I loved Wishbone as a kid precisely for that reason; despite the premise being pretty bizarre (telling a classic story but make the main character a dog), even

I loved Wishbone as a kid precisely for that reason; despite the premise being pretty bizarre (telling a classic story but make the main character a dog), even as a kid I always thought it was cool how little they "talked-down" to me. I remember the Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde episode unambiguously kills off Jekyll at the end of the episode, and it genuinely kind of disturbed me a bit when I was a little kid, but in a good way.