Rick Duffield
Director
Wishbone (1995)
Season 2
Wishbone is a children's television show. The show's title character is a Jack Russell Terrier of the same name. Wishbone lives with his owner Joe Talbot in the fictional modern town of Oakdale, Texas. He daydreams about being the lead character of stories from classic literature He was known as "the little dog with a big imagination". Only the viewers and the characters in his daydreams can hear Wishbone speak. The characters from his daydreams see Wishbone as whatever famous character he is currently portraying and not as a dog.
Released Sept. 10, 1995
Episode 28 min
7+
Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Kids, Science Fiction
Keywords: tmdb.literature, tmdb.dog, tmdb.literary-adaptation, tmdb.overflowing-with-imagination, tmdb.friendship, tmdb.educational, tmdb.storytelling + 31 more, imdb.literature-on-screen, imdb.cult-favorite, imdb.texas, imdb.mother-son-relationship, imdb.dog-wears-a-costume, imdb.dog-wears-clothes, imdb.1990s, imdb.urban-adventure, imdb.kids-family, imdb.animals-family, imdb.quirky-comedy, imdb.dog, imdb.literature, imdb.fictional-town, imdb.voice-over-inner-thought, imdb.educational, imdb.storytelling, imdb.imagination, imdb.friend, imdb.friendship, imdb.pet-owner-relationship, imdb.best-friend, imdb.small-town, imdb.talking-animal, imdb.role-playing, imdb.animal-in-cast-credits, tmdb.talking-dog, tmdb.wishbone, imdb.real-life-mother-and-son-play-mother-and-son, tmdb.animals, imdb.cult-tv
Production Companies: Big Feats! Entertainment
Network: PBS Kids
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S2E1 - Halloween Hound: The Legend of the Creepy Collars (1)
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"".
March 3, 1997, midnight
S2E2 - Halloween Hound: The Legend of the Creepy Collars (2)
Continuation of Part 1.
March 4, 1997, midnight
S2E3 - The Prince of Wags
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.
March 5, 1997, midnight
S2E4 - Groomed for Greatness
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.
March 6, 1997, midnight
S2E5 - Bone of Contention
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.""
March 7, 1997, midnight
S2E6 - War of the Noses
A betrayed Wishbone lapses into the character Richard Shelton in Robert Louis Stevenson's The Black Arrow.
March 8, 1997, midnight
S2E7 - Moonbone
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.
March 9, 1997, midnight
S2E8 - Barking at Buddha
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.
March 10, 1997, midnight
S2E9 - Pup Fiction
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.
March 11, 1997, midnight
S2E10 - The Roamin' Nose
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.
March 12, 1997, midnight
Network: PBS Kids
Episode Runtime: 28 min.
Season Runtime: 1400 min.
Released: Sept. 10, 1995
Last Air Date: March 12, 1997, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: TV-Y7
Common sense age: 7+
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