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| Jake and the Fatman: Season One, Vol. 1 | 
 enlarge | Actors: William Conrad, Joe Penny, Barbara Parkins
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
List Price: $36.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 15718
Format: Box Set, Color, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 3
Running Time: 567
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 132904
UPC: 097361329048
EAN: 0097361329048
ASIN: B001675ZJW
Theatrical Release Date: 1987
Release Date: July 8, 2008
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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
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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
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
 My kind of investigators September 8, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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.
 Wonderful Show! August 23, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
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+
About Time August 9, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
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.
feed back August 9, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
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
FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!! July 14, 2008
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Though, initially, I was a bit dismayed that only half of Season 1 was released, since I never expected to see the show again, let alone on DVD, I'm just THRILLED to own it, even half of a season! I've been a fan of the wonderfully talented Joe Penny for at least 23 years & this is my favorite of his many roles. Word is that this partial release is supposed to be to test the sales market, so if Viacom/Paramount/CBS feel that sales are good enough, they'll release the rest of Season 1 & the rest of the 5 years, which will be BLISS for us fans! I so enjoy the give-and-take between JL (McCabe) & Jake. True, I watched the show because of Joe Penny, but I was also a fan of the late William Conrad and enjoyed watching him as "Canon" years before he played JL McCabe. (I also loved him as the narrator of the Rocky & Bullwinkle show, plus his other voice-overs.)
Personally, I don't consider people who bought this DVD as stupid or mislead or "puppets of the industry." We're just fans, fans who hope that sales are good & we get the rest of Jake and the Fatman on DVD!
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