Jake and The Kid (1995)

Season 2

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.

Released Dec. 16, 1995 Episode 60 min None+

Genres: Drama, Family

Keywords: imdb.based-on-short-story, imdb.based-on-novel, imdb.character-name-in-title

Production Companies: CanWest Global system

Country: United States
Languages: English

IMDb

7.8

/47/

Trakt

/4/

TMDb

Francis Damberger
Director

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

S2E1 - The Fire

While trying to prove that he is grown-up enough to drive a tractor, Ben accidentally starts a prairie grass fire that traps him and threatens the town.

Oct. 11, 1998, midnight

S2E2 - The Difference Between Corn and People

Paul, the new schoolteacher, competes with Jake for Julia's affections while they stage a town production of ""Romeo and Juliet"". Meanwhile, Ben breaks his arm while showing off in front of his buddies.

Oct. 18, 1998, midnight