Jake and the Fatman: Season 1

Episode 1: Happy Days Are Here Again 1987-09-26 | 60 min 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.

Episode 2: Fatal Attraction (1) 1987-09-29 | 60 min 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.

Episode 3: Fatal Attraction (2) 1987-09-29 | 60 min 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.

Episode 4: Laura 1987-10-06 | 60 min Jake's former partner is killed by his fiancÃ©e in an alley. She blames the murder on a Latin kid she saw stealing a VCR just before she pulled the trigger.

Episode 5: The Man That Got Away 1987-10-13 | 60 min 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.

Episode 6: Love for Sale 1987-10-20 | 60 min A call girl discovers that her pimp uses her to smuggle drugs. She contacts McCabe, but is killed just as they meet.

Episode 7: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? 1987-10-27 | 60 min 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.

Episode 8: Body and Soul 1987-11-03 | 60 min ""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.

Episode 9: The Man I Love 1987-11-10 | 60 min 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.

Episode 10: Love Me Or Leave Me 1987-11-17 | 60 min 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.

Episode 11: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes 1987-12-01 | 60 min 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.

Episode 12: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas 1987-12-08 | 60 min One of the deputy DAs finally gets her first murder case when a man she was investigating for skipping alimony payments turns up dead.

Episode 13: After You've Gone 1988-01-05 | 60 min 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.

Episode 14: It Had to Be You 1988-01-12 | 60 min 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.

Episode 15: But Not for Me 1988-01-19 | 60 min 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.

Episode 16: What Is This Thing Called Love? 1988-01-26 | 60 min A man takes a courtroom hostage - with Derek and McCabe in it.

Episode 17: Lady, Be Good 1988-02-02 | 60 min 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.

Episode 18: I'll Be Seeing You 1988-02-16 | 60 min 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.

Episode 19: Babyface 1988-02-23 | 60 min The daughter of the wealthy Amos Banning arranges her own kidnapping, and murders her accomplice once she has the ransom.

Episode 20: Blues in the Night 1988-03-16 | 60 min 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.

Episode 21: How Long Has This Thing Been Going On? 1988-03-23 | 60 min 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.

Episode 22: I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plans 1988-03-30 | 60 min 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.

Episode 23: Rhapsody in Blue 1988-04-06 | 60 min 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.

Jake and the Fatman: Season 1

Overview

Details

Episodes