
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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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
Warren Ward
Lazarus Lefthand · 12 eps

Henry Ramer
Adult Ben(voice) · 12 eps

Tom Cavanagh
Paul Krause · 12 eps

Chad Krowchuk
Jackie Whitbread / Tim Walker · 11 eps

Gabrielle Rose
Violet Bowdery · 11 eps

Michael Hogan
Gate · 10 eps
Edanna Andrews
Katya Melnyk · 10 eps

Stacy Grant
Hattie Fisher · 10 eps
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