The singing dinosaur show wouldn’t have made it to PBS airwaves, or gone on to shape a generation of kids, if it weren’t for ...

The cast and crew behind "Barney & Friends" on PBS share some of the death threats and backlash they received in a new ...

When Larry Rifkin took his 4-year-old daughter, Leora, to a Prospect video rental store one morning in 1991, he had no ...

"Barney & Friends" was a hit for PBS, but the character and the show's ... so they banned their kids from ever watching ‘Barney’ again." The reporter asked Joyner’s thoughts on the story ...

David Joyner looked back on some of the hate he received as the benevolent Barney, recalling the time he learned that the Ku ...

Well, in the magazine, the Klan had found out that the guy inside of the Barney costume was African American, so they banned their kids from ever ... darker side of the PBS series.

The anecdote is shared on the latest episode of Generation Barney, a new seven-part podcast from Connecticut Public devoted to the beloved dino and how the PBS program shaped generations.

The kids show began as a home video series called “Barney and the Backyard ... “And so Larry called the show's creator, Sheryl Leach, and said ‘Hey, we should pitch this to PBS.’” The rest is ...

Listen to, "Our Not-so-Italian Market." Meet "Generation Barney," a podcast about the media we loved as kids and how it ...

“It was frightening. I remember going to a luncheon once and they’ve got us sat at a table. I said I had been the music ...