Carroll O'Connor
Chief William O. 'Bill' Gillespie
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- 1. Pilot Mar 6, 1988
- Bill Gillespie is reunited with Virgil Tibbs in Sparta, Miss.
- 2. Pilot Mar 6, 1988
- A high-school girl's murder is investigated by Gillespie and Tubbs.
- 3. Road Kill Mar 15, 1988
- Gillespie and Tibbs have conflicting suspicions about a woman's murder.
A crime drama based on the 1967 film and novel, starring Carroll O'Connor and Howard Rollins as police partners in Mississippi. The series ran from 1988 to 1995 and dealt with various social issues, such as racism, corruption, and AIDS.
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In the Heat of the Night: Created by James Lee Barrett. With Carroll O'Connor, Alan Autry, David Hart, Hugh O'Connor. The cases and adventures of the police forces in and around Sparta, Mississippi.
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- 1988-03-06
- Crime, Drama, Mystery
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In the Heat of the Night is an American television series based on the motion picture and novel of the same name starring Carroll O'Connor as the white police chief William Gillespie, and Howard Rollins as the African-American police detective Virgil Tibbs. It was broadcast on NBC from 1988 until 1992, and then on CBS until 1995.
8 Seasons. CBS. Drama. TVPG. Watchlist. A white Southern police chief and a black detective put aside racial animosity to solve crimes in a Mississippi...
