PBS stations across the country have unlimited use of “Barney” episodes for three years, and they will probably be repeated.

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 a fateful day at a video store in Prospect, Connecticut.

Luckily, he said, PBS heeded the withering outcry by parents and local public-television stations and reversed its decision. New episodes are now being made for broadcast on PBS later this year.

Never mind that the average age of PBS viewers is 58. "Sesame Street" -- see how its merchandise sells, and Barney's, too -- supposedly proves that public television can find mass audiences.

And Barney is in for more changes as production begins on 20 new episodes — part of a deal that will keep Barney on PBS stations, like Maryland Public Television, at least through 1998.

There are some interesting ideas explored in Peacock’s “I Love You, You Hate Me,” a two-part docu-series about 1990s PBS phenomenon “Barney & Friends,” the kids’ show starring a loved ...

Barney the Dinosaur gets 1,500 fan letters a week, and he hasn’t even been on TV. Until now. The singing purple dinosaur, star of eight “Barney & the Backyard Gang” videotape… ...