Barney took to social media Wednesday to share his first "Stu-u-u-pendous!" message to the public since his show, PBS' "Barney and Friends" ended 14 years ago. However, this new message seemed a ...

When "Barney & Friends" first debuted on PBS in 1992, kids went bananas for the huggable purple dinosaur. The show was also ...

But PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting had recently put out a call for more preschool programming. And as a programmer, Larry understood how important it was to listen to your audience.

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 ...