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- ↑ Peter Lhotka, "They're back! Folksy Jake and the Kid given facelift, yet remain family entertainment". Winnipeg Free Press , December 16, 1995.
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- ↑ Grant McIntyre, "Flat out fun: Jake and the Kid takes its prairie setting to heart". The Globe and Mail , December 16, 1995.
- ↑ Joe Chidley, "A classic reborn: Jake and the Kid". Maclean's , December 18, 1995.
- ↑ Christopher Harris, "Global unveils fall TV line up". The Globe and Mail , June 15, 1996.
- ↑ Alan Kellogg, "Penny-pinching will turn Jake's town into a ghost town". Edmonton Journal , October 23, 1996.
- ↑ Richard Helm, "'Jake and the Kid' looks for new network". Ottawa Citizen , March 20, 1997.
- ↑ Sid Adilman, "Jake And The Kid's TV future a big `if'". Toronto Star , May 28, 1997.
- ↑ "Jake, Kid back for second season". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix , May 15, 1997.
- ↑ Jac MacDonald, "Packing it in on the set of Jake and the Kid; Auction sells out the whole fictional town of Crocus, Saskatchewan; Selling out on Jake and the Kid". Edmonton Journal , October 26, 1997.
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- ↑ Alison Mayes, "Jake and the Kid scoops up Rosies". Calgary Herald , April 27, 1997.