The BEST episodes of Wishbone season 1
Every episode of Wishbone season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Wishbone season 1!
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.
Watch Now:Amazon#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.
Watch Now:Amazon#4 - Homer Sweet Homer
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/26/1995
Wishbone tells the story of Homer's ""The Odyssey.""
Watch Now:Amazon#5 - Paw Prints of Thieves
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/2/1996
When Joe gets under the crosshairs for what appears to be a good deed, Wishbone imagines himself as Robin Hood.
Watch Now:Amazon#6 - 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.
Watch Now:Amazon#7 - 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.
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#8 - 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.
Watch Now:Amazon#9 - 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.
Watch Now:Amazon#10 - 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.
Watch Now:Amazon#11 - 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.
Watch Now:Amazon#12 - Rosie, Oh, Rosie, Oh!
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/25/1995
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
Watch Now:Amazon#13 - Cyranose
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/31/1995
Wishbone is Cyrano de Bergerac, serenading Roxanne with poetry.
Watch Now:Amazon#14 - 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.
Watch Now:Amazon#15 - 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.
Watch Now:Amazon#16 - 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.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV#17 - 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.
Watch Now:Amazon#18 - 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).
Watch Now:Amazon#19 - 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.
Watch Now:Amazon#20 - 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.""
Watch Now:Amazon#21 - 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.
Watch Now:Amazon#22 - ¡Viva Wishbone!
Season 1 - Episode 35 - Aired 11/4/1996
The power of love, for Wishbone, plays itself out in Our Lady of Guadalupe.
Watch Now:Amazon#23 - 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.
Watch Now:Amazon#24 - 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.
#25 - 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.
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