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 10 : The Roamin' Nose
March. 12,1997
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.
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Episode 9 : Pup Fiction
March. 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.
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Episode 8 : Barking at Buddha
March. 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.
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Episode 7 : Moonbone
March. 09,1997
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.
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Episode 6 : War of the Noses
March. 08,1997
A betrayed Wishbone lapses into the character Richard Shelton in Robert Louis Stevenson's The Black Arrow.
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Episode 5 : Bone of Contention
March. 07,1997
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 of Miles Standish.""
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Episode 4 : Groomed for Greatness
March. 06,1997
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.
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Episode 3 : The Prince of Wags
March. 05,1997
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.
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Episode 2 : Halloween Hound: The Legend of the Creepy Collars (2)
March. 04,1997
Continuation of Part 1.
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Episode 1 : Halloween Hound: The Legend of the Creepy Collars (1)
March. 03,1997
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 Irving's ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"".
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