List of Wishbone episodes

This is a list of all Wishbone episodes.

Episode list

Season 1

Number	Title	Release date	Featured work	Wishbone's teleplay role	VHS/DVD release
1	A Tail in Twain, part 1	March 23, 1995	The Adventures of Tom Sawyer	Tom Sawyer	VHS (w/ part 2, April 29, 1997)
Plot: Series premiere. In part 1, Wishbone and the kids explore Jackson Park, where they discover a man digging up the "No Name Grave."
Book tie-ins: Wishbone Classics #11: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
2	A Tail in Twain, part 2	March 24, 1995	The Adventures of Tom Sawyer	Tom Sawyer	VHS (w/ part 1, April 29, 1997)
Plot: In part 2, Wishbone and the kids continue to search in Jackson Park for the man digging up the "No Name Grave."
Book tie-ins: Wishbone Classics #11: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
3	Twisted Tail	October 9, 1995	Oliver Twist	Oliver Twist	VHS (February 27, 1996)
Plot: A crime wave hits Oakdale and juvenile offenders are suspected. Joe can't believe that his new friend Max is responsible, but Max is also friends with a rowdy older boy.
Book tie-ins: Wishbone Classics #5: Oliver Twist.
4	Rosie, Oh! Rosie, Oh!	October 10, 1995	Romeo and Juliet	Romeo Montague	YouTube
Plot: Found without his collar, Wishbone is taken to the pound, where he falls in love with a female dog named Rosie. After being rescued, he conspires to lose his collar again so that he can get back to his love. Meanwhile, Sam also falls for Rosie and seeks to adopt her.
Book tie-ins: Wishbone Classics #3: Romeo and Juliet.
5	Homer Sweet Homer	October 11, 1995	The Odyssey	Odysseus	VHS (February 27, 1996)
Plot: The kids try to save Jackson Park from developers who want to build a shopping center there, destroying a historical oak tree in the process. First appearance of Mr. King and the Suitor Development Corporation.
Book tie-ins: Wishbone Classics #2: The Odyssey, The Adventures of Wishbone #13: Homer Sweet Homer.
6	Bark that Bark	October 12, 1995	African American folktales (Anansi the Spider and The People Could Fly)	Anansi and Wana	YouTube
Plot: The kids help put on a traditional story-telling show to raise money. David's maternal uncle, Homer Vincent (Akin Babatunde) is the storyteller throughout the episode, narrating verbal African folk tales (with Wishbone introducing the first before Mr. Vincent takes over). Meanwhile, David overloads on responsibilities and refuses to ask for help, which causes them to literally blow up in his face. Note: This was first episode to feature a story involving ethnic folklore.
Book tie-ins: N/A
7	Cyranose	October 13, 1995	Cyrano de Bergerac	Cyrano de Bergerac	YouTube
Plot: The kids struggle over a challenging poetry assignment they have to do for English class. David is especially perplexed by it, but Wanda helps him out in secret.
Book tie-ins: N/A
8	The Slobbery Hound	October 16, 1995	The Hound of the Baskervilles	Sherlock Holmes (first time)	VHS (The Slobbery Hound, February 27, 1996; Wishbone in The Hound of the Baskervilles, date unknown)
Plot: When Wishbone is blamed for neighborhood messes, he, Joe, David and Sam must find the dog who is the real culprit. This episode marks the first of two occasions when Wishbone imagines himself into a Sherlock Holmes story.
Book tie-ins: N/A
9	Digging Up the Past	October 17, 1995	Rip Van Winkle	Rip Van Winkle	YouTube
Plot: Wishbone and the kids meet Dr. Thelma Brown, an elderly woman who lived in Joe's house as a child, and help dig up a time capsule she once buried.
Book tie-ins: The Adventures of Wishbone #6: Digging Up the Past.
10	Bone of Arc	October 18, 1995	Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc	Louis de Conte	VHS (August 20, 1996)
Plot: Samantha joins the boys' soccer team.
Book tie-ins: Wishbone Classics #4: Joan of Arc.
11	The Impawssible Dream	October 19, 1995	Don Quixote	Sancho Panza	DVD (December 30, 2005)
Plot: Joe aspires to make it into the Encyclopedia of World Records for making the most free throws ever recorded, but his rival Damont Jones sets himself against Joe, intending to beat the record himself.
Book tie-ins: Wishbone Classics #1: Don Quixote.
12	Fleabitten Bargain	October 20, 1995	Faust	Faust	YouTube
Plot: A salesman offers Joe a virtual-reality machine, but only in exchange for Wishbone.
Book tie-ins: N/A
13	Sniffing the Gauntlet	October 23, 1995	Ivanhoe	Ivanhoe	YouTube
Plot: After an allergic reaction prevents Sam from going to school on the day of a big spelling bee, David must step up to win it for their team.
Book tie-ins: Wishbone Classics #12: Ivanhoe, The Adventures of Wishbone #20: Ivanhound.
14	The Hunchdog of Notre Dame	October 24, 1995	The Hunchback of Notre-Dame	Quasimodo	DVD (November 25, 2008)
Plot: The boys become jealous when Samantha befriends and helps an awkward boy named Nathaniel Bobelesky.
Book tie-ins: The Adventures of Wishbone #5: The Hunchdog of Notre Dame. Note: Like in Disney's animated musical film, Quasimodo (Wishbone) and Esmeralda remain alive at the end of the story.
15	Golden Retrieved	October 25, 1995	Silas Marner	Silas Marner	YouTube
Plot: Joe only realizes how much Wishbone means to him when the dog goes missing. Meanwhile, Wishbone is adopted by a kind older man who names him "Spot."
Book tie-ins: N/A
16	A Tail of Two Sitters	October 26, 1995	A Tale of Two Cities	Charles Darnay	YouTube
Plot: Joe and David refuse to properly babysit David's little sister Emily and her friend Tina since it would interfere with their plans. Instead, the girls are left alone, where they wreak havoc on the Talbots' home.
Book tie-ins: The Adventures of Wishbone #9: A Tail of Two Sitters.
17	Frankenbone	October 27, 1995	Frankenstein	Victor Frankenstein	VHS (Frankenbone, August 20, 1996; Wishbone in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, September 1, 1998)
Plot: David's science project causes unending trouble when it comes to life. Note: This episode remains true to Mary Shelley's original novel.
Book tie-ins: Wishbone Classics #7: Frankenstein
18	Hot Diggity Dawg	October 31, 1995	Journey to the Center of the Earth	Professor Otto Lidenbrock	DVD (June 29, 2004)
Plot: While helping Wanda plant a new tree in her yard, the kids and Wishbone discover half of a very old medal, and set out to find the other half, as well as where it came from.
Book tie-ins: Wishbone Classics #9: A Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Adventures of Wishbone #17: Digging to the Center of the Earth.
19	One Thousand and One Tails	November 1, 1995	One Thousand and One Nights (Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves)	Ali Baba/Sinbad (cameo)/Aladdin (cameo)	YouTube
Plot: When David has a run-in with cyber-criminals on the Internet, the FBI is accidentally sent to the Barnes' home. This causes Wishbone to think the cops are after Emily, who has stolen Wanda's forgotten purse.
Book tie-ins: N/A
20	Mixed Breeds	November 2, 1995	Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Gabriel John Utterson	YouTube
Plot: Wanda falls for an Elvis impersonator named Lou Dublin, jeopardizing her relationship with Mr. Pruitt.
Book tie-ins: Wishbone Classics #8: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Adventures of Wishbone #14: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Dog.
21	The Canine Cure	November 3, 1995	The Imaginary Invalid	Molière	YouTube
Plot: Nathaniel Bobelesky, who is allergic to almost everything, including dogs, spends the night at Joe's house. Wishbone thinks Nathaniel might not be as frail as he thinks he is, and tries to prove it.
Book tie-ins: N/A
22	The Pawloined Paper	November 6, 1995	The Purloined Letter	C. Auguste Dupin	YouTube
Plot: Joe tries to get back an embarrassing word puzzle he made before anyone sees it, especially Curtis, who intends to use it to humiliate him.
Book tie-ins: The Adventures of Wishbone #11: The Pawloined Paper.
23	Bark to the Future	November 7, 1995	The Time Machine	The Time Traveler	YouTube
Plot: While struggling with math, Joe tries to use a calculator instead of his own intellect, only for it to cause more trouble with the subject.
Book tie-ins: N/A
24	Paw Prints of Thieves	November 8, 1995	The Adventures of Robin Hood	Robin Hood	DVD (June 29, 2004)
Plot: Joe and a cafeteria worker take perfectly good food headed for the dumpster, so that it can go to the local food bank, despite the protestations of an uptight school supervisor.
Book tie-ins: Wishbone Classics #6: The Adventures of Robin Hood.
25	Furst Impressions	November 9, 1995	Pride and Prejudice	Mr. Darcy	YouTube
Plot: The kids agonize over finding dates for the Oakdale school beach party social, and a fight between Sam and David doesn't help matters.
Book tie-ins: N/A
26	The Prince and the Pooch	November 10, 1995	The Prince and the Pauper	Tom Canty/Edward VI of England	VHS (The Prince and the Pooch, February 27, 1996; Wishbone in The Prince and the Pauper, date unknown)
Plot: Believing he'd be just as good at coaching as he is at playing, Joe tries to coach a tee-ball team that includes Emily and Tina.
Book tie-ins: The Adventures of Wishbone #3: The Prince and the Pooch.
27	The Count's Account	November 13, 1995	The Count of Monte Cristo	Edmond Dantès	YouTube
Plot: After one of David's inventions is used by Damont to ruin Wanda's garden and make Wanda blame David, he thinks of a clever way to get revenge against Damont. Unfortunately, an innocent party is caught in the crossfire.
Book tie-ins: N/A
28	Salty Dog	November 14, 1995	Treasure Island	Jim Hawkins	VHS (May 21, 1996)
Plot: Samantha convinces the boys to help her look for "Blackbeard's Horseshoe" inside a condemned barn.
Book tie-ins: The Adventures of Wishbone #2: Salty Dog.
29	Little Big Dog	November 15, 1995	David and Goliath	David	YouTube
Plot: After he and Samantha break a side-view mirror off his parents' new car, David tries to hide the damage. When the mirror breaks off and Mr. Barnes prepares to sue the manufacturer, Emily convinces her brother to come clean.
Book tie-ins: N/A
30	A Dogged Exposé	November 16, 1995	A Scandal in Bohemia	Sherlock Holmes (second appearance)	YouTube
Plot: Samantha tries to find out who is distributing embarrassing pictures of her, and others.
Book tie-ins: N/A
31	A Terrified Terrier	November 17, 1995	The Red Badge of Courage	Henry Fleming	VHS (May 21, 1996)
Plot: Neglecting David, Sam, and Wishbone, Joe decides to hang out with more popular kids and starts to imitate their behavior, but soon realizes it could cost him his best friends.
Book tie-ins: Wishbone Classics #10: The Red Badge of Courage.
32	Shakespaw	November 20, 1995	The Tempest	Ariel	YouTube
Plot: The kids attempt to put on their own production of William Shakespeare's The Tempest, but the rehearsal proves challenging.
Book tie-ins: N/A
33	Muttketeer	November 21, 1995	The Three Musketeers	D'Artagnan	YouTube
Plot: Wishbone tries to join the kids at school.
Book tie-ins: The Adventures of Wishbone #8: Muttketeer!.
34	Hercules Unleashed	November 22, 1995	Hercules and the Golden Apples	Hercules	VHS (April 29, 1997)
Plot: Samantha tries to find a perfect gift for her father's 40th birthday.
Book tie-ins: N/A
35	¡Viva Wishbone!	November 23, 1995	Our Lady of Guadalupe	Juan Diego	YouTube
Plot: Ellen befriends a young man who has recently lost his own mother which causes Joe to struggle with his jealousy. To help him, Señora Julia (Sylvia Caplan Rawley), an old friend who is similar to a second mother to him, tells him the story "Our Lady of Guadalupe" (which Wishbone introduces before Julia begins narrating it) after a store's policy does not allow Joe to return a broken music box which was intended for his mother's gift for Mother's Day.
Book tie-ins: N/A
36	The Entrepawneur	November 24, 1995	Metamorphoses	King Midas	YouTube
Plot: Joe becomes overbearing toward Sam and David when he tries to run a grocery delivery business.
Book tie-ins: Wishbone Adventures #1: Curse of Gold.
37	Pantin' at the Opera	November 27, 1995	The Phantom of the Opera	Viscount Raoul de Chagny	YouTube
Plot: Books start disappearing from the local library, and one of the former librarians is reported dead. Things are definitely not as they seem, however, and Ellen, Joe, Wishbone, Wanda and their friends jump on the case.
Book tie-ins: N/A
38	Dances with Dogs	November 28, 1995	The Story of the Deathless Voice	A young brave	YouTube
Plot: Wanda and Ellen are planning their fifth annual Lee Natonabah (Apache-Mexican American actor Adan Sanchez) event at the library, in which a Native-American friend of Joe's speaks about Navajo culture, family, and story-telling. While Joe and David volunteer to tell their own family stories as well at a story-telling performance, which leads to Joe feeling inadequate in his father's shadow, Lee, rather than Wishbone, narrates a story from a Dakota tribe that once lived in Minnesota.
Book tie-ins: N/A
39	Rushin' to the Bone	November 29, 1995	The Inspector General	Osip	YouTube
Plot: Wishbone gets the chance to be a star in a dog food commercial, but is it really meant to be his big break?
Book tie-ins: N/A
40	Picks of the Litter	November 30, 1995	Various	Various	YouTube
Plot: In the first season finale, Wishbone tells some of his favorite stories (with clips from A Tail in Twain, Bark That Bark, The Impawssible Dream, Furst Impressions, Homer Sweet Homer, Sniffing the Gauntlet, Frankenbone, Bone of Arc and Twisted Tail) to a visiting female dog named Penny, who shocks Wishbone by revealing she has something in common with him at the very end: she, too, can speak!
Book tie-ins: N/A

Season 2

Number	Title	Release date	Featured work	Wishbone's teleplay role	VHS/DVD release
41	Halloween Hound: The Legend of Creepy Collars, part 1	October 15, 1997	The Legend of Sleepy Hollow	Ichabod Crane	VHS (w/ part 2, Wishbone in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, September 1, 1998)
Plot: In the season 2 premiere, Joe accidentally throws a ball near the old Murphy house while playing with Wishbone. Wishbone meets a black cat for the first time, but Joe warns him to leave the site due to its unpleasant appearance. Joe meets Oakdale's Sports and Games store owner, Travis Del Rio (Julio Cedillo) who develops a Halloween-themed scavenger hunt. He also meets Mr. Del Rio's niece, Melina Finch (Mikaila Enriquez) and nephew, Marcus Finch (Paul English, Jr.). Joe later participates in the scavenger hunt with his two friends after Travis gives the instructions to every scavenger hunt group. Damont and his cousin, Jimmy (Jarrad Kritzstein) are ahead of the group led by Sam. Joe and David are along with her. The hunt begins with these three friends playing a carnival game that involves shooting simulated wild animals (either a tiger or an African lion) behind Wanda's house. Next, they go to the Dart animal clinic where Sam plays in the simulated horse-racing arcade game. After that, the friends along with Wishbone go over to Jackson Park where David drops a coin into the orange slot in order to begin the contraption. It ends with an invitation to a Halloween "tea party" at 13 Thunder Road.
Book tie-ins: Super Adventures Of Wishbone #2: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
42	Halloween Hound: The Legend of Creepy Collars, part 2	October 15, 1997	The Legend of Sleepy Hollow	Ichabod Crane	VHS (w/ part 1, Wishbone in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, September 1, 1998)
Plot: Oakdale's first annual Halloween-themed scavenger hunt ends with Joe, David, and Sam at Thunder Road in front of the old Murphy house along with Jimmy who tells them that Damont went inside the haunted house before their arrival. Wishbone pursues a black cat, which leads Joe and his two friends directly into the Murphy house, but Jimmy stays outside. It is the same house where Joe saw an eerie-eyed disembodied spirit while he was trick-or-treating with David several years earlier. Damont sneakily closes various doors on Joe, Sam, and David. Wishbone closes a door on Damont and the black cat. The hunt ends with Joe finding the gift certificate under a floor downstairs and Damont quickly exits the Murphy house after Joe opens the door that shuttered Damont, but Joe encounters the eerie eyes which turn out to be the black cat. The disembodied spirit's eerie eyes turn up when Sam's group leaves the Murphy house. After exiting the Murphy house, Travis congratulates Sam's team for finishing the scavenger hunt. He announces a Halloween party at his Sports and Games store afterwards. Travis also tells Joe that the scavenger hunt on Halloween was his fortunate day after all. The black cat disappears on Wishbone for the final time.
Book tie-ins: Super Adventures Of Wishbone #2: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
43	The Prince of Wags	November 6, 1997	Henry IV, Part 1	Prince Henry (Hal)	YouTube
Plot: Joe is elected captain of his basketball team, and learns what it means to be a leader.
Book tie-ins: N/A
44	A Bone of Contention	November 13, 1997	The Courtship of Miles Standish	John Alden	YouTube
Plot: Joe and David compete for the affections of the same girl, whom they each want to take to a school dance.
Book tie-ins: N/A
45	Groomed for Greatness	November 20, 1997	Great Expectations	Pip	YouTube
Plot: Wanda's cousin, Renee Lassiter (Shelley Duvall) arrives in Oakdale to create a sculpture for Jackson Park.
Book tie-ins: N/A
46	War of the Noses	November 27, 1997	The Black Arrow	Richard Shelton	YouTube
Plot: Wishbone tries to get out of an appointment with the vet, while also attempting to rescue his red chair.
Book tie-ins: N/A
47	Moonbone	March 7, 1998	The Moonstone	Franklin Blake	YouTube
Plot: When football star Daryl "Moose" Johnston comes to town and his Super Bowl ring goes missing, Wishbone is suspected because of his digging habit.
Book tie-ins: N/A
48	Barking at Buddha	March 13, 1998	Monkey (Journey to the West)	Monkey	YouTube
Plot: Jimmy and Marcus want to impress Joe and his friends, but their attempts to be more mature and helpful have unintended consequences. Afterwards, Travis has a serious talk with his nephew. He tells Marcus to apologize to Joe, his friends, and Sam's father for being irresponsible for the preparation of Oakdale's athletic competition banquet at Pepper Pete's by burning the pizzas as well as damaging the banquet's setup. The next day, Marcus and Jimmy go to Pepper Pete's to clean up their very big mess from the previous day.
Book tie-ins: N/A
49	Pup Fiction	March 25, 1998	Northanger Abbey	Henry Tilney	YouTube
Plot: Wanda receives three mysterious anonymous notes in the mail, but the mystery about all of those notes turn out to be a birthday surprise for her from all of her friends in Oakdale.
Book tie-ins: N/A
50	The Roamin' Nose	April 1, 1998	The Aeneid	Aeneas	YouTube
Plot: In the series finale, a gas leak in the neighborhood forces the neighbors from their homes. At the same time, Joe, Sam, and Damont are feeling nervous about their upcoming high school years, while Wishbone recalls a story about destiny and history.
Book tie-ins: N/A
Film	Wishbone's Dog Days of the West	March 13, 1998	Heart of the West (A Call Loan, The Reformation of Calliope, Cupid a la Carte)	Long Bill Longley	VHS (June 9, 1998)
Plot: After saving a little girl from a falling beam and being treated like a hero, Wanda has to deal with a sneaky TV reporter who tries to make people view her as a tyrant.
Book tie-ins: Super Adventures Of Wishbone #1: Wishbone's Dog Days of the West.

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