Seasons & episodes

S1 · E1A Tail in Twain (1) 1995-03-23 · 28 min＋

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.

S1 · E2A Tail in Twain (2) 1995-03-24 · 28 min＋

Part One continued.

S1 · E3Twisted Tail 1995-03-25 · 28 min＋

A crime wave hits Oakdale, making the kids selective in choosing friends and giving Wishbone a chance to dream of Oliver Twist.

S1 · E4Rosie, Oh, Rosie, Oh! 1995-03-25 · 28 min＋

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

S1 · E5Homer Sweet Homer 1995-03-26 · 28 min＋

Wishbone tells the story of Homer's ""The Odyssey.""

S1 · E6Bark That Bark 1995-03-30 · 28 min＋

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.

S1 · E7Cyranose 1995-03-31 · 28 min＋

Wishbone is Cyrano de Bergerac, serenading Roxanne with poetry.

S1 · E8The Slobbery Hound 1995-04-01 · 28 min＋

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.

S1 · E9Digging Up the Past 1995-04-02 · 28 min＋

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.

S1 · E10Bone of Arc 1995-04-03 · 28 min＋

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.

S1 · E11The Impawssible Dream 1995-04-05 · 28 min＋

Wishbone, while watching Joe pursue his impossible dream of making the book of world records, thinks of Don Quixote.

S1 · E12Fleabitten Bargain 1995-04-05 · 28 min＋

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.

S1 · E13Sniffing the Gauntlet 1995-04-06 · 28 min＋

Keeping oneself in the right frame of mind, Wishbone draws into Rebecca's world in Ivanhoe.

S1 · E14The Hunchdog of Notre Dame 1995-10-26 · 28 min＋

Wishbone is the Hunchback of Notre Dame, standing for and defending Esmerelda.

S1 · E15Golden Retrieved 1995-10-27 · 28 min＋

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.

S1 · E16A Tale of Two Sitters 1995-10-30 · 28 min＋

Guilt by association haunts Wishbone in his dream of A Tale of Two Cities.

S1 · E17Frankenbone 1995-10-31 · 28 min＋

David claims that through his experiments he has discovered the secret of life. Wishbone compares the mysterious experiment to the Mary Shelly horror, ""Frankenstein.

Wishbone digs for Wanda, turning the day into the pages of Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth.

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.

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.

This time, Wishbone imagines The Imaginary Invalid by Molière.

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

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.

When Joe gets under the crosshairs for what appears to be a good deed, Wishbone imagines himself as Robin Hood.