Wishbone - Season 1
Season 1
Network
Episodes40
DatesOct 9, 1995 - Dec 1, 1995
Episodes
Season 1Episode 130 min
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.
Oct 9, 1995
Season 1Episode 230 min
A Tail in Twain (2)
Part One continued.
Oct 9, 1995
Season 1Episode 330 min
Twisted Tail
A crime wave hits Oakdale, making the kids selective in choosing friends and giving Wishbone a chance to dream of Oliver Twist.
Oct 10, 1995
Season 1Episode 430 min
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
Oct 11, 1995
Season 1Episode 530 min
Homer Sweet Homer
Wishbone tells the story of Homer's ""The Odyssey.""
Oct 12, 1995
Season 1Episode 630 min
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.
Oct 16, 1995
Season 1Episode 730 min
Cyranose
Wishbone is Cyrano de Bergerac, serenading Roxanne with poetry.
Oct 17, 1995
Season 1Episode 830 min
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 to track down a murderer who uses a giant hound to commit his crimes.
Oct 18, 1995
Season 1Episode 930 min
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, who falls asleep in the forest and wakes up twenty years later to discover that a whole new nation (the USA) has been born.
Oct 19, 1995
Season 1Episode 1030 min
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 of Arc. Wishbone is her friend, Louis de Conte.
Oct 20, 1995
Season 1Episode 1130 min
The Impawssible Dream
Wishbone, while watching Joe pursue his impossible dream of making the book of world records, thinks of Don Quixote.
Oct 23, 1995
Season 1Episode 1230 min
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 choice in the long run.
Oct 24, 1995
Season 1Episode 1330 min
Sniffing the Gauntlet
Keeping oneself in the right frame of mind, Wishbone draws into Rebecca's world in Ivanhoe.
Oct 25, 1995
Season 1Episode 1430 min
The Hunchdog of Notre Dame
Wishbone is the Hunchback of Notre Dame, standing for and defending Esmerelda.
Oct 26, 1995
Season 1Episode 1530 min
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 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.
Oct 27, 1995
Season 1Episode 1630 min
A Tale of Two Sitters
Guilt by association haunts Wishbone in his dream of A Tale of Two Cities.
Oct 30, 1995
Season 1Episode 1730 min
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.
Oct 31, 1995
Season 1Episode 1830 min
Hot Diggety Dawg
Wishbone digs for Wanda, turning the day into the pages of Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth.
Nov 1, 1995
Season 1Episode 1930 min
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.
Nov 2, 1995
Season 1Episode 2030 min
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.
Nov 3, 1995
Season 1Episode 2130 min
The Canine Cure
This time, Wishbone imagines The Imaginary Invalid by Molière.
Nov 6, 1995
Season 1Episode 2230 min
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 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
Nov 7, 1995
Season 1Episode 2330 min
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 by technology in H.G. Wells' The Time Machine.
Nov 8, 1995
Season 1Episode 2430 min
Paw Prints of Thieves
When Joe gets under the crosshairs for what appears to be a good deed, Wishbone imagines himself as Robin Hood.
Nov 9, 1996
Season 1Episode 2530 min
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.
Nov 10, 1995
Season 1Episode 2630 min
The Prince and the Pooch
It's another tale in Twain for Wishbone, playing both The Prince and the Pauper.
Nov 13, 1995
Season 1Episode 2730 min
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.
Nov 14, 1995
Season 1Episode 2830 min
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 adventurous spirit and her eager determination to fulfill her quest, and compares her to Jim Hawkins in Robert Louis Stevenson's book ""Treasure Island"".
Nov 15, 1995
Season 1Episode 2930 min
Little Big Dog
In David and Goliath, Wishbone has more bravery than the David we know from this series.
Nov 16, 1995
Season 1Episode 3030 min
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.
Nov 17, 1995
Season 1Episode 3130 min
Terrified Terrier
Now Wishbone feels wounded as he dreams of Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage.
Nov 20, 1995
Season 1Episode 3230 min
Shakespaw
David runs into no end of problems while staging a production of Shakespeare's The Tempest.
Nov 21, 1995
Season 1Episode 3330 min
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.
Nov 22, 1995
Season 1Episode 3430 min
Hercules Unleashed
While Samantha seeks the perfect gift for her father's birthday, Wishbone plays up Hercules, seeking the Golden Apples of the Hesperides.
Nov 23, 1995
Season 1Episode 3530 min
!Viva Wishbone!
The power of love, for Wishbone, plays itself out in Our Lady of Guadalupe.
Nov 24, 1995
Season 1Episode 3630 min
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 and Samantha when he hires them to help run his summer grocery delivery business. See more at RECAP
Nov 27, 1995
Season 1Episode 3730 min
Pantin' at the Opera
Wishbone tells the story of Gaston Leroux's ""The Phantom Of The Opera.""
Nov 28, 1997
Season 1Episode 3830 min
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.
Nov 29, 1995
Season 1Episode 3930 min
Rushin' to the Bone
Wishbone dramatizes Gogol's The Inspector General.
Nov 29, 1995
Season 1Episode 4030 min
Picks of the Litter
The obligatory flashback episode (and the only best-of the series would ever see).
Dec 1, 1995
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