Wishbone is a fictional television show featuring a Jack Russell Terrier of the same name. The show originally aired from March 1 1995 to June 1 1998 in the United States on PBS. After cancellation in 1998, PBS continued to air reruns until August 31 2001. Re-runs currently air on select PBS stations at the discretion of the stations. The main character, Wishbone, a talking dog, lives with his owner, Joe Talbot, in the fictional modern town of Oakdale, Texas. Wishbone daydreams about being the lead character of stories from classic literature, drawing parallels between the stories and events in the lives of Joe and his friends. He was known as "the little dog with a big imagination". Only the viewers and the characters in his daydreams can hear Wishbone speak (and furthermore, the characters from his daydreams see Wishbone in costume as whatever famous character he is currently portraying and not as just an unclothed dog). The show has won Daytime Emmies, a Peabody award, and honors from the Television Critics Association. Wishbone's exterior shots were filmed on the backlot of Lyrick Studios in Allen, Texas, and its interior shots were filmed on a sound stage in a 50,000 square foot (4,600 square metres) warehouse in Plano, Texas.

The show garnered particular praise for refusing to sugarcoat many of the sadder or more unpleasant aspects of the source works, which usually enjoyed a fairly faithful retelling in the fantasy sequences.