7.8/1062 votes#1 - 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
- 7.2/10177 votes
#2 - 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
- 7.7/1048 votes
#3 - 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
- 7.9/1044 votes
#4 - 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
- 7.0/1041 votes
#5 - 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
- 7.0/1041 votes
#6 - 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
- 7.0/1041 votes
#7 - 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
- 7.9/1041 votes
#8 - 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
- 7.5/1037 votes
#9 - 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
- 7.7/1039 votes
#10 - 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
- 7.1/1036 votes
#11 - 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
- 7.2/1038 votes
#12 - 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
- 7.6/1039 votes
#13 - 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
- 7.4/1039 votes
#14 - 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
- 7.2/1035 votes
#15 - 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
- 7.3/1037 votes
#16 - 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
- 7.2/1033 votes
#17 - 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
- 7.1/1036 votes
#18 - 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
- 7.3/1039 votes
#19 - 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
- 7.9/1040 votes
#20 - 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
- 7.6/1037 votes
#21 - 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
- 7.6/1035 votes
#22 - 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
- NaN/100 votes
#23 - 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
The Best Episodes of Jake and the Fatman Season 1
Every episode of Jake and the Fatman Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Jake and the Fatman Season 1!
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.
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Happy Days Are Here Again" is the best rated episode of "Jake and the Fatman" season 1. It scored 7.8/10 based on 62 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/26/1987. This episode is rated 0.6 points higher than the second-best, "Fatal Attraction (1)".