The WORST episodes of Jake and the Fatman
Every episode of Jake and the Fatman ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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 - 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.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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."
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - Goodbye (2)
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/28/1990
Jake is in LA and has to clear himself of murder charges.
#13 - 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.
#14 - 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.
#15 - 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.
#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 - '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.
#19 - 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.
#20 - 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.
#21 - 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.
#22 - 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.
#23 - 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.
#24 - 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.
#25 - 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.