| 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. |
| Name | Character | Episodes |
|---|---|---|
| Shaun Johnston | Jake Trumper (Farmhand) | 26 |
| Patricia Harras | Julia Osborne (widowed mother) | 26 |
| Julie Khaner | 26 | |
| Lorne Cardinal | Moses Lefthand | 21 |
| Jenny Cooper | Molly Gattenby | 14 |
| Tom Cavanagh | Paul Krause | 12 |
| Joe Norman Shaw | Adult Ben(voice) | 12 |
| Henry Ramer | Adult Ben(voice) | 12 |
| Chad Krowchuk | Jackie Whitbread | 10 |
| Michael Hogan | Gate | 10 |
| Gabrielle Rose | Violet Bowdery | 10 |
| Stacy Grant | Hattie Fisher | 9 |
| David McNally | Greg | 6 |
| Paul Cœur | 5 | |
| Dean McDermott | Daniel Osborne | 3 |
| Allison Hossack | Donna | 2 |
| Billy Morton | Gin Toovey | 2 |
| Graham Greene | Chief Fly Like an Arrow | 1 |
| Stuart Margolin | Ted Templeton | 1 |
| Frank C. Turner | Otto | 1 |
| Chad Krowchuk | Tim Walker | 1 |
| Nicholas Lea | Tony Edwards | 1 |
| Nicholas Lea | 1 | |
| Susan Hogan | Esther | 1 |
| William S. Taylor | Clarence 'Big Cat' | 1 |
| Jaimz Woolvett | 1 | |
| Andrew Airlie | Frank Walker | 1 |
| Andrew Airlie | 1 | |
| Greg Lawson | Leo | 1 |
| Gabrielle Rose | 1 | |
| Stacy Grant | 1 | |
| Hrothgar Mathews | The Major | 1 |
| Dean McDermott | Daniel Osborne (Ben's Father) | 1 |
| James MacDonald | Louis | 1 |
| Rebecca Jenkins | Singer | 1 |
| John B. Lowe | Conductor | 1 |
| Wayne Robson | 1 | |
| Jay Brazeau | Professor Claudius T. Winesinger | 1 |
| Marina Stephenson Kerr | Billy's Mom | 1 |
| Jonathon Young | Troy | 1 |
| Robert Koons | Judge Murphy | 1 |
| Joe Norman Shaw | Adult Ben | 1 |
| Kent Allen | Red Lamont | 1 |