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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 various segments in front of a white background. Besides Barney, this season now displays BJ and Baby Bop "breaking the fourth wall" by talking directly to the audience in some episodes. This was 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.

Production[]

Despite the second half of the season airing in 2005, all twenty episodes were filmed and produced throughout 2003 and the first weeks of 2004. This was the last season of Barney & Friends to have a season air in the course of two years.

Cast[]

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The Cast of Season 9

Dinosaurs[]

Children[]

Guest Appearances[]

Episodes[]

# Episode Written By Directed By New Barney Songs Original Airdate
1
"Everybody's Got Feelings"
Everybodysgotfeelings
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
"Caring Hearts"
Caringhearts
Stephen White Fred Holmes September 7, 2004
A special school project helps Barney and his friends learn all about love and relationships.
3
"Let's Make Music!"
Letsmakemusicepisode
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
"Movin' Along"
Movin' along
Michael Anthony Steele Jim Rowley September 9, 2004
Barney and the kids learn how they can move their bodies in different activities.
5
"Let Your Creativity Fly!"
Letyourcreativityfly
Cheryl Ammeter Fred Holmes September 10, 2004
The kids use their imagination to create their own airplane.
6
"Imagine That!"
Imaginethat
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
"All About Me"
Allaboutme
Cheryl Ammeter Jim Rowley September 14, 2004
Barney teaches the kids that they are all special through different activities.
8
"My Baby Brother"
Mybabybrother
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
"Keep On Truckin'"
Keepontruckin
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
"I'm A Builder"
Imabuilderepisode
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
"Coming On Strong"
Comingonstrong
Stephen White Fred Holmes May 2, 2005
Barney and the kids learn how to grow big and strong through various activities.
12
"Let's Play Games!"
Letsplaygames
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
"You Can Count on Me!"
Youcancountonmeepisode
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
"A Wonderful World of Colors and Shapes"
Awonderfulworldofcolorsandshapes
Michael Anthony Steele Jim Rowley May 5, 2005
By using their favorite colors and shapes, the kids make pictures for an art festival.
15
"Easy as ABC"
Easyasabc
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
"Look What I Can Do!"
Lookwhaticando
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
"Making a Move!"
Makingamove
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
"Home, Safe Home"
Homesafehome
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
"On the Road Again"
Ontheroadagain
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
"My Friends, The Doctor and the Dentist"
Myfriendsthedoctorandthedentist
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.

Trivia[]

  • This season marked:
    • The only season where Barney 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.
  • In this season, Alyssa Franks (Stacy) did the funding of the show.

Cast/Characters[]

References[]

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