terry Gross in 1984. Also, actor Doug Jones, who is a frequent collaborator of Guillermo del Toro’s, tells Sam Briger about playing the fish man in the Oscar-nominated film ‘The Shape of Water.‘