9.0/1031 votes#1 - 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.
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9.2/1023 votes#2 - A Tail in Twain (2)
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 3/24/1995
Part One continued.
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8.6/1026 votes#3 - Twisted 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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8.3/1027 votes#4 - Rosie, 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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9.2/1028 votes#5 - Homer Sweet Homer
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 3/26/1995
Wishbone tells the story of Homer's ""The Odyssey.""
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8.9/1017 votes#6 - 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.
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9.1/1024 votes#7 - Cyranose
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 3/31/1995
Wishbone is Cyrano de Bergerac, serenading Roxanne with poetry.
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8.6/1023 votes#8 - The 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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8.9/1021 votes#9 - 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.
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8.7/1022 votes#10 - Bone 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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8.8/1028 votes#11 - The 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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8.4/1019 votes#12 - Fleabitten 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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8.8/1021 votes#13 - Sniffing 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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8.5/1028 votes#14 - The 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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9.0/1019 votes#15 - 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.
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9.1/1017 votes#16 - 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.
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8.4/1027 votes#17 - Frankenbone
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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8.2/1029 votes#18 - Hot 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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- 9.0/1023 votes
#19 - 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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- 7.7/1021 votes
#20 - 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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- 9.1/1017 votes
#21 - The Canine Cure
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 11/4/1995
This time, Wishbone imagines The Imaginary Invalid by Molière.
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- 9.2/1015 votes
#22 - 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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- 7.7/1022 votes
#23 - 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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- 8.7/1027 votes
#24 - 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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- 8.1/1024 votes
#25 - 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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The Best Episodes of Wishbone Season 1
Every episode of Wishbone Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover 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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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"A Tail in Twain (1)" is the best rated episode of "Wishbone" season 1. It scored 9/10 based on 31 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 3/23/1995. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "A Tail in Twain (2)".