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Jake and the Kid is a collection of short stories by W. O. Mitchell, published in 1961. Many stories in the series appeared in Maclean's prior to the book's publication. The stories stem from Mitchell's long-running radio series of the same name. Mitchell also published a sequel volume, According to Jake and the Kid, in 1989.
An unsuccessful attempt by the National Film Board of Canada to produce a full season of Jake and the Kid series for the CBC resulted in only one production, "Political Dynamite" which was broadcast as a CBC Television special on 23 June 1963. Here, John Drainie portrayed Jake as he did for the CBC Radio series, while Tony Haig was cast as the Kid.
Jake and the Kid is a Canadian television drama series, which aired on the CanWest Global system of stations in the 1990s. [1] The second television adaptation of W. O. Mitchell's 1961 short story collection Jake and the Kid, [2] 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 ...
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An author of novels, short stories, and plays, Mitchell is best known for his 1947 novel, Who Has Seen The Wind, which has sold close to a million copies in North America, [1] and the radio series and later a collection of short stories 1961, Jake and the Kid, which subsequently won the Stephen Leacock Award. Both of these portray life on the ...
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Patricia Harras, sometimes credited as Patti Harras, is a Canadian actress from Winnipeg, Manitoba. [1] She is most noted for her regular role as Julia Osborne in the television series Jake and the Kid, for which she won the Gemini Award for Best Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role at the 12th Gemini Awards in 1998.
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