The Treasure Of Rainbow Beard

Barney & Friends Episode
"The Treasure Of Rainbow Beard"
Air date	April 14, 1992
Written by	Stephen White
Directed by	Jim Rowley
About
Theme	Colors and shapes
Characters	Barney Michael Derek Kathy Min Rainbow Beard the Pirate
Episode Guide
Previous	"Four Seasons Day"
Next	"Going Places!"

"The Treasure Of Rainbow Beard" is the seventh episode from the first season of Barney & Friends.

Plot

Imagine the surprise when "Rainbow Beard," the wondrous but not-that-scary pirate comes whooshing out of a magic bottle! He promises a treasure chest full of fun if Barney & Friends follow the clues on a mysterious map. And the clues couldn't be more fun! They're a half-dozen games that involve shapes and colors and music and rhymes. Matching and mixing those shapes and colors is the adventure that unlocks the treasure. And unlocks a load of delight!

Songs

1. "Barney Theme Song"
2. "A Hunting We Will Go"
3. "And the Green Grass Grows All Around"
4. "Frere Jacques"
5. "Painting the Shapes"
6. "Old Brass Wagon"
7. "The Barney Bag"
8. "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star"
9. "The Rainbow Song"
10. "I Love You"

Release

International edits

In dubbed versions, "And the Green Grass Grows All Around" was cut. "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" was sung, but shortened.

Adaptations

Hachaverim Shel Barney

• In this version, Barney wasn't seen or heard coming to life.
• All of the songs were a semitone lower except for the "Barney Theme Song". In addition, "And the Green Grass Grows All Around" wasn't sung as well as for "Old Brass Wagon" but it can be heard as an underscore. "Frere Jacques" was sung in the classroom instead of in the playground in this version.
• When Nir and Miki lift up the treasure chest onto the tree stump, the tree stump moves.
• When the treasure chest opens by itself with the treasure map on top of it, if you look closely at the treasure map, there is a string attached to it.

Home media

This episode was released on VHS by Time Life Video. It was also released later in Barney's Colors & Shapes.

US VHS release by Time Life Video

Gallery

Sets

The classroom set from this episode "The Treasure Of Rainbow Beard".

The art center set from this episode "The Treasure Of Rainbow".

Original Concept

Original storyboard design of Rainbow Beard the Pirate by Jess Nelson. (Date: 11/6/91)

Behind the Scenes

The cast and crew of Barney & Friends Season 1.

Title Cards

Title card used on the UK release of Barney's Colors and Shapes

Trivia

• The episode marked:
  • The first episode in which anyone other than Kathy touches her teddy bear, this being Michael.
  • The only episode to feature Barney on the tire swing with a rainbow appearing above him on it, (like in the ending of the theme song).
• Stephen White portrays Rainbow Beard the Pirate in this episode.
• The bottom of the magic bottle can be seen before Barney pulls it out of the book.
• When Barney pulls the magic bottle out of the book, it is quite apparent that the book is filled with blank pages.
• The bottle containing the map was actually a leather-wrapped chianti bottle that Stephen White purchased from a garage sale.
• The UK release of Barney's Colors & Shapes retitled the episode to "Colours".
  • Uniquely, the UK title card of this episode is in all capital, and the ITC Avant Garde font is used. In addition, it adorns a gradient.
    • When the UK title card appears before the episode starts, a page-turn transition effect is used instead of the fade-in effect used in the regular series.
• After I Love You is sung, Barney goes over to the rainbow and says "Oh, look! There's my favorite shade of purple! Oh, I'll bet everyone can see this!", despite the fact that the rainbow, as a matter of fact, does not have the color purple for an unknown reason. The kids (Michael in particular) even point out the color purple's absence from the rainbow when they struggle to look for it.