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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: PARAMOUNT PICTURES
EAN: 0097361329048
Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 08, 2008
Running Time: 567 minutes
Sales Rank: 11081
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: 1987
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Product Description:
Veteran district attorney 'Fatman' McCabe solves cases in Los Angeles with the help of his easygoing private investigator partner Jake Styles.System Requirements:Running Time: 567 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 097361329048 Manufacturer No: 132904
Amazon.com:
It was a brilliant stroke of counter-programming to schedule Jake and the Fat Man opposite Moonlighting in its inaugural season. Never mind that by 1987, Moonlighting had lost its magic. Jake, an old school crime series, was perfect for older audiences who couldn't keep up with David and Maddie's rapid-fire banter or didn't have a clue about the show's inside jokes and pop culture references. 'Hip' and 'stylish' would not be words to describe Jake and the Fatman, but it is enormously entertaining thanks to its alchemic casting. William Conrad, the slovenly anti-Bruce Willis, is the blustery behemoth L.A. District Attorney J.L. McCabe. A lean Joe Penny, supplying the sex appeal, is fast-living investigator Jake. Sure, Jake might get annoyed with McCabe for interrupting his late-night trysts with unannounced visits and refrigerator raids, but they genuinely like and respect each other. McCabe's wall-shaking bark is worse than his bite. In the episode, 'Laura,' in which Jake is on the case of his former partner's killer, he tells McCabe not to worry. 'I always worry,' McCabe gruffly replies, before adding, 'about you, kid.' And we don't need a Christmas episode to show us that deep down McCabe isn't really a Scrooge. We see that in his devotion to his ever-present bulldog, Max ('I never leave home without him'). These first 11 episodes are light on traditional gunplay, car chases, or hot pursuits, but the stories are plenty compelling. Viewers witness a crime (a senatorial candidate's ambitious Yuppie-scum speechwriter murders the politician's mistress, a man preys on skid row bums to conceal a closer-to-home murder plot, a defense attorney frames his ex-wife for the murder of her lover) and then watch McCabe and Jake do the legwork. With his massive girth and stentorian voice, Conrad is in his element making a feast of the scenery, whether it be railing against a novice assistant D.A. ('Stop having opinions before you know what the facts are'), rattling a suspect, or staging outrageous stunts in the courtroom, like pulling a gun on a witness to expose his false testimony. These are the simple pleasures that, pound for pound, make Jake and the Fatman a show that really pulls its weight. --Donald Liebenson
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Good Old Television
It is nice to see good old television again instead of all the profanity and garbage on TV today.
Rating:  - My kind of investigators
I watched this series when it was on tv, I loved it then and I love it now, I could watch Joe Penny everyday. He was hot!!! And they always get their guy or girl.
Rating: - Wonderful Show!
I love this show! I have rented / bought many TV series & this is one of the best. It seems to "age" well. The pairing of William & Joe works very well. A+
Rating: - About Time
I can't believe this program never ran in syndication. It's about time they released it on DVD. I hope all four seasons make it to DVD.
Rating: - feed back
I like Amazon it is really fast on the product I had bought. I ordered a dvd on July 8th, it was shipped on July10th and I recieved it on July12th. That was fast and I will do business with them again.And everything came ok, nothing was damage. Also the DVD's were all good and nothing wrong with them. Wanda
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