For the life of me, I can never figure out why a woman named Sheryl Leach, a former teacher; would want to create a dinosaur character by the way of a man acting in a costume and speaking with a certain voice named Barney.

Why would Sheryl Leach want to name the character Barney? All I can think of is some random male figure in real life being named Barney.

Sheryl Leach created the program in 1986 as a television program that would appeal to her young son, the character Barney was originally intended to be a teddy bear, but had ultimately wound up being a Dinosaur at the end of the day. Throughout the remainder of the 1980’s and the very early 1990’s, the series was only available on VHS tape and was not yet a regular series on television.

Sheryl Leach is exactly the same age as my father is, and she deserves to live a comfortable life off of the money made by royalties and such that she earns from ‘Barney’.

What’s more important is that Shari’s newest show, Lamb Chop’s Play Along; had also debuted on PBS in 1992. Although professionally speaking, Shari’s newest show was never as successful on PBS as Barney had been.