Jake and The Kid
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.
Jake and The KidSeries
Details
- First aired
- 16 Dec 1995
- Seasons
- 2
- Episodes
- 26
- TMDB 8.0
- Last aired
- 2 May 1999
- Genres
Drama Family
- Status
- Ended
- Episode runtime
- 1 h
- Countries
US
- Original language
- en
- Original title
- Jake and The Kid
- Cast
Fred Keatingas Repeat Golightly Julie Khaner Robert Clothier Shaun Johnstonas Jake Trumper (Farmhand) Patricia Harrasas Julia Osborne (widowed mother) Ben Campbellas Ben Osborne (the Kid) Lorne Cardinalas Moses Lefthand Jenny Cooperas Molly Gattenby David LeReaneyas George Solway Milissa Mihalcheonas Well-Dressed Woman - Writers
W.O. Mitchell Laura Phillips Scot Morison Renata Bright Scott McPherson Anna Rehak Heather Conkie Marty Chan Sondra Kelly David Young Kelly Rebar Martin Kinch Peter Mitchell Ann MacNaughton
