Believe as himself, although in the first few seasons of the  show he used to interact with the characters. In episode 1 he called  Edgar Cooke (Whom Fred Rogers also voiced) on the telephone can (We  didnt hear Edgars voice on the other line though) and hed look  through a telescope to the Neighborhood of Make Believe. At the end  of the NoMB segment in episode 1, King Friday says, "I wonder what  Mr. Rogers would say about this," and sends a note to him on the  trolley. Betty Aberlin (qv) played her Neighborhood of  Make