Jake and The Kid (1995)

Synopsis

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.

Series Information

First Aired

1995

Last Aired

1999

Seasons

2

Episodes

26

Episode Length

60 min

Genre

Drama, Family

Status

Ended

Rating

8.0 / 10 (1 votes)

Top Cast

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)

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