The PG staff has a collective dislike of "Barney & Friends.'' The Pollyanna attitude; the cloying stage kids; the vague creepiness of a man's voice emanating from a dinosaur suit. But Barney turns 20 ...
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 ...
Few children’s shows carry the baggage that Barney & Friends does, even now. Created as a series of videos by Dallas mom Sheryl Leach in 1988, the show was eventually discovered by Connecticut Public ...