Jake and the Fatman (1987) Season 3

Jake and the Fatman (1987)

Jake and the Fatman is a television crime drama starring William Conrad as prosecutor J. L. "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 this series.

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3x01 I Only Have Eyes for You

20 September, 1989 8:00 am

Jake takes matters into his own hands when a woman is threatened and followed to Hawaii by the psychotic ex-convict who attacked her.

3x02 The Lady in Red

27 September, 1989 8:00 am

McCabe's boozing ex-partner turns up dead just as he's about to solve a 20-year-old murder case.

3x03 Easy to Love

04 October, 1989 8:00 am

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.

3x04 The Way You Look Tonight

11 October, 1989 8:00 am

Deciding to take a break from his partner, Jake sets out to investigate a murder case that McCabe lost in court.

3x05 Dancing in the Dark

25 October, 1989 8:00 am

Jake helps a supposedly reformed cat burglar investigate a theft for which he's been accused and reunite with his estranged teenage son.

3x06 It All Depends on You

01 November, 1989 8:00 am

After Derek blows his first big case for McCabe, Jake starts his own investigation of the defendant.

3x07 Out of Nowhere

08 November, 1989 8:00 am

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.

3x08 Sweet Leilani

15 November, 1989 8:00 am

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.

3x09 My Shining Hour

29 November, 1989 8:00 am

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.

3x10 Long Ago and Far Away

06 December, 1989 8:00 am

Judge Smithwood receives a death threat when a military man with a mysterious mission arrives in Hawaii.

3x11 What Child is This?

13 December, 1989 8:00 am

While McCabe helps out at a homeless shelter for the holidays, he talks Jake into helping a pregnant woman on the run.

3x12 In the Still of the Night

03 January, 1990 8:00 am

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.

3x13 You Turned the Tables on Me

10 January, 1990 8:00 am

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.

3x14 One More for the Road

17 January, 1990 8:00 am

Derek is involved in a hit-and-run accident putting McCabe in charge of the investigation and Jake in charge of the evidence.

3x15 Who's Sorry Now?

31 January, 1990 8:00 am

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.

3x16 I'll Dance at Your Wedding

07 February, 1990 8:00 am

Jake returns home for his sister's wedding, only to learn that her fiance has connections to the mob.

3x17 My Buddy

14 February, 1990 8:00 am

An urchin steals Jake's wallet—and his heart—before she and her friends steal a counterfeiter's plates.

3x18 By Myself

28 February, 1990 8:00 am

McCabe personally hunts down a serial rapist whose latest victim is Max's obedience trainer—for whom the Fatman has fallen.

3x19 I Ain't Got No Body

07 March, 1990 8:00 am

Jake and a former lover, who's a fellow cop, pose as a married couple to investigate suspicious deaths at a health spa.

3x20 Put Your Dreams Away

14 March, 1990 8:00 am

Jake gets wounded during a fight in which the pilot of a small plane falls out, so he attempts to stay aloft and alert as McCabe tries to talk them down, while the two remember past experiences.