The Best Episodes of Wishbone
Every episode of Wishbone ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Wishbone!
Wishbone is a children's television show. The show's title character is a Jack Russell Terrier of the same name. Wishbone lives with his owner Joe Talbot in the fictional modern town of Oakdale, Texas. He daydreams about being the lead character of stories from classic literature He was known as "the little dog with a big imagination". Only the viewers and the characters in his daydreams can hear Wishbone speak. The characters from his daydreams see Wishbone as whatever famous character he is currently portraying and not as a dog.
Top Episode Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Wishbone" is "Terrified Terrier", rated 9.5/10 from 12 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "Terrified Terrier" aired on 3/9/1996 and is rated 0.0 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Hercules Unleashed".
9.5/10 12 votes#1 - Terrified Terrier
Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 3/9/1996
Now Wishbone feels wounded as he dreams of Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 9.5/10 18 votes
#2 - Hercules Unleashed
Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 11/3/1996
While Samantha seeks the perfect gift for her father's birthday, Wishbone plays up Hercules, seeking the Golden Apples of the Hesperides.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 9.5/10 13 votes
#3 - Moonbone
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 3/9/1997
Would you believe a missing Super Bowl ring could be traced to Wishbone? Hard for him to notice, as he imagines himself as Franklin Blake in Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone.
Director: N/A
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- 9.3/10 15 votes
#4 - The Count's Account
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 3/5/1996
Damont gets David into trouble after he uses one of David's inventions. Meanwhile, Wishbone as Edmond Dantes seeks revenge against his enemies in Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 9.3/10 16 votes
#5 - Bone of Contention
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 3/7/1997
Joe and David's friendship is tested when they both are interested in the same girl. Wishbone, as John Alden, and his best friend have to decide how valuable their friendship really is in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, ""The Courtship of Miles Standish.""
Director: N/A
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- 9.2/10 22 votes
#6 - A Tail in Twain (2)
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 3/24/1995
Part One continued.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 9.2/10 28 votes
#7 - Homer Sweet Homer
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 3/26/1995
Wishbone tells the story of Homer's ""The Odyssey.""
Director: N/A
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- 9.2/10 16 votes
#8 - The Canine Cure
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 11/4/1995
This time, Wishbone imagines The Imaginary Invalid by Molière.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 9.2/10 15 votes
#9 - The Pawloined Paper
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 11/5/1995
Joe has a substitute teacher for his class, who he likes a lot. After a word puzzle he makes up about her gets snatched, courtesy of Curtis, Joe must get it back before anyone sees it. Meanwhile, Wishbone tears the living room upside down looking for his toy newspaper, which is right under his nose the whole time, just like where the stolen letter is hidden in today's story ""The Purloined Letter"" by Edgar Allen Poe
Director: N/A
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- 9.2/10 16 votes
#10 - Salty Dog
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 3/6/1996
Samantha convinces Joe and David to help her look for a ""magic"" horseshoe that is rumored to be nailed somewhere inside an old rickety barn in a remote wooded area of Oakdale. Wishbone notes Sam's adventurous spirit and her eager determination to fulfill her quest, and compares her to Jim Hawkins in Robert Louis Stevenson's book ""Treasure Island"".
Director: N/A
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- 9.2/10 12 votes
#11 - Little Big Dog
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 3/7/1996
In David and Goliath, Wishbone has more bravery than the David we know from this series.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 9.2/10 15 votes
#12 - A Dogged Expose
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 3/8/1996
Wishbone is Sherlock Holmes, deftly trying to stop a mastermind from the pages of A Scandal in Bohemia while Samantha is unwillingly tangled in a scandal at Oakdale.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 9.2/10 14 votes
#13 - The Roamin' Nose
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 3/12/1997
It's graduation time for the middle-school students, as they face the uncertain future in more ways than one. Wishbone sees a future with just as many question marks in Virgil's The Aeneid.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 9.1/10 24 votes
#14 - Cyranose
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 3/31/1995
Wishbone is Cyrano de Bergerac, serenading Roxanne with poetry.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 9.1/10 17 votes
#15 - A Tale of Two Sitters
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 10/30/1995
Guilt by association haunts Wishbone in his dream of A Tale of Two Cities.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 9.1/10 20 votes
#16 - Pantin' at the Opera
Season 1 Episode 37 - Aired 11/6/1996
Wishbone tells the story of Gaston Leroux's ""The Phantom Of The Opera.""
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 9.1/10 27 votes
#17 - Halloween Hound: The Legend of the Creepy Collars (1)
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 3/3/1997
Joe and his two best friends, David and Samantha, form a team to go on a Halloween scavenger hunt. Damont also competes in the game, but he tries to win by cheating. Meanwhile, Wishbone imagines himself as Ichabod Crane in Washington Irving's ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"".
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 9.0/10 30 votes
#18 - A Tail in Twain (1)
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/23/1995
The kids have an end-of-summer adventure in Jackson Park and learn about the power of stories. Wishbone, as Tom Sawyer, has an adventure with Huck Finn in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 9.0/10 19 votes
#19 - Golden Retrieved
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 10/27/1995
Wishbone is distressed with his owner Joe's infatuation with his new mountain bike, which causes Joe to pay less attention to Wishbone, and to act less caring and patient towards him. Then when Wishbone goes missing for a day, Joe realizes how much Wishbone means to him, and how his dog's company is so much more important than his new bike. Meanwhile, as Silas Marner, Wishbone learns the value of human warmth and companionship as opposed to acquired wealth.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 9.0/10 23 votes
#20 - One Thousand and One Tails
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 11/2/1995
While greed threatens to grip the humans around him, Wishbone imagines himself as Ali Baba among forty thieves. The sheer power of 1001 Arabian Nights seems overwhelming.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 9.0/10 44 votes
#21 - Halloween Hound: The Legend of the Creepy Collars (2)
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 3/4/1997
Continuation of Part 1.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 9.0/10 13 votes
#22 - The Prince of Wags
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 3/5/1997
The weight of leadership weighs heavy on Joe as captain of the school basketball team, and on Wishbone in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I.
Director: N/A
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8.9/10 17 votes#23 - Bark That Bark
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 3/30/1995
David overloads on responsibilities and doesn't understand the wisdom of asking for help. Wishbone explores the power of wisdom as it lies within two African-American folk tales.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.9/10 21 votes
#24 - Digging Up the Past
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 4/2/1995
Wishbone and Joe meet a charming elderly Oakdale resident who has returned after a long absense, and together they search for a ""time capsule"" in Joe's backyard. Meanwhile, Wishbone imagines himself as Rip van Winkle, who falls asleep in the forest and wakes up twenty years later to discover that a whole new nation (the USA) has been born.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.9/10 17 votes
#25 - Muttketeer!
Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 11/2/1996
Wishbone is always eager to make friends. He does so in the real world at the local school. And as D'Artagnan, Wishbone makes friends of the Three Musketeers.
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