Barney’s Army
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What is Barney’s Army?
Once, long ago in the far off late 70s and early 80s, in the Triangle area of North Carolina, there was a show. A show for kids that was hosted by a strangely animated puppet. A show that had a live video game and cartoons. A show that was nearly lost to the sands of time, and vague recollections of aging Gen Xers.
I was forwarded this link yesterday, and not having grown up here I don’t know much about it. But from the video I guess that in the Carter/Reagan era college kids and cops both watched Hana Barbera because they are running to catch them in the Barney intro. Barney’s Army seems to be such quintessential TV from the era that we had to share it here. I suppose that Barney’s was a way of branding Saturday Morning(Weekday Afternoon?) cartoons as part of Barney’s collection.
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Rob Jordan
09/30 07:21 PM
Wow! This just completely blew me back in time. I loved Barney’s Army. I don’t know whose idea it was to have a phone-based video game where you said POW! and someone on the other end of the line was supposed to hit the fire button on a joystick and shoot a missile at just the correct time, but he was brilliant. Clearly, it didn’t work correctly, but every kid in Raleigh watched it and loved and wanted to play. POWPOWPOWPOWPOWPOWPOW!
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GWoodard
09/30 10:22 PM
Definitely a blast from the past! This show was always on my daily tv viewing menu as a kid. POW! was awesome and sporting a Barney’s Army tee was instant cool status in my elementary school classroom.
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Dana
10/10 10:06 PM
POW!
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