All Episodes of Jake and the Fatman
Browse all episodes of Jake and the Fatman
All Episodes of Jake and the Fatman
Browse all episodes of Jake and the Fatman
Season 1
7.9/1068 votes
7.2/10183 votes
7.7/1052 votes
7.0/1045 votesLove for Sale
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/20/1987
A call girl discovers that her pimp uses her to smuggle drugs. She contacts McCabe, but is killed just as they meet.
Director: Christopher Hibler
Writer: Unknown
7.1/1044 votesBrother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/27/1987
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.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
7.9/1043 votesBody and Soul
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/3/1987
""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: Unknown
7.5/1042 votesThe Man I Love
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/10/1987
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.
Director: Michael Lange
Writer: Unknown
7.8/1040 votesLove Me Or Leave Me
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/17/1987
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
7.2/1038 votesSmoke Gets in Your Eyes
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/1/1987
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.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Paul Robert Coyle
7.7/1041 votesAfter You've Gone
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/5/1988
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.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Paul Robert Coyle
7.5/1042 votesIt Had to Be You
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/12/1988
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.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Paul Robert Coyle
7.4/1038 votesBut Not for Me
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/19/1988
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.
Director: Michael Lange
Writer: Unknown
7.3/1039 votesI'll Be Seeing You
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/16/1988
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.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
7.5/1042 votesBabyface
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/23/1988
The daughter of the wealthy Amos Banning arranges her own kidnapping, and murders her accomplice once she has the ransom.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Dick Nelson
7.4/1040 votesHow Long Has This Thing Been Going On?
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 3/23/1988
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.
Director: Christian I. Nyby II
Writer: Unknown
7.5/1037 votesI Guess I'll Have to Change My Plans
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/30/1988
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.
Director: Michael Lange
Writer: Paul Robert Coyle
10.0/101 votesRhapsody in Blue
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 4/6/1988
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.
Director: Michael Lange
Writer: Unknown
