Jake and the Fatman is a television crime drama starring William Conrad as JL (Jason Lochinvar) prosecutor "Fatman" McCabe and Joe Penny as investigators Jake Styles. The series runs on CBS for five seasons from 26 September 1987, until May 6, 1992. Diagnosis: Killing is the spin-off of this series.
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Plot
J. L. "Fatman" McCabe is a former hard-hitting HPD officer who became a Los Angeles district attorney. He's working with a handsome, fun-and-lucky special investigator named Jake Styles. They often collide because of their different styles and personalities. "Fatman" rarely travels anywhere without Max, his pet dog bulldog. The show was held in Los Angeles during the first season. After the end of Magnum, P.I. , the show was moved to Hawaii. The second and third and fifth seasons of the fourth season were filmed in Honolulu. The show then returned to Los Angeles for the rest of the trip.
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Cast
Starring
- William Conrad as District Attorney J. L. "Fatman" McCabe
- Joe Penny as Detective Jake Styles
- Alan Campbell as Assistant District Attorney Derek Mitchell
Recurring guest star
- Lu Leonard as Gertrude
- Olga Russell as Elisabeth Berkeley-Smythe
- Jack Hogan as Judge Smithwood
- George O'Hanlon Jr. as Sergeant Rafferty
- Melody Anderson as Sergeant Neely Capshaw
Bintang tamu dalam serial ini termasuk Alex Cord, Robert Culp, Scott Marlowe, Leigh McCloskey, Ed Nelson, Leo Penn, Stephen Quadros, Robert Reed, Mitch Ryan, David Soul, dan Ray Sharkey.
Produksi
Development
Conrad guest starred as an old prosecutor in a two-part episode of Matlock during his first season on NBC. Executive producers Fred Silverman and Dean Hargrove decided to use this character as a model for one of the main characters in the new show they created for CBS. Penny is also a guest star in this episode, but her character is not on the same side as Conrad's character in the legal case of the story line.
After the departure of Hargrove, executive producers David Moessinger and Jeri Taylor were brought in to run the series 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 control dispute over the event.
Controversy
Joe Penny (clarification: not Fatman) lost a significant amount of weight after the show moved to Hawaii, which caused a lot of rumors about his health, including the possibility that he had AIDS. Actually, he suffered from a gastrointestinal virus and had difficulty recovering his lost weight. When the show returned to Los Angeles, it was also suspected that it was Penny's encouragement. This is also not true, because the move is a decision of CBS.
Episode
Jake and Fatman had a total of five seasons and 106 episodes aired on CBS between 1987 and 1992.
Home media
CBS DVD (distributed by Paramount) released the first two seasons of Jake and the Fatman on DVD in Region 1 between 2008/2009. As of June 2015, this release has been discontinued and not printed.
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Spin-off
The nineteenth episode of the fourth season of 'Jake and the Fatman', â € Å"It Never Entered My Mindâ €, featured Dick Van Dyke as Dr. Mark Sloan, a medical doctor who solves various crimes. The episode's success initially led to a series of three TV movies, and then the weekly TV series Diagnosis: Killing which debuted on CBS on October 29, 1993.
References
External links
- Jake and the Fatman in IMDb
- Jake and the Fatman on TV.com
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