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 - You'll Never Know
Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/26/1992
A city councilman friend of Jake's is the prime suspect in a murder case.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - '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.
#7 - Nevertheless
Season 4 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/8/1991
A man murders his wealthy wife and makes it look like a mugging, so McCabe has his star witness help crack the case.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - We'll Meet Again
Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/24/1991
A clown comes after McCabe with a sawed-off shotgun, leading the Fatman to remember all the suspects he convicted.
#12 - 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.
#13 - 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.
#14 - Where or When (2)
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/1991
While working undercover as an arms dealer to get the proof needed for Delaney's case, Jake ends up sleeping with the buyer.
#15 - 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.
#16 - 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.
#17 - 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.
#18 - 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.
#19 - 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.
#20 - 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.
#21 - 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.
#22 - 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.
#23 - 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.
#24 - 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.
#25 - 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.