Sheryl Leach, a former teacher from Dallas, created Barney, star of the long-running show "Barney & Friends" on PBS Kids. She decided he should be a T-rex because her son liked dinosaurs. His ...

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.

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 ...