The best thing about children’s TV is shows like Barney and Friends Season 10, which are not just entertaining and interactive but also educational. Barney is a tyrannosaurus who sings songs, prowls, and dances around with all the optimism in the world.

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 struggling mom at home with a very active two year old ...

Here’s your “do you feel old yet?” moment for today: It was a half-century ago today that ABC-TV debuted “Barney Miller,” about an eclectic squad of police detectives working out of a run-down precinct house in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village.