
In the Heat of the Night
When Tibbs investigates Gillespie's kidnapping, all the signs seem to point to a racially motivated crime.

When Tibbs investigates Gillespie's kidnapping, all the signs seem to point to a racially motivated crime.

A local eccentric is linked to dismembered skeletons found on a rich recluse's estate.

While Chief Bill Gillespie is out of town, a series of mysterious fires break out in town.

Sparta is shocked by a deadly hit-and-run accident after a regional basketball tournament.

Tensions run high in the police department and in Sparta when Bubba is accused of attacking a black woman.

Virgil and Gillespie are faced with a violent labor strike at the local Sparta river plant.

Estranged sisters (Mary Crosby, Judith Chapman) fight over a man and their father's will.

Tibbs and Sweet investigate a woman who has been beaten and left for dead on the banks of a local creek.

Virgil and Althea's relationship is strained when her dad visits.

The mother of an infant found dead in a trash bin may not be responsible for the crime.

Three convicts escape from prison, and one of them is out for revenge against the women who sent him to prison

On the eve of his execution, a convict asks Gillespie a favor.

Virgil and his wife attend services at an all-white church. The reverend collapses, dead at the pulpit.

Tibbs and Gillespie clash over the prime suspect in a young prostitute's murder.

Virgil Tibbs’s niece and Bubba Skinner's nephew find common ground -- and trouble -- in Sparta.

Tibbs finds the robbery suspect he killed is a young, unarmed girl.

Bubba Skinner is seduced by a beautiful lady who has taken residence in Sparta in order to write a novel.

Chief Bill Gillespie discovers that a longtime friend and sheriff of neighboring Butler County is a racist.

Several murders occur while Tibbs' former partner is visiting.

A woman's (Susan Blakely) claim she murdered her father because of incest shocks Gillespie.