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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
Season 1
9.0/1046 votesA 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.
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9.1/1031 votesA Tail in Twain (2)
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 3/24/1995
Continuation of previous episode exploring The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
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8.6/1037 votesTwisted Tail
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 3/25/1995
A crime wave hits Oakdale, making the kids selective in choosing friends and giving Wishbone a chance to dream of Oliver Twist.
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8.7/1035 votesRosie, Oh, Rosie, Oh!
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 3/25/1995
Wishbone, not wearing his collar, gets taken to the pound where he meets a beautiful female dog named Rosie. The inside story is that of ""romeo and Juliet"" by William Shakespeare
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8.9/1042 votesHomer Sweet Homer
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 3/26/1995
Wishbone tells the story of Homer's ""The Odyssey.""
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8.5/1023 votesBark 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.
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8.4/1031 votesThe Slobbery Hound
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 4/1/1995
Wishbone searches for a wandering dog who is wreaking havoc with garbage cans and items in people's yards and porches. Wishbone imagines himself as Sherlock Holmes in ""The Hound of the Baskervilles"", where he works to track down a murderer who uses a giant hound to commit his crimes.
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8.7/1027 votesDigging 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.
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8.6/1027 votesBone of Arc
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 4/3/1995
Samantha becomes the heroine of the boys' soccer team, while Wishbone becomes her ally. Meanwhile, Joan of Arc leads the men of the French Army against the English in Mark Twain's Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc. Wishbone is her friend, Louis de Conte.
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8.6/1034 votesThe Impawssible Dream
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 4/5/1995
Wishbone, while watching Joe pursue his impossible dream of making the book of world records, thinks of Don Quixote.
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8.2/1024 votesFleabitten Bargain
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 4/5/1995
Joe is dazzled by a virtual-reality machine demonstrated by a cunning salesman at a town fair. Meanwhile, Wishbone, as Faust, learns that making big sacrifices just to gain immediate satisfaction is not necessarily the wisest choice in the long run.
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8.4/1028 votesSniffing the Gauntlet
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 4/6/1995
Keeping oneself in the right frame of mind, Wishbone draws into Rebecca's world in Ivanhoe.
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8.5/1033 votesThe Hunchdog of Notre Dame
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 10/26/1995
Wishbone is the Hunchback of Notre Dame, standing for and defending Esmerelda.
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8.8/1023 votesGolden 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.
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8.9/1022 votesA 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.
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8.2/1033 votesFrankenbone
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 10/31/1995
David claims that through his experiments he has discovered the secret of life. Wishbone compares the mysterious experiment to the Mary Shelly horror, ""Frankenstein.
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8.2/1035 votesHot Diggety Dawg
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 11/1/1995
Wishbone digs for Wanda, turning the day into the pages of Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth.
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- 8.6/1028 votes
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.
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- 7.7/1026 votes
Mixed Breeds
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 11/3/1995
Secrets abound in all people. Wanda and Mr. Pruitt find that out themselves, as does Wishbone in his visions of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
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- 8.1/1021 votes
The Canine Cure
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 11/4/1995
This time, Wishbone imagines The Imaginary Invalid by Molière.
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- 8.6/1024 votes
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
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- 7.8/1028 votes
Bark to the Future
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 11/6/1995
Joe learns that his own intellect can never be replaced by modern technology. Meanwhile, Wishbone, as The Time Traveler, finds that in the year 802,701 the lazy Eloi have allowed their intellect to be replaced by technology in H.G. Wells' The Time Machine.
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- 8.4/1035 votes
Paw Prints of Thieves
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/2/1996
When Joe gets under the crosshairs for what appears to be a good deed, Wishbone imagines himself as Robin Hood.
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- 8.3/1031 votes
Furst Impressions
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/3/1996
While Sam, David, and Joe agonize over finding a date for the pending dance, Wishbone goes over the story of ""Pride and Prejudice"" by Jane Austin.
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- 8.4/1026 votes
The Prince and The Pooch
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 3/4/1996
It's another tale in Twain for Wishbone, playing both The Prince and the Pauper.
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- 8.9/1022 votes
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.
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- 8.9/1022 votes
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"".
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- 8.5/1018 votes
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.
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- 8.1/1021 votes
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.
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- 8.8/1017 votes
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.
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- 8.4/1018 votes
Shakespaw
Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 3/10/1996
David runs into no end of problems while staging a production of Shakespeare's The Tempest.
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Writer: Adam Felber
- 8.8/1022 votes
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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- 8.7/1026 votes
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.
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- 8.4/1053 votes
¡Viva Wishbone!
Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 11/4/1996
The power of love, for Wishbone, plays itself out in Our Lady of Guadalupe.
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8.4/1022 votesThe Entrepawneur
Season 1 Episode 36 - Aired 11/5/1996
Based on a portion of the epic poem ""Metamorphoses,"" by the ancient Roman poet Ovid, this episode focuses on the story of King Midas. Meanwhile, Joe is in a ""touchy"" situation with his friends David and Samantha when he hires them to help run his summer grocery delivery business. See more at RECAP
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- 9.0/1025 votes
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.""
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- 7.5/1020 votes
Dances With Dogs
Season 1 Episode 38 - Aired 11/7/1996
Lee Natonabah, a Native-American friend of Joe's, speaks about Navajo culture and story-telling, while Wishbone imagines himself as a young brave in a story that Lee tells.
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- 8.6/1017 votes
Rushin' to the Bone
Season 1 Episode 39 - Aired 11/8/1996
Wishbone dramatizes Gogol's The Inspector General.
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- 8.2/1017 votes
Picks of the Litter
Season 1 Episode 40 - Aired 11/9/1996
The obligatory flashback episode (and the only best-of the series would ever see).
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