It's Time For Counting

It's Time For Counting is a Barney Home Video that was released on January 13, 1998.

Plot[]

When the numbers from Stella's alarm clock get missing, Barney and the kids help search for the rest of the numbers. They head to the school library, where they read some classic children's stories. When all the numbers are returned to the alarm clock, Stella has a very special surprise for Barney and his friends!

Cast[]

• Barney (Voice: Duncan Brannan/Bob West, Costume: Josh Martin)
• Baby Bop (Voice: Julie Johnson/Carol Farabee, Costume: Lee Clark)
• Kristen (Sara Hickman)
• Kim (Erica Rhodes)
• Curtis (Monté Black)
• Ashley (Monét Chandler)
• Robert (Angel Velasco)
• Stella the Storyteller (Phyllis Cicero)
• Booker T. Bookworm (Earl Fisher) (debut)

Songs[]

1. "Barney Theme Song"
2. "A Hunting We Will Go" (also plays instrumentally during the end credits)
3. "A Great Day for Counting!"
4. "The Library" (also plays instrumentally during the end credits)
5. "The Gaggle, Giggle, Wiggle Dance"
6. "My Yellow Blankey"
7. "Here, Kitty Kitty"
8. "Books Are Fun!"
9. "You Can Count on Me" (also plays instrumentally during the end credits)
10. "Look at Me, I'm Three" (also plays instrumentally during the end credits)
11. "Farm Nursery Rhyme Medley:
    1. "Little Bo Peep"
    2. "Little Boy Blue"
    3. "I Had a Little Hen"
    4. "Hickety Pickety"
12. "In Our Family"
13. "I Love You"

Stories[]

1. The Goose Who Laid the Golden Eggs
2. Belling the Cat
3. The Turnip

Hit Extras[]

• Fraggle Rock: Catch A Tail By the Tiger Sing-Along
• ToddWorld: Shall We Dance?

Gallery[]

Releases[]

Production[]

Production for this video took place in September 1997.^{[citation needed]}

Casting[]

• Josh Martin and Lee Clark performed Barney and Baby Bop in this video, as David Joyner and Jeff Ayers were in Montreal, Canada filming Barney's Great Adventure at that time. The voices were originally done by Duncan Brannan and Carol Farabee, who voiced Baby Bop in Imagination Island. But Bob West and Julie Johnson dubbed over their lines in the final cut.
• Brice Armstrong, the actor that portrays Miss Etta Kette on the television series, provides the voice for Beauregard the Cat. 
• Although David Bernard Wolf composed the music for this video, he was uncredited.

Trivia[]

• This video marked:
  • The first home video to use the season four version of the "Barney Theme Song".
  • The first home video to feature the "Learn About" label on the back of a Barney Home Video cover.
  • The first time that Stella the Storyteller says "Toodles!" more than once.
  • The first home video release to feature the Barney's Great Adventure theatrical trailer as a sneak preview before the "Please Stay Tuned" bumper.
  • The first Barney video to feature a preview of "Groundling Marsh".
  • The final Barney video to feature a preview of "Kids for Character".
  • The first home video that Josh Martin and Lee Clark performed Barney and Baby Bop.
  • The third time Stella lasts through the whole episode.
  • The only time "The Gaggle, Giggle, Wiggle Dance" was sung in D major.
  • The only time "Look at Me, I'm Three" was sung in F major.
• When Barney is taking a picture of Stella and her cousins, you can hear one of them say "sneeze".
• Although this video was released in 1998, the end credits actually say "Copyright 1997 Lyons Partnership, L.P.", which could mean that this video was produced in 1997.
• The preview for this video appeared on two VHS tapes from The Busy World of Richard Scarry video series by Polygram (Practice Makes Perfect and Making Progress). This is one of the few instances of a Barney trailer appearing on a non-Lyrick Studios or HIT Entertainment video.
• If you translate the title of the Spanish release (on the cover), it's called "It's Time for Counting with Barney".
• The farm set where 2 stories are acted in this video was previously used in "E-I-E-I-O".
• The 2006 DVD release of this video includes "Squares, Squares Everywhere" as a bonus episode.
• The classic children's stories that Barney and the kids have been reading all have anything to do with the farm.
• This video was re-released by HIT Entertainment and 20th Century Fox in 2006 despite still using the original cover from the 1998 VHS; however, that one is impossibly rare and nearly super impossible to find on some online auction sites, including eBay.

Characters[]

• This video marked:
  • The first time Kim and Ashley appeared together.
  • The first time Curtis and Baby Bop appeared together.
  • The first appearance of Booker T. Bookworm, and the only time he appeared with Kim and Stella the Storyteller.
  • The first time that Kim appeared with Stella the Storyteller.
  • The final time that Ashley appeared with Stella the Storyteller.
  • The second time when Ashley is portrayed by Monét Chandler (the actress who portrayed Alissa). The first time was in Barney's Good Day, Good Night.
• Despite BJ absent in this video, he was mentioned.