"Jake, I wished you'd have been my son": JL McCabe to Jake in the closing scenes of Season 2, Episode 5 after Daniel McCabe was being led away by 2 FBI Agents.
To me, Season 2 is what should have been Season 1 for Jake and the Fatman. While Season 1 was good, it was too predictable with Jake knowing who did the crime in the first 5 minutes. With the writers strike in 1988 all the fall episodes got a very late start. Season 2 of Jake and the Fatman had 11 episodes that all aired in the spring of 1989. The season opener was very powerful and in my opinion the kind of opening that should have been on Season 1. I am just glad that the writing got better. Clearly with Magnum's departure there was an opening to film in Hawaii. Both Joe (Jake) and William (JL McCabe) play off each other very well. Season 2 develops the characters better and we begin to see them as real people with real problems.
I am glad that the producers/writers found their footing and look forward to Season 3, and from the looks of it I'll have to buy the box set as it does not appear to be available as a complete season, that or wait for the show to air on one of the Classic TV channels.








