Episode
Jake and the Fatman: What Child is This?
Overview
It's Christmas, and pregnant young lady is on the run from two mobsters. Gertrude makes a surprise visit to McCabe, and helps with the Christmas celebration.
Details
- Series
- Jake and the Fatman
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 11
- Air date
- 1989-12-13
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
What Child is This? is Episode 11 in Season 3 of Jake and the Fatman. It aired on 1989-12-13. The runtime is 60 min.
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Episode 10: Long Ago and Far Away
Judge Smithwood starts receiving death threats after sentencing a young man to 20 years for rape. And a mysterious man in an army captain uniform steals a high precision sniper rifle from a local military base.
Episode 12: In the Still of the Night
Derek gets Jake to look into things, when the sister of a good friend is arrested for possession of drugs. She says they were planted by her mother-in-law, who is angry with her son for trying to take control of the family company, and at her for marrying him.
More episodes from this season
Episode 9: My Shining Hour
Jake helps out the actor, Tom Cody, who played his childhood idol - the Skyhawk. Tom has been reduced to an alcoholized, broke veteran plane pilot, and no one believes him when he witnesses a murder.
Episode 13: You Turned the Tables on Me
After several failed raids on mafia boss Everett Ashford, it appears the PA's office has a leak. Evidence starts to point to Leigh Perry, a rising star in the PA's office and the head of the organized crime division.
Episode 8: Sweet Leilani
An unknown girl washes up on a beach murdered, and a friend of McCabe, the newspaper columnist Leilani Simons, takes an unusual interest in the case.
Episode 14: One More for the Road
Derek collides with a pedestrian on his way home from a beach party. When the man dies, Derek is charged with manslaughter.
Episode 7: Out of Nowhere
Jake and the FBI go after Victor Potemkin, a suspected drug smuggler. But when they raid his house they find no drugs, but Jake finds someone he knows - a woman who disappeared overnight just as he was about to propose to her.
Episode 15: Who's Sorry Now?
Nick Voss, a wanted criminal whose brother is about to be executed, kidnaps McCabe. Voss demands that his brother is released, or McCabe will share the same fate.
Episode 6: It All Depends on You
Derek gets his first case - a drunk driver who assaulted a police officer. But the driver is a powerful man, and suddenly Derek's main witness lies and the judge dismisses the case.
Episode 16: I'll Dance at Your Wedding
Jake travels to Los Angeles to attend his sister's wedding. The groom has a shady past, but he swears it's all behind him. But then, why is he working for a local gangster?
Episode 5: Dancing in the Dark
A cat burglar robs a hotel while McCabe is hosting a district attorney convention there. The immediate suspect is Harry McGuinn, a recently released cat burglar. He insists that he is innocent, and tries to help Jake solve the robbery.
Episode 17: My Buddy
Jake catches a young girl picking his pocket. He tries to help her home, but she is very uncooperative. Meanwhile McCabe has problems with a murdered money counterfeiter.