Barney and the Backyard Gang is a direct-to-video series produced by The Lyons Group and was produced from October 13, 1988 to October 20, 1991. This series launched the stardom of the PBS television ...

Barney the Dinosaur gets 1,500 fan letters a week, and he hasn’t even been on TV. Until now. The singing purple dinosaur, star of eight “Barney & the Backyard Gang” videotapes since 1988, came to PBS ...

The Backyard Gang are bored on a Saturday with nothing to do. That is, until they use their imaginations to bring Barney to life. When they tell Barney their problem, he acts like a genie and gives ...

Ryan is a lifestyle and culture journalist born and raised in the Philippines. He primarily covers film, television, music, and all things pop culture. Beyond writing, you can find him buried in ...

Here is this week’s video quiz question: Who is purple and green, fabulously wealthy, beloved by nippers, impervious to critics, increasingly popular, inexhaustibly upbeat and celebrating his 200 ...

W hen the people at Connecticut Public Television first started talking about “Barney & Friends,” their new children’s show for PBS starring a 6-foot-tall purple dinosaur, some predicted it could be ...

The purple dinosaur is coming to the silver screen. Mattel Films and actor Daniel Kaluuya, of “Get Out” and “Black Panther,” are excavating “Barney & Friends” from the ’90s children’s programming ...

He's no longer just a dinosaur from your imagination — Barney is back in animated form. The lovable purple-and-green dinosaur with a penchant for tidiness will return to screens for the first time in ...

Barney’s story starts in late 1987 in Allen, Texas. At the time, a former teacher named Sheryl Leach had a two-year old son, Patrick. She struggled to find videos that held his attention. “I was a ...