Barney’s story starts in late 1987 in Allen, Texas. At the time, a former teacher named Sheryl Leach had a two-year old son, Patrick. She struggled to find videos that held his attention. “I was a ...

You know Larry Rifkin’s face from old CPTV pledge drives or from his appearances on the televised UConn women’s basketball games for years after they first began being broadcast in the mid-1990s.

Why do we revisit things we loved as kids, and what is the lasting power of this media? A new seven-part podcast looks for answers in a great big, purple dinosaur. And if you are of a certain age, you ...