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Wed, Jan 31, 1990. While Jake is away McCabe is abducted by the brother of a cop killer, he convicted on the mainland, who's about to be executed. He demands that his brother's sentence be commuted. A cop from the mainland whose partner is the one the brother was convicted of killing, arrives and tries to help find McCabe.
S5.E4 ∙ I'll Never Be the Same. Wed, Nov 6, 1991. Jake accidentally shoots a young boy in the dead of night while pursuing a suspect he had seen firing into a house. As they begin to investigate, the pieces of the puzzle don't quite fit together, and Jake ends up caught in the crossfire. 8.0/10 (27) Rate.
S1.E8 ∙ The Man I Love. Tue, Nov 10, 1987. A woman whose father is a good friend of McCabe's is nearly killed by her husband. But she refuses to believe he did it. So while she recuperates in a hospital, McCabe has Jake pose as a relative who comes and stays at her house. And Jake tries to prove his complicity.
Wed, Jan 31, 1990. While Jake is away McCabe is abducted by the brother of a cop killer, he convicted on the mainland, who's about to be executed. He demands that his brother's sentence be commuted. A cop from the mainland whose partner is the one the brother was convicted of killing, arrives and tries to help find McCabe.
S1.E19 ∙ Blues in the Night. Wed, Mar 16, 1988. A woman who's a friend of McCabe's, has a twin sister who's a criminal. And she commits a crime and does it at the same time her sister was with McCabe. When Jake investigates and witnesses place her at the scene but because she was with McCabe, he doesn't arrest her.
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.
Dec 15, 2020 · If you were around during the late-80s and early-90s, you might remember Jake and the Fatman. Based on a guest character in the NBC drama Matlock, the series featured J.L. "Fatman" McCabe as a Hawaii police officer-turned Los Angeles district attorney who teamed up with Jake Styles, a charming, happy-go-lucky investigator.
