TV on DVD Review: Wishbone Paw Prints of Thieves
I am a big fan of the Wishbone series and I loved watching the show growing up. The DVD release Wishbone: Paw Prints of Thieves is enjoyable, but at the same time kind of pitiful because it only has one episode and absolutely no special features. The sadder thing is that so few of the shows episodes even have this minimal of a release. I would love to see this show get season releases of its two season or at least a 4 episode set like many other kids shows are released as.
I may not like how they release this show, but I still think this show is worth watching on DVD, as it does not seem to be on PBS ever these days. I would not go as far as to recommend buying it unless you can get it for a couple bucks, but it is certainly a worthwhile rental. The “Paw Prints of Thieves” is a great episode of the show. It basically tells the story of Robin Hood and teaches about helping the poor. The main plot of the story is about Wishbone’s owner getting involved in secretly donating the school’s leftover food to the food bank despite the supervisor of the cafeteria not wanting to deal with the paperwork involved and instead wants the leftovers to be thrown away. Wishbone’s owner leads a school protest when the cafeteria worker is fired for donating the food. In the end the Principal finds out about the incident and helps start the program to do it and is annoyed to hear that the supervisor did not tell her that the worker wanted to start the program and that she was fired for donating the food. As this plot plays out Wishbone flashes into scenes that relate in the Robin Hood story.
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April 9th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
Haw com Wishbone is not on TV anny moer?
I liked his showe.
April 9th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
I do not know why they stopped airing it, but it really was a great show that encouraged imagination along with reading. There are shows that do that to some extent still, but it seems they are almost exclusively animated these days. Wishbone really was great in that it was live action.