The BEST episodes of Wishbone
Every episode of Wishbone ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Wishbone!
An intelligent and witty dog imagines himself in the role of characters from classic books and gets involved in similar real-life adventures.
#7 - Fleabitten Bargain
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/5/1995
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.
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#9 - The Slobbery Hound
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 4/1/1995
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.
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Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 4/2/1995
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.
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Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/3/1995
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.
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#19 - The Roamin' Nose
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/12/1997
It's graduation time for the middle-school students, as they face the uncertain future in more ways than one. Wishbone sees a future with just as many question marks in Virgil's The Aeneid.
#20 - Moonbone
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/9/1997
Would you believe a missing Super Bowl ring could be traced to Wishbone? Hard for him to notice, as he imagines himself as Franklin Blake in Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone.
#21 - War of the Noses
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/8/1997
A betrayed Wishbone lapses into the character Richard Shelton in Robert Louis Stevenson's The Black Arrow.
#22 - Halloween Hound: The Legend of the Creepy Collars (2)
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/4/1997
Continuation of Part 1.
#23 - Picks of the Litter
Season 1 - Episode 40 - Aired 11/9/1996
The obligatory flashback episode (and the only best-of the series would ever see).
#24 - Dances With Dogs
Season 1 - Episode 38 - Aired 11/7/1996
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.
#25 - Pantin' at the Opera
Season 1 - Episode 37 - Aired 11/6/1996
Wishbone tells the story of Gaston Leroux's ""The Phantom Of The Opera.""