Wishbone

Wishbone

1995
★★★★☆ 8.0/10
📺 2 Seasons
🎬 50 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 28 min/episode
Action & AdventureComedyKidsSci-Fi & Fantasy
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.

Seasons

Season 1
1995 • 40 Episodes
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.
Season 2
1997 • 10 Episodes
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"".

Crew

Producer
Betty A. Buckley

Network

PBS Kids

Production

Big Feats! Entertainment

Keywords

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