Jake and The Kid
Synopsis & Context
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.
Season Management
Title Dossier
- Original Title
- Jake and The Kid
- Release
- December 16, 1995
- Screen Time
- 2 seasons · 1h 00min/ep
- Rating
- N/A
- Direction
- N/A
- Original Language
- English
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Production Status
- Ended
Personas & Cast
Fred Keating
Repeat Golightly
26 eps.
Julie Khaner
26 eps.
Robert Clothier
26 eps.
Shaun Johnston
Jake Trumper (Farmhand)
26 eps.
Patricia Harras
Julia Osborne (widowed mother)
26 eps.
Ben Campbell
Ben Osborne (the Kid)
26 eps.
Lorne Cardinal
Moses Lefthand
21 eps.
Brian Taylor
Albert Ricky
21 eps.
Kyle Mitchell
Bus Boy(uncredited)
15 eps.
Jenny Cooper
Molly Gattenby
14 eps.
Joe Norman Shaw
Adult Ben / Adult Ben(voice)
13 eps.
Marty Chan
Henry
13 eps.
