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In the Heat of the Night

19881h 0m / epCrime · Drama

First aired

March 6, 1988

7.5

TMDB Score

75% match · 68 votes

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Pilot (1)

Season 1 · Mar 6, 1988 · 1h 0m

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Pilot (1)

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Road Kill

Mar 15, 1988 · 1h 0m

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Fate

Mar 22, 1988 · 1h 0m

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Blind Spot (1)

Mar 29, 1988 · 1h 0m

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Blind Spot (2)

Apr 5, 1988 · 1h 0m

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A Necessary Evil

Apr 12, 1988 · 1h 0m

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...And Then You Die

May 3, 1988 · 1h 0m

Virgil Tibbs returns to Sparta and joins the police force as chief of detectives.His arrival is met with resistance from police chief Bill Gillespie - who resents having an officer hired without his approval.Virgil has trouble adjusting to the small, antiquated police force.Tibbs' first case is a racially charged murder case that is soon complicated when the suspect is murdered in his cell.

About the Series

CrimeDrama

Synopsis

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. Its executive producers were Fred Silverman, Juanita Bartlett and Carroll O'Connor. TGG Direct released the first season of the series to DVD on August 28, 2012.

CreatorJames Lee Barrett