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Series · 1995

Wishbone

Created by Rick DuffieldSoccer the DogLarry BrantleyMary Chris Wall
Wishbone poster
10 Sep 1995First aired
2Seasons
8.2TMDB score of 10
Action & AdventureGenre

The series

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.

Episodes

Season 2 · 10 episodes · 1997

  1. Episode 13 Mar 199728m

    Halloween Hound: The Legend of the Creepy Collars (1)

    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 Irv…

  2. Episode 24 Mar 199728m

    Halloween Hound: The Legend of the Creepy Collars (2)

    Continuation of previous episode exploring The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

  3. Episode 35 Mar 199728m

    The Prince of Wags

    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.

  4. Episode 46 Mar 199728m

    Groomed for Greatness

    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.

  5. Episode 57 Mar 199728m

    Bone of Contention

    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 …

  6. Episode 68 Mar 199728m

    War of the Noses

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

  7. Episode 79 Mar 199728m

    Moonbone

    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.

  8. Episode 810 Mar 199728m

    Barking at Buddha

    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.

  9. Episode 911 Mar 199728m

    Pup Fiction

    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.

  10. Episode 1012 Mar 199728m

    The Roamin' Nose

    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.

Cast

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