The video store had a little stand where you could buy classic movie snacks like popcorn and candy, and it was packed with rows of VHS ... year, "Barney And The Backyard Gang" hit PBS as "Barney ...

Or one that will mock and vilify the character, as it did when Barney & Friends became a PBS hit in the 1990s ... to regret the purchase of a Barney VHS tape can attest. But in the 1990s and ...

Until now. The singing purple dinosaur, star of eight “Barney & the Backyard Gang” videotapes since 1988, came to PBS last week with 30 half-hour programs called “Barney & Friends.” ...

Continuing “Barney” without PBS funds would be difficult, because it would mean that CPTV and its co-producers, the Texas-based Lyons Group, would have to round up millions of dollars through ...

The original Barney and Friends series began airing on PBS in 1992 and continued until 2010, a testament to the show's popularity among preschool-aged children. Barney's reboot is Mattel's latest ...

And so Rifkin pitched the show for national distribution. The very next year, 1992, “Barney and the Backyard Gang” hit PBS as “Barney & Friends” and found its way into the homes of ...

PASADENA, Calif. — Public television will launch a new 24-hour children’s channel starting July 1 with such favorites as “Barney & Friends” and “Wishbone,” PBS President Ervin Duggan ...