• Network: PBS
  • Series Premiere Date: Mar 1, 1995
Season #: 2, 1
Metascore
79

Generally favorable reviews - based on 5 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 5
  2. Negative: 0 out of 5

Critic Reviews

  1. Houston Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mike McDaniel
    Jan 20, 2022
    100
    This one has everything - humor, high production values, solid acting and imaginative story lines that teach without knocking you over the head. [09 Sep 1995, p.1]
  2. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: David Zurawik
    Jan 20, 2022
    88
    Wishbone is a near-perfect PBS kids' show. [08 Oct 1995]
  3. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Patricia Holt
    Jan 20, 2022
    75
    An amazingly complicated little show that teaches the classics to young children (all right: ages 6 to 52) through an exuberant, cocky, humorous and highly knowledgeable terrier named Wishbone. [28 Apr 1996, p.2]
  4. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Storm
    Jan 20, 2022
    70
    It may take a superhero to pry your kids away from The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers or Saved by the Bell, which go up against Wishbone weekdays at 4:30, but the little dog has power. Once kids see him, they may want to return of their own free will. [09 Oct 1995, p.D05]
  5. St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    Reviewed by: Gail Pennington
    Jan 20, 2022
    60
    What with the dog stunts (Wishbone has three stunt doubles), all the kids and the large cast of costumed actors for the literary segments, this is a very labor-intensive effort for a five-times-a-week show. Computerized special effects are even used. Still, the dramatizations feel amateurish, hardly above your church group's talent night. [09 Oct 1995, p.6E]