Jake And The Kid
By W.O. Mitchell
Summer Stage: Sept 30,1959
Producer: Peter McDonald
Toronto CBC Trans-Canada Network
60 minutes
Same characters as the serial.
Comedy: Professor Wine-singer exploits the gullibility of Crocus with his latest patent medicine, a longevity formula.
Set in the 1940s and 1950s, "The Kid" is at the centre of stories of a boy on a farm in fictional Crocus, Saskatchewan, Canada. Jake is the hired hand who helps the Kid's mother run the farm who now keeps the Kid abreast of events in the greater world and in Crocus.