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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...
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Season 1

  • Happy Days Are Here Again
    7.8/1063 votes
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    Happy Days Are Here Again

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/26/1987

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Fatal Attraction (1)
    7.2/10178 votes
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    Fatal Attraction (1)

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/29/1987

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Fatal Attraction (2)
    7.7/1049 votes
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    Fatal Attraction (2)

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/1987

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Laura
    8.0/1045 votes
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    Laura

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/6/1987

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Man That Got Away
    7.1/1042 votes
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    The Man That Got Away

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/13/1987

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Love for Sale
    7.0/1041 votes
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    Love 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: N/A

  • Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
    7.0/1041 votes
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    Brother, 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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Body and Soul
    7.9/1041 votes
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    Body 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: N/A

  • The Man I Love
    7.5/1037 votes
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    The 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: N/A

  • Love Me Or Leave Me
    7.7/1039 votes
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    Love 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

  • Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
    7.1/1036 votes
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    Smoke 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: N/A

    Writer: Paul Robert Coyle

  • Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
    7.2/1038 votes
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    Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/8/1987

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • After You've Gone
    7.6/1039 votes
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    After 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: N/A

    Writer: Paul Robert Coyle

  • It Had to Be You
    7.4/1039 votes
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    It 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: N/A

    Writer: Paul Robert Coyle

  • But Not for Me
    7.2/1035 votes
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    But 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: N/A

  • What Is This Thing Called Love?
    7.3/1037 votes
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    What Is This Thing Called Love?

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/26/1988

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Lady, Be Good
    7.2/1033 votes
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    Lady, Be Good

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/2/1988

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • I'll Be Seeing You
    7.1/1036 votes
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    I'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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Babyface
    7.3/1039 votes
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    Babyface

    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: N/A

    Writer: Dick Nelson

  • Blues in the Night
    7.9/1040 votes
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    Blues in the Night

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 3/16/1988

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • How Long Has This Thing Been Going On?
    7.6/1037 votes
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    How 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: N/A

  • I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plans
    7.6/1035 votes
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    I 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

  • Rhapsody in Blue
    NaN/100 votes
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    Rhapsody 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: N/A