Television broadcast timeline for Barney & Friends

Shown below is a timeline for broadcasts of Barney & the Backyard Gang, the first three seasons of Barney & Friends, Barney's Imagination Island, and Barney Live! in New York City on various television networks.

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## Timelines

### Barney & the Backyard Gang

On the Disney Channel, the Backyard Gang videos aired within the Lunch Box block.

### Weekends

This timeline only contains data from 1997 to 2000.

### Specials

On April 24, 1994, Bedtime with Barney: Imagination Island premiered on NBC. It was only known to air once.

The other 1994 special, Barney Live! in New York City, was known to have aired on PBS on the following dates:

* March 12, 1995 (premiere)
* June 4, 1995
* August 13, 1995
* March 3, 1996
* March 9, 1997
* September 7 and 14, 1997
* March 15, 1998
* December 6, 1998

### PBS Kids Sprout era

Four months after all of the pre-2002 seasons permanently stopped airing on PBS in May 2005, the network announced PBS Kids Sprout, a cable and satellite channel devoted to preschool programming owned by PBS, Sesame Workshop, and HIT Entertainment (the current rights holder at the time), including Barney & Friends.

The following Season 1-3 episodes aired on PBS Kids Sprout starting on September 27, 2007:

* The Treasure of Rainbow Beard
* Caring Means Sharing
* Down on Barney's Farm
* Happy Birthday, Barney
* Our Earth, Our Home
* Let's Help Mother Goose
* I Just Love Bugs!
* Practice Makes Music
* A-Camping We Will Go!
* A Splash Party Please
* Home Sweet Homes
* Hola, Mexico!
* Everyone is Special
* Falling for Autumn
* Grandparents Are Grand!
* May I Help You?
* Red, Blue and Circles Too!
* Hoo's in the Forest?
* Grown-Ups for A Day
* Picture This!
* The Exercise Circus!
* My Favorite Things
* An Adventure in Make Believe
* The Alphabet Zoo
* Having Tens of Fun
* A Very Special Delivery
* Shawn and the Beanstalk
* I Can Be a Firefighter!
* On the Move
* Classical Cleanup
* Our Furry Feathered Fishy Friends
* At Home with Animals
* Who's Who on the Choo-Choo?
* Are We There Yet?

When "Home Sweet Homes" and "Hola, Mexico!" aired on this network, they got brand-new closed captions in addition to retaining their original end credits. All other Season 1 episodes had the short end credits from 1996. Season 3 also used the short end credits as well.

Sprout's license with HIT Entertainment's shows expired in 2015, while PBS Kids' broadcasting rights for the show expired two months later, when the show was replaced with Nature Cat; however, the older seasons' removal from Sprout occurred in August 2011. The reason was unknown, but either way, this was the very last time these seasons were ever available anywhere on television and On Demand, as Universal Kids or streaming services has never picked up the rights for them ever since.

This could all change in Barney's next upcoming anniversary, after Peacock released a new documentary series revolving around the title character's history in 2022. Other than that, nearly all episodes from the first generation were uploaded to YouTube from 2010 to 2014 by several Barney fans, where they still remain to this day.

If the first generation episodes from 1992–1995 ever get released on streaming, expect all 50 episodes from Seasons 1 and 3 to have the short end credits from 1996.