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: 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.
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.
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...
Chief Gillespie reluctantly accepts visiting Sparta native Virgil Tibbs as his new Chief of Detectives in the midst of a high-profile murder investigation. 8.4/10 (195) Rate.
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.
Unfortunately, the finest boxer, African-American Kevin "Cat" Brooks, is involved with a professional burglar, Caucasian Dennis Cantrell, in a series of home invasions and robberies. Forbes and Angela must come to terms with their personal goals and the impact on their relationship. 7.9/10 (47)
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.
