Jake and The Kid

Jake and The Kid

1995 · 2 seasons · 26 eps · ★ 8.0 · Drama, Family

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Life in Crocus as seen through the eyes of a young lad, Ben, and his friend Jake. Jake and the Kid is a Canadian television drama series, which aired on the CanWest Global system of stations in the 1990s. The second (1995) television adaptation of W. O. Mitchell's 1961 short story collection Jake and the Kid the series is set in the small town of Crocus, Saskatchewan, and centres on the friendship between Ben "the Kid" Osborne (Ben Campbell), a young boy growing up on a farm with his widowed mother Julia (Patricia Harras), and Jake Trumper (Shaun Johnston), a farmhand who becomes Ben's surrogate father figure.

Directed by Francis Damberger · Written by W.O. Mitchell

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Fred Keating Repeat Golightly
Julie Khaner
Robert Clothier
Shaun Johnston Jake Trumper (Farmhand)
Patricia Harras Julia Osborne (widowed mother)
Ben Campbell Ben Osborne (the Kid)
Lorne Cardinal Moses Lefthand
Brian Taylor Albert Ricky
Kyle Mitchell Bus Boy(uncredited)
Jenny Cooper Molly Gattenby
Joe Norman Shaw Adult Ben(voice)
Marty Chan Henry

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