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Jake and the Fatman(1987)

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First Air Date: 1987-09-26
Average Runtime: 1h 0m
Rating: 6.2
Votes: 54
Seasons: 5
Episodes: 106

Jake and the Fatman is a television crime drama starring William Conrad as prosecutor J. L. "Fatman" McCabe and Joe Penny as investigator Jake Styles. The series ran on CBS for five seasons from 1987 to 1992. Diagnosis: Murder was a spin-off of this series.

Keywords

private investigatorcriminalbuddy copcrime investigation

Seasons & Episodes

Season 1

Episodes: 23
E01
Happy Days Are Here Again

Air Date: 1987-09-26

1h 0m

Senator candidate Kyle Williams' lover is killed after she threatens to reveal their affair. His speechwriter admits ...

E02
Fatal Attraction (1)

Air Date: 1987-09-29

1h 0m

Carson Warfield is having an affair with his stepmother, and together they kill his father and frame a thief who used...

E03
Fatal Attraction (2)

Air Date: 1987-09-29

1h 0m

Carson Warfield is having an affair with his stepmother, and together they kill his father and frame a thief who used...

E04
Laura

Air Date: 1987-10-06

1h 0m

Jake's former partner is killed by his fiancée in an alley. She blames the murder on a Latin kid she saw stealing a ...

E05
The Man That Got Away

Air Date: 1987-10-13

1h 0m

A wealthy lawyer kills his ex-wife's new man and frames her for the murder. She is arrested, and he takes the job of ...

E06
Love for Sale

Air Date: 1987-10-20

1h 0m

A call girl discovers that her pimp uses her to smuggle drugs. She contacts McCabe, but is killed just as they meet.

E07
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Air Date: 1987-10-27

1h 0m

For some time David Thompson has gone out and killed bums, so that the police believe a serial killer is loose. Then ...

E08
Body and Soul

Air Date: 1987-11-03

1h 0m

""Mad"" Marvin Michaels, the owner of an electronics store, is killed, and ex-con Bradford Long is the main suspect. ...

E09
The Man I Love

Air Date: 1987-11-10

1h 0m

Glen Latimer pushes his newly married rich wife Nancy of their boat, but she survives and is brought to a hospital. S...

E10
Love Me Or Leave Me

Air Date: 1987-11-17

1h 0m

Ed Galvin escapes while he is being transported to prison, after threatening the life of McCabe and Andy Harmon (the ...

E11
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

Air Date: 1987-12-01

1h 0m

A burglar kills a woman and blinds her nurse before fleeing. The police catch him, but have to let him go because the...

E12
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

Air Date: 1987-12-08

1h 0m

One of the deputy DAs finally gets her first murder case when a man she was investigating for skipping alimony paymen...

E13
After You've Gone

Air Date: 1988-01-05

1h 0m

Jake spots the hit man Sagittarius at the airport and follows him, but he spots Jake and is fatally wounded in the fo...

E14
It Had to Be You

Air Date: 1988-01-12

1h 0m

Leslie Randall, a former PR manager for McCabe is raped. The rapist, a psychiatrist, frames one of his patients with ...

E15
But Not for Me

Air Date: 1988-01-19

1h 0m

A known mob man is killed in the home of star reporter Candace Morgan. She says he was shot through the window while ...

E16
What Is This Thing Called Love?

Air Date: 1988-01-26

1h 0m

A man takes a courtroom hostage - with Derek and McCabe in it.

E17
Lady, Be Good

Air Date: 1988-02-02

1h 0m

A friend of McCabe is murdered just as he is about to fake his own death so his wife can collect a 4.5 million-dollar...

E18
I'll Be Seeing You

Air Date: 1988-02-16

1h 0m

A small time crook comes to McCabe offering to testify against the crime boss O'Rourke, after laying low for ten year...

E19
Babyface

Air Date: 1988-02-23

1h 0m

The daughter of the wealthy Amos Banning arranges her own kidnapping, and murders her accomplice once she has the ran...

E20
Blues in the Night

Air Date: 1988-03-16

1h 0m

Jennifer Wilding gets a surprise when her identical twin sister turns up wanting to resume their previous partnership...

E21
How Long Has This Thing Been Going On?

Air Date: 1988-03-23

1h 0m

A friend of Jake, Matthew Hammond, is having an affair with a rich lady. They decide to marry, but when she asks her ...

E22
I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plans

Air Date: 1988-03-30

1h 0m

A former cop who is now a crime writer commits a clever murder so that he can write a book about it that is likely to...

E23
Rhapsody in Blue

Air Date: 1988-04-06

1h 0m

Ned Covington and his wife plan to kill his boss, Phil Duncan, when he is passed over for promotion, but they kill an...

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Top Cast

William Conrad
William Conrad
Jason McCabe
Joe Penny
Joe Penny
Jake Styles
Alan Campbell
Alan Campbell
Derek Mitchell