Jake and The Kid
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Jake and The Kid

1995
2 seasons
26 episodes
DramaFamily

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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  • We All Live in Crocus

    1.We All Live in Crocus

    16-12-199560m

    When the war memorial is unveiled during the Golden Jubilee celebration, Julia is disturbed at being labelled Crocus's only war widow. Meanwhile, Jake and Ben plot to win a prize h...

  • No Place Like Home

    2.No Place Like Home

    23-12-199560m

    Julia has a difficult decision to make after receiving a generous offer to purchase the Osborne farm. Riding his new horse Fever, Jake has a bad spill and must learn to overcome h...

  • Grand Plans

    3.Grand Plans

    30-12-199560m

    A mysterious stranger arrives in Crocus just in time to save the town's struggling baseball team, but there are rumors that the talented pitcher may be an escaped convict.

  • Long Live the Queen

    4.Long Live the Queen

    06-01-199660m

    Lottery fever strikes Crocus when the grand prize of its first contest is a trip to England to observe the Queen's coronation.

  • Ep 5

    5.Oil Boom

    13-01-199660m

    Jake becomes concerned when a slick oil-company executive, who believes that Crocus may overlie a vast new oilfield, persuades many of the locals to sell him the rights to their la...

  • Prairie Lawyer

    6.Prairie Lawyer

    20-01-199660m

    Repeat is sued after he cuts off the local undertaker's beard in a fit of rage. Meanwhile, Julia's Hollywood-starlet sister Donna pays a surprise visit.

  • The Smoking Gun

    7.The Smoking Gun

    27-01-199660m

    Despite Julia's objections, Jake teaches Ben how to use a rifle, something he considers a necessary rite of passage for any farm boy. But then, on the first day of deer hunting se...

  • Ep 8

    8.Liar Hunter

    03-02-199660m

    A drifter befriended by Ben and Lazarus turns out to be Professor Winesinger, an old acquaintance of Jake's, who got him out of some serious trouble when Jake was young.

  • Buying the Farm

    9.Buying the Farm

    10-02-199660m

    The whole town is concerned about the health of Daddy Johnson, a wealthy 107-year-old who has fallen seriously ill, but Jake in particular believes that Daddy's ""nurse"" Esther Go...

  • Full Circle

    10.Full Circle

    17-02-199660m

    When orphans Ben and Lazarus feel left out of Saskatchewan's annual father-and-son fishing contest, Jakes and Moses invent a contest of their own. Meanwhile, Molly has a ""girls-o...

  • Ways of the World

    11.Ways of the World

    24-02-199660m

    A famous hypnotist and his pretty assistant proceed to charm the town, while two mysterious businessmen from Winnipeg show an excessive interest in an old safe of Albert's.

  • Looks Can Be Deceiving

    12.Looks Can Be Deceiving

    02-03-199660m

    As Crocus prepares for its major annual social event, the Snow Ball, speculation abounds regarding who will escort the town's most eligible woman, Emily Henchbaw.

  • True Confessions

    13.True Confessions

    09-03-199660m

    When a blizzard hits Crocus, the Sanitary Cafe is transformed into a temporary hospital and Jake tries to rescue Albert, who has had a heart attack.

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