Jake and the Kid

About

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

Shaun Johnston Jake, Jake Trumper

Ben Campbell Ben Osborne

Patricia Harras Julia Osborne, Julia Osborned

Fred Keating Repeat Golightly

Brian Taylor Albert Ricky

Lorne Cardinal Moses Lefthand

Warren Ward Lazarus Lefthand

Jenny Cooper Molly Gattenby

Henry Ramer Adult Ben

Marty Chan Henry

Crew

Laura Phillips

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