Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 18 (click to see context) from:
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeName: All of the episodes share their names with songs, often jazz standards.
to:
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeName: IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: All of the episodes share their names with songs, often jazz standards.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeName: All of the episodes share their names with songs, often jazz standards.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* SerialKiller: In "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?", a serial killer who's targeting winos taunts [=McCabe=] with phone calls before each killing.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* RevealingInjury: In "I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan", Jake shoots at a disguised figure who is faking a limp, and thinks that he panicked the man into forgetting which leg he was limping on. Later, he realises that the killer is too professional to make that mistake and he had actually hit him in the other leg, forcing him to limp for real. He later finds one of the suspects tending a wound on that leg and has his suspicions confirmed.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* LadyMacbeth: In "Rhapsody in Blue", Ned Covington is passed for over for promotion by his boss Phil Duncan. On learning this, his wife concocts a plan to murders Duncan and pressures her husband into going along with it. However, [[MurderByMistake they kill another employee by mistake]]. Realizing this, the wife comes up with a plan to frame Duncan for the murder.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* BaitAndSwitchGunshot: In "I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan", the killer has the drop on Jake. There is a close-up on Jake and the sound of a gunshot. The camera then cuts to the killer who is stand with his gun in hand. He then topples forward, revealing [=McCabe=] standing at the end of the corridor with a smoking gun in his hand.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* GPSEvidence: In "Rhapsody in Blue", Jake gets sticky sap stuck to the roof of his car when he visits the murder scene. Later, while talking the garage attendant, the attendant sympathizes and says that he had to clean that sap off the car of one of the suspects twice within 24 hours. Jake realises that the suspect had returned to the scene of the crime after the legitimate visit he had told the police about.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
* DrivingIntoATruck: Jake does this in "Rhapsody in Blue" when he stages a 'kidnapping' of a pair of suspects as part of plan to convince them he is a high ranking mob figure.
Changed line(s) 17 (click to see context) from:
* MurderByMistake: In "Rhapsody in blue", a husband and wife pair of killers break into the company lodge intending the murder the husband's boss. However, in the darkness, the do not realise that someone else is staying in the lodge and shoot him instead. When they discover their mistake, they attempt to frame the boss for the murder.
to:
* MurderByMistake: In "Rhapsody in blue", Blue", a husband and wife pair of killers break into the company lodge intending the murder the husband's boss. However, in the darkness, the do not realise that someone else is staying in the lodge and shoot him instead. When they discover their mistake, they attempt to frame the boss for the murder.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* MurderByMistake: In "Rhapsody in blue", a husband and wife pair of killers break into the company lodge intending the murder the husband's boss. However, in the darkness, the do not realise that someone else is staying in the lodge and shoot him instead. When they discover their mistake, they attempt to frame the boss for the murder.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 22 (click to see context) from:
* RecordedSplicedConversation: In the episode "It's a Sin to Tell a Lie", McCabe and Jake splice together parts of [=McCabe's=] priest's sermons and call his wife, who's also his killer, as well as the killer of two women who were involved with him, in an effort to get her to confess. It does the job.
to:
* RecordedSplicedConversation: In the episode "It's a Sin to Tell a Lie", McCabe [=McCabe=] and Jake splice together parts of [=McCabe's=] priest's sermons and call his wife, who's also his killer, as well as the killer of two women who were involved with him, in an effort to get her to confess. It does the job.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 22 (click to see context) from:
* RecordedSplicedConversation: In the episode "It's a Sin to Tell a Lie", McCabe and Jake splice together parts of McCabe's priest's sermons and call his wife, who's also his killer, as well as the killer of two women who were involved with him, in an effort to get her to confess. It does the job.
to:
* RecordedSplicedConversation: In the episode "It's a Sin to Tell a Lie", McCabe and Jake splice together parts of McCabe's [=McCabe's=] priest's sermons and call his wife, who's also his killer, as well as the killer of two women who were involved with him, in an effort to get her to confess. It does the job.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* CopCriminalFamily: [=McCabe=]'s son Daniel, who he already dropped contact with due to various incidents that range from boneheaded to downright shady, turns out to have gained a profit selling fake airplane parts, which led to numerous private airplanes crashing and killing the families onboard. When J.L. learns this, he doesn't hesitate in turning him over to the feds.
Added DiffLines:
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Daniel [=McCabe=] in his second appearance. Finally feeling guilt during a prison escape gone horribly wrong and getting shot for it, Daniel, rather than conserving his energy to heal, gets up and distracts his former partners to save his father before dying in the ambulance. [=McCabe=] never gets over his son's death and bitterly regrets having given up on him early on after this, occasionally mentioning him when a troubled parent-child relationship pops up.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 22 (click to see context) from:
* UncattyResemblance: [=McCabe=] (a no-nosense and very large prosecutor) has a pet bulldog named Max who looks quite a bit like him.
to:
* UncattyResemblance: [=McCabe=] (a no-nosense no-nonsense and very large prosecutor) has a pet bulldog named Max who looks quite a bit like him.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: The episode "Ain't Misbehavin'", with Nell Carter as a tough bail bondswoman.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* RecordedSplicedConversation: In the episode "It's a Sin to Tell a Lie", McCabe and Jake splice together parts of McCabe's priest's sermons and call his wife, who's also his killer, as well as the killer of two women who were involved with him, in an effort to get her to confess. It does the job.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 9 (click to see context) from:
* CarFu: In "It Had to Be You", a psychiatrist who is secretly a serial rapist [[FrameUp plant eveidence on one of his patients to frame him]]. When it looks like the police aren't buying the frame, he steals the car of one his victims and uses it to run down the patient: looking to close the case on the rapes and frame the victim for the murder.
to:
* CarFu: In "It Had to Be You", a psychiatrist who is secretly a serial rapist [[FrameUp plant eveidence plants evidence on one of his patients to frame him]]. When it looks like the police aren't buying the frame, he steals the car of one his victims and uses it to run down the patient: looking to close the case on the rapes and frame the victim for the murder.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* FrameUp: In "It Had to Be You", a psychiatrist who is a serial rapist plants evidence on one of his patients to frame him as the rapist. Later, he steals the car of one of his victims and uses it to [[CarFu fatally run over the patient]], in an effort to frame the victim and close both cases.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* INeverSaidItWasPoison: In "It Had to Be You", [=McCabe=] tricks a serial rapist into accusing three women of conspiring against him and saying that he raped them. [=McCabe=] points out that the victims' identities were never released to the media, so the only way he could know they had been raped is if he was the rapist.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* CarFu: In "It Had to Be You", a psychiatrist who is secretly a serial rapist [[FrameUp plant eveidence on one of his patients to frame him]]. When it looks like the police aren't buying the frame, he steals the car of one his victims and uses it to run down the patient: looking to close the case on the rapes and frame the victim for the murder.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* EmbarrassingMiddleName: J.L. [=McCabe=]'s full name is Jason ''Lochenbar'' [=McCabe=]. Small wonder he prefers 'J.L.', or even 'Fatman'.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* LargeAndInCharge: J.L. [=McCabe=] is the L.A. District Attorney, extremely overweight, and very definitely the boss. When he talks, everyone listens.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jake_and_the_fatman.jpg]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 14 (click to see context) from:
* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: After [=McCabe=] wins a gangster's trial, said gangster's lawyer congratulates him and calls his inspiration.
to:
* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: After [=McCabe=] wins a gangster's trial, said gangster's lawyer congratulates him and calls him his inspiration.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 14 (click to see context) from:
* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: After [=McCabe=] wins gangster's trial, said gangster's lawyer congratulates him and calls his inspiration.
to:
* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: After [=McCabe=] wins a gangster's trial, said gangster's lawyer congratulates him and calls his inspiration.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 14 (click to see context) from:
to:
* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: After [=McCabe=] wins gangster's trial, said gangster's lawyer congratulates him and calls his inspiration.
-->'''Lawyer:''' There's very few people I told such compliment.\\
'''[=McCabe=]:''' That's not a compliment. That's an ''insult''!
-->'''Lawyer:''' There's very few people I told such compliment.\\
'''[=McCabe=]:''' That's not a compliment. That's an ''insult''!
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* OldCopYoungCop: Technically [=McCabe=] is a prosecutor rather than a cop (although he is an ex-cop) but otherwise the relationship between the Fatman and Jake fits this trope.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 12 (click to see context) from:
to:
* UncattyResemblance: [=McCabe=] (a no-nosense and very large prosecutor) has a pet bulldog named Max who looks quite a bit like him.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 1,2 (click to see context) from:
''Jake and the Fatman'' is a television crime drama starring William Conrad as prosecutor J. L. (Jason Lochinvar) "Fatman" McCabe and Joe Penny as investigator Jake Styles. J. L. "Fatman" McCabe is a Hawaii-born, tough former Honolulu Police Department officer turned Los Angeles district attorney. He is teamed with a handsome, happy-go-lucky special investigator named Jake Styles. They often clash due to their different styles and personalities. "Fatman" hardly travels anywhere without Max, his pet bulldog.
to:
''Jake and the Fatman'' is a television crime drama starring William Conrad as prosecutor J. L. (Jason Lochinvar) "Fatman" McCabe [=McCabe=] and Joe Penny as investigator Jake Styles. J. L. "Fatman" McCabe [=McCabe=] is a Hawaii-born, tough former Honolulu Police Department officer turned Los Angeles district attorney. He is teamed with a handsome, happy-go-lucky special investigator named Jake Styles. They often clash due to their different styles and personalities. "Fatman" hardly travels anywhere without Max, his pet bulldog.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
''Jake and the Fatman'' is a television crime drama starring William Conrad as prosecutor J. L. (Jason Lochinvar) "Fatman" McCabe and Joe Penny as investigator Jake Styles. J. L. "Fatman" McCabe is a Hawaii-born, tough former Honolulu Police Department officer turned Los Angeles district attorney. He is teamed with a handsome, happy-go-lucky special investigator named Jake Styles. They often clash due to their different styles and personalities. "Fatman" hardly travels anywhere without Max, his pet bulldog.
The series ran on CBS for five seasons from 1987 to 1992. ''Series/DiagnosisMurder'' was a SpinOff of this series.
!!''Jake and the Fatman'' contains examples of:
* DetectiveMole: In "You Turned the Tables on Me", the prosecutor appointed to head the organized crime unit turns out to be literally and figuratively in bed with the biggest mobster in town.
* OnlyKnownByInitials: J.L. (Jason [[EmbarrassingMiddleName Lochenbar]]) [=McCabe=], the eponymous Fatman.
* ParkingPayback: In "You Turned the Tables on Me", a pretty young prosecutor steals the parking space Jake has been waiting for. Jake takes revenge by stealing the distributor cap from her car, forcing her to get a ride home with him.
* PhoneInDetective: [=McCabe=] would send Styles out to do his legwork for him.
----
The series ran on CBS for five seasons from 1987 to 1992. ''Series/DiagnosisMurder'' was a SpinOff of this series.
!!''Jake and the Fatman'' contains examples of:
* DetectiveMole: In "You Turned the Tables on Me", the prosecutor appointed to head the organized crime unit turns out to be literally and figuratively in bed with the biggest mobster in town.
* OnlyKnownByInitials: J.L. (Jason [[EmbarrassingMiddleName Lochenbar]]) [=McCabe=], the eponymous Fatman.
* ParkingPayback: In "You Turned the Tables on Me", a pretty young prosecutor steals the parking space Jake has been waiting for. Jake takes revenge by stealing the distributor cap from her car, forcing her to get a ride home with him.
* PhoneInDetective: [=McCabe=] would send Styles out to do his legwork for him.
----
