Jake and the Fatman Episode Rating Graph
Sep 1987 - May 1992
Sep 1987 - May 1992
6.6
Browse episode ratings trends for Jake and the Fatman. Simply click on the interactive rating graph to explore the best and worst of Jake and the Fatman's 106 episodes.
S5 Ep15
10.0
26th Feb 1992
A doctor is murdered, and is discovered to have been making child pornography. The prime suspect is Elliot Edwards, a city council member with a spotless record.
S5 Ep10
10.0
8th Jan 1992
A trio of high-class pickpockets gets in trouble when they pick a mafia hitman's pocket and get a piece of paper with his next target on it.
S4 Ep24
10.0
8th May 1991
Todd Kurtin kills his wife in an alley, and makes it look like a mugger assaulted her. But the story doesn't convince McCabe, who prosecutes Kurtin - even though the case is weak.
S4 Ep16
10.0
27th Feb 1991
Cindy O'Malley, a friend of Jake's, is witness to a murder, but is spotted by the killer and he chases her and shoots her. McCabe & Co has to take care of her baby while they try to find her and the killer.
S4 Ep4
10.0
3rd Oct 1990
Jake isn't very happy when his friend's Porsche is taken at gunpoint. He tracks down the robber, but holds off when he finds the carjacker associating with an infamous jewel thief. So posing as an alarm cracker, Jake goes undercover to find what their target is.
S3 Ep9
10.0
29th Nov 1989
Jake helps out the actor, Tom Cody, who played his childhood idol - the Skyhawk. Tom has been reduced to an alcoholized, broke veteran plane pilot, and no one believes him when he witnesses a murder.
S3 Ep5
10.0
25th Oct 1989
A cat burglar robs a hotel while McCabe is hosting a district attorney convention there. The immediate suspect is Harry McGuinn, a recently released cat burglar. He insists that he is innocent, and tries to help Jake solve the robbery.
S2 Ep4
10.0
5th Apr 1989
Jake investigates a robbery of a transportation company, and gets involved with its owner.
S4 Ep1
9.5
12th Sep 1990
Two siblings kill their parents when their father threatens to remove them from the will.
S4 Ep22
9.3
24th Apr 1991
McCabe is showing a school class around the courthouse, when a man dressed as clown tries to kill him with a shotgun. The man misses, but gets away. McCabe goes over past convictions to see witch of them might be the would-be assassin.
S3 Ep7
9.3
8th Nov 1989
Jake and the FBI go after Victor Potemkin, a suspected drug smuggler. But when they raid his house they find no drugs, but Jake finds someone he knows - a woman who disappeared overnight just as he was about to propose to her.
S3 Ep6
9.3
1st Nov 1989
Derek gets his first case - a drunk driver who assaulted a police officer. But the driver is a powerful man, and suddenly Derek's main witness lies and the judge dismisses the case.
S4 Ep2
9.3
19th Sep 1990
Derek's uncle reveals he's about to get married. But Derek becomes suspicious because the bride is nearly half his uncle's age, and starts digging into her past.
S5 Ep2
9.0
25th Sep 1991
Jake goes undercover as a middle man between Rose and a rebel army wanting to buy Rose's hi-tech rifles, while Delaney finds proof that Rose isn't who he claims to be.
S4 Ep20
9.0
3rd Apr 1991
McCabe sees a man supposed to have been murdered 5 years ago, and has Jake look into it.
S4 Ep11
9.0
12th Dec 1990
A woman is found murdered in her home after she surprised a burglar and triggered the alarm. The burglar is found and convicted for the murder, but McCabe thinks something is wrong and gets Jake to snoop around.
S4 Ep6
9.0
31st Oct 1990
A deputy PA is blackmailed into losing a case by kidnappers that have her son.
S4 Ep5
9.0
24th Oct 1990
Jake goes under cover investigating industrial espionage, trying to find the top man. Things get complicated when an acquaintance for LA comes to visit.
S3 Ep24
9.0
2nd May 1990
Jake and Derek negotiates with a slightly paranoid man who has evidence against a crocked oil company, while McCabe gets a visit from a young woman claiming to be his daughter.
S3 Ep22
9.0
4th Apr 1990
McCabe prosecutes a man for murdering his wife, when the man's story about them being assaulted by gang members doesn't check out.
S3 Ep19
9.0
7th Mar 1990
A woman disappears when looking into her mother's death at a health resort. Jake and LA cop Karen Stetson go undercover at the resort, posing as a married couple.
S3 Ep13
9.0
10th Jan 1990
After several failed raids on mafia boss Everett Ashford, it appears the PA's office has a leak. Evidence starts to point to Leigh Perry, a rising star in the PA's office and the head of the organized crime division.
S3 Ep12
9.0
3rd Jan 1990
Derek gets Jake to look into things, when the sister of a good friend is arrested for possession of drugs. She says they were planted by her mother-in-law, who is angry with her son for trying to take control of the family company, and at her for marrying him.
S3 Ep4
9.0
11th Oct 1989
A young lady is acquitted for killing her mother, and wants to hire Jake privately to find the killer. Jake turns it down because he's on his way to a vacation, but then McCabe refuses to let him take any days off. So Jake quits his job and takes the assignment.
S3 Ep2
9.0
27th Sep 1989
Ed Delaney, an ex-cop and an old friend of McCabe, is killed when he comes close to solving ""The Lady in Red"" Murder - a 20-year-old unsolved murder case that got him fired from the police.
S2 Ep10
9.0
17th May 1989
McCabe and the son of a friend go fishing, and discover a bomb on the their boat. Unable to disarm it they jump in the sea and swim to a nearby island. Meanwhile Jake and Derek presume they're dead, and go looking for the bomber.
S2 Ep6
9.0
19th Apr 1989
Jake goes after a pimp, who killed a prostitute who was to testify against him.
S2 Ep5
9.0
12th Apr 1989
A friend of McCabe, senator Brandauer, is killed in a plane crash, and investigation reveals it was no accident. The plane had substandard parts bought in a deal brokered by McCabe's son, Daniel.
S1 Ep18
9.0
16th Feb 1988
A small time crook comes to McCabe offering to testify against the crime boss O'Rourke, after laying low for ten years. McCabe is suspicious, but is more than willing to go along with anything that can get O'Rourke behind bars.
S3 Ep18
8.7
28th Feb 1990
A rapist is loose, attacking single women in their homes. Meanwhile McCabe takes Max to the ""Happy Dogs"" class.
S1 Ep22
8.7
30th Mar 1988
A former cop who is now a crime writer commits a clever murder so that he can write a book about it that is likely to become a best seller.
S3 Ep20
6.0
14th Mar 1990
Jake is undercover on a plane transporting drugs, when his real identity is discovered. The pilot fatally wounds him, and jump out with the only parachute. From the control tower McCabe tries to keep Jake conscious by talking about their previous adventures while the plane flies toward the airport.
S5 Ep1
6.0
18th Sep 1991
PI Ed Delaney sees a man die and calls the police, but when they come for the body it is gone. He identifies the man as millionaire Richard Rose, who as it turns out, is still alive...
S1 Ep13
6.4
5th Jan 1988
Jake spots the hit man Sagittarius at the airport and follows him, but he spots Jake and is fatally wounded in the following gunfight. Jake takes his place to try to find out who the target was.
S1 Ep8
6.9
3rd Nov 1987
""Mad"" Marvin Michaels, the owner of an electronics store, is killed, and ex-con Bradford Long is the main suspect. McCabe assigns the case to the cop Karen Stetson, whose father was killed by Long.
S2 Ep1
7.0
15th Mar 1989
Jake goes to Hawaii to visit a longtime friend, John Graney, but finds him dead when he arrives. Meanwhile McCabe resigns his position as district attorney and decides to move to Hawaii.
S5 Ep6
7.0
20th Nov 1991
A woman follows a client of her sister's law firm, and sees him rob a store and kill the attendants. She confronts the man, and threatens to tell the police unless he kills her sister.
S5 Ep20
7.0
8th Apr 1992
Bondswoman Ethel Mae Haven has to track down a client who she posted a $1 million bail for.
S3 Ep16
7.2
7th Feb 1990
Jake travels to Los Angeles to attend his sister's wedding. The groom has a shady past, but he swears it's all behind him. But then, why is he working for a local gangster?
S1 Ep1
7.2
26th Sep 1987
Senator candidate Kyle Williams' lover is killed after she threatens to reveal their affair. His speechwriter admits to him that he was the murderer, but threatens to frame him unless he cooperates.
S2 Ep3
7.3
22nd Mar 1989
A tourist tries to stop a mugging, but he is grabbed from behind and the mugger stabs him. When the police arrive, the tourist is still alive, but the mugger is dead from a bullet wound and on the ground lies a gun used to kill several muggers. The third man is nowhere to be seen.
S3 Ep3
7.3
4th Oct 1989
Jake and Stg. Danoho (a LAPD cop) are transporting a prisoner to Los Angeles, when the prisoner escapes and Danoho is killed. Danoho's partner, Sgt. Walker, goes to Hawaii to assist in the investigation and it turns out there's bad blood between her and Jake.
S2 Ep7
7.5
26th Apr 1989
A burglar surprises Wallace Cogan, a publisher of adult magazines, and his wife Marina when they are returning home from a holiday. He kills Marina, but is wounded by Cogan before he gets away.
S2 Ep8
7.5
3rd May 1989
A young woman is found dead on the beach from a drug overdose. The immediate suspect is her ex-boyfriend, Sonny, so Jake goes pick him up for questioning. But a mysterious gunman is also interested in Sonny, and tries to kill him before Jake can get to him.
S1 Ep6
7.6
20th Oct 1987
A call girl discovers that her pimp uses her to smuggle drugs. She contacts McCabe, but is killed just as they meet.
S3 Ep10
7.7
6th Dec 1989
Judge Smithwood starts receiving death threats after sentencing a young man to 20 years for rape. And a mysterious man in an army captain uniform steals a high precision sniper rifle from a local military base.
S4 Ep8
7.7
14th Nov 1990
Jake and private investigator Casey Quinn go after her husband's murderer - suspected smuggler Peter LaMotta.
S4 Ep9
7.7
28th Nov 1990
Jake gets in trouble with a group of crooked LA cops when he discovers a body in the water while fishing on Maui. They intercept Jake's call about the body, and hide it before dispatching someone to pick it up. Frustrated, Jake starts investigating the man who received his call about the body.
S5 Ep9
7.7
1st Jan 1992
McCabe is prosecuting Mitchell Lazarus for murder and has just placed him at the scene, when another man steps forward claiming to be the murderer.
S5 Ep11
7.7
15th Jan 1992
Derek is shocked when he finds out that a woman he loved didn't die in a plane crash 6 years ago.
S1 Ep11
7.8
1st Dec 1987
A burglar kills a woman and blinds her nurse before fleeing. The police catch him, but have to let him go because the nurse can't identify him. When she is scheduled for an operation that could restore her eyesight, they fear he'll try to kill her.
S1 Ep15
8.0
19th Jan 1988
A known mob man is killed in the home of star reporter Candace Morgan. She says he was shot through the window while she was interviewing him, but McCabe gets suspicious when there is one too many bullets.
S2 Ep9
8.0
10th May 1989
Jake and two friends participate in a drug bust that goes sour. The next day those friends are found dead - killed by a shotgun blast while they were in their car at the docks.
S3 Ep8
8.0
15th Nov 1989
An unknown girl washes up on a beach murdered, and a friend of McCabe, the newspaper columnist Leilani Simons, takes an unusual interest in the case.
S4 Ep17
8.0
6th Mar 1991
Derek gets a visit from a childhood friend who is trying to turn his life around. The next day he's found dead, filled with drugs and alcohol. The police believe he killed himself, but Derek refuses to accept it.
S4 Ep18
8.0
13th Mar 1991
His wife and her lover Gregg Hatton remove Andrew Blane, a good friend of McCabe and head of Blane Electronics, from his position. The next day Hatton is killed in an explosion in his home.
S4 Ep21
8.0
10th Apr 1991
A psychiatrist is having an affair with a patient and her husband finds out and wants a divorce. So she manipulates her lover into killing him.
S5 Ep7
8.0
11th Dec 1991
A friend of Neely's is killed by a heroin overdose, just as she was about to quit modeling. Neely goes undercover as a model to find out why.
S5 Ep21
8.0
22nd Apr 1992
Jake teams up with top homicide cop Hank Goldman to catch a serial killer who strangles women from escort services.
S5 Ep22
8.0
6th May 1992
Notorious New York cop Mickey Daytona pursues the legal counsel Thomas Chetwin suspecting him of rape. Jake, who is a friend of Mickey and his old father, reluctantly teams up with Mickey. Chetwin is trapped and commits suicide.
S1 Ep12
8.1
8th Dec 1987
One of the deputy DAs finally gets her first murder case when a man she was investigating for skipping alimony payments turns up dead.
S1 Ep23
8.2
6th Apr 1988
Ned Covington and his wife plan to kill his boss, Phil Duncan, when he is passed over for promotion, but they kill another employee by mistake. Realizing this they try to frame Duncan for the murder.
S1 Ep1
7.2
26th Sep 1987
Senator candidate Kyle Williams' lover is killed after she threatens to reveal their affair. His speechwriter admits to him that he was the murderer, but threatens to frame him unless he cooperates.
S1 Ep2
8.6
29th Sep 1987
Carson Warfield is having an affair with his stepmother, and together they kill his father and frame a thief who used to work for them. When things don't add up McCabe gets suspicious, and starts nosing around.
S1 Ep3
8.5
29th Sep 1987
Carson Warfield is having an affair with his stepmother, and together they kill his father and frame a thief who used to work for them. When things don't add up McCabe gets suspicious, and starts nosing around.
S1 Ep4
8.3
6th Oct 1987
Jake's former partner is killed by his fiancée in an alley. She blames the murder on a Latin kid she saw stealing a VCR just before she pulled the trigger.
S1 Ep5
8.4
13th Oct 1987
A wealthy lawyer kills his ex-wife's new man and frames her for the murder. She is arrested, and he takes the job of being her lawyer.
S1 Ep6
7.6
20th Oct 1987
A call girl discovers that her pimp uses her to smuggle drugs. She contacts McCabe, but is killed just as they meet.
S1 Ep7
8.3
27th Oct 1987
For some time David Thompson has gone out and killed bums, so that the police believe a serial killer is loose. Then when he lures his brother to an alley and kills him the same way, he won't be a suspect.
S1 Ep8
6.9
3rd Nov 1987
""Mad"" Marvin Michaels, the owner of an electronics store, is killed, and ex-con Bradford Long is the main suspect. McCabe assigns the case to the cop Karen Stetson, whose father was killed by Long.
S1 Ep9
8.3
10th Nov 1987
Glen Latimer pushes his newly married rich wife Nancy of their boat, but she survives and is brought to a hospital. She is unsure if it was just an accident, so Jake goes befriends Glen posing as Nancy's brother.
S1 Ep10
8.3
17th Nov 1987
Ed Galvin escapes while he is being transported to prison, after threatening the life of McCabe and Andy Harmon (the cop who arrested him) during his trial.
S1 Ep11
7.8
1st Dec 1987
A burglar kills a woman and blinds her nurse before fleeing. The police catch him, but have to let him go because the nurse can't identify him. When she is scheduled for an operation that could restore her eyesight, they fear he'll try to kill her.
S1 Ep12
8.1
8th Dec 1987
One of the deputy DAs finally gets her first murder case when a man she was investigating for skipping alimony payments turns up dead.
S1 Ep13
6.4
5th Jan 1988
Jake spots the hit man Sagittarius at the airport and follows him, but he spots Jake and is fatally wounded in the following gunfight. Jake takes his place to try to find out who the target was.
S1 Ep14
8.3
12th Jan 1988
Leslie Randall, a former PR manager for McCabe is raped. The rapist, a psychiatrist, frames one of his patients with an anonymous tip to the police.
S1 Ep15
8.0
19th Jan 1988
A known mob man is killed in the home of star reporter Candace Morgan. She says he was shot through the window while she was interviewing him, but McCabe gets suspicious when there is one too many bullets.
S1 Ep16
8.2
26th Jan 1988
A man takes a courtroom hostage - with Derek and McCabe in it.
S1 Ep17
8.3
2nd Feb 1988
A friend of McCabe is murdered just as he is about to fake his own death so his wife can collect a 4.5 million-dollar life insurance.
S1 Ep18
9.0
16th Feb 1988
A small time crook comes to McCabe offering to testify against the crime boss O'Rourke, after laying low for ten years. McCabe is suspicious, but is more than willing to go along with anything that can get O'Rourke behind bars.
S1 Ep19
8.4
23rd Feb 1988
The daughter of the wealthy Amos Banning arranges her own kidnapping, and murders her accomplice once she has the ransom.
S1 Ep20
8.3
16th Mar 1988
Jennifer Wilding gets a surprise when her identical twin sister turns up wanting to resume their previous partnership - one steals jewelry and the other provides an alibi.
S1 Ep21
8.3
23rd Mar 1988
A friend of Jake, Matthew Hammond, is having an affair with a rich lady. They decide to marry, but when she asks her husband for a divorce, he kills her and frames Hammond.
S1 Ep22
8.7
30th Mar 1988
A former cop who is now a crime writer commits a clever murder so that he can write a book about it that is likely to become a best seller.
S1 Ep23
8.2
6th Apr 1988
Ned Covington and his wife plan to kill his boss, Phil Duncan, when he is passed over for promotion, but they kill another employee by mistake. Realizing this they try to frame Duncan for the murder.
The first episode of Jake and the Fatman aired on September 26, 1987.
The last episode of Jake and the Fatman aired on May 06, 1992.
There are 106 episodes of Jake and the Fatman.
There are 5 seasons of Jake and the Fatman.
No.
Jake and the Fatman has ended.