This video was featured in the video Children's Favorites: A Christmas Treasure, a compilation featuring various content from HIT Entertainment shows. While the 2002 US DVD has no menu, the US re-releases following afterwards did. It peaked at #7 on January 18, 2003, spending ten weeks on the chart. The video debuted on Billboard Top Kid Video charts on Novemat #16. It marks the final Christmas video be released on VHS. This video also aired on Sprout from 2010 until 2013.īarney's Christmas Star was released on VHS and DVD on October 22, 2002. Also, the credit sequence is slightly shorter and features an instrumental arrangement of 'Oh, Christmas Tree' instead of 'I Love the Holidays'. For the 2002 PBS broadcast, 'Just Imagine' is cut. This video was adapted into a story that was featured in Barney Annual 2004.īarney's Christmas Star aired on PBS in 2002. Bernthal who retooled it as a Christmas video due to it being requested. For unknown reasons, the script was given to Mark S. Stephen White, who co-wrote Barney's Christmas Star, had already written a Barney script about Barney and the children cleaning out the attic of Stephen's grandfather. Half of this video was filmed in the Studios at Las Colinas while the other half was filmed at the new Marsh RD Studio in Carrollton, TX. Production for this video took place from August to September 2001 during the 9/11 attacks and before season seven of Barney & Friends began production. ' Over the River and Through the Woods'īarney and his friends arrive to the park for the Christmas tree lighting.Holidays Medley: ' I Love the Holidays' / ' O Little Town of Bethlehem' / ' My Dreidel' / ' Habari Gani' / 'I Love the Holidays (Reprise)'.BJ (Voice: Patty Wirtz, Costume: Kyle Nelson).Baby Bop (Voice: Julie Johnson, Costume: Jeff Ayers).Barney (Voice: Tim Dever, Costume: Carey Stinson).But the king conifer's grown too tall for its peak to be reached from a ladder! Barney magic ensures the proper placement of the star, and everyone is soon well on their way to a very Merry Christmas season! Barney and the children arrive back at the tree in time for the lighting ceremony. The elusive star finally reveals itself, with some urging from the group. When an ancient library is discovered, Barney reads 'Twas the Night Before Christmas to the group. All dictate a musical letter to Santa, typed on an old fashioned typewriter. The kids, Baby Bop, and BJ discover- and they become- old-fashioned toys. Fun and playful mayhem ensue, with constant distractions from the search by various and sundry dusty 'treasures' encountered. Beth's grandmother is in charge of decorating the tree for Christmas this year, and everyone is shocked to find that the large star to adorn the tree's top is missing! Grammy suggests it's up in her attic and dispatches Barney and the children there to find it. Then, they visit a tree planted by Beth's great-great-grandfather that's now the prettiest, oldest tree in the park. They help decorate the caboose for the Christmas holidays and build a 'thinking' snowman in the park.

Christmas is fast approaching, so Barney and the children are quite excited.

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