The BEST episodes of Jake and the Fatman
Every episode of Jake and the Fatman ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Jake and the Fatman!
District attorney J.L. McCabe strikes down on the crime in Los Angeles together with his special investigator Jake Styles and assistant D.A. Derek Mitchell.
#1 - My Shining Hour
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/29/1989
McCabe thinks Jake has his head in the clouds when he defends a former TV hero who's now a drunken pilot and claims to have witnessed a murder.
#2 - Dancing in the Dark
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/25/1989
Jake helps a supposedly reformed cat burglar investigate a theft for which he's been accused and reunite with his estranged teenage son.
#3 - 'Round Midnight
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/3/1990
In order to catch an elusive jewel thief, Jake poses as the burglar-alarm expert the thief requires for a job that's yet to be disclosed.
#4 - It All Depends on You
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/1/1989
After Derek blows his first big case for McCabe, Jake starts his own investigation of the defendant.
#5 - Out of Nowhere
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/8/1989
McCabe meets his match in a gruff Government agent bent on catching a drug dealer, while Jake learns that an old lover is involved in the case.
#6 - God Bless the Child
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/12/1990
A pair of spoiled children murder their wealthy father—who is one of McCabe's poker buddies—and frame a businessman for the crime.
#7 - The Tender Trap
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/19/1990
Derek suspects his uncle's fiancee is a black widow, and she may have already spun her web.
#8 - Come Closer to Me
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/8/1992
Jake goes undercover with a group of thieves to find out a hit man's next victim.
#9 - You're Driving Me Crazy
Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/4/1990
A husband pleads temporary insanity after brutally stabbing his wife, but Jake and McCabe suspect he had method to madness.
#10 - Only You
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/24/1990
Jake's growing attraction to a friend could prove fatal when she interferes in his investigation of an industrial-espionage ring.
#11 - Danny Boy
Season 3 - Episode 25 - Aired 5/9/1990
McCabe's bottled-up feelings are unleashed when he's called to the state prison where his inmate son witnessed a murder.
#12 - My Heart Belongs to Daddy
Season 3 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/2/1990
A young woman claims to be McCabe's daughter while Jake and Derek deal with a frightened witness.
#13 - The Way You Look Tonight
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/11/1989
Deciding to take a break from his partner, Jake sets out to investigate a murder case that McCabe lost in court.
#14 - The Lady in Red
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/1989
McCabe's boozing ex-partner turns up dead just as he's about to solve a 20-year-old murder case.
#15 - I'll Be Seeing You
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/16/1988
After ten years on the run, a murder witness returns to use McCabe against a powerful defendant for a big payoff, and Jake must escort the witness to court in one piece.
#16 - Side by Side
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/17/1989
McCabe and a teenage Crusoe are shipwrecked after a boat explosion.
#17 - In the Still of the Night
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/3/1990
Derek sees an old friend who's gotten mixed up in murder as well as the monied shenanigans of her unpredictable husband's wealthy clan.
#18 - Second Time Around
Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/3/1991
A woman's elaborate scheme to fake the death of her blackmailed partner has one fatal flaw: McCabe seeing the man alive.
#19 - I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/30/1988
An author who's a former cop literally kills for a best-seller, giving Jake and McCabe a plot that keeps them guessing.
#20 - Blues in the Night
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/16/1988
A pair of twin jewel thieves proves to be a challenge for McCabe as he unknowingly provides an alibi for one sister while the other commits a murder.
#21 - You Turned the Tables on Me
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/10/1990
A successful prosecutor gives credit to her lover, a mob boss, for her conviction record and to Jake for unknowingly identifying the mob's snitch.
#22 - I Ain't Got No Body
Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/7/1990
Jake and a former lover, who's a fellow cop, pose as a married couple to investigate suspicious deaths at a health spa.
#23 - Chinatown, My Chinatown
Season 3 - Episode 26 - Aired 5/16/1990
The prime suspect in the attempted murder of a young cop is his own father, the head of a Chinatown syndicate.
#24 - Exactly Like You
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/26/1990
A man confesses to murdering the banker who turned him down for a loan, but McCabe doesn't think the confession adds up.
#25 - My Boy Bill
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/1990
Sailors turned jewelry thieves abduct the son of the prosecuting attorney, and it's up to Jake to rescue him.