Jake and the Fatman is a television crime drama starring William Conrad as prosecutor Jason Lochinvar "Fatman" McCabe and Joe Penny as investigator Jake Styles. The series ran on CBS for five seasons from 1987 to 1992. Diagnosis Murder is a spin-off of this series.
Peter and Brian watch the show in "Petarded". McCabe is depicted as so obese that he can't get up, practically immobile.