The BEST episodes of Jake and the Fatman season 3
Every episode of Jake and the Fatman season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Jake and the Fatman season 3!
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 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - 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.
#14 - By Myself
Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/28/1990
McCabe personally hunts down a serial rapist whose latest victim is Max's obedience trainer—for whom the Fatman has fallen.
#15 - One More for the Road
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/17/1990
Derek is involved in a hit-and-run accident putting McCabe in charge of the investigation and Jake in charge of the evidence.
#16 - If I Didn't Care
Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/28/1990
Jake's old high school friend has come to kill him in order to pay back a gangster.
#17 - I Only Have Eyes for You
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/1989
Jake takes matters into his own hands when a woman is threatened and followed to Hawaii by the psychotic ex-convict who attacked her.
#18 - What Child is This?
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/13/1989
While McCabe helps out at a homeless shelter for the holidays, he talks Jake into helping a pregnant woman on the run.
#19 - My Buddy
Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/14/1990
An urchin steals Jake's wallet—and his heart—before she and her friends steal a counterfeiter's plates.
#20 - You Took Advantage of Me
Season 3 - Episode 23 - Aired 4/25/1990
Jake goes undercover as a chauffeur to nab a husband for murder, but gets into trouble with the new wife.
#21 - Sweet Leilani
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/15/1989
A friend of McCabe's who's a gossip columnist puts her "Honolulu Hunks" story on hold to learn the truth about a woman's murder when the deceased's body washes up on the beach.
#22 - Who's Sorry Now?
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/31/1990
A cop from the LAPD is all that stands between McCabe and an execution when the man he's pursued to Hawaii kidnaps the Fatman.
#23 - Easy to Love
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/1989
Jake seems unable to break the facade of a tough Los Angeles cop whose partner vanished after coming to Hawaii to pick up a convict.
#24 - Long Ago and Far Away
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/6/1989
Judge Smithwood receives a death threat when a military man with a mysterious mission arrives in Hawaii.
#25 - I'll Dance at Your Wedding
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/7/1990
Jake returns home for his sister's wedding, only to learn that her fiance has connections to the mob.