Jake and the Fatman
Total Seasons :5Total 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.
Episodes(23)
1. Happy Days Are Here Again
Senator candidate Kyle Williams' lover is killed after she threatens to reveal their affair. His speechwriter admits to him that he was the murderer, but threatens to frame him unless he cooperates.
Air Date : 1987-09-26
2. Fatal Attraction (1)
Carson Warfield is having an affair with his stepmother, and together they kill his father and frame a thief who used to work for them. When things don't add up McCabe gets suspicious, and starts nosing around.
Air Date : 1987-09-29
3. Fatal Attraction (2)
Carson Warfield is having an affair with his stepmother, and together they kill his father and frame a thief who used to work for them. When things don't add up McCabe gets suspicious, and starts nosing around.
Air Date : 1987-09-29
4. Laura
Jake's former partner is killed by his fiancée in an alley. She blames the murder on a Latin kid she saw stealing a VCR just before she pulled the trigger.
Air Date : 1987-10-06
5. The Man That Got Away
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 being her lawyer.
Air Date : 1987-10-13
6. Love for Sale
A call girl discovers that her pimp uses her to smuggle drugs. She contacts McCabe, but is killed just as they meet.
Air Date : 1987-10-20
7. Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
For some time David Thompson has gone out and killed bums, so that the police believe a serial killer is loose. Then when he lures his brother to an alley and kills him the same way, he won't be a suspect.
Air Date : 1987-10-27
8. Body and Soul
""Mad"" Marvin Michaels, the owner of an electronics store, is killed, and ex-con Bradford Long is the main suspect. McCabe assigns the case to the cop Karen Stetson, whose father was killed by Long.
Air Date : 1987-11-03
9. The Man I Love
Glen Latimer pushes his newly married rich wife Nancy of their boat, but she survives and is brought to a hospital. She is unsure if it was just an accident, so Jake goes befriends Glen posing as Nancy's brother.
Air Date : 1987-11-10
10. Love Me Or Leave Me
Ed Galvin escapes while he is being transported to prison, after threatening the life of McCabe and Andy Harmon (the cop who arrested him) during his trial.
Air Date : 1987-11-17
11. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
A burglar kills a woman and blinds her nurse before fleeing. The police catch him, but have to let him go because the nurse can't identify him. When she is scheduled for an operation that could restore her eyesight, they fear he'll try to kill her.
Air Date : 1987-12-01
12. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
One of the deputy DAs finally gets her first murder case when a man she was investigating for skipping alimony payments turns up dead.
Air Date : 1987-12-08
13. After You've Gone
Jake spots the hit man Sagittarius at the airport and follows him, but he spots Jake and is fatally wounded in the following gunfight. Jake takes his place to try to find out who the target was.
Air Date : 1988-01-05
14. It Had to Be You
Leslie Randall, a former PR manager for McCabe is raped. The rapist, a psychiatrist, frames one of his patients with an anonymous tip to the police.
Air Date : 1988-01-12
15. But Not for Me
A known mob man is killed in the home of star reporter Candace Morgan. She says he was shot through the window while she was interviewing him, but McCabe gets suspicious when there is one too many bullets.
Air Date : 1988-01-19
16. What Is This Thing Called Love?
A man takes a courtroom hostage - with Derek and McCabe in it.
Air Date : 1988-01-26
17. Lady, Be Good
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 life insurance.
Air Date : 1988-02-02
18. I'll Be Seeing You
A small time crook comes to McCabe offering to testify against the crime boss O'Rourke, after laying low for ten years. McCabe is suspicious, but is more than willing to go along with anything that can get O'Rourke behind bars.
Air Date : 1988-02-16
19. Babyface
The daughter of the wealthy Amos Banning arranges her own kidnapping, and murders her accomplice once she has the ransom.
Air Date : 1988-02-23
20. Blues in the Night
Jennifer Wilding gets a surprise when her identical twin sister turns up wanting to resume their previous partnership - one steals jewelry and the other provides an alibi.
Air Date : 1988-03-16
21. How Long Has This Thing Been Going On?
A friend of Jake, Matthew Hammond, is having an affair with a rich lady. They decide to marry, but when she asks her husband for a divorce, he kills her and frames Hammond.
Air Date : 1988-03-23
22. I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plans
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 become a best seller.
Air Date : 1988-03-30
23. Rhapsody in Blue
Ned Covington and his wife plan to kill his boss, Phil Duncan, when he is passed over for promotion, but they kill another employee by mistake. Realizing this they try to frame Duncan for the murder.
Air Date : 1988-04-06
Cast
William Conrad
(Jason McCabe)
Joe Penny
(Jake Styles)
Alan Campbell
(Derek Mitchell)
Casey Sander
( - )
Signy Coleman
( - )
Kurt Fuller
( - )
Kim Johnston Ulrich
( - )
Michael Paul Chan
( - )
Bruce Greenwood
(Carson Warfield)
Frank Coppola
( - )
Bert Remsen
( - )
Stu Nahan
( - )
Dianne Kay
( - )
Tim Choate
( - )
Margaret Nagle
( - )
Terri Treas
( - )
Kathryn Leigh Scott
( - )
Robert Reed
( - )
Don Stroud
( - )
Russell Todd
( - )
Brynn Thayer
( - )
Susan Blakely
( - )
Nana Visitor
( - )
Reid Shelton
( - )
Amy Steel
( - )
Danny Masterson
( - )
Patrick Thomas O'Brien
( - )
Merritt Butrick
( - )
Isabel Cooley
( - )
Dwight Schultz
( - )
Mark Goddard
(Alan Shay)
Stacy Edwards
( - )
Jane Badler
( - )
Joan Darling
( - )
Eugene Robert Glazer
( - )
Barbara Parkins
( - )
Lee Purcell
( - )
Tracey Needham
( - )
Jere Burns
( - )
Jeff Austin
( - )
Joseph Ruskin
( - )
Branscombe Richmond
( - )
James Olson
( - )
Jeffrey Combs
( - )
Jeanna Michaels
( - )
Mike Muscat
( - )
Ivor Barry
( - )
Allan Miller
( - )
Tim Haldeman
( - )
John Rubinstein
( - )
Suzanne Snyder
( - )
Tom McCleister
( - )
Tim Russ
( - )
Richard Marcus
( - )
Anthony Franciosa
( - )
John Furlong
( - )
George DelHoyo
( - )
Steve Susskind
( - )
Kim Lankford
( - )
Vaughn Armstrong
( - )
Arthur Mendoza
( - )
John Lehne
( - )
Maggie Roswell
( - )
Edward Winter
( - )
Gary Hudson
( - )
Ed Nelson
(D.A. Marcus Packard)
Dana Stevens
( - )
Patrick Tovatt
( - )
Jeremy Roberts
(Sennett)
Fredric Cook
( - )
Joe Regalbuto
( - )
Jim Beaver
(Defense Attorney)
Joe Mays
( - )
Christopher Michael Moore
( - )
Heidi Kozak
( - )
Bobbie Eakes
(April Blue)
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