Barney & Friends

By EW Staff
Published on July 21, 2012 04:00AM EDT
The friendly purple dinosaur is going strong nearly twenty years after his creation — but he's got some new friends. Kindergarten values are shown via…
Photo: Dennis Full

(PBS) The live-action series Barney & Friends offers young viewers a unique blending of education and entertainment for preschool children. Each Barney episode emphasizes language and cognitive development, physical activity and social interaction.

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