Some also suspected that David Joyner, who played Barney, struggled with substance abuse on set. "My favorite [was] asking… ‘There’s an urban legend that you hid so much cocaine in your tail ...

David Joyner looked back on some of the hate he received as the benevolent Barney, recalling the time he learned that the Ku Klux Klan had banned their children from watching the program after ...

While Joyner was the actor who was physically in the Barney suit for a decade, the dinosaur was voiced by Bob West for the majority of Joyner’s tenure. Joyner also played the dinosaur in other ...

Barney’s World is set on a playground, where the purple guy, his dinosaur friends Baby Bop and Billy, and human kids David, Mel and Vivie will go on adventures designed to help kids explore ...