
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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Air Date: 1995-03-23
The kids have an end-of-summer adventure in Jackson Park and learn about the power of stories. Wishbone, as Tom Sawye...
Air Date: 1995-03-24
Part One continued.
Air Date: 1995-03-25
A crime wave hits Oakdale, making the kids selective in choosing friends and giving Wishbone a chance to dream of Oli...
Air Date: 1995-03-25
Wishbone, not wearing his collar, gets taken to the pound where he meets a beautiful female dog named Rosie. The ins...
Air Date: 1995-03-26
Wishbone tells the story of Homer's ""The Odyssey.""
Air Date: 1995-03-30
David overloads on responsibilities and doesn't understand the wisdom of asking for help. Wishbone explores the power...
Air Date: 1995-03-31
Wishbone is Cyrano de Bergerac, serenading Roxanne with poetry.
Air Date: 1995-04-01
Wishbone searches for a wandering dog who is wreaking havoc with garbage cans and items in people's yards and porches...
Air Date: 1995-04-02
Wishbone and Joe meet a charming elderly Oakdale resident who has returned after a long absense, and together they se...
Air Date: 1995-04-03
Samantha becomes the heroine of the boys' soccer team, while Wishbone becomes her ally. Meanwhile, Joan of Arc leads ...
Air Date: 1995-04-05
Wishbone, while watching Joe pursue his impossible dream of making the book of world records, thinks of Don Quixote.
Air Date: 1995-04-05
Joe is dazzled by a virtual-reality machine demonstrated by a cunning salesman at a town fair. Meanwhile, Wishbone, ...
Air Date: 1995-04-06
Keeping oneself in the right frame of mind, Wishbone draws into Rebecca's world in Ivanhoe.
Air Date: 1995-10-26
Wishbone is the Hunchback of Notre Dame, standing for and defending Esmerelda.
Air Date: 1995-10-27
Wishbone is distressed with his owner Joe's infatuation with his new mountain bike, which causes Joe to pay less atte...
Air Date: 1995-10-30
Guilt by association haunts Wishbone in his dream of A Tale of Two Cities.
Air Date: 1995-10-31
David claims that through his experiments he has discovered the secret of life. Wishbone compares the mysterious expe...
Air Date: 1995-11-01
Wishbone digs for Wanda, turning the day into the pages of Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth.
Air Date: 1995-11-02
While greed threatens to grip the humans around him, Wishbone imagines himself as Ali Baba among forty thieves. The ...
Air Date: 1995-11-03
Secrets abound in all people. Wanda and Mr. Pruitt find that out themselves, as does Wishbone in his visions of Dr. ...
Air Date: 1995-11-04
This time, Wishbone imagines The Imaginary Invalid by Molière.
Air Date: 1995-11-05
Joe has a substitute teacher for his class, who he likes a lot. After a word puzzle he makes up about her gets snatc...
Air Date: 1995-11-06
Joe learns that his own intellect can never be replaced by modern technology. Meanwhile, Wishbone, as The Time Travel...
Air Date: 1996-03-02
When Joe gets under the crosshairs for what appears to be a good deed, Wishbone imagines himself as Robin Hood.
Air Date: 1996-03-03
While Sam, David, and Joe agonize over finding a date for the pending dance, Wishbone goes over the story of ""Pride ...
Air Date: 1996-03-04
It's another tale in Twain for Wishbone, playing both The Prince and the Pauper.
Air Date: 1996-03-05
Damont gets David into trouble after he uses one of David's inventions. Meanwhile, Wishbone as Edmond Dantes seeks re...
Air Date: 1996-03-06
Samantha convinces Joe and David to help her look for a ""magic"" horseshoe that is rumored to be nailed somewhere in...
Air Date: 1996-03-07
In David and Goliath, Wishbone has more bravery than the David we know from this series.
Air Date: 1996-03-08
Wishbone is Sherlock Holmes, deftly trying to stop a mastermind from the pages of A Scandal in Bohemia while Samantha...
Air Date: 1996-03-09
Now Wishbone feels wounded as he dreams of Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage.
Air Date: 1996-03-10
David runs into no end of problems while staging a production of Shakespeare's The Tempest.
Air Date: 1996-11-02
Wishbone is always eager to make friends. He does so in the real world at the local school. And as D'Artagnan, Wishbo...
Air Date: 1996-11-03
While Samantha seeks the perfect gift for her father's birthday, Wishbone plays up Hercules, seeking the Golden Apple...
Air Date: 1996-11-04
The power of love, for Wishbone, plays itself out in Our Lady of Guadalupe.
Air Date: 1996-11-05
Based on a portion of the epic poem ""Metamorphoses,"" by the ancient Roman poet Ovid, this episode focuses on the st...
Air Date: 1996-11-06
Wishbone tells the story of Gaston Leroux's ""The Phantom Of The Opera.""
Air Date: 1996-11-07
Lee Natonabah, a Native-American friend of Joe's, speaks about Navajo culture and story-telling, while Wishbone imagi...
Air Date: 1996-11-08
Wishbone dramatizes Gogol's The Inspector General.
Air Date: 1996-11-09
The obligatory flashback episode (and the only best-of the series would ever see).