Jake and the Fatman - Season 1
Season 1
Network
Episodes23
DatesSep 26, 1987 - Apr 6, 1988
Episodes
Season 1Episode 160 min
Happy Days Are Here Again
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.
Sep 26, 1987
Season 1Episode 260 min
Fatal Attraction (1)
McCabe must figure out a way to prove that a businessman was murdered by conspiratorial lovers—his widow and his son.
Sep 29, 1987
Season 1Episode 360 min
Fatal Attraction (2)
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.
Sep 29, 1987
Season 1Episode 460 min
Laura
Jake's former partner is killed by his fiancée in an alley. She blames the murder on a Latin kid she saw stealing a VCR just before she pulled the trigger.
Oct 6, 1987
Season 1Episode 560 min
The Man That Got Away
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.
Oct 13, 1987
Season 1Episode 660 min
Love for Sale
A call girl discovers that her pimp uses her to smuggle drugs. She contacts McCabe, but is killed just as they meet.
Oct 20, 1987
Season 1Episode 760 min
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
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.
Oct 27, 1987
Season 1Episode 860 min
Body and Soul
""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.
Nov 3, 1987
Season 1Episode 960 min
The Man I Love
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.
Nov 10, 1987
Season 1Episode 1060 min
Love Me or Leave Me
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.
Nov 17, 1987
Season 1Episode 1160 min
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
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.
Dec 1, 1987
Season 1Episode 1260 min
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
One of the deputy DAs finally gets her first murder case when a man she was investigating for skipping alimony payments turns up dead.
Dec 8, 1987
Season 1Episode 1360 min
After You've Gone
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.
Jan 5, 1988
Season 1Episode 1460 min
It Had to Be You
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.
Jan 12, 1988
Season 1Episode 1560 min
But Not for Me
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.
Jan 19, 1988
Season 1Episode 1660 min
What is This Thing Called Love?
A man takes a courtroom hostage - with Derek and McCabe in it.
Jan 26, 1988
Season 1Episode 1760 min
Lady, Be Good
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.
Feb 2, 1988
Season 1Episode 1860 min
I'll Be Seeing You
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.
Feb 16, 1988
Season 1Episode 1960 min
Babyface
The daughter of the wealthy Amos Banning arranges her own kidnapping, and murders her accomplice once she has the ransom.
Feb 23, 1988
Season 1Episode 2060 min
Blues in the Night
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.
Mar 16, 1988
Season 1Episode 2160 min
How Long Has This Thing Been Going On?
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.
Mar 23, 1988
Season 1Episode 2260 min
I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plans
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.
Mar 30, 1988
Season 1Episode 2360 min
Rhapsody in Blue
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.
Apr 6, 1988
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