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Seasons & episodes
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Jake and the Fatman first aired in 1987 • originally associated with CBS • 5 seasons • 106 episodes • around 60 minutes per episode • status: Ended.
If you searched for “watch Jake and the Fatman online” (1987), the safest approach is to verify legal availability in your region (US first, then English-region fallbacks).
It sits in the Drama, Crime, Action & Adventure space, which helps set expectations for tone and pacing.
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Synopsis
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.
Keywords
private investigator, criminal, buddy cop, crime investigation.
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Official trailer
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