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Jake and the Fatman

1987 Ended 60m episodes

6.2/10 56 votes

DramaCrimeAction & Adventure

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.

Created by:: Dean Hargrove, David Angell, Joel Steiger
Cast:: William Conrad, Joe Penny, Alan Campbell
Language:: English
Country:: United States of America, Sweden
Network:: CBS

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Seasons

5 available

Season 2

Episodes

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E01

Episode 1

★ 10.0

Wish You Were Here (1)

1989-03-15 · 60m

Jake goes to Hawaii to visit a longtime friend, John Graney, but finds him dead when he arrives. Meanwhile McCabe resigns his position as district attorney and decides to move to Hawaii.

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E02

Episode 2

Wish You Were Here (2)

1989-03-15 · 60m

Jake continues trying to find Graney's murderer, now while under suspicion of John's partner's murder.

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E03

Episode 3

I'll Never Smile Again

1989-03-22 · 60m

A tourist tries to stop a mugging, but he is grabbed from behind and the mugger stabs him. When the police arrive, the tourist is still alive, but the mugger is dead from a bullet wound and on the ground lies a gun used to kill several muggers. The third man is nowhere to be seen.

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E04

Episode 4

★ 10.0

Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

1989-04-05 · 60m

Jake investigates a robbery of a transportation company, and gets involved with its owner.

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E05

Episode 5

★ 10.0

Why Can't You Behave?

1989-04-12 · 60m

A friend of McCabe, senator Brandauer, is killed in a plane crash, and investigation reveals it was no accident. The plane had substandard parts bought in a deal brokered by McCabe's son, Daniel.

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E06

Episode 6

★ 10.0

Poor Butterfly

1989-04-19 · 60m

Jake goes after a pimp, who killed a prostitute who was to testify against him.

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E07

Episode 7

★ 10.0

It Ain't Necessarily So

1989-04-26 · 60m

A burglar surprises Wallace Cogan, a publisher of adult magazines, and his wife Marina when they are returning home from a holiday. He kills Marina, but is wounded by Cogan before he gets away.

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E08

Episode 8

★ 10.0

Someone to Watch Over Me

1989-05-03 · 60m

A young woman is found dead on the beach from a drug overdose. The immediate suspect is her ex-boyfriend, Sonny, so Jake goes pick him up for questioning. But a mysterious gunman is also interested in Sonny, and tries to kill him before Jake can get to him.

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E09

Episode 9

★ 10.0

They Can't Take That Away from Me

1989-05-10 · 60m

Jake and two friends participate in a drug bust that goes sour. The next day those friends are found dead - killed by a shotgun blast while they were in their car at the docks.

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E10

Episode 10

★ 10.0

Side by Side

1989-05-17 · 60m

McCabe and the son of a friend go fishing, and discover a bomb on the their boat. Unable to disarm it they jump in the sea and swim to a nearby island. Meanwhile Jake and Derek presume they're dead, and go looking for the bomber.

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E11

Episode 11

★ 10.0

Snowfall

1989-05-24 · 60m

The Secret Service gets help from Jake in catching a money counterfeiter, who trades his product for cocaine. It becomes personal for Jake when a friend is killed during a failed raid.

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