Wishbone (television show)
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| Genre | Children's Comedy-drama |
| Created by | Rick Duffield (Executive producer) |
| Starring |
Soccer Jordan Wall Adam Springfield Christie Abbott Mary Chris Wall Angee Hughes Julio Cedillo (Season 2) Mikaila Enriquez (Season 2) Paul English Jr (Season 2) |
| Voices of | Larry Brantley as Wishbone |
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| Opening theme | "What's the Story, Wishbone?" |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 50 (list of episodes) |
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| Location(s) |
Plano, Texas Allen, Texas |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Big Feats! Entertainment |
| Distributor | HIT Entertainment |
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| Original network | PBS, PBS Kids, Disney Channel, Playhouse Disney (reruns only) |
| Picture format | 480i SDTV |
| Audio format | Dolby Surround |
| Original release | October 9, 1995 – December 4, 1997 |
Wishbone is a half-hour live-action children's television show that was produced from 1995 to 1998 and broadcast on PBS Kids. The show's title character is a Jack Russell Terrier. Wishbone lives with his owner Joe Talbot in the fictional 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 whichever famous character he is currently portraying and not as a dog. The show won four Daytime Emmys, a Peabody Award, and honors from the Television Critics Association. Wishbone's exterior shots were filmed on the backlot of Lyrick Studios's teen division Big Feats! Entertainment in Allen, Texas, and its interior shots were filmed on a sound stage in a 50,000 square foot warehouse in Plano, Texas. Additional scenes were filmed in Grapevine, Texas.
This show garnered particular praise for refusing to bowdlerize many of the sadder or more unpleasant aspects of the source works, which usually enjoyed a fairly faithful retelling in the fantasy sequences.
The show also inspired several book series. Altogether, there are more than fifty books featuring Wishbone, which were published even after the TV series ended production. Reruns of the show continued to air on some PBS affiliates until early 2008. In 2006, when a PBS Kids Go! digital channel was announced, PBS planned to air Wishbone on the channel. However, when the digital channel was canceled, Wishbone returned in reruns on the PBS national program service. Wishbone clips came to the PBS Kids Go! website. The return to PBS lasted a short time, though some PBS affiliates continued to air Wishbone until their license to do so ran out. The show continued to air in reruns until August 31, 2001. The show was replaced on the PBS Kids schedule on September 3, 2001 by Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat.
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