Jake and the Fatman(1987)

series - first aired/released 1987-09-26 - audience 6.2

Drama, Crime, Action & Adventure

Directed by Alexander Singer, Bernard L. Kowalski, Christian I. Nyby II, Christopher Hibler, Chuck Bowman, Don Medford, Georg Fenady, Harry Harris, Jackie Cooper, James Frawley, Jerry Jameson, John Llewellyn Moxey, Leo Penn, Michael Lange, Michael Preece, Peter Ellis, Reza Badiyi, Richard Lang, Robert Scheerer, Russ Mayberry

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.