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Jake and the Fatman Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 1987 - 1988
Episode 1
Happy Days Are Here Again
Sat, Sep 26, 198747 mins
A politician whose a friend of McCabe, is in the middle of a campaign. He's having an affair with one of his staff and he's been promising her that he will leave his wife and marry her. But he keeps making excuses. She finally gives him an ultimatum either he leaves his wife and marries her or he can kiss his political career good bye. Another staff member, Brent Moore upon learning of this kills her. Moore then tells his boss what he did, the boss wants to call the police but Moore tells him that if he does Moore will tell them that he killed her. Moore says that he was wearing his sweater when he killed her. Jake investigates and gets help from another staff member when Moore is named as the replacement to the one he killed, because she thinks she should be the one who got her job. Eventually Jake learns of the affair and brings it to McCabe who charges his friend and he can't say anything.
Episode 2
Fatal Attraction
Tue, Sep 29, 198793 mins
This was the pilot to the series. A man and a woman who are lovers commit a murder. Eventually it is revealed that the victim is the father and husband of the two who killed him. J.L. McCabe, the tough district attorney known as "The Fatman", suspects them right away but unfortunately has no evidence, so he sends his ace investigator, Jake Styles to get the evidence. But it won't be easy cause these two covered their tracks very well.
Episode 3
Laura
Tue, Oct 6, 198747 mins
Jake's old partner is murdered by his fiancée, but the Fatman sees through her cover story.
Episode 4
The Man That Got Away
Tue, Oct 13, 198747 mins
A defense lawyer kills the boyfriend of his ex-wife and frames her for it.
Episode 5
Love for Sale
Tue, Oct 20, 198747 mins
Jake investigates an escort service after one of its girls is slain after tipping him off about its drug-smuggling operation.
Episode 6
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Tue, Oct 27, 198747 mins
A serial killer who's targeting winos taunts McCabe with phone calls before each killing.
Episode 7
Body and Soul
Tue, Nov 3, 198747 mins
Jake aids a beautiful undercover cop who's out to nail the criminal she blames for her father's death.
Episode 8
The Man I Love
Tue, Nov 10, 198747 mins
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.
Episode 9
Love Me or Leave Me
Tue, Nov 17, 198747 mins
McCabe successfully prosecutes a man only to have him escape from the courtroom. As part of chase Jake is convinced a cop was in on the heist and works to prove it.
Episode 10
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Tue, Dec 1, 198747 mins
A woman who was assaulted and left blind leaves the hospital and goes home with her husband. Later the man who attacked her returns but she manages to shoot him and her husband. Jake suspects she can see and is using her blindness as a cover.
Episode 11
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Tue, Dec 8, 198747 mins
It's the holiday season, and McCabe is implored by one of his pushier assistants to take another look at a murder case.
Episode 12
After You've Gone
Tue, Jan 5, 198847 mins
An assassin is killed in a shootout with police shortly after arriving in L.A., so Jake takes his place to try and figure out who the dead man's target is.
Episode 13
It Had to Be You
Tue, Jan 12, 198847 mins
A friend of Jake's is accused of killing the man who allegedly raped her, but McCabe soon comes to suspect her psychiatrist of both the rape and the murder.
Episode 14
But Not for Me
Tue, Jan 19, 198847 mins
A renowned television newswoman's career is jeopardized after a noted mobster is found murdered in her palatial home.
Episode 15
What Is This Thing Called Love?
Tue, Jan 26, 198847 mins
Jake tries to clear his friend, a priest accused of killing his married lover.
Episode 16
Lady Be Good
Tue, Feb 2, 198847 mins
Jake and the Fatman discover that a wealthy publisher's death was not an accident. A $9 million dollar insurance policy leads him to the publisher's wife.
Episode 17
I'll Be Seeing You
Tue, Feb 16, 1988
A guy who worked for a criminal offers to testify against his boss. McCabe is incredulous because he knows the man is untrustworthy and only thinks of himself. When he takes the stand he has a heart attack, at the hospital, one the criminal's men brings him some money, then kills him. McCabe later discovers he was trying to shake down his boss so that he could leave his daughter an inheritance. Later Jake finds the daughter and asks for her help to get the man who killed her father but she might working her own angle.
Episode 18
Babyface
Tue, Feb 23, 1988
A supposedly kidnapped heiress (Suzanne Snyder) forms a romantic attachment to Jake (Joe Penny) to cover up her double life.
Episode 19
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. He tries to figure out how she does it and when he figures out about her twin sister, he arrests the twin. But at the trial, the defense dares McCabe to prove which twin was with him when the other did the crime.
Episode 20
How Long Has This Been Going On?
Wed, Mar 23, 1988
A man hires a P.I. to see if his wife is having an affair. She discovers that the man is a priest. The man tells the P.I. to be quiet. But the P.I. goes to the wife and tries to shake her down. The wife then goes to the priest and says we have to come forward. She then goes to her husband and admits the affair and offers to divorce her husband and give him an equitable settlement--it seems most of the estate is hers, so he kills her. He tries to frame the priest who is a friend of Jake's. Jake naturally looks to the husband but has no proof. Jake learns of the P.I. and knows her rep but she doesn't give anything up. She later tries to shake the husband down.
Episode 21
I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan
Wed, Mar 30, 1988
McCabe suspects that best-selling author Dennis Julian committed murder to get his hands on another writer's story.
Episode 22
Rhapsody in Blue
Wed, Apr 6, 1988
McCabe exposes a couple's sinister plot for the husband to climb the corporate ladder by framing his competitor for murder.