Dennis DeShazer
Dennis Lloyd DeShazer is an American producer best known as being one of the co-creators of the Barney franchise, having involvement and producing the video series Barney & the Backyard Gang and its successor Barney & Friends, alongside creator Sheryl Leach and co-creator Kathy Parker.DeShazer was a graduate of Southern Methodist University. He became a video writer and producer at DLM, Inc., an educational publishing company owned by Richard C. Leach. DeShazer was producing videotapes about how to buy and sell real estate at the time.DeShazer was later recruited by Richard's daughter Sheryl Leach to help her and Kathy Parker develop the video series Barney & the Backyard Gang where he was a producer, where he came up with the name Barney for the dinosaur. He served as an executive producer for The Lyons Group. 1992 saw the launch of the worldwide popular show Barney & Friends where Dennis was the executive producer alongside Kathy and Sheryl. Dennis helped oversee the production of 128 episodes of the series and numerous other Barney productions such as home videos, stage shows and a feature film. Dennis' final year with the franchise was 2000 when he left and was succeeded by Randy Dalton in 2001 during the production of season seven.Boz the Bear
In 2003, DeShazer, alongside Jon Green who worked at Lyrick Studios, co-founded founded Exclaim Entertainment, LLC to produce family entertainment with a Christian perspective. The project they worked on through the company was Boz the Green Bear.