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Barney and Friends

Stella the Storyteller

Phyllis Cicero

Stella travels all around the world, collecting new stories to tell Barney and friends, among other people. She appeared in several episodes from Season 3 to Season 6. Stella reappeared in the video The Best of Barney, where she gave Barney a photo album of his friends over the years she made herself.

Professor Tinkerputt

Barry Pearl

He appeared in Barney's Imagination Island and in the Barney's Big Surprise stage show tour. Professor Tinkerputt did not want to share his invented toys, until Barney and the kids showed him that good things happen when you share. For this reason, Tinkerputt left Imagination Island with Barney and the others and started a new toy factory.

Tomie dePaola

Tomie dePaola

The famous children's author is also a good friend of Barney and usually meets his friends in the episodes he appeared in, which are "Picture This", "It's Raining, It's Pouring", and "Oh Brother, She's my Sister".

Mom

Sandy Duncan

Michael and Amy's mom in the first three Barney and the Backyard Gang videos.

Mr. Boyd

Robert Sweatman

His full name is Grady Boyd and he has a niece named Colleen. He first worked as a janitor in Seasons 3 to 6 and as a park keeper in Seasons 7 and 8. He later reappeared in The Best of Barney.

Colleen

Claire Burdett

Colleen is Mr. Boyd's niece, who comes to town for a visit and is introduced to Barney and the Children. She is a congenital amputee born without her right hand, as is her actress. She appeared in two episodes, "A New Friend!" and "A Perfectly Purple Day".

David

Robert Hurtekant

David is a boy in a wheelchair who appeared in two episodes at the beginning each, "Falling for Autumn!" and "Shawn and the Beanstalk". He never appeared with or saw Barney whom long before becoming a real dinosaur.

Puppets

A lot of puppets appeared in many seasons. The most notable puppets were:

Scooter McNutty, a brown squirrel

Miss Etta Kette, a purple bird

Booker T. Bookworm, an orange worm who has interests in books

Children

Throughout the series' run, over 100 children have appeared in the series, with most of them from the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplexTemplate:Fact"date=September 2014. Only a small portion of these actors have made notable appearances in media since their roles, including:

Selena Gomez: played Gianna from Season 7 to Season 8

Demi Lovato: played Angela from Season 7 to Season 8

Tory Green: played Sarah in Barney's Colorful World

Madison Pettis: played Bridget in Season 10

Danielle Vega: played Kim from Season 3 to Season 6

Movies and specials

Main article: List of Barney & Friends episodes and videos

Barney's Imagination Island (1994)

Barney Live In New York City (1994)

Barney's Great Adventure (1998) (Theatrical movie, starring Trevor Morgan and Kyla Pratt)

Barney's Big Surprise (1998)

Barney: Let's Go to the Zoo (2001)

Barney's Musical Castle (2001)

Barney's Colorful World (2004)

Airings

Besides the United States, the series has aired in Canada, Mexico and Latin America, France, Ireland, Italy, Malaysia, Spain, the United Kingdom, Japan (On English-based DVDs under the name "Let's Play with Barney in English! (バーニーと英語であそぼう！ Bānī to Eigo de asobō!?)" and on television as simply "Barney & Friends (バーニー&フレンズ Bānī ando Furenzu!?)" ), the Philippines, Turkey, Australia, and New Zealand, among others. Two known co-productions of Barney & Friends have been produced outside of the US. The Israeli co-production (Hebrew: החברים של ברני‎ Hachaverim shel Barney (The Friends of Barney) produced from 1997 to 1999 in Tel Aviv, Israel, was the first of these. Rather than dubbing the original American episodes from Seasons 1–3, the episodes are adapted with a unique set and exclusive child actors.[17] The other co-production was one shot in South Korea from 2001–2003, airing on KBS (under the name "바니와 친구들" (Baniwa Chingudeul (Barney and Friends))). This one, however, adapted the first six seasons (including the first three that the Israel co-production did). It was done in a similar manner as the Israel production.

Music

A majority of the albums of Barney & Friends feature Bob West's voice as the voice of Barney, however the recent album The Land of Make-Believe has Dean Wendt's voice. Barney's song "I Love You" (as well as songs from Sesame Street and Metallica) has been used by interrogators at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to coerce the detainees.[18]

The use of the theme song, as a means of inflicting psychological stress, on Iraqi prisoners-of-war, was examined by Jon Ronson in his 2004 book The Men Who Stare At Goats.