Jake and the Kid is a Canadian

Television in Canada

Television in Canada officially began with the opening of the nation's first television stations in Montreal and Toronto in 1952. As with most media in Canada, the television industry, and the television programming available in that country, are strongly influenced by the American media, perhaps...

 dramatic television series which aired on CBC Television

CBC Television

CBC Television is a Canadian television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster.Although the CBC is supported by public funding, the television network supplements this funding with commercial advertising revenue, in contrast to CBC Radio which are...

 in 1961.

Premise

Adaptations W. O. Mitchell

W. O. Mitchell

William Ormond Mitchell, PC, OC better known as W.O. Mitchell was a Canadian writer.-Early life and career:...

's Jake and the Kid

Jake and the Kid

Jake and the Kid is a collection of short stories by W. O. Mitchell, originally published in 1961. Many stories in the series appeared in Maclean's prior to the book's publication...

stories were broadcast on CBC Radio

CBC Radio

CBC Radio generally refers to the English-language radio operations of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The CBC operates a number of radio networks serving different audiences and programming niches, all of which are outlined below.-English:CBC Radio operates three English language...

 between 1949 and 1954. CBC Television produced this 13-part series featuring Jake Trumper (Murray Westgate), the Kid (Rex Hagon

Rex Hagon

Rex Hagon is a Canadian actor and television host. His career began in his youth, most notably with The Forest Rangers....

) and Ma (Frances Tobias), MacTaggart (Robert Christie), Repeat Golightly (Eric House) and Sam Gatenby (Alex Mckee) in the community of Crocus, Saskatchewan.

Scheduling

This half-hour series was broadcast on Tuesdays at 8:30 p.m. (Eastern) from 4 July to 19 September 1961.

An unsuccessful attempt by the National Film Board of Canada

National Film Board of Canada

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 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

John Drainie

John Robert Roy Drainie was a Canadian actor and television presenter, who was called "the greatest radio actor in the world" by Orson Welles....

portrayed Jake as he did for the CBC Radio series, while Tony Haig was cast as the Kid.