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Wishbone : Season 1
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Air date: 23 Mar '95 - 40 episodesWishbone 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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List of Episodes (40)
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Wishbone (1995)
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1. A Tail in Twain (1)
23 Mar '95The 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.
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2. A Tail in Twain Part Two
24 Mar '95Part One continued.
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3. Twisted Tail
25 Mar '95A crime wave hits Oakdale, making the kids selective in choosing friends and giving Wishbone a chance to dream of Oliver Twist.
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4. Rosie, Oh, Rosie, Oh!
25 Mar '95Wishbone, 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
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5. Homer Sweet Homer
26 Mar '95Wishbone tells the story of Homer's ""The Odyssey.""
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6. Bark That Bark
30 Mar '95David 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.
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7. Cyranose
31 Mar '95Wishbone is Cyrano de Bergerac, serenading Roxanne with poetry.
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8. The Slobbery Hound
01 Apr '95Wishbone 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 to track down a murderer who uses a giant hound to commit his crimes.
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9. Digging Up the Past
02 Apr '95Wishbone 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, who falls asleep in the forest and wakes up twenty years later to discover that a whole new nation (the USA) has been born.
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10. Bone of Arc
03 Apr '95Samantha 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 of Arc. Wishbone is her friend, Louis de Conte.
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11. The Impawssible Dream
05 Apr '95Wishbone, while watching Joe pursue his impossible dream of making the book of world records, thinks of Don Quixote.
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12. Fleabitten Bargain
05 Apr '95Joe 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 choice in the long run.
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13. Sniffing the Gauntlet
06 Apr '95Keeping oneself in the right frame of mind, Wishbone draws into Rebecca's world in Ivanhoe.
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14. The Hunchdog of Notre Dame
26 Oct '95Wishbone is the Hunchback of Notre Dame, standing for and defending Esmerelda.
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15. Golden Retrieved
27 Oct '95Wishbone 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 missing for a day, Joe realizes how much Wishbone means to him, and how his dog's company is so much more important than his new bike. Meanwhile, as Silas Marner, Wishbone learns the value of human warmth and companionship as opposed to acquired wealth.
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16. A Tale of Two Sitters
30 Oct '95Guilt by association haunts Wishbone in his dream of A Tale of Two Cities.
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17. Frankenbone
31 Oct '95David claims that through his experiments he has discovered the secret of life. Wishbone compares the mysterious experiment to the Mary Shelly horror, ""Frankenstein.
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18. Hot Diggety Dawg
01 Nov '95Wishbone digs for Wanda, turning the day into the pages of Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth.
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19. One Thousand and One Tails
02 Nov '95While 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.
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20. Mixed Breeds
03 Nov '95Secrets abound in all people. Wanda and Mr. Pruitt find that out themselves, as does Wishbone in his visions of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
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21. The Canine Cure
04 Nov '95This time, Wishbone imagines The Imaginary Invalid by Molière.
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22. The Pawloined Paper
05 Nov '95Joe 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 it. Meanwhile, Wishbone tears the living room upside down looking for his toy newspaper, which is right under his nose the whole time, just like where the stolen letter is hidden in today's story ""The Purloined Letter"" by Edgar Allen Poe
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23. Bark to the Future
06 Nov '95Joe 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 by technology in H.G. Wells' The Time Machine.
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24. Paw Prints of Thieves
02 Mar '96When Joe gets under the crosshairs for what appears to be a good deed, Wishbone imagines himself as Robin Hood.
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25. Furst Impressions
03 Mar '96While 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.
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