Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- ~60 min/episode
- Length
- 5 seasons · 106 episodes
- Status
- Ended · complete
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
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.
- private investigator
- criminal
- buddy cop
- crime investigation
The bill
- Stu Nahan
- Frederick Coffin
- Dianne Kay
- Tim Choate
- Kurt Fuller
- Margaret Nagle
- Ed Ames
- Aki Aleong
- Terri Treas
- Josh Lucas
- Kathryn Leigh Scott
- Directed
- Jackie Cooper, Peter Ellis, Christian I. Nyby II, Robert Scheerer, Harry Harris, Russ Mayberry & 14 more
- Created
- Joel Steiger, David Angell, Dean Hargrove
- Written
- James Kearns, Jeri Taylor, Catherine Clinch, Michele Val Jean, J. Michael Straczynski, Dick Nelson & 14 more
Production
- Rating
- 6.2 / 10 · 54 ratings
- Network & studio
- CBS, Viacom Productions, Dean Hargrove Productions, Fred Silverman Company, Strathmore Productions
If this stayed with you
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