Barney. 1993

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Season 2Season 2, episodes 31-48Executive ProducersSheryl Leach
Dennis DeShazer
Kathy ParkerWritersStephen White
Mark S. BernthalDirectorsJim Rowley
Bruce DeckMusical DirectorsBob SingletonProduction LocationColorDynamics at Greenville Avenue & Bethany Drive in Allen, Texas, U.S.Production CompanyThe Lyons Group
Connecticut Public TelevisionReleaseOriginal NetworkPBSSeason PremiereSeptember 27, 1993Season FinaleOctober 20, 1993Season GuidePreviousNextSeason 1Season 3The second season of Barney & Friends premiered on PBS from September 27 to October 20, 1993 and consisted of eighteen episodes. This season continues to display Barney coming to life through a child's imagination, whenever he is needed for something, helping his friends, through educational themes tailored for toddlers, which is the viewing audience.

This season brings back all of the main characters from the previous season and adds three new children by the name of Julie, David, and Jason, while also adding in a new dinosaur named BJ, who's the brother of Baby Bop.[1]

During this season, Tosha mentions that her parents are expecting a baby in various episodes and that she will now become a big sister. This news leads up the season's finale, "A Very Special Delivery!", where Tosha's parents bring her new siblings to meet Barney and the others.

This is the final season in which Kathy Parker, co-creator of the series, served as an executive producer. This is also the final season in which Kathy's husband, Philip Parker, served as a songwriter, and also the final season to be filmed at the ColorDynamics Studio in Allen, Texas; production would move to Las Colinas in Irving, Texas the next season.

Prior to this season's debut, Barney & Friends was initially cancelled. After PBS decided to cancel the show, members of local PBS stations across the US and Canada, and parents called to object, with PBS reversing their decision.

After the decision was made to keep Barney on the air and renew it for a second season, the program became a phenomenon and became a huge source of revenue during pledge drives; based on the success of earlier pledge drives in 1992, Connecticut Public Television decided to produce a pledge drive event at their studio featuring Barney and others and even hinted about the upcoming second season.

For this season, The Lyons Group supplied $1.9 million. Due to supplying more than half the production costs of Barney & Friends, it led to money being drained from the company. Kimberly-Clark Corporation became Barney's first underwriter, contributing $795,000 to the production.[2] Production for this season began on March 29, 1993[3] and ended in August 1993.

The following is an overview of Barney-related news and events that occurred in the year 1993. This year was internally referred to as the "Elvis Year" by The Lyons Group[1] due to the overwhelming success in sales of the Barney property.[2][3]

It was a battle for the ages. Barney the Friendly Dinosaur -- yes, that Barney -- was at the height of his powers, a towering mass of purple fuzziness and the most famous Tyrannosaurus Rex on Earth, pitted against Slash, the top-hatted rock god and guitarist of Guns N' Roses, desperately hanging on to title of the biggest and baddest hard rock band on the planet. There they loomed, stage center, under bright lights and staring each other down.

Only Barney wasn't Barney -- he was Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain in a oversized purple dinosaur suit, and Slash was Nirvana touring guitarist Pat Smear in a curly wig, a top hat and clutching Slash's trademark Les Paul guitar. The occasion? A Halloween night 1993 Nirvana concert at the James A. Rhodes arena in Akron, Ohio.

Nirvana were on a North American tour behind their third studio album, In Utero, when on they rolled into Akron, Ohio, on Oct. 31, 1993, with openers the Breeders and the Boredoms in two. Tensions were reportedly high in camp Nirvana at the time, so when Kurt donned the Barney outfit and Pat the Slash costume, that on-stage hijinx brought some much-needed comic relief to the tour (see a photo of the two musicians in costume here).

The Barney and Slash routine kicked off the set, with Cobain carrying a bottle of Jack Daniels whiskey onstage with him before putting it down and dueling Smear with an impromptu jam of guitar noise and squealing feedback. "They had a fight between Barney and Slash. It was a 'Guitar Battle to the Death!" recalled Meat Puppets drummer Derrick Bostrom in the book 'Nirvana: The Day to Day Illustrated Journals.' "Barney died, of course."

Bassist Krist Novoselic and drummer Dave Grohl got in on the Halloween fun -- Krist was dressed up as a white-faced Ted Danson (in response to the 'Cheers' actor's recent stunt with his then girlfriend Whoopie Goldberg), and Grohl was a mummy.

The Vanishing is a 1993 American psychological thriller film directed by George Sluizer and starring Jeff Bridges, Kiefer Sutherland, Nancy Travis, and Sandra Bullock. It is a remake of Sluizer's 1988 French-Dutch film of the same name.

The film begins with chemistry professor Barney Cousins at his cabin, seemingly perfecting methods in which to conduct a successful kidnapping. He is so dedicated to his work that his wife Helene and his daughter Denise suspect he is having an affair.

Jeff Harriman goes on vacation with his girlfriend Diane Shaver, who vanishes without a trace at a gas station. Three years later, Jeff has become obsessed with finding out what happened, posting fliers and following leads relentlessly. Exhausted, he stops at a diner and meets a waitress named Rita who sympathizes with his plight and looks after him. A year later, the two are a couple and have settled in an apartment in Seattle. Jeff, who is attempting to write a novel, meets with a publisher who suggest that he write a book about the disappearance. Knowing this will upset Rita, he hides his project, buys a used military uniform at a surplus store and uses army reserve drills as a cover to continue his search. One weekend, Rita accesses Jeff's computerized rough draft of a book. After reading it, she discovers it's actually about Diane's disappearance. Rita tracks Jeff to his motel room and angrily confronts him. Jeff finally tells the truth about how Diane disappeared. Following Rita's ultimatum, Jeff abandons his search for Diane.

Some months later, Barney is on campus and discovers Diane's missing posters covered with other fliers. He surmises that Jeff has given up his quest for the truth. He decides to bait Jeff by sending him a letter to meet him at a country club to learn the truth about Diane, which Jeff does. While Barney secretly watches, Rita confronts Jeff again and tells him they are done. Rita records an outgoing answering machine message at their home, indicating that she has broken up with Jeff. When Jeff returns, he changes the message without Rita knowing. Barney arrives at Jeff's door and admits that he was responsible for Diane's disappearance. Jeff attacks him and demands answers. Barney promises to show Jeff what happened to Diane, but only if he agrees to go through exactly the same thing she did. Barney explains about his past: he broke his arm after jumping off a roof when he was little, and when he became a husband and father years later, he saved a girl from drowning. He states that this experience led him to an epiphany: With capability of great good also, could there come capability of great evil? The kidnapping of Diane was an attempt to answer that hypothesis.