1998

Major Events

1998 Ad touting the ratings of Barney & Friends

January 13: It's Time For Counting is released to stores.
February 10: Lyons Partnership filed a lawsuit on New Jersey Costume shops for selling imitation Barney costumes.
February 12: Down on Barney's Farm is released to stores, after being only available through Time Life, possibly to promote Barney's Great Adventure: The Movie.
February: Barney's Halloween Party is filmed.
March: Production for Season 5 begins.
March 17: Barney In Outer Space is released to stores.
March 27: Barney's Great Adventure: The Movie is released to Radio City Music Hall theatre in New York.
March 28: Barney's First Adventures airs on Fox Kids.
April 3: Barney's Great Adventure: The Movie is released in theatres worldwide. This was also the final project in which Sheryl Stamps Leach served as executive producer.
March 31: Barney's Great Adventure: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is released.
Late March: My Party with Barney is available to purchase through Kideo.
April 8: Barney appears at La Brea Tar Pits to put his footprints in cement in to promote the release of the movie.
April 26: Barney's Big Surprise ends a North American tour at the PNE Coliseum, Vancouver BC.
May 19: The home video, Barney's Big Surprise is released to stores. The soundtrack, Barney's Big Surprise! Live on Stage is re-released with the front cover matching the home video front cover.
July: Production for Season 5 ends. Also, Sing And Dance With Barney is filmed.
Barney's Exercise Circus and Barney's Parade of Numbers are re-released separately. Also, Barney Rhymes with Mother Goose is re-released.
August 18: Barney's Halloween Party and Barney's Sing Along: Halloween Party are both released to stores.
September 1: Barney's Great Adventure: The Movie is released on video to stores. It is the first video that was released on DVD. Barney's First Adventures is available to receive through the mail.
September 15: Barney's Great Adventure Sing Along is released to stores.
September 29: Waiting for Santa is re-released one more time and has new previews.
November 1: Lyrick Studios announces an animated spin-off of Barney & Friends: BJ & The Radical Rumblebutts. The series does not come to fruition.
November 2: Season 5 premieres on PBS. Seasons 1-3 are removed from the PBS rotation.
November 3: Good, Clean Fun! / Oh, Brother...She's My Sister Video 2-Pack is released to stores. Songs in the Key of Purple is packaged with selected Barney home videos.
Early November: Barney's Big Surprise begins an eight city tour of the UK at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre.
November 19: Barney appears on The Oprah Winfrey Show to wish the McCaughey septuplets a happy first birthday.^[1]
November 26: Barney and the kids performed If All the Raindrops at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
November 27: Season 5 finale on PBS.
November: Let's Play School is filmed.
December: Barney is named #1 Kids Artist on Billboard's "Year in Music" for the third time.
December 13: Barney appears on ITV's This Morning program in the UK, performing "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" and played by Roger Bunnage, the performer of Arbie the Robot.
December 21: The UK tour of Barney's Big Surprise wraps up at the Sheffield Arena.
December 26: Barney appears again on GMTV with Dave Benson Phillips, with BJ and Baby Bop appearing shortly after.