Season 1

Episodes • 1995

Larry Brantley
Mary Chris Wall
Christie Abbott
Adam Springfield
Julio Cesar Cedillo
Shelley Duvall
Amy Acker
Melissa Archer
Jordan Wall
A Tail in Twain (1)

1. A Tail in Twain (1)

28 min

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.

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A Tail in Twain (2)

2. A Tail in Twain (2)

28 min

Part One continued.

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Twisted Tail

3. Twisted Tail

28 min

A 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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Rosie, Oh, Rosie, Oh!

4. Rosie, Oh, Rosie, Oh!

28 min

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

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Homer Sweet Homer

5. Homer Sweet Homer

28 min

Wishbone tells the story of Homer's ""The Odyssey.""

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Bark That Bark

6. Bark That Bark

28 min

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.

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Cyranose

7. Cyranose

28 min

Wishbone is Cyrano de Bergerac, serenading Roxanne with poetry.

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The Slobbery Hound

8. The Slobbery Hound

28 min

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.

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Digging Up the Past

9. Digging Up the Past

28 min

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.

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Bone of Arc

10. Bone of Arc

28 min

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.

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The Impawssible Dream

11. The Impawssible Dream

28 min

Wishbone, while watching Joe pursue his impossible dream of making the book of world records, thinks of Don Quixote.

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Fleabitten Bargain

12. Fleabitten Bargain

28 min

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.

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Sniffing the Gauntlet

13. Sniffing the Gauntlet

28 min

Keeping oneself in the right frame of mind, Wishbone draws into Rebecca's world in Ivanhoe.

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The Hunchdog of Notre Dame

14. The Hunchdog of Notre Dame

28 min

Wishbone is the Hunchback of Notre Dame, standing for and defending Esmerelda.

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Golden Retrieved

15. Golden Retrieved

28 min

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.

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A Tale of Two Sitters

16. A Tale of Two Sitters

28 min

Guilt by association haunts Wishbone in his dream of A Tale of Two Cities.

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Frankenbone

17. Frankenbone

28 min

David 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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Hot Diggety Dawg

18. Hot Diggety Dawg

28 min

Wishbone digs for Wanda, turning the day into the pages of Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth.

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One Thousand and One Tails

19. One Thousand and One Tails

28 min

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.

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Mixed Breeds

20. Mixed Breeds

28 min

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.

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The Canine Cure

21. The Canine Cure

28 min

This time, Wishbone imagines The Imaginary Invalid by Molière.

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The Pawloined Paper

22. The Pawloined Paper

28 min

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

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Bark to the Future

23. Bark to the Future

28 min

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.

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Paw Prints of Thieves

24. Paw Prints of Thieves

28 min

When Joe gets under the crosshairs for what appears to be a good deed, Wishbone imagines himself as Robin Hood.

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Furst Impressions

25. Furst Impressions

28 min

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.

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The Prince and The Pooch

26. The Prince and The Pooch

28 min

It's another tale in Twain for Wishbone, playing both The Prince and the Pauper.

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The Count's Account

27. The Count's Account

28 min

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.

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Salty Dog

28. Salty Dog

28 min

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"".

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Little Big Dog

29. Little Big Dog

28 min

In David and Goliath, Wishbone has more bravery than the David we know from this series.

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A Dogged Expose

30. A Dogged Expose

28 min

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.

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Terrified Terrier

31. Terrified Terrier

28 min

Now Wishbone feels wounded as he dreams of Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage.

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Shakespaw

32. Shakespaw

28 min

David runs into no end of problems while staging a production of Shakespeare's The Tempest.

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Muttketeer!

33. Muttketeer!

28 min

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.

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Hercules Unleashed

34. Hercules Unleashed

28 min

While Samantha seeks the perfect gift for her father's birthday, Wishbone plays up Hercules, seeking the Golden Apples of the Hesperides.

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!Viva Wishbone!

35. !Viva Wishbone!

28 min

The power of love, for Wishbone, plays itself out in Our Lady of Guadalupe.

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The Entrepawneur

36. The Entrepawneur

28 min

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

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Pantin' at the Opera

37. Pantin' at the Opera

28 min

Wishbone tells the story of Gaston Leroux's ""The Phantom Of The Opera.""

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Dances With Dogs

38. Dances With Dogs

28 min

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.

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Rushin' to the Bone

39. Rushin' to the Bone

28 min

Wishbone dramatizes Gogol's The Inspector General.

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Picks of the Litter

40. Picks of the Litter

28 min

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

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