About this season
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 series ran on CBS for five seasons from 1987 to 1992. Diagnosis: Murder was a spin-off of this series.
Episodes (11)
1. Wish You Were Here (1)
10.0Aired 15 March 1989 • 60 min
Jake goes to Hawaii to visit a longtime friend, John Graney, but finds him dead when he arrives. Meanwhile McCabe resigns his position as district attorney and decides to move to Hawaii.
2. Wish You Were Here (2)
Aired 15 March 1989 • 60 min
Jake continues trying to find Graney's murderer, now while under suspicion of John's partner's murder.
3. I'll Never Smile Again
Aired 22 March 1989 • 60 min
A tourist tries to stop a mugging, but he is grabbed from behind and the mugger stabs him. When the police arrive, the tourist is still alive, but the mugger is dead from a bullet wound and on the ground lies a gun used to kill several muggers. The third man is nowhere to be seen.
4. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
10.0Aired 5 April 1989 • 60 min
Jake investigates a robbery of a transportation company, and gets involved with its owner.
5. Why Can't You Behave?
10.0Aired 12 April 1989 • 60 min
A friend of McCabe, senator Brandauer, is killed in a plane crash, and investigation reveals it was no accident. The plane had substandard parts bought in a deal brokered by McCabe's son, Daniel.
6. Poor Butterfly
10.0Aired 19 April 1989 • 60 min
Jake goes after a pimp, who killed a prostitute who was to testify against him.
7. It Ain't Necessarily So
10.0Aired 26 April 1989 • 60 min
A burglar surprises Wallace Cogan, a publisher of adult magazines, and his wife Marina when they are returning home from a holiday. He kills Marina, but is wounded by Cogan before he gets away.
8. Someone to Watch Over Me
10.0Aired 3 May 1989 • 60 min
A young woman is found dead on the beach from a drug overdose. The immediate suspect is her ex-boyfriend, Sonny, so Jake goes pick him up for questioning. But a mysterious gunman is also interested in Sonny, and tries to kill him before Jake can get to him.
9. They Can't Take That Away from Me
10.0Aired 10 May 1989 • 60 min
Jake and two friends participate in a drug bust that goes sour. The next day those friends are found dead - killed by a shotgun blast while they were in their car at the docks.
10. Side by Side
10.0Aired 17 May 1989 • 60 min
McCabe and the son of a friend go fishing, and discover a bomb on the their boat. Unable to disarm it they jump in the sea and swim to a nearby island. Meanwhile Jake and Derek presume they're dead, and go looking for the bomber.
11. Snowfall
10.0Aired 24 May 1989 • 60 min
The Secret Service gets help from Jake in catching a money counterfeiter, who trades his product for cocaine. It becomes personal for Jake when a friend is killed during a failed raid.