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Rick Duffield. Director: Wishbone. Rick Duffield is best known for his work as the Creator & Executive Producer of the award-winning PBS children's series Wishbone (1995). Duffield debuted the series in 1995, eventually producing fifty half-hour episodes and the Showtime feature-length movie Wishbone's Dog Days of the West (1998), which ...
- Director, Writer, Producer
- April 24, 1955
- Rick Duffield
- The Idea
- Casting Wishbone
- Finding Wishbone’s Voice
- Production Begins
- Shooting The Show
- Acting with A Dog
- PBS Buys Forty Episodes
- The Show Airs
- The Second Season
- A New Day For Wishbone
Rick Duffield was the creator and executive producer of Wishbone: In 1992 I had been wanting to do a show for kids, and I wanted to use a dog as the main character. I had grown up on Lassie, Andy Griffith. And there was a certain sensibility that I felt was missing on television for my own kids, who at the time were in elementary and middle school....
Betty Buckley: We held the audition outside L.A., in the country. We needed to find a hotel that had grass, because when you’re auditioning dogs, they mark stuff, right? Rick Duffield: We went to a Marriott Courtyard up in the Santa Clarita Valley. And this guy had pulled together a list of trainers, and they brought in over a hundred animals, one ...
Rick Duffield: The agencies were sending me cassette tapes, and it was all these very serious actors, and they were performing as if they were doing Shakespeare. They didn’t stop to think about the dog. And the agent said, “I’m going to send a few more people that you should look at, and you can see them in person.” So they came to the house we wer...
Rick Duffield:There were ten acres behind the office building that Lyrick Studios owned, so we went in there and built a backlot. We found some warehouse space and converted that into soundstages. That took all spring into summer. Meanwhile, we hired a couple of writers. We got Mo Rocca a few years out of college, and he and Stephanie started writi...
Caris Turpen was the visual effects supervisor: One day we got word that Jackie and the other trainers and the dog were arriving from Los Angeles. When they got there, we all trooped out into the parking lot. There’s a hundred people standing [there], and I’m kind of at the edges. I’m trying to see over everybody’s heads, and I finally manage to ma...
Matthew Tompkins: Once you got into that pipeline and you got the call that you’d been cast in whatever role it was in whatever great novel they were going into, you were immediately shot out of a gun through hair and makeup and wardrobe and, in my case, playing roles like the Monster in Frankenstein, which was six hours in the chair to get into al...
Rick Duffield:I would occasionally get reports from the attorney negotiating the deal, and he called the week we finished shooting those first five episodes, and he said, “Well, PBS wants forty episodes. And they need ’em by next year.” And I went, “Whoa.” I’m thinking, “Well, there’s 52 weeks in a year. Maybe we can do this.” I called the crew tog...
Mary Chris Wall: The first episode that aired was Tom Sawyer,which we shot as a two-parter midway through filming our forty episodes. Everybody had pretty much hit their stride by then. They started with that one because, first of all, it’s such a great story. And, second, the kid who played Huck Finn was so adorable. We had shot those forty episod...
Larry Brantley:By the second season, we were confident. We had figured out the formula for doing a great show. Steven Kavner:In that second season, we tried adding some celebrities to some of the episodes. Shelley Duvall came and did an episode, and Daryl “Moose” Johnston from the Dallas Cowboys did an episode as well. Mary Chris Wall:Getting to th...
Roy Parker is writing the new Wishbone film: I am a nineties kid and a PBS kid. I have very vivid memories of watching [Wishbone] with my mom after school. I came out to L.A. to be a writer. In January of this year, Mattel reached out to me, and they’re like, “We have this property that we’ve been trying to crack for a long time. We’re curious if y...
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Oct 9, 1995 · Rick Duffield. Publication date 1995-10-09 Usage CC0 1.0 Universal Topics wishbone, wish bone, full series, complete series, all episodes, collection, dog, pbs, jack ...
Oct 21, 2009 · The Exchange: Rick Duffield. The Book Bench’s Critterati contest has signed on two new judges: Jessamyn West, the librarian and moderator of Metafilter, and Rick Duffield, the executive...
Jul 27, 2020 · Wishbone creator Rick Duffield was working at Lyrick Studios—the Allen, Texas, company that unleashed Barney & Friends in 1992—when he pitched Lyrick owner Dick Leach on a children’s series...
Rick Duffield has 44 books on Goodreads with 6073 ratings. Rick Duffield’s most popular book is Be a Wolf!.
Aug 26, 2015 · EntertainmentClassic literature comes to life in this delightful public television series through an adventurous Jack Russell terrie...
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