The ninth season of Barney & Friends premiered on the PBS children's block, PBS Kids from September 6, 2004 until May 13, 2005 and consisted of twenty episodes. Starting with this season, the series starts to breakaway from the typical Barney & Friends episode format. Unlike previous seasons where Barney comes to life through the children's imagination in the episodes, this season displays Barney coming to life (in front of a white background) before a group of children would appear. This season continues to use educational themes tailored for toddlers, which is the viewing audience.
Unlike previous (and future) seasons, no title cards are displayed for an episode's title after the "Barney Theme Song". Instead, the theme song ends with a girl placing the Barney doll on the brick edges as she goes to play in the park. After the girl leaves, Barney comes to life into the white background as kids from off-screen shout out his name. The format for episodes in this season include interruption by the dinosaurs doing different segments in front of a white background from a set apart. Besides Barney, this season now displays BJ and Baby Bop "breaking the fourth wall" by talking directly to the audience in some episodes. This is the first season where some episodes conclude with Barney singing "I Love You" by himself and in the second verse flashbacks are shown of kids hugging their friends and family before transitioning back to Barney as a stuffed doll.
This season also welcomes a new cast of kids, including Miguel, Rachel, David, Laura, and Stacy, who interact with three children from the previous two seasons, Nick, Jackson, Whitney and Kami.
This was the final season to not be executive produced by any of the creators of the show. Randy Dalton, who'd been involved with the series previously, now serves as executive producer.
Production[]
Despite the second half of the season airing in 2005 year, all twenty episodes were filmed and produced throughout 2003 and the first weeks of 2004. Was the last season of Barney & Friends to have a season air in the course of two years.
Cast[]
The Cast of Season 9
Dinosaurs[]
- Barney (Voice: Dean Wendt, Costume: Carey Stinson / Maurice Scott) [20/20]
- Baby Bop (Voice: Julie Johnson, Costume: Jeff Ayers) [20/20]
- BJ (Voice: Patty Wirtz, Costume: Kyle Nelson) [20/20]
Children[]
- David (Emilio Mazur) (debut) [11/20]
- Whitney (Kayla S. Levels) [11/20]
- Jackson (Daven Wilson) [8/20]
- Nick (Grayson Lee Vanover) [7/20]
- Laura (Julia Nicholson) (debut) [6/20]
- Rachel (Hunter Pecunia) (debut) [6/20]
- Stacy (Alyssa Franks) (debut) [6/20]
- Miguel (Riley Morrison) (debut) [5/20]
- Kami (Makayla Crawford) [4/20]
Guest Appearances[]
- Benjamin Staley (played Ben in "Keep On Truckin'")
- Carlyn Hinojosa (played Anna in "Making a Move!")
- Dari Hays (played Firefighter Bill in "Home, Safe Home")
Episodes[]
| # | Episode | Written By | Directed By | New Barney Songs | Original Airdate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  |
Stephen White | Jim Rowley | "Everybody's Got Feelings" | September 6, 2004 |
| With Barney's help, the children learn all about feelings, especially feeling happy, sad, and angry. | |||||
| 2 |  |
Stephen White | Fred Holmes | September 7, 2004 | |
| A special school project helps Barney and his friends learn all about love and relationships. | |||||
| 3 |  |
Michael Anthony Steele | Jim Rowley | September 8, 2004 | |
| Barney and the kids learn about music, so they decide to make their very own marching band. | |||||
| 4 |  |
Michael Anthony Steele | Jim Rowley | September 9, 2004 | |
| Barney and the kids learn how they can move their bodies in different activities. | |||||
| 5 |  |
Cheryl Ammeter | Fred Holmes | September 10, 2004 | |
| The kids use their imagination to create their own airplane. | |||||
| 6 |  |
Perri Verdino-Gates | Jim Rowley | "Captain Pickles" | September 13, 2004 |
| By using their imagination, the kids turn Laura's picture into an island adventure! | |||||
| 7 |  |
Cheryl Ammeter | Jim Rowley | September 14, 2004 | |
| Barney teaches the kids that they are all special through different activities. | |||||
| 8 |  |
Cheryl Ammeter | Jim Rowley | "Baby Bop's Blankey" | September 15, 2004 |
| After informing his friends that he has a new baby brother, David learns how to be a big brother. | |||||
| 9 |  |
Mark S. Bernthal & Edward L. Rose | Fred Holmes | "Make Way for the Truck" | September 16, 2004 |
| Barney and the kids have fun learning all about the different types of trucks! | |||||
| 10 |  |
Mark S. Bernthal & Edward L. Rose | Fred Holmes | "I'm a Builder" | September 17, 2004 |
| With a little imagination, the kids use boxes to build a castle for Princess Teddy! | |||||
| 11 |  |
Stephen White | Fred Holmes | May 2, 2005 | |
| Barney and the kids learn how to grow big and strong through various activities. | |||||
| 12 |  |
Stephen White | Fred Holmes | "When I'm Old Enough to Join the Team" | May 3, 2005 |
| Barney, Baby Bop, BJ, and the kids spend a whole day playing sports and games. | |||||
| 13 |  |
Jeanne Simpson | Fred Holmes | May 4, 2005 | |
| Nick shows Barney and the kids his number cards that he and his mom had put together. He doesn't really think they're fun at first, but Barney shows him how numbers and counting can be lots of fun! | |||||
| 14 |  |
Michael Anthony Steele | Jim Rowley | May 5, 2005 | |
| By using their favorite colors and shapes, the kids make pictures for an art festival. | |||||
| 15 |  |
Cheryl Ammeter | Jim Rowley | May 6, 2005 | |
| Baby Bop invites her friends to a tea party. But when she doesn't know how to sign her name on the invitation, Barney and his friends help her spell her name. | |||||
| 16 |  |
Edward L. Rose | Fred Holmes | May 9, 2005 | |
| Barney and the kids are showing off the special things they can do in an "I Can Do Show". | |||||
| 17 |  |
Perri Verdino-Gates | Fred Holmes | May 10, 2005 | |
| After Anna moves into the neighborhood, Barney and Whitney shows her around the park, meet some of their friends, and play some games! | |||||
| 18 |  |
Cheryl Ammeter | Fred Holmes | May 11, 2005 | |
| After Firefighter Bill comes to the park for a safety inspection, the kids decide they want to do a safety inspection too. So, Barney and the kids come up with different safety regulations for each room of a house. | |||||
| 19 |  |
Stephen White | Fred Holmes | "Riding in a Race Car" | May 12, 2005 |
| To help teach the kids about car safety, Barney allows his friends to play in his make-believe car. Meanwhile, BJ enters a go-kart race! | |||||
| 20 |  |
Stephanie Simpson | Jim Rowley | May 13, 2005 | |
| Barney informs the kids the importance of regularly visiting the doctor and the dentist. | |||||
Release[]
Broadcast[]
All the episodes of this season were remade and cut short to fifteen minutes in the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom versions of these episodes centered more around the dinosaurs. This was due to accommodate Channel 5, the UK broadcaster of Barney & Friends. In the United States, when rerun on PBS Kids Sprout, this season would always be closed-captioned by Caption Technologies, Inc. It was formerly captioned by the Media Access Group at WGBH (a.k.a. the Caption Center WGBH Educational Foundation).
Home media[]
With the exception of "Making a Move!", all episodes in this season have been released on home media. During the time that this season was being released, two episodes would be combined at one time to make a home video. Notable home videos with episodes from this season include Happy Mad Silly Sad, Movin' and Groovin', Let's Pretend with Barney, Now I Know My ABCs, Ready, Set, Play!, Just Imagine and Everyone Is Special.
Streaming[]
The entirety of this season became available to stream on Amazon Prime Video on July 29, 2016. Due to a content deal between streaming service Tubi and 9 Story Media Group, the entirety of this season also became available to stream on Tubi on April 9, 2021,[1][2][3] and on The Roku Channel in March 2022. Starting in February 2024, this season would start airing on the 24/7 live streaming channel dedicated to Barney & Friends on the Roku Channel.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- This season marked:
- The only season where Barney, BJ and Baby Bop introduces viewers in a white background.
- The first and only season in which Baby Bop and BJ, who were originally recurring characters for the first eight seasons, appeared in every episode becoming two of this season's main characters (along with Barney and the kids). For the rest of the seasons, they come back to being recurring characters.
- The first season in which only the dinosaurs sing "I Love You" without any of the kids cast. This goes for the UK broadcast of this season as well, which only centered around the dinosaurs.
- The first season not to include the Barney Says segment.
- The only season where the kids wear the same clothes in all twenty episodes.
- The final season to have episodes written by Mark S. Bernthal.
- The final season to have Randy Dalton serve as executive producer.
- The final season that was released on VHS.
- In this season, Alyssa Franks (Stacy) did the funding of the show.
Cast/Characters[]
- This season marked:
- The first appearances of David, Rachel and Laura.
- The only appearances of Stacy and Miguel.
- The final appearances of Whitney, Nick and Kami. However, these last two, Makayla Crawford (Kami) and Grayson Lee Vanover (Nick) would later make guest appearances in the episode "Mother Goose" from season ten, as Little Miss Muffet and Little Boy Blue.
- The final season to feature Maurice Scott as Barney's costume performer.
- Another season to have three Barney costumes.