It was a great experience, because until then I was acting in New York theater, at least trying to. It was my first job in television writing and doing a little producing, but primarily writing, for this show that was developed by a friend of mine, Stephanie Simpson, who, interestingly enough, was a major in Russian language and literature at Yale. Of all my professional experiences, that’s the one that I’m no longer even surprised that I keep going back to. JOSÉ VERGARA: I’d love to hear about your time on Wishbone. Given my own interests, I was eager to speak to him about this Russian connection in particular. Rocca wrote on the show’s two seasons, including the episode “ Rushin’ to the Bone ,” which was based on Nikolai Gogol’s play of mistaken identities, The Inspector General. But Wishbone was his first television gig and, in retrospect, the place where he learned most about writing - a literary boot camp full of dog puns and flamboyant costumes. Now a regular correspondent for CBS Sunday Morning, Rocca has credits ranging from The Daily Show to My Grandmother’s Ravioli, from Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me! to his Mobituaries podcast. One of the minds behind the series was writer Mo Rocca. It’s a bizarre concept with remarkably impressive results and an enduring legacy. It sounds like a fever dream, but for two years and 50 episodes, the PBS show Wishbone retold classic stories, introducing them to children by dropping the eponymous dog with an instantly classic theme song into their plots. FOR A CERTAIN generation of American readers, stories by Poe, Shelley, and Ovid will always be associated with a Jack Russell Terrier.
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