Jake and the Fatman
1987–1992 · Ended · 5 seasons
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- Sep 26, 1987
- Last aired
- May 6, 1992
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Overview
District attorney J.L. McCabe strikes down on the crime in Los Angeles together with his special investigator Jake Styles and assistant D.A. Derek Mitchell.
Nominated for 3 Primetime Emmys. 1 win & 6 nominations total
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Season 3 · 26 episodes
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Sep 20, 1989 45 min
Jake takes matters into his own hands when a woman is threatened and followed to Hawaii by the psychotic ex-convict who attacked her.
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Sep 27, 1989 45 min
McCabe's boozing ex-partner turns up dead just as he's about to solve a 20-year-old murder case.
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E3 Easy to LoveOct 4, 1989 45 min
Jake seems unable to break the facade of a tough Los Angeles cop whose partner vanished after coming to Hawaii to pick up a convict.
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Oct 11, 1989 45 min
Deciding to take a break from his partner, Jake sets out to investigate a murder case that McCabe lost in court.
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Oct 25, 1989 45 min
Jake helps a supposedly reformed cat burglar investigate a theft for which he's been accused and reunite with his estranged teenage son.
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Nov 1, 1989 45 min
After Derek blows his first big case for McCabe, Jake starts his own investigation of the defendant.
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Nov 8, 1989 45 min
McCabe meets his match in a gruff Government agent bent on catching a drug dealer, while Jake learns that an old lover is involved in the case.
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Nov 15, 1989 45 min
A friend of McCabe's who's a gossip columnist puts her "Honolulu Hunks" story on hold to learn the truth about a woman's murder when the deceased's body washes up on the beach.
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Nov 29, 1989 45 min
McCabe thinks Jake has his head in the clouds when he defends a former TV hero who's now a drunken pilot and claims to have witnessed a murder.
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Dec 6, 1989 45 min
Judge Smithwood receives a death threat when a military man with a mysterious mission arrives in Hawaii.
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Dec 13, 1989 45 min
While McCabe helps out at a homeless shelter for the holidays, he talks Jake into helping a pregnant woman on the run.
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Jan 3, 1990 45 min
Derek sees an old friend who's gotten mixed up in murder as well as the monied shenanigans of her unpredictable husband's wealthy clan.
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Jan 10, 1990 45 min
A successful prosecutor gives credit to her lover, a mob boss, for her conviction record and to Jake for unknowingly identifying the mob's snitch.
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Jan 17, 1990 45 min
Derek is involved in a hit-and-run accident putting McCabe in charge of the investigation and Jake in charge of the evidence.
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E15 Who's Sorry Now?Jan 31, 1990 45 min
A cop from the LAPD is all that stands between McCabe and an execution when the man he's pursued to Hawaii kidnaps the Fatman.
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Feb 7, 1990 45 min
Jake returns home for his sister's wedding, only to learn that her fiance has connections to the mob.
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E17 My BuddyFeb 14, 1990 45 min
An urchin steals Jake's wallet—and his heart—before she and her friends steal a counterfeiter's plates.
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E18 By MyselfFeb 28, 1990 45 min
McCabe personally hunts down a serial rapist whose latest victim is Max's obedience trainer—for whom the Fatman has fallen.
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Mar 7, 1990 45 min
Jake and a former lover, who's a fellow cop, pose as a married couple to investigate suspicious deaths at a health spa.
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Mar 14, 1990 45 min
Jake gets wounded during a fight in which the pilot of a small plane falls out, so he attempts to stay aloft and alert as McCabe tries to talk them down, while the two remember past experiences.
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E21 If I Didn't CareMar 28, 1990 45 min
Jake's old high school friend has come to kill him in order to pay back a gangster.
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Apr 4, 1990 45 min
A husband pleads temporary insanity after brutally stabbing his wife, but Jake and McCabe suspect he had method to madness.
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Apr 25, 1990 45 min
Jake goes undercover as a chauffeur to nab a husband for murder, but gets into trouble with the new wife.
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May 2, 1990 45 min
A young woman claims to be McCabe's daughter while Jake and Derek deal with a frightened witness.
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E25 Danny BoyMay 9, 1990 45 min
McCabe's bottled-up feelings are unleashed when he's called to the state prison where his inmate son witnessed a murder.
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May 16, 1990 45 min
The prime suspect in the attempted murder of a young cop is his own father, the head of a Chinatown syndicate.
Cast 3
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Joe Penny
Jake Styles
- Alan Campbell Derek Mitchell
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William Conrad
J. L. "Fatman" McCabe