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.

Cast

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)

Lorne Cardinal

Moses Lefthand

Brian Taylor

Albert Ricky

Kyle Mitchell

Bus Boy(uncredited)

Jenny Cooper

Molly Gattenby

Joe Norman Shaw

Adult Ben(voice)

Marty Chan

Henry

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Warren Ward

Lazarus Lefthand

Henry Ramer

Adult Ben(voice)

Tom Cavanagh

Paul Krause

Chad Krowchuk

Jackie Whitbread

Gabrielle Rose

Michael Hogan

Gate

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Edanna Andrews

Katya Melnyk

Stacy Grant

Hattie Fisher

Seasons

26 episodes

Season 11995 · 13 episodes

Season 21998 · 13 episodes