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The creator and host of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, speaking by phone from his Family Communications headquarters at WQED-TV in Pittsburgh, offers a thoughtful, psychologically grounded perspective on superheroes and children. Rogers explains that the superhero fantasy is developmentally natural — children are small in a large, frightening world and need the fantasy of omnipotence — but stresses that adults must help children understand the boundary between make-believe and reality, particularly given how blurred that line is in young children's minds. He discusses his dedicated program episodes on superhero fantasy (including a visit to the Incredible Hulk TV set with Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno), and argues that television violence is genuinely harmful and that networks, parents, and society all share responsibility for addressing it.