Series

Jake and The Kid

1995 · 2 seasons · Drama · Family

IMDb

7.7

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.

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)

First aired

December 16, 1995

Last aired

May 2, 1999

Status

Ended

Original language

English

Episodes

26

Rated

A

Genres

Drama, Family

• Season 113 episodes · 1995
• Season 213 episodes · 1998