Wishbone
TV-Y7
8.2
1995
Comedy
, Action & Adventure
, Kids
, Sci-Fi
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.
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- Cast:
- Mary Chris Wall , Christie Abbott , Julio Cesar Cedillo , Shelley Duvall , Amy Acker , Melissa Archer
Episode 40 : Picks of the Litter
November. 09,1996
The obligatory flashback episode (and the only best-of the series would ever see).
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Episode 39 : Rushin' to the Bone
November. 08,1996
Wishbone dramatizes Gogol's The Inspector General.
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Episode 38 : Dances With Dogs
November. 07,1996
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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Episode 37 : Pantin' at the Opera
November. 06,1996
Wishbone tells the story of Gaston Leroux's ""The Phantom Of The Opera.""
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Episode 36 : The Entrepawneur
November. 05,1996
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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Episode 35 : !Viva Wishbone!
November. 04,1996
The power of love, for Wishbone, plays itself out in Our Lady of Guadalupe.
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Episode 34 : Hercules Unleashed
November. 03,1996
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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Episode 33 : Muttketeer!
November. 02,1996
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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Episode 32 : Shakespaw
March. 10,1996
David runs into no end of problems while staging a production of Shakespeare's The Tempest.
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Episode 31 : Terrified Terrier
March. 09,1996
Now Wishbone feels wounded as he dreams of Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage.
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Episode 30 : A Dogged Expose
March. 08,1996
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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Episode 29 : Little Big Dog
March. 07,1996
In David and Goliath, Wishbone has more bravery than the David we know from this series.
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Episode 27 : The Count's Account
March. 05,1996
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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Episode 26 : The Prince and The Pooch
March. 04,1996
It's another tale in Twain for Wishbone, playing both The Prince and the Pauper.
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Episode 25 : Furst Impressions
March. 03,1996
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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Episode 24 : Paw Prints of Thieves
March. 02,1996
When Joe gets under the crosshairs for what appears to be a good deed, Wishbone imagines himself as Robin Hood.
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Episode 23 : Bark to the Future
November. 06,1995
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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Episode 22 : The Pawloined Paper
November. 05,1995
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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Episode 21 : The Canine Cure
November. 04,1995
This time, Wishbone imagines The Imaginary Invalid by Molière.
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Episode 20 : Mixed Breeds
November. 03,1995
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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Episode 19 : One Thousand and One Tails
November. 02,1995
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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Episode 18 : Hot Diggety Dawg
November. 01,1995
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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Episode 17 : Frankenbone
October. 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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Episode 16 : A Tale of Two Sitters
October. 30,1995
Guilt by association haunts Wishbone in his dream of A Tale of Two Cities.
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Episode 14 : The Hunchdog of Notre Dame
October. 26,1995
Wishbone is the Hunchback of Notre Dame, standing for and defending Esmerelda.
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Episode 13 : Sniffing the Gauntlet
April. 06,1995
Keeping oneself in the right frame of mind, Wishbone draws into Rebecca's world in Ivanhoe.
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Episode 12 : Fleabitten Bargain
April. 05,1995
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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Episode 11 : The Impawssible Dream
April. 05,1995
Wishbone, while watching Joe pursue his impossible dream of making the book of world records, thinks of Don Quixote.
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Episode 10 : Bone of Arc
April. 03,1995
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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Episode 9 : Digging Up the Past
April. 02,1995
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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Episode 8 : The Slobbery Hound
April. 01,1995
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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Episode 7 : Cyranose
March. 31,1995
Wishbone is Cyrano de Bergerac, serenading Roxanne with poetry.
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Episode 6 : Bark That Bark
March. 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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Episode 5 : Homer Sweet Homer
March. 26,1995
Wishbone tells the story of Homer's ""The Odyssey.""
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Episode 4 : Rosie, Oh, Rosie, Oh!
March. 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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Episode 3 : Twisted Tail
March. 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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Episode 2 : A Tail in Twain (2)
March. 24,1995
Part One continued.
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