S01E01 A Tail in Twain (1)
The kids have an end-of-summer adventure in Jackson Park and learn about the power of stories. Wishbone, as Tom Sawyer, has an adventure with Huck Finn in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Wishbone
S01E01: A Tail in Twain (1)
The kids have an end-of-summer adventure in Jackson Park and learn about the power of stories. Wishbone, as Tom Sawyer, has an adventure with Huck Finn in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Overview
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
S01E03 Twisted Tail
A crime wave hits Oakdale, making the kids selective in choosing friends and giving Wishbone a chance to dream of Oliver Twist.
S01E04 Rosie, Oh, Rosie, Oh!
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
S01E06 Bark That Bark
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.
S01E08 The Slobbery Hound
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...
S01E09 Digging Up the Past
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,...
S01E10 Bone of Arc
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...
S01E11 The Impawssible Dream
Wishbone, while watching Joe pursue his impossible dream of making the book of world records, thinks of Don Quixote.
S01E12 Fleabitten Bargain
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...
S01E13 Sniffing the Gauntlet
Keeping oneself in the right frame of mind, Wishbone draws into Rebecca's world in Ivanhoe.
S01E14 The Hunchdog of Notre Dame
Wishbone is the Hunchback of Notre Dame, standing for and defending Esmerelda.
S01E15 Golden Retrieved
Wishbone is distressed with his owner Joe's infatuation with his new mountain bike, which causes Joe to pay less attention to Wishbone, and to act less caring and patient towards him. Then when Wishbone goes...
S01E16 A Tale of Two Sitters
Guilt by association haunts Wishbone in his dream of A Tale of Two Cities.
S01E17 Frankenbone
David claims that through his experiments he has discovered the secret of life. Wishbone compares the mysterious experiment to the Mary Shelly horror, ""Frankenstein.
S01E18 Hot Diggety Dawg
Wishbone digs for Wanda, turning the day into the pages of Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth.
S01E19 One Thousand and One Tails
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.
S01E20 Mixed Breeds
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.
S01E22 The Pawloined Paper
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...
S01E23 Bark to the Future
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...
S01E24 Paw Prints of Thieves
When Joe gets under the crosshairs for what appears to be a good deed, Wishbone imagines himself as Robin Hood.
S01E25 Furst Impressions
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.
S01E26 The Prince and The Pooch
It's another tale in Twain for Wishbone, playing both The Prince and the Pauper.
S01E27 The Count's Account
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.
S01E28 Salty Dog
Samantha convinces Joe and David to help her look for a ""magic"" horseshoe that is rumored to be nailed somewhere inside an old rickety barn in a remote wooded area of Oakdale. Wishbone notes Sam's...
S01E29 Little Big Dog
In David and Goliath, Wishbone has more bravery than the David we know from this series.
S01E30 A Dogged Expose
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.
S01E31 Terrified Terrier
Now Wishbone feels wounded as he dreams of Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage.
S01E32 Shakespaw
David runs into no end of problems while staging a production of Shakespeare's The Tempest.
S01E33 Muttketeer!
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.
S01E34 Hercules Unleashed
While Samantha seeks the perfect gift for her father's birthday, Wishbone plays up Hercules, seeking the Golden Apples of the Hesperides.
S01E35 !Viva Wishbone!
The power of love, for Wishbone, plays itself out in Our Lady of Guadalupe.
S01E36 The Entrepawneur
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...
S01E37 Pantin' at the Opera
Wishbone tells the story of Gaston Leroux's ""The Phantom Of The Opera.""
S01E38 Dances With Dogs
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.
S01E40 Picks of the Litter
The obligatory flashback episode (and the only best-of the series would ever see).
Cast
Larry Brantley
Wishbone
Mary Chris Wall
Ellen Talbot
Christie Abbott
Sam Kepler
Adam Springfield
David Barnes
Julio Cesar Cedillo
Travis del Rio
Shelley Duvall
Renee Lassiter
Amy Acker
Catherine Morland
Melissa Archer
Sarah Johnson
Jordan Wall
Joe Talbot
