What's the Story, Wishbone?

A sweet little documentary about how dressing up a dog to play Victor Frankenstein on children's television came to be.

stephen_sajdak

Wishbone played a huge part of my childhood. It was my favorite show for a good part of it. I would constantly check out the vhs tapes at my library, look at the Wishbone books, and often played with my Wishbone toy. I know it got a lot of kids into reading, but I was…

Jess

Geriatric Millennial here, so "Wishbone" was for slightly younger kids than me, but of course I knew this cute show from afar. Funny though as the "child" actors were actually about my age, even a year or two older. And this "how they did it" doc is a little better than…

🐱Andrew Chrzanowski🐱

You can feel the love and pride in every interview, truly incredible. What a magical show. We used to have it all.

frostrz

These millennial pop culture documentaries are literal catnip for me

Conor Holt

Yes, I studied literature with the esteemed Professor Wishbone 📚🐶

Emma Cregan

Godbless this show and all the people who put it together. A huge highlight of this documentary is how it takes the time to focus on so many of the below-the-line creatives and their hard work

parkermit

Some great behind-the-scenes material here that only increases my appreciation for what I already regarded as a 5-star show. However, I found it really strange that they didn't get interviews with any of the child stars - just the adult characters and crew. Also, how the…

Gauntly

I had written 6 paragraphs about this documentary before my laptop crashed due to a memory error and erased my review. In some ways, that's what actually happened to Wishbone. Very good nostalgia bait, "millennial catnip", more of an oral history than a true Ken Burns…

Max