«Джейк и толстяк» — американский криминальный драматический телесериал с Уильямом Конрадом в роли прокурора Дж. Л. (Джейсон Лочинвар) «Толстяком» Маккейбом и Джо Пенни в роли следователя Джейка Стайлса. [1] [2] [3] Созданный Дином Харгроувом , Джоэлом Стайгером и Энн Доэрти, сериал транслировался на канале CBS в течение пяти сезонов с 26 сентября 1987 года по 6 мая 1992 года. Диагноз: Убийство было побочным продуктом этого сериала. ряд. [4] [5]
Джей Эл «Толстяк» Маккейб — уроженец Гавайев, крутой бывший офицер полиции Гонолулу, ставший окружным прокурором Лос-Анджелеса . Ему помогает красивый и беспечный специальный следователь по имени Джейк Стайлс. Они часто конфликтуют из-за разных стилей и характеров. «Толстяк» почти никуда не путешествует без Макса, своего домашнего бульдога . Действие первого сезона происходило в Лос-Анджелесе. После окончания Magnum, PI шоу было перенесено на Гавайи. Второй, третий сезоны и половина четвертого сезона снимались в Гонолулу . Затем шоу вернулось в Лос-Анджелес до конца своего выступления.
Guest stars on the series included Alex Cord, Robert Culp, Denise Dowse, Scott Marlowe, Leigh McCloskey, Ed Nelson, Leo Penn, Stephen Quadros, Robert Reed, Mitch Ryan, Alan Scarfe, Dwight Schultz, Ray Sharkey and David Soul.
Conrad guest starred as an aging prosecutor in a two-part episode of Matlock during its 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 a new show they were creating for CBS. Penny also guest starred in these episodes, but his character was not on the same side as Conrad's character in the storyline's legal case.
Following the departure of Hargrove, executive producers David Moessinger and Jeri Taylor were brought on to run the series with Silverman. They also hired J. Michael Straczynski as an executive story consultant.[6] Taylor and Moessinger ran the show for two years before finally leaving in a dispute over control over the show.[6]
Straczynski has written that he was hired after pitching a story that let Conrad sit down for almost every scene,[6] noting his own faux slogan for the show "Jake and the Fatman: He can't act, he can't walk, together they fight crime".[6]
Joe Penny lost a large amount of weight after the show moved to Hawaii, which led to many rumors about his health, including the possibility that he had AIDS. In actuality, he had suffered from a gastrointestinal virus and was having difficulty regaining the weight he lost. When the show moved back to Los Angeles, it was also suspected that it was on Penny's urging. This was also not true, as the move was CBS's decision.[7]
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, these releases have been discontinued and are out of print.
Visual Entertainment released Jake and the Fatman - The Complete Collection on June 23, 2017.[8][9]
The nineteenth episode of the fourth season of Jake and the Fatman, "It Never Entered My Mind", featured Dick Van Dyke as Dr. Mark Sloan, a medical doctor who solves crimes. The success of that episode led initially to a series of three TV movies, and then a weekly television series Diagnosis: Murder that debuted on CBS on October 29, 1993.