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Background[edit]

Barney & Friends is an American live-action educational children's television series that premiered on the Public Broadcasting Service on April 6, 1992. The series ended on November 2, 2010, although new home videos were still released on various dates after the last episode aired as production of new content ceased in early 2011. Aimed at children from the ages two to seven years, the show is based on to the video series titled Barney & The Backyard Gang which was created by Sheryl Leach and co-developed by Kathy Parker and Dennis DeShazer. The main character of the show is a friendly, stuffed, purple Tyrannosaurus rex named Barney, who comes to life through a child's imagination, whenever he is needed for something. He is joined by his other dino pals Baby Bop, BJ, and Riff, as well as a diverse cast of children.

It was one of the most watched television programs and was the first show on public television to be aimed primarily at toddlers as Leach recognized a void in the market for video programming directed at preschoolers. Barney & Friends became a Daytime Emmy Award winner in 2001, and has been nominated for eleven Emmy Awards during its run on television. The series is currently owned under Mattel since the franchise's acquisition in 2012 with distribution rights currently under 9 Story Media Group since 2015.

Barney & the Backyard Gang[edit]

Logo (August 29, 1988-April 7, 2003)[edit]

Early version
Later version

Logo: On a light and dark purple gradient background, we see a colorized version of the Barney and the Backyard Gang logo with a picture of Barney waving at the word "The".

Variants: Starting with Waiting for Santa, the logo was re-edited, with the scenes from Three Wishes being replaced with scenes from Waiting for Santa and Campfire Sing-Along, the logo becoming further away, and becoming a more purplish purple color.

Technique: Digital 2D animation, created by The Lyons Group.

Audio: An instrumental by Stephen Bates Baltes.

Availability:

Most of the Barney episodes and videos produced prior to 2001 have yet to receive a DVD release in North America, with a few exceptions such as "Imagination Island." Sprout reran some episodes from the show's first three seasons from 2007 up until 2010, but most episodes haven't been aired since 2000 or so. Time Life released a majority of the show's first season on VHS (with four more videos released by Lyons), but the tapes are becoming more rare.
- A possible reason why the older seasons never got re-released for over a decade is because some episodes contain material that are deemed too immoral, scary or tense for today's target audience. Examples include Kathy and Min physically fighting over the Barney doll in Caring Means Sharing!, and Tina noticing a big bug in Derek's sack before a sack race in A Splash Party, Please!. One of the songs, "The Other Day I Met a Bear", even originally contained references to a weapon.
It first appeared on The Backyard Show, released on August 29, 1988, and last appeared on Barney in Concert, which was released on July 29, 1991, and discontinued on April 8, 2003, and Rock with Barney, which was released on August 1, 1991.
The very first incarnation of the series, Barney & the Backyard Gang, has not only never had a DVD release, but most of the episodes have not seen a re-release since the mid-90's, with the only four episodes to see re-releases after that period being "Waiting For Santa", "Barney Goes to School", "Barney in Concert" and "Rock with Barney" in VHS form.
The first three videos note were even discontinued in 1993, due to their Early-Installment Weirdness. However, all the BYG videos can easily be found on YouTube as of 2023. The original release of one of them, "Three Wishes", also reveals that despite being the second video, the "The End" card shows that it's actually the third and final video of the initial three-part series.
While the official Barney channel did upload a couple video specials on YouTube in 2022, they are all unfortunately of VHS quality, since they never got released on DVD.

Barney & Friends[edit]

1st Logo (April 6, 1992-August 7, 2011, July 2018 in India)[edit]

Logo:

Variants:

Technique:

Audio:

Availability:

Seen on Seasons 1-3 of Barney & Friends, which were last aired on Sprout on August 7, 2011.
It also reappears on an Indian DVD of Barney's Colors and Shapes by Excel Home Video, which was released on July 3, 2018.

2nd Logo (November 3, 1997-August 26, 2012, August 28-October 29, 2018)[edit]

3rd Logo (September 2, 2002-January 25, 2020)[edit]

Logo:

Variants: Like the Season 1 version of the 1st logo and onward (with the exception of season eight), the "Barney Theme Song" is re-shot and re-edited.

Technique:

Audio:

Availability:

Seen on Seasons 7-14 of Barney & Friends.

Barney's World[edit]