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8 Seasons. CBS. Drama. TVPG. Watchlist. Where to Watch. A white Southern police chief and a black detective put aside racial animosity to solve crimes in a Mississippi hamlet. This tense drama was...
Sun, Mar 6, 1988. 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 (190) Rate. S1.E2 ∙ Pilot: Part 2. Sun, Mar 6, 1988.
Episode list. In the Heat of the Night. Top-rated. Tue, Oct 24, 1989. S3.E1. Rape. When Althea is raped by a colleague, Gillespie and the Sparta PD must solve the case before a furious Virgil gets revenge on his own. 9.1/10. Rate. Top-rated. Tue, Feb 7, 1989. S2.E11. A Trip Upstate.
The TV series is based on the novel and film of the same name. Carroll O'Connor stars as a small-town police chief (and later a sheriff) in fictional Sparta, Miss.
Overview. 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.
Drama 1988. 13+. Starring Carroll O'Connor, Howard E. Rollins Jr., Anne-Marie Johnson. Episodes. EPISODE 1. 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.
In The Heat Of The Night. Season 1. Based on the 1967 Oscar winner about a small southern town and its bombastic sheriff, who accepts the help of a black detective on a murder case. 814 IMDb 7.6 1988 7 episodes. X-Ray 18+. Drama · Suspense. Freevee (with ads) Episodes. Sort. S1 E1 - Pilot (Part 1 and 2) Watch on supported devices. March 5, 1988.
