#Barney season 1 series

Writing Īround thirty writers were interviewed to writer for the series. The cast and crew of Barney & Friends season one. Soon, Bob West returned to dub over Jeff Gittle's lines. Although this was Lauren King ( Kathy)'s first season appearance as her respective character, she had been introduced in Rock with Barney.īob West, the voice of Barney, left production during this season due to having laryngitis while doing Barney's voice.

#Barney season 1 series

Becky Swonke left the series due to an illness, Alexander Jhin left the series due to moving out of the Texas area, and Sandy Duncan was invited to return to the franchise for Barney & Friends, but she declined. Cast members such as Becky Swonke ( Amy), Alexander Jhin ( Adam), and Dao Knight ( Baby Bop's costume performer) did not return. In October of that year, production began on the new television show, titled Barney & Friends and ended in-between March and April 1992.Ī majority of the main cast members from Barney & The Backyard Gang returned to portray their characters in the successor series. One of the changes announced for the show was dropping the word 'gang' due to it having negative connotations. A $2.25 million grant was given to The Lyons Group and Connecticut Public Television to produce the new show. In June of 1991, it was announced that Barney would have a new show debuting on PBS with a scheduled release for April 1992 with thirty episodes. At the time, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting had been looking for something new, educational and lively to supplement the programs that were already on television. Rifkin liked the concept, so he spoke with Leach and other creators about putting Barney on television.

Rifkin tested the video on other children in the neighborhood to make sure the reaction wasn't unusual. Once they got home, his daughter couldn't stop watching the video. On Super Bowl Sunday in 1991, executive vice president of programming for Connecticut Public Television, Larry Rifkin, rented the Barney video, A Day at the Beach, for his 4-year-old daughter Leora Rifkin, which they got from Prospect Video Store, in Prospect, Connecticut. The beginnings to the start of Barney & Friends dates back to the show's predecessor, Barney & The Backyard Gang, which was a home video series.Ī promotional advertisement for Barney & Friends premiering on PBS.

This season had two albums released with a few songs taken from various episodes, under the titles of Barney's Favorites, Volume 1 and Barney's Favorites, Volume 2, released in 19 respectively. With a total of thirty episodes, this was the longest season to date. Unlike the home video series, that took place in various settings, the show takes place at in a school classroom and playground, which is where the children characters attend during the day. Succeeding the home video series, Barney & The Backyard Gang, this season features Barney, with characters from the home video series such as Baby Bop, a diverse cast of kids, including Derek, Michael, Tina, and Luci, and introduces new kids - Min, Kathy, Shawn, and Tosha.īased off its predecessor, this season displays Barney, who comes to life through a child's imagination, whenever he is needed for something, helping his friends, through educational themes tailored for toddlers, which is the viewing audience. The first season of the American live-action educational children's television series, Barney & Friends, created by Sheryl Leach and co-created by Kathy Parker and Dennis DeShazer, was premiered on PBS from April 6 to May 15, 1992, and consisted of 30 episodes.