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.
In the Heat of the Night is an American police procedural crime drama television series loosely based on the 1967 film and 1965 novel of the same title that starred Carroll O'Connor as police chief Bill Gillespie and Howard Rollins as police detective Virgil Tibbs and was broadcast on NBC from March 6, 1988-May 19, 1992 before moving to CBS ...
African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie (Rod Steiger), the racist...
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African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real killer.
A black police detective from the North forces a bigoted Southern sheriff to accept his help with a murder investigation.
Feb 21, 2021 · African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie (Rod Steiger), the racist police chief of tiny Sparta,...
Winner of five Academy Awards, including for best picture, In the Heat of the Night is one of the most enduring Hollywood films of the civil rights era. Passing through the backwoods town of Sparta, Mississippi, Philadelphia detective Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) becomes embroiled in a murder case.
In The Heat Of The Night (1967) This winner of 5 Oscars including Best Picture follows the struggle of an African American police detective from Philadelphia who must overcome racism and prejudice to help the sheriff of a small Mississippi town solve a murder.
