Saturday, December 12, 2020

Getting Schooled: Barney & The Backyard Gang (1988)

 Most of us may be familiar with Barney & Friends, which was a PBS staple during the 90's and early '00's. What you might not know is that there was a DTV series that preceded the show by 4 years.

Barney & The Backyard Gang was a series of videos produced periodically between 1988-91. Actress Sandy Duncan (The Hogan Family) starred in the first three as the mother, but departed prior to the 4th DTV, a Christmas themed entry about Santa Claus.

Barney's theme song was a riff on "Yankee Doodle". The producers of Roger Ramjet did the same thing for their theme song more than 20 years earlier.

Edit, 9/30/23: Here's "Barney Goes to School":



We'll look at PBS' Barney & Friends another time.

No rating. Just a public service.

2 comments:

Steven Dolce said...

Did you know that they are making a new Barney movie?

hobbyfan said...

I think I read something about that.