Jake and the Fatman

Episodes

Season 4 · 24 episodes

• E1 God Bless the Child
  Sep 12, 1990 45 min

  A pair of spoiled children murder their wealthy father—who is one of McCabe's poker buddies—and frame a businessman for the crime.

• E2 The Tender Trap
  Sep 19, 1990 45 min

  Derek suspects his uncle's fiancee is a black widow, and she may have already spun her web.

• E3 Exactly Like You
  Sep 26, 1990 45 min

  A man confesses to murdering the banker who turned him down for a loan, but McCabe doesn't think the confession adds up.

• E4 'Round Midnight
  Oct 3, 1990 45 min

  In order to catch an elusive jewel thief, Jake poses as the burglar-alarm expert the thief requires for a job that's yet to be disclosed.

• E5 Only You
  Oct 24, 1990 45 min

  Jake's growing attraction to a friend could prove fatal when she interferes in his investigation of an industrial-espionage ring.

• E6 My Boy Bill
  Oct 31, 1990 45 min

  Sailors turned jewelry thieves abduct the son of the prosecuting attorney, and it's up to Jake to rescue him.

• E7 More Than You Know
  Nov 7, 1990 45 min

  After a journalist is dumped by her lover, she murders his wife and makes it look like the work of a serial killer.

• E8 Night and Day
  Nov 14, 1990 45 min

  A hard-boiled PI is determined to make a case against the smuggler who shot her husband, whether Jake helps her or not.

• E9 Goodbye (1)
  Nov 28, 1990 45 min

  Jake follows a trail of dirty cops and dead drug dealers to the Mainland where he encounters old friends and new foes, so McCabe follows him to help out.

• E10 Goodbye (2)
  Nov 28, 1990 45 min

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

• E11 I Know That You Know
  Dec 12, 1990 45 min

  McCabe helps convict a burglar for the murder of an art collector, but further investigation of the case reveals that it also involves fraud and adultery.

• E12 Let's Call the Whole Thing Off
  Jan 2, 1991 45 min

  Jake tries to get a reluctant witness to testify against a mob boss in court before McCabe's deadline passes.

• E13 I May Be Wrong
  Jan 9, 1991 45 min

  A cop and a pro-apartheid leader, each from South Africa, blame each other for the murder of a government official, also from South Africa – and Jake must found out who's the real killer.

• E14 Daddy's Home
  Feb 6, 1991 45 min

  Jake's father returns after deserting years ago, and he brings emotional upheaval and a threat from thugs with him.

• E15 I'm Gonna Live Till I Die
  Feb 13, 1991 45 min

  A mousy bookkeeper who's been poisoned spends his last days helping Jake find the rat who did it.

• E16 Pretty Baby
  Feb 27, 1991 45 min

  Jake, McCabe and Derek take turns looking after a baby while they search for the infant's mother who witnessed a murder.

• E17 I Cover the Waterfront
  Mar 6, 1991 45 min

  Derek goes down to the docks to investigate the death of his longshoreman friend, certain that the man has been murdered.

• E18 You Don't Know Me
  Mar 13, 1991 45 min

  An old friend of McCabe's is suspected of murdering the man who took away his business and had an affair with his wife, but he's got the Fatman as an airtight alibi.

• E19 It Never Entered My Mind
  Mar 20, 1991 45 min

  A doctor is accused of murdering a hospital administrator, so he starts his own investigation with the help of his med students. Note: This episode introduces Dr. Mark Sloan (plated by Dick Van Dyke) and sets up the spin-off series "Diagnosis: Murder."

• E20 Second Time Around
  Apr 3, 1991 45 min

  A woman's elaborate scheme to fake the death of her blackmailed partner has one fatal flaw: McCabe seeing the man alive.

• E21 I'd Do Anything
  Apr 10, 1991 45 min

  A psychiatrist manipulates her teenage lover into murdering her husband, then tries to use his fragile state of mind to get them both off the hook.

• E22 We'll Meet Again
  Apr 24, 1991 45 min

  A clown comes after McCabe with a sawed-off shotgun, leading the Fatman to remember all the suspects he convicted.

• E23 It's a Sin to Tell a Lie
  May 1, 1991 45 min

  McCabe tries to clear his pastor of murdering his mistress.

• E24 Nevertheless
  May 8, 1991 45 min

  A man murders his wealthy wife and makes it look like a mugging, so McCabe has his star witness help crack the case.