• Air date: 23 Mar '95 40 episodes
      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.
  • List of Episodes (40)
    • 26. The Prince and The Pooch

      04 Mar '96
      It's another tale in Twain for Wishbone, playing both The Prince and the Pauper.
    • 27. The Count's Account

      05 Mar '96
      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.
    • 28. Salty Dog

      06 Mar '96
      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 adventurous spirit and her eager determination to fulfill her quest, and compares her to Jim Hawkins in Robert Louis Stevenson's book ""Treasure Island"".
    • 29. Little Big Dog

      07 Mar '96
      In David and Goliath, Wishbone has more bravery than the David we know from this series.
    • 30. A Dogged Expose

      08 Mar '96
      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.
    • 31. Terrified Terrier

      09 Mar '96
      Now Wishbone feels wounded as he dreams of Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage.
    • 32. Shakespaw

      10 Mar '96
      David runs into no end of problems while staging a production of Shakespeare's The Tempest.
    • 33. Muttketeer!

      02 Nov '96
      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.
    • 34. Hercules Unleashed

      03 Nov '96
      While Samantha seeks the perfect gift for her father's birthday, Wishbone plays up Hercules, seeking the Golden Apples of the Hesperides.
    • 35. !Viva Wishbone!

      04 Nov '96
      The power of love, for Wishbone, plays itself out in Our Lady of Guadalupe.
    • 36. The Entrepawneur

      05 Nov '96
      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
    • 37. Pantin' at the Opera

      06 Nov '96
      Wishbone tells the story of Gaston Leroux's ""The Phantom Of The Opera.""
    • 38. Dances With Dogs

      07 Nov '96
      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.
    • 39. Rushin' to the Bone

      08 Nov '96
      Wishbone dramatizes Gogol's The Inspector General.
    • 40. Picks of the Litter

      09 Nov '96
      The obligatory flashback episode (and the only best-of the series would ever see).