The Best Episodes of Jake and the Fatman

When a gang marks him for death, Daniel joins a group about to escape from the prison. To insure his cooperation the escapees frame him for murder.

Director: Russ Mayberry

Writer: J. Michael Straczynski

McCabe prosecutes a man for murdering his wife, when the man's story about them being assaulted by gang members doesn't check out.

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Writer: Michele Val Jean

Notorious New York cop Mickey Daytona pursues the legal counsel Thomas Chetwin suspecting him of rape. Jake, who is a friend of Mickey and his old father, reluctantly teams up with Mickey. Chetwin is trapped and commits suicide.

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski

Writer: David J. Burke

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.

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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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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.

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski

Writer: N/A

Jake investigates a serial killer that leaves an orchid on all his victims, while McCabe gets his biography written.

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski

Writer: Paul Robert Coyle

""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.

Director: Jerry Jameson

Writer: N/A

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.

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Jake goes under cover investigating industrial espionage, trying to find the top man. Things get complicated when an acquaintance for LA comes to visit.

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Writer: Carol Saraceno

Jake and private investigator Casey Quinn go after her husband's murderer - suspected smuggler Peter LaMotta.

Director: Michael Lange

Writer: N/A

Derek is shocked when he finds out that a woman he loved didn't die in a plane crash 6 years ago.

Director: Alexander Singer

Writer: Morgan Gendel

A singer is planing to make a comeback after a year in drug rehab, when a stalker tries to kill her.

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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.

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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.

Director: Don Medford

Writer: Catherine Clinch

Jake is in LA and has to clear himself of murder charges.

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski

Writer: J. Michael Straczynski

McCabe is prosecuting Robert Burgess - a big crime boss, when his main witness is murdered on his way to court. Jake tracks down Burgess' ex-girlfriend, and has to bring her to court before the judge dismisses the case.

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A South African diplomat is killed by a car bomb with the mark of an extreme South African racist group know as ""the Order of Blood"" near by. South Africa sends a black cop to LA who immediately goes after Vanessa Kruger, the leader of a group allied with the Order.

Director: Leo Penn

Writer: N/A

Dr. Sloan is charged with murdering hospital director Havilland, who was investigating him and two other doctors.

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski

Writer: N/A

Jake kills a 14-year-old boy. He claims the boy had a gun and fired upon him, but no gun is found and the neighbors didn't hear anything.

Director: Peter Ellis

Writer: N/A

A porn producer is killed in a way quite similar to a murder 5 years ago for witch McCabe got a young boxer convicted. Jake investigates, and gets involved with a reporter who seems to know things before the police do.

Director: Christian I. Nyby II

Writer: Gerry Conway

Jake continues investigating the murders of Strobach and Blore, and evidence starts to point at Warren's old corner man Doug McKeown. But whom is he working for?

Director: Christian I. Nyby II

Writer: Gerry Conway

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.

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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.

Director: Michael Preece

Writer: Paul Robert Coyle

A newly released convict starts terrorizing the woman who witnessed against him. She goes to McCabe for help, who was prosecutor who put him in jail.

Director: Chuck Bowman

Writer: Paul Robert Coyle