Wishbone: Season 1

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.

Part One continued.

A crime wave hits Oakdale and juvenile offenders are suspected. Joe can't believe his new friend Max is responsible, but Max is also friends with a rowdy older boy named Zack.Book tie-ins: Wishbone Classics #5: Oliver Twist.

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 to 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.

The kids try to save Jackson Park from developers who want to build a shopping center, 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.

The kids help put on a traditional storytelling show to raise money. David and Emily's maternal uncle, Homer Vincent (Akin Babatunde), is the storyteller, narrating African folk tales (with Wishbone introducing them before Homer takes over). Meanwhile, David overloads on responsibilities and refuses to ask for help, which causes them to blow up in his face.

The kids struggle over a challenging poetry assignment for English class. David is especially perplexed, but Wanda helps him out in secret.

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.

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.

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.

Joe aspires to make it into the Encyclopedia of World Records for making the most free throws, but his rival Damont Jones sets himself against Joe, intending to beat the record himself.Book tie-ins: Wishbone Classics #1: Don Quixote.

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.

After an allergic reaction to coconuts causes Sam to miss the school's 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.

The boys become jealous when Sam befriends and helps an awkward boy named Nathaniel Bobelesky.Book tie-ins: The Adventures of Wishbone #5: The Hunchdog of Notre Dame.

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.

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.

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

While helping Wanda plant a new tree, 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.

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 lost purse.

Wanda falls for an Elvis impersonator named Lou Dublin, jeopardizing her relationship with Mr. Pruitt. However, Wanda doesn't realize that Lou Dublin is 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.

Nathaniel Bobelesky, who's 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.

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.

Joe and Ellie, a cafeteria worker, take perfectly good food headed for the dumpster so that it can go to the local food bank, despite the objections of a strict cafeteria manager.Book tie-ins: Wishbone Classics #6: The Adventures of Robin Hood.

The kids agonize over finding dates for the Oakdale beach party social, and a fight between Sam and David doesn't help matters.

Believing he would be just as good at coaching as he is at playing, Joe tries to coach a girls' tee-ball team that includes Emily and Tina. The naive 5-year-olds are easily confused and distracted. Still, since they're smitten with the adorable Wishbone, the playful canine gets the starry-eyed youngsters to chase him around the diamond (with the reward of petting him at each base). This causes them to win the game by one point.Book tie-ins: The Adventures of Wishbone #3: The Prince and the Pooch

After one of David's inventions is used by Damont to ruin Wanda's garden and Wanda blames David, he thinks of a clever way to get revenge. Unfortunately, an innocent party is caught in the crossfire.

Samantha convinces Joe and David to help her look for a ""magic"" horseshoe that is rumored to be nailed somewhere inside an old rickety barn in a remote wooded area of Oakdale. Wishbone notes Sam's adventurous spirit and her eager determination to fulfill her quest, and compares her to Jim Hawkins in Robert Louis Stevenson's book ""Treasure Island"".

Wishbone stays at David and Emily's house when Ellen and Joe go to Vancouver. After he and Sam 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. Note: A segment of this episode is featured in the video, Kids For Character: Choices Count.

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.