Barney and the Backyard Gang

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Barney and the Backyard Gang is a home video series created from 1988 to 1991 that launched the stardom of the worldwide popular television show Barney & Friends. The first three videos of the series featured Barney with a slightly deeper voice, larger eyes, a visible tongue, and a darker color. Some of the earlier videos from 1988 and 1989 also include American actress Sandy Duncan as Michael and Amy's Mom.

In the first video, entitled "The Backyard Show", Michael and Amy want to make a surprise birthday party for their dad. Amy finds the Barney doll in a box in the garage and they use their imaginations to make him come to life. Because the majority of the gang (except for Michael and Amy) meet Barney for the first time in "A Day at the Beach", it takes place before "The Backyard Show". The videos are no longer in print. Two of the videos have the patriotic songs You're a Grand Old Flag, and The Yankee Doodle Boy, which are featured on Barney in Concert and Rock with Barney respectively.