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Wishbone(TV show/series, 1995-1997)

Scripted Reality in 2 seasons with 50 episodes

WishboneRating: 4.0/5 (with 15 votes)
Wishbone is an American live-action children's television series which aired from 1995 to 1997 originally broadcast on PBS. It is about a Jack Russell Terrier dog named Wishbone who daydreams about being the lead character of stories from classic literature. ()
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About 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 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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Wishbone Seasons and Episodes

03/03/1997Season 2 - 10 episodes
#1 | 03/03/1997Halloween 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 Irving's ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"".
#2 | 03/04/1997Halloween Hound: The Legend of the Creepy Collars (2)
#3 | 03/05/1997The 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 | 03/06/1997Groomed 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 | 03/07/1997Bone 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 of Miles Standish.""
#6 | 03/08/1997War of the Noses
A betrayed Wishbone lapses into the character Richard Shelton in Robert Louis Stevenson's The Black Arrow.
#7 | 03/09/1997Moonbone
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 | 03/10/1997Barking 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 | 03/11/1997Pup 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 | 03/12/1997The 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.
03/23/1995Season 1 - 40 episodes
?Specials - 3 episodes

Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 5 languages: German (DE), English (EN), Hungarian (HU), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU)
Status: Ended
First episode released on: 09/10/1995
Last episode released on: 03/12/1997
Cast: Soccer
Voice Actor: Larry Brantley

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WatchPlayStream ID: SHOWS:3881, Added: 05/12/2018, Last updated: 03/30/2024