. . . Josie [Carey, the host of the The Children’s Corner, for which Fred Rogers was the puppeteer] was finding it more and more difficult to make a connection with Fred. She said she really didn’t think he liked entertainment, and he hardly ever watched commercial television or listened to the radio: “Sometimes Fred didn’t want to have any connection with the outside world. Most people have a radio in their cars; Fred had his taken out.
“He’d only watch television once a week, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour . . . because he liked to see Alfred Hitchcock come in and say hello. And then he’d turn it off.”