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The Worst Episodes of Wishbone

Every episode of Wishbone ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst 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...
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Network:PBS Kids

Lowest Rated Episodes Summary

"Mixed Breeds" is the worst rated episode of "Wishbone". It scored 7.7/10 based on 21 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 11/3/1995. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Bark to the Future".

  • Mixed Breeds
    7.7/1021 votes
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    #1 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Bark to the Future
    7.7/1022 votes
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    #2 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Dances With Dogs
    7.7/1015 votes
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    #3 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Furst Impressions
    8.1/1024 votes
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    #4 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Pup Fiction
    8.1/1018 votes
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    #5 - Pup Fiction

    Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 3/11/1997

    Intrigue and mystery surrounds a letter addressed to Wanda. In trying to trace the anonymous note, Wishbone drifts into Jane Austen's gothic horror novel Northanger Abbey.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Hot Diggety Dawg
    8.2/1029 votes
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    #6 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • !Viva Wishbone!
    8.2/1076 votes
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    #7 - !Viva Wishbone!

    Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 11/4/1996

    The power of love, for Wishbone, plays itself out in Our Lady of Guadalupe.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Rosie, Oh, Rosie, Oh!
    8.3/1027 votes
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    #8 - 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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Entrepawneur
    8.3/1017 votes
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    #9 - The 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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Fleabitten Bargain
    8.4/1019 votes
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    #10 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Frankenbone
    8.4/1027 votes
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    #11 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Hunchdog of Notre Dame
    8.5/1028 votes
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    #12 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Rushin' to the Bone
    8.5/1012 votes
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    #13 - Rushin' to the Bone

    Season 1 Episode 39 - Aired 11/8/1996

    Wishbone dramatizes Gogol's The Inspector General.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Barking at Buddha
    8.5/1013 votes
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    #14 - Barking at Buddha

    Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 3/10/1997

    Wishbone wants to be a hero and tries to rescue two misguided youngsters when they set out to impress the older kids. As ""Monkey,"" he yearns to be immortal and seeks a position of importance in Wu Ch'eng-en's Chinese folktale.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Twisted Tail
    8.6/1026 votes
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    #15 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Slobbery Hound
    8.6/1023 votes
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    #16 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Prince and The Pooch
    8.6/1019 votes
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    #17 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Bone of Arc
    8.7/1022 votes
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    #18 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Paw Prints of Thieves
    8.7/1027 votes
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    #19 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Shakespaw
    8.7/1013 votes
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    #20 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Adam Felber

  • Picks of the Litter
    8.7/1012 votes
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    #21 - 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).

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Impawssible Dream
    8.8/1028 votes
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    #22 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Sniffing the Gauntlet
    8.8/1021 votes
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    #23 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Groomed for Greatness
    8.8/1011 votes
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    #24 - Groomed for Greatness

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 3/6/1997

    A statue to honor Wishbone consumes David's every waking moment, or at least that's what his friends think. It appears to Wishbone that David strikes a chord with Pip in Dickens's Great Expectations.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • War of the Noses
    8.8/1012 votes
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    #25 - War of the Noses

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 3/8/1997

    A betrayed Wishbone lapses into the character Richard Shelton in Robert Louis Stevenson's The Black Arrow.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A