When Detective Tibbs investigates Chief Gillespie's kidnapping, all the signs seem to point to a racially motivated crime, but Virgil and officer Bubba Skinner are convinced that acting Chief Tom Dugan may somehow be involved.
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When Christine Rankin, the first Black female officer on the Sparta police force, is killed during the capture of a murder suspect, the city council makes plans to suspend Gillespie, but he voluntarily steps down and sets out to get justice.
A woman murders her wealthy, abusive husband with the help of her lover. All appear to be working according to their plan until the initial evidence points to her stepson as the main suspect however, as more evidence emerges, the focus shifts.
When a young beauty queen contestant, Dina Raines (Diane Almeida), commits suicide, Sparta Police Chief Gillespie (Carroll O'Connor) and Virgil Tibbs (Howard Rollins) investigate the background of the contestant and make a startling discovery.
When Althea Tibbs is raped by a fellow teacher, the Sparta police find it difficult to get a conviction because the man's loyal wife has given him an alibi. Virgil desperately wants to avenge Althea's assault and is forced to a near-breaking point.
When Detective Tibbs investigates Chief Gillespie's kidnapping, all the signs seem to point to a racially motivated crime, but Virgil and officer Bubba Skinner are convinced that acting Chief Tom Dugan may somehow be involved.
When a couple walking their dog in the forest discover a human leg bone, the Sparta police immediately question an eccentric old lady named Adah Boone, known as the Pig Lady, who lives nearby and who everyone believes is a witch.
While Chief Bill Gillespie is out of town, a series of mysterious fires break out in town. Virgil (Howard Rollins) and the rest of the Sparta police department struggle to find out who is setting these arson fires that soon turn deadly.
A surgeon (Wayne Rogers) drops dead while he's operating on another doctor (Jack Klugman).
A beach boy involved with a gang member's sister is a suspect in his murder.
A sultry but sinister pharmaceutical rep is dead set on winning the heart of the hospital's chief of staff.
After an accident forces Pete Thornton to retire from the foundation, MacGyver suspects foul play within the organization and uncovers a plot to assassinate a visiting Third World Leader.
MacGyver battles an eccentric scientist whose bizarre biological experiments go out of control and threaten the environment.
Nikki unknowingly becomes the target of an international terrorist group, planning to detonate bombs across the city in exchange for the release of their recently imprisoned leader.
MacGyver comes to the aid of college student David Ryman, distraught over losing a Physics contest sponsored by David's father, a professor at MacGyver's alma mater.
Tensions run high in the police department and in Sparta when Bubba is accused of attacking a black woman. And when a second woman comes forward from Bubba's past with similar claims, Virgil steps in to try and help clear his name.
Virgil (Howard Rollins) and Gillespie (Carroll O'Connor) are faced with a violent labor strike at the local Sparta river plant. And tension runs even higher when a local city councilman is murdered when he tries to intervene between the two sides.
Detective Virgil Tibbs and Chief Bill Gillespie investigate a murder of a father of two very different daughters who are caught up in a case of intense sibling rivalry...one that may have led one or both of them to murder.
Tibbs and Sweet investigate a woman who has been beaten and left for dead on the banks of a local creek. Tibbs, in particular, takes an interest in this possible wife-beating case and, in the process, unlocks part of his difficult and painful past.
Detective Virgil Tibbs investigates a series of elderly citizens that are being beaten and robbed. Things become more complicated as Detective Tibbs in-laws are visiting from Philadelphia trying to get him and his wife to move back home.
Tragically, a tiny newborn infant is found dead in the Sparta city dump, and more than just the teenage mother is suspect. Virgil (Howard Rollins) tries to unravel the heartbreaking story of a young teenage girl who was left by her baby's father.
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