Wishbone Episode Rating Graph
Sep 1995 - Mar 1997

Sep 1995 - Mar 1997
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S1 Ep1
23rd Mar 1995
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.

S1 Ep2
24th Mar 1995
Part One continued.

S1 Ep3
25th Mar 1995
A crime wave hits Oakdale, making the kids selective in choosing friends and giving Wishbone a chance to dream of Oliver Twist.

S1 Ep4
25th Mar 1995
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

S1 Ep5
26th Mar 1995
Wishbone tells the story of Homer's ""The Odyssey.""

S1 Ep6
30th Mar 1995
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.

S1 Ep7
31st Mar 1995
Wishbone is Cyrano de Bergerac, serenading Roxanne with poetry.

S1 Ep8
1st Apr 1995
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.

S1 Ep9
2nd Apr 1995
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.

S1 Ep10
3rd Apr 1995
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.

S1 Ep11
5th Apr 1995
Wishbone, while watching Joe pursue his impossible dream of making the book of world records, thinks of Don Quixote.

S1 Ep12
5th Apr 1995
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.

S1 Ep13
6th Apr 1995
Keeping oneself in the right frame of mind, Wishbone draws into Rebecca's world in Ivanhoe.

S1 Ep14
26th Oct 1995
Wishbone is the Hunchback of Notre Dame, standing for and defending Esmerelda.

S1 Ep15
27th Oct 1995
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.

S1 Ep16
30th Oct 1995
Guilt by association haunts Wishbone in his dream of A Tale of Two Cities.

S1 Ep17
31st Oct 1995
David claims that through his experiments he has discovered the secret of life. Wishbone compares the mysterious experiment to the Mary Shelly horror, ""Frankenstein.
S1 Ep18
1st Nov 1995
Wishbone digs for Wanda, turning the day into the pages of Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth.
S1 Ep19
2nd Nov 1995
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.
S1 Ep20
3rd Nov 1995
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.
S1 Ep21
4th Nov 1995
This time, Wishbone imagines The Imaginary Invalid by Molière.
S1 Ep22
5th Nov 1995
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
S1 Ep23
6th Nov 1995
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.
S1 Ep24
2nd Mar 1996
When Joe gets under the crosshairs for what appears to be a good deed, Wishbone imagines himself as Robin Hood.
S1 Ep25
3rd Mar 1996
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.
S1 Ep26
4th Mar 1996
It's another tale in Twain for Wishbone, playing both The Prince and the Pauper.
S1 Ep27
5th Mar 1996
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.
S1 Ep28
6th Mar 1996
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"".
S1 Ep29
7th Mar 1996
In David and Goliath, Wishbone has more bravery than the David we know from this series.
S1 Ep30
8th Mar 1996
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.
S1 Ep31
9th Mar 1996
Now Wishbone feels wounded as he dreams of Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage.
S1 Ep32
10th Mar 1996
David runs into no end of problems while staging a production of Shakespeare's The Tempest.
S1 Ep33
2nd Nov 1996
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.
S1 Ep34
3rd Nov 1996
While Samantha seeks the perfect gift for her father's birthday, Wishbone plays up Hercules, seeking the Golden Apples of the Hesperides.
S1 Ep35
4th Nov 1996
The power of love, for Wishbone, plays itself out in Our Lady of Guadalupe.

S1 Ep36
5th Nov 1996
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
S1 Ep37
6th Nov 1996
Wishbone tells the story of Gaston Leroux's ""The Phantom Of The Opera.""
S1 Ep38
7th Nov 1996
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.
S1 Ep39
8th Nov 1996
Wishbone dramatizes Gogol's The Inspector General.
S1 Ep40
9th Nov 1996
The obligatory flashback episode (and the only best-of the series would ever see).
The first episode of Wishbone aired on September 10, 1995.
The last episode of Wishbone aired on March 12, 1997.
There are 50 episodes of Wishbone.
There are 2 seasons of Wishbone.
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Wishbone has ended.