Burt Reynolds told Sandy Duncan he 'wanted to kill' her at height of “Barney” fame, she says

The actor and his wife Loni Anderson adopted a son, Quinton, in 1988.

Sandy Duncan Remembers Burt Reynolds Saying 'I Wanted to Kill You' During Height of “Barney and the Backyard Gang”

Duncan appeared in three 'Barney and the Backyard Gang' videos ...
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How ‘Barney & Friends’ grew from nothing and came to inspire hate from so many

Few children’s shows carry the baggage that Barney & Friends does, even now. Created as a series of videos by Dallas mom Sheryl Leach in 1988, the show was eventually discovered by Connecticut Public ...
Los Angeles Times

Barney, the big purple dinosaur, is back

Barney, the “dinosaur from our imagination,” is bouncing back from extinction. Mattel announced Monday its plans to relaunch Barney, the purple-and-green dinosaur that was a staple of millennial ...
Salon

Barney doc producer on America’s hatred of the purple dinosaur: “We can’t let something be pure”

In 1992 teacher Sheryl Leach created the gentle purple dinosaur character in order to entertain her toddler son Patrick. Thanks to her marketing creativity, going from video store to video store, ...