Wishbone: Death of a Working Dog | Reviving a Mobit

Mobituaries with Mo Rocca

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🗓️ 4 December 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

This week marks 8 years since the finale of the beloved series "Wishbone". In the 1990s, PBS introduced young audiences to a canine star like none other: a Jack Russell terrier who imagined himself as characters from classic works of literature. The show was called Wishbone. Today there's a whole generation of adults who were first weaned on Mark Twain, the legend of Faust or the Greek epics through this series. Wishbone is also the first TV show Mo wrote for. Mo talks with Wishbone head writer Stephanie Simpson and dog trainer Jackie Kaptan about the show and the life and career of its beloved lead actor, a dog named Soccer.

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0:00.0	Once upon a time, Amazon Music met audiobooks and listeners everywhere rejoiced.
0:05.8	Oh yeah.
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0:15.3	autobiographies, true crime, and more.
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0:28.4	listening. Terms apply. Because of your extraordinary bravery and intelligence, you have earned the
0:35.1	titles of honorary corporal rusty and honorary private,
0:39.3	Rin Tin Tin. Ever since Rin Tin, the superstar German Shepherd, who on-screen rescued
0:46.9	plenty of people and off-screen rescued Warner Brothers from bankruptcy in the 1920s, dogs have
0:53.8	played leading roles in Hollywood.
0:56.8	Look, there's Toto. Where do you come from? From Kansas's most courageous Cairn Terrier,
1:03.8	he's come to take us to dog with him. To the collie, who seemed to save more people in the
1:09.8	1950s than the polio vaccine did.
1:15.5	To the golden retriever who held court in the airbud movies.
1:20.5	Dogs don't play basketball?
1:22.4	What's the matter, gentlemen?
1:24.0	Afraid your team might get beat by a dog?
1:26.8	But I'm not sure any dog has ever played a role as multifaceted as the one played by the Jack Russell Terrier, who starred in the 1990s PBS television series Wishbone.
1:40.6	Believe me, it was nothing.
1:43.5	Hey, Wishbone.
1:45.0	Let's have some meatloaf.
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