Jake and The Kid

7.9IMDb55 votes1995 – Ended2 Seasons26 EpisodesFamily,Drama

7.9IMDb55 votes

Life in Crocus as seen through the eyes of a young boy, Ben, and his friend Jake. Jake and the Kid is a Canadian television drama series that 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 centers 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.