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The Best Episodes of Wishbone Season 1

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The Best Episodes of Wishbone Season 1

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...

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  1. 9.5/10(13 votes)

    #1 - Terrified Terrier

    S1:E31

    Now Wishbone feels wounded as he dreams of Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage.

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  2. 9.5/10(19 votes)

    #2 - Hercules Unleashed

    S1:E34

    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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  3. 9.3/10(18 votes)

    #3 - Salty Dog

    S1:E28

    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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  4. 9.2/10(24 votes)

    #4 - A Tail in Twain (2)

    S1:E2

    Part One continued.

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  5. 9.2/10(29 votes)

    #5 - Homer Sweet Homer

    S1:E5

    Wishbone tells the story of Homer's ""The Odyssey.""

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  6. 9.2/10(17 votes)

    #6 - The Count's Account

    S1:E27

    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. 9.2/10(16 votes)

    #7 - A Dogged Expose

    S1:E30

    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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  9. 9.1/10(25 votes)

    #8 - Cyranose

    S1:E7

    Wishbone is Cyrano de Bergerac, serenading Roxanne with poetry.

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  10. 9.1/10(19 votes)

    #9 - A Tale of Two Sitters

    S1:E16

    Guilt by association haunts Wishbone in his dream of A Tale of Two Cities.

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  11. 9.1/10(18 votes)

    #10 - The Canine Cure

    S1:E21

    This time, Wishbone imagines The Imaginary Invalid by Molière.

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  12. 9.1/10(18 votes)

    #11 - The Pawloined Paper

    S1:E22

    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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  13. 9.1/10(14 votes)

    #12 - Little Big Dog

    S1:E29

    In David and Goliath, Wishbone has more bravery than the David we know from this series.

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  14. 9.0/10(33 votes)

    #13 - A Tail in Twain (1)

    S1:E1

    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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  15. 9.0/10(20 votes)

    #14 - Golden Retrieved

    S1:E15

    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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  16. 9.0/10(24 votes)

    #15 - One Thousand and One Tails

    S1:E19

    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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  17. 9.0/10(21 votes)

    #16 - Pantin' at the Opera

    S1:E37

    Wishbone tells the story of Gaston Leroux's ""The Phantom Of The Opera.""

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  18. 8.9/10(18 votes)

    #17 - Bark That Bark

    S1:E6

    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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  19. 8.9/10(23 votes)

    #18 - Digging Up the Past

    S1:E9

    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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  20. 8.9/10(18 votes)

    #19 - Muttketeer!

    S1:E33

    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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  21. 8.8/10(29 votes)

    #20 - The Impawssible Dream

    S1:E11

    Wishbone, while watching Joe pursue his impossible dream of making the book of world records, thinks of Don Quixote.

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  22. 8.8/10(22 votes)

    #21 - Sniffing the Gauntlet

    S1:E13

    Keeping oneself in the right frame of mind, Wishbone draws into Rebecca's world in Ivanhoe.

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  23. 8.7/10(23 votes)

    #22 - Bone of Arc

    S1:E10

    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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  24. 8.7/10(29 votes)

    #23 - Paw Prints of Thieves

    S1:E24

    When Joe gets under the crosshairs for what appears to be a good deed, Wishbone imagines himself as Robin Hood.

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  25. 8.7/10(14 votes)

    #24 - Shakespaw

    S1:E32

    David runs into no end of problems while staging a production of Shakespeare's The Tempest.

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  26. 8.7/10(13 votes)

    #25 - Picks of the Litter

    S1:E40

    The obligatory flashback episode (and the only best-of the series would ever see).

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Terrified Terrier" is the best rated episode of "Wishbone" season 1. It scored 9.5/10 based on 13 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 3/9/1996. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Hercules Unleashed".