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 - 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.
#2 - Hot Diggety Dawg
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.
#3 - Halloween Hound: The Legend of the Creepy Collars (1)
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/3/1997
Joe and his two best friends, David and Samantha, form a team to go on a Halloween scavenger hunt. Damont also competes in the game, but he tries to win by cheating. Meanwhile, Wishbone imagines himself as Ichabod Crane in Washington Irving's ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"".
#4 - 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.
#5 - Bark to the Future
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 11/6/1995
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.
#6 - The Prince and the Pooch
Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/4/1996
It's another tale in Twain for Wishbone, playing both the Prince and the Pauper.
#7 - Pup Fiction
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/11/1997
Intrigue and mystery surrounds a letter addressed to Wanda. In trying to trace the anonymous note, Wishbone drifts into Jane Austen's gothic horror novel Northanger Abbey.
#8 - The Count's Account
Season 1 - Episode 27 - Aired 3/5/1996
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.
#9 - Salty Dog
Season 1 - Episode 28 - Aired 3/6/1996
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"".
#10 - Little Big Dog
Season 1 - Episode 29 - Aired 3/7/1996
In David and Goliath, Wishbone has more bravery than the David we know from this series.
#11 - A Dogged Expose
Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 3/8/1996
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.
#12 - Terrified Terrier
Season 1 - Episode 31 - Aired 3/9/1996
Now Wishbone feels wounded as he dreams of Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage.
#13 - Shakespaw
Season 1 - Episode 32 - Aired 3/10/1996
David runs into no end of problems while staging a production of Shakespeare's The Tempest.
#14 - Muttketeer!
Season 1 - Episode 33 - Aired 11/2/1996
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.
#15 - ¡Viva Wishbone!
Season 1 - Episode 35 - Aired 11/4/1996
The power of love, for Wishbone, plays itself out in Our Lady of Guadalupe.
#16 - The Entrepawneur
Season 1 - Episode 36 - Aired 11/5/1996
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
#17 - 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.""
#18 - 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.
#19 - Rushin' to the Bone
Season 1 - Episode 39 - Aired 11/8/1996
Wishbone dramatizes Gogol's The Inspector General.
#20 - 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).
#21 - Halloween Hound: The Legend of the Creepy Collars (2)
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/4/1997
Continuation of Part 1.
#22 - The Prince of Wags
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/5/1997
The weight of leadership weighs heavy on Joe as captain of the school basketball team, and on Wishbone in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I.
#23 - Groomed for Greatness
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/6/1997
A statue to honor Wishbone consumes David's every waking moment, or at least that's what his friends think. It appears to Wishbone that David strikes a chord with Pip in Dickens's Great Expectations.
#24 - Bone of Contention
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/7/1997
Joe and David's friendship is tested when they both are interested in the same girl. Wishbone, as John Alden, and his best friend have to decide how valuable their friendship really is in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, ""The Courtship of Miles Standish.""
#25 - 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.