Jake and McCabe - Through thick and thin

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Television series
German title Jake and McCabe - Through thick and thin
Original title Jake and the Fatman
Country of production United States
original language English
Year (s) 1987-1992
length 45 minutes
Episodes 106 in 5 seasons
genre Detective film , drama
First broadcast September 26, 1987 (USA) on CBS
German-language
first broadcast
December 20, 1988 on ZDF
occupation
William Conrad
Jason L. McCabe, District Attorney
Joe Penny
Jake Styles, district attorney investigator
Alan Campbell
Derek Mitchell, McCabe's assistant

Jake and McCabe - Through thick and thin (Original title: Jake and the Fatman ) is an American television series that ran from 1987 to 1992 on the US television station CBS . It was in Los Angeles and on O'ahu ( Hawaii turned). It was invented and produced by the successful team Dean Hargrove and Fred Silverman for Viacom .

William Conrad played the grumpy, thoroughly washed district attorney Jason Lochinvar McCabe, always accompanied by his bulldog Max, who could not be denied a certain resemblance to their master.

Joe Penny played the smart, dynamic investigator Jake Styles. Alan Campbell played the young prosecutor Derek Mitchell, who assisted McCabe and was mercilessly ordered around by him.

The beginning

Conrad as a prosecutor and Campbell as his assistant appeared in 1986 in the double episode "On Honor and Conscience and Family Feud" of Matlock Season 1, Episode 8, Conrad still under the name James L. McShane. A German shepherd dog acted as his mascot . Joe Penny also starred in this episode, but not on the side of the law, but as the son of a mob boss. Dean Hargrove was the producer.

action

McCabe hires Jake Styles - sometimes against his will, because he prefers to go on vacation - to investigate capital crimes such as robbery, murder, drug offenses, etc. And Styles goes about it, with charm, sophistication and sometimes quite unorthodox methods. In the first season the trial was often shown, in which McCabe was able to convict the accused with a clever move at the last minute. In the Hawaii seasons, everything is focused on Penny, who had become a crowd favorite. There were more action scenes - with Penny doing many of the stunts herself - and the character of Jake Styles was changed. The cool, sarcastic, Porsche driving investigator became a completely different Jake Styles, more humble and warm-hearted. His trademark: a white Ford Mustang convertible.

Background and miscellaneous

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