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March 5, 1988. 1 h 36 min. 18+. When Virgil Tibbs joins the Sparta, MI, police, resentment festers in Chief of Police Bill Gillespie. But when a local co-ed is brutally murdered, Gillespie and Tibbs join forces only to discover a tangled web of guilt and deception. Entitled.
Freevee (with ads) S2 E11 - AKA Kelly Kay. Watch on supported devices. February 13, 1989. 48min. 13+. Twelve years ago, Joann convinced two friends to testify against their pimp for the murder of a prostitute. Now, three convicts escape from prison and one of them is out for revenge.
In the Heat of the Night. A white Southern police chief and a black detective put aside racial animosity to solve crimes in a Mississippi hamlet. This tense drama was inspired by the Oscar-winning ...
Pilot, Pt. 1. Chief of Police Bill Gillespie (Carol O'Connor) has long directed the forces of law enforcement of the small cotton town when Virgil Tibbs (Harold Rollins) returns to Sparta MI for his mother's funeral. Mayor Findley (Dennis Lipscomb) sensing the opportunity to influence black voters in this quest for higher elective office asks ...
In The Heat Of The Night. Carroll O'Connor steps into the role of Bill Gillespie, a southern, white sheriff, and Howard Rollins takes on the mantle of Virgil Tibbs, an African American detective, who must put animosity aside to solve crimes in a racially-charged hamlet. (1/2) When Virgil Tibbs joins the Sparta, MI, police, resentment festers in ...
Pilot: Part 1: Directed by David Hemmings. With Carroll O'Connor, Howard E. Rollins Jr., Alan Autry, Anne-Marie Johnson. Chief Gillespie reluctantly accepts visiting Sparta native Virgil Tibbs as his new Chief of Detectives in the midst of a high-profile murder investigation.
In the Heat of the Night was a 1988–95 Police Procedural series set as a distant sequel to the 1967 film of the same name, itself based on a 1965 novel by John Ball. The TV series picks up twenty years on, with a newly-married Detective Virgil Tibbs moving to Sparta, Mississippi after his mother's death.
