Jake and the Fatman is a television crime drama starring William Conrad as prosecutor "Fatman" McCabe and Joe Penny as investigator Jake Styles.
The series ran on CBS for five seasons from 1987 to 1992.
Diagnosis: Murder was a spin-off of Jake and the Fatman and Conrad guest starred as an aging prosecutor in a two-part episode of Matlock during its first season on NBC.
Producers Dean Hargrove and Fred Silverman decided to use this character as a model for one of the main characters in a new show they were creating for CBS.
Penny also guest starred in these episodes, but his character was not on the same side as Conrad's character in the storyline's legal case.
Following the departure of Hargrove, executive producers David Moessinger and Jeri Taylor were brought on to run Jake and the Fatman with Silverman.
They also hired J. Michael Straczynski as story editor and, later, co-producer. Taylor and Moessinger ran the show for two years before finally leaving in a dispute over control over the show.
The show was set in Los Angeles during the first season. After the end of Magnum, P.I., the show was moved to Hawaii.
The second and third seasons and half of the fourth season were filmed in Honolulu. Jake and the Fatman then returned to Los Angeles for the remainder of its run.
CBS DVD has released the first two seasons of Jake and the Fatman on DVD in Region 1
Complete episodelist
* Season 1
1. Happy Days Are Here Again 2. Fatal Attraction 3. Laura 4. The Man That Got Away 5. Love For Sale 6. Brother, Can You Spare A Dime? 7. Body And Soul 8. The Man I Love 9. Love Me Or Leave Me 10. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes 11. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas 12. After You've Gone 13. It Had To Be You 14. But Not For Me 15. What Is This Thing Called Love? 16. Lady, Be Good 17. I'll Be Seeing You 18. Babyface 19. Blues In The Night 20. How Long Has This Been Going On? 21. I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plans 22. Rhapsody In Blue
* Season 2
23. Wish You Were Here 2 Hours 24. I'll Never Smile Again 25. Bewitched, Bothered, And Bewildered 26. Why Can't You Behave? 27. Poor Butterfly 28. It Ain't Necessarily So 29. Someone To Watch Over Me 30. They Can't Take That Away From Me 31. Side By Side 32. Snowfall
* Season 3
33. I Only Have Eyes For You 34. The Lady In Red 35. SO Easy To Love 36. The Way You LOOK Tonight 37. Dancing In The Dark 38. It All Depends On You 39. Out Of Knowhere 40. Sweet Leilani 41. My Shining Hour 42. Long Ago And Far Away 43. What Child Is This? 44. In The Still Of The Night 45. You Turned The Tables On Me 46. One More For The Road 47. Who's Sorry Now? 48. I'll Dance At Your Wedding 49. My Buddy 50. By Myself 51. I Ain't Got Nobody 52. Put Your Dreams Away 53. If I Didn't Care 54. You're Driving Me Crazy 55. You Took Advantage Of Me 56. My Heart Belongs To Daddy 57. Danny Boy 58. Chinatown, My Chinatown
* Season 4
59. God Bless The Child 60. The Tender Trap 61. Exactly Like You 62. 'Round Midnight 63. Only You 64. My Boy Bill 65. More Than You Know 66. Night And Day 67. Goodbye - Part 1 68. Goodbye - Part 2 69. I Know That You Know 70. Let's Call The Whole Thing Off 71. I May Be Wrong 72. Daddy's Home 73. I'm Gonna Live 'Till I Die 74. Pretty Baby 75. I Cover The Waterfront 76. You Don't Know Me 77. It Never Entered My Mind 78. Second Time Around 79. I'd Do Anything 80. Who Would've Dreamed 81. It's A Sin To Tell A Lie 82. Nevertheless
* Season 5
83. Where Or When - Part 1 84. Where Or When - Part 2 85. Street Of Dreams 86. I'll Never Be The Same Again 87. I Could Write A Book 88. Two Different Worlds 89. Every Time We Say Goodbye 90. Come Along With Me 91. Last Dance 92.Come Closer To Me 93. Since I Fell For You 94. Just You, Just Me 95. Stormy Weather - Part 1 96. Stormy Weather - Part 2 97. You'll Never Know 98. There'll Be Some Changes Made 99. Pennies From Heaven 100. I Can't Believe I'm Losing You 101. All Through The Night 102. Ain't Misbehavin' 103. Nightmare 104. Beautiful Dreamer
of Jake and the Fatman on DVD in Region 1
