The WORST episodes of Wishbone

Every episode of Wishbone ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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.

Last Updated: 8/19/2024Network: PBSStatus: Ended
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Barking at Buddha
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#1 - Barking at Buddha

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/10/1997

Wishbone wants to be a hero and tries to rescue two misguided youngsters when they set out to impress the older kids. As ""Monkey,"" he yearns to be immortal and seeks a position of importance in Wu Ch'eng-en's Chinese folktale.

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Groomed for Greatness
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#2 - 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.

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The Prince of Wags
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#3 - 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.

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#4 - The Pawloined Paper

Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 11/5/1995

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

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#5 - The Canine Cure

Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 11/4/1995

This time, Wishbone imagines The Imaginary Invalid by Molière.

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#6 - Mixed Breeds

Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 11/3/1995

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.

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#7 - Golden Retrieved

Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 10/27/1995

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.

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#8 - One Thousand and One Tails

Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 11/2/1995

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.

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Bone of Contention
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#9 - 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.""

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#10 - Rushin' to the Bone

Season 1 - Episode 39 - Aired 11/8/1996

Wishbone dramatizes Gogol's The Inspector General.

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#11 - 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

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#12 - 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.

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Halloween Hound: The Legend of the Creepy Collars (1)
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#13 - 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"".

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#14 - 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.

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The Roamin' Nose
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#15 - 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.

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Moonbone
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#16 - 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.

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War of the Noses
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#17 - 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.

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Halloween Hound: The Legend of the Creepy Collars (2)
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#18 - Halloween Hound: The Legend of the Creepy Collars (2)

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/4/1997

Continuation of Part 1.

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#19 - 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).

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#20 - 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.

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#21 - 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.""

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#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.

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#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.

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#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.

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#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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