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.
#1 - A Tale of Two Sitters
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 10/30/1995
Guilt by association haunts Wishbone in his dream of A Tale of Two Cities.
#2 - The Hunchdog of Notre Dame
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 10/26/1995
Wishbone is the Hunchback of Notre Dame, standing for and defending Esmerelda.
#4 - Homer Sweet Homer
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/26/1995
Wishbone tells the story of Homer's ""The Odyssey.""
#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.
#8 - Bark That Bark
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/30/1995
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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - Digging Up the Past
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 18 - Aired 11/1/1995
Wishbone digs for Wanda, turning the day into the pages of Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth.
#13 - Hercules Unleashed
Season 1 - Episode 34 - Aired 11/3/1996
While Samantha seeks the perfect gift for her father's birthday, Wishbone plays up Hercules, seeking the Golden Apples of the Hesperides.
#14 - Cyranose
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/31/1995
Wishbone is Cyrano de Bergerac, serenading Roxanne with poetry.
#15 - The Impawssible Dream
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 4/5/1995
Wishbone, while watching Joe pursue his impossible dream of making the book of world records, thinks of Don Quixote.
#16 - Twisted Tail
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/25/1995
A crime wave hits Oakdale, making the kids selective in choosing friends and giving Wishbone a chance to dream of Oliver Twist.
#17 - Bone of Arc
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.
#18 - A Tail in Twain (1)
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/23/1995
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.
#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.
#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).
#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.""