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 - Wish You Were Here (1)
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/15/1989
Jake goes to Oahu to visit his former partner, only to find him murdered, so McCabe arrives from the mainland to help out.
#2 - Wish You Were Here (2)
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/15/1989
Jake continues trying to find Graney's murderer, now while under suspicion of John's partner's murder.
#3 - Why Can't You Behave?
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/12/1989
McCabe has a difficult reunion with his son while investigating a plane crash that killed a senator.
#4 - Poor Butterfly
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/19/1989
When a dangerous pimp assaults McCabe's sole witness against him, Jake talks a scared prostitute into helping him set the pimp up.
#5 - It Ain't Necessarily So
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/26/1989
With the help of a key witness whose testimony intrigues him, McCabe pursues a publisher he suspects of putting a hit on his wife.
#6 - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/8/1987
It's Christmastime, but McCabe isn't feeling so jolly as an ambitious assistant DA helps Jake find a murderous Santa Claus.
#7 - Fatal Attraction (1)
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/29/1987
McCabe sets out to prove that a wealthy businessman was murdered by his widow and son – two lovers conspiring to get his money.
#8 - Goodbye (2)
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/28/1990
Jake is in LA and has to clear himself of murder charges.
#9 - I'd Do Anything
Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/10/1991
A psychiatrist manipulates her teenage lover into murdering her husband, then tries to use his fragile state of mind to get them both off the hook.
#10 - I Know That You Know
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/12/1990
McCabe helps convict a burglar for the murder of an art collector, but further investigation of the case reveals that it also involves fraud and adultery.
#11 - Let's Call the Whole Thing Off
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/2/1991
Jake tries to get a reluctant witness to testify against a mob boss in court before McCabe's deadline passes.
#12 - I May Be Wrong
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/9/1991
A cop and a pro-apartheid leader, each from South Africa, blame each other for the murder of a government official, also from South Africa – and Jake must found out who's the real killer.
#13 - Daddy's Home
Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/6/1991
Jake's father returns after deserting years ago, and he brings emotional upheaval and a threat from thugs with him.
#14 - I'm Gonna Live Till I Die
Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/13/1991
A mousy bookkeeper who's been poisoned spends his last days helping Jake find the rat who did it.
#15 - Pretty Baby
Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/27/1991
Jake, McCabe and Derek take turns looking after a baby while they search for the infant's mother who witnessed a murder.
#16 - I Cover the Waterfront
Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/6/1991
Derek goes down to the docks to investigate the death of his longshoreman friend, certain that the man has been murdered.
#17 - You Don't Know Me
Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/13/1991
An old friend of McCabe's is suspected of murdering the man who took away his business and had an affair with his wife, but he's got the Fatman as an airtight alibi.
#18 - It Never Entered My Mind
Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/20/1991
A doctor is accused of murdering a hospital administrator, so he starts his own investigation with the help of his med students. Note: This episode introduces Dr. Mark Sloan (plated by Dick Van Dyke) and sets up the spin-off series "Diagnosis: Murder."
#19 - 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.
#20 - 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.
#21 - Goodbye (1)
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/28/1990
Jake follows a trail of dirty cops and dead drug dealers to the Mainland where he encounters old friends and new foes, so McCabe follows him to help out.
#22 - Night and Day
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/14/1990
A hard-boiled PI is determined to make a case against the smuggler who shot her husband, whether Jake helps her or not.
#23 - More Than You Know
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/1990
After a journalist is dumped by her lover, she murders his wife and makes it look like the work of a serial killer.
#24 - 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.
#25 - 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.