Jake and The Kid — Season 1, Episode 1: We All Live in Crocus
Drama, Family • 60 min • 2 seasons, 26 episodes • ★ 8.0/10
Episode synopsis
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 horse that is coming up for auction.
About 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.