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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.
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Cast
Fred KeatingRepeat Golightly
Julie Khaner
Robert Clothier
Shaun JohnstonJake Trumper (Farmhand)
Patricia HarrasJulia Osborne (widowed mother)
Ben CampbellBen Osborne (the Kid)
Lorne CardinalMoses Lefthand
Brian TaylorAlbert Ricky
Kyle MitchellBus Boy(uncredited)
Jenny CooperMolly Gattenby
Joe Norman ShawAdult Ben(voice)
Marty ChanHenry- Warren WardLazarus Lefthand
Henry RamerAdult Ben(voice)
Details
- First aired
- December 16, 1995
- Seasons
- 2
- Episodes
- 26
- Status
- Ended
- Original language
- English
- Studios
- CanWest Global system
