My favorite moment is when Wishbone, as David, is facing Goliath and his little doggy paw comes straight up with the sling in it. I hope he didn’t dislocate his shoulder doing that scene!
My daughter loved Wishbone - and so did I. Very clever stories - and in some cases, truer to the books than other movies (eg: Frankenbone, Pantin’ at the Opera.). Plus, the kids were engaging and their stores complemented Wishbone’s tales nicely. (By the way, Sam grew up to be one of Caleb’s victims in Buffy!)
IIRC, they did Pride and Prejudice once, with Wishbone as Darcy. I’m picturing the actress who played Elizabeth calling her family. “I’m going to play Elizabeth Bennet, in Pride and Prejudice on TV!”
“Wonderful! Who’s Darcy?”
“Well…”
Awww, Wishbone was a huge favorite of mine. And I even had a friend I went to high school with get a part on two if the episodes. I wish they’d bring him back.
Ah, Wishbone. One of my favorite ‘kid’s’ shows. How they managed to tell the story in the book AND the related modern day story in half an hour was impressive. I honestly believe he helped my son get interested in reading.
Well, seeing as he (Soccer, Wishbone’s actor) is dead, it might be a bit difficult…
Not literally.
I remember there was a cautionary tale about becoming reliant on calculators to do math, but delivered it by having the offending character not being allowed to solve a word problem without one. But his problem was with parsing words into mathematical notations, which a calculator couldn’t aid in the first place.
This has bugged the hell out of me for years.
I’m quite surprised that he was played by only one dog.
He wasn’t. Soccer was the main pup, but he had back up.
Finally, a chance to demonstrate that I knew some stars! Back in the 90s I worked for the company that produced Wishbone (they also had something to do with Barney) and I got to meet the dog one day. I did not get his Pawtograph but unlike a lot of the stars you hear about Soccer had his feet firmly planted on the earth and he was a very good pooch.
There’s some pathos in the fact that it’s kinda sad that he was loved by millions of people, and had an influence on people’s lives…even as he was alive, and as a dog he never comprehended it