
In the Heat of the Night
A series of suspicious truck accidents on an old country road lead the Sparta police to a local drug ring.

A series of suspicious truck accidents on an old country road lead the Sparta police to a local drug ring.

The honoring of Sparta's first black woman voter may touch off a racial incident.

A mugging investigation uncovers the plight of an abused wife.

Tibbs and Gillespie suspect a doctor who made his girlfriend the prime suspect in his wife's murder.

Gillespie is leery of the evidence in the murder of an abusive landlord.

A robbery suspect threatens the lives of a boozing woman (Denise Miller) and her infant.

The daughter of a district attorney is kidnapped and Gillespie and Tibbs sidestep the FBI to bring her home.

Bubba can't get another county's authorities to cooperate after discovering marijuana-farming there.

A blues singer claims he witnessed the 40-year-old race-motivated slaying of Sweet's grandfather.

Gillespie and DeLong try romance; a blackmailer is charged with her father's murder.

Bubba Skinner returns to Los Angeles to tie up some unfinished business on an arson case.

Virgil's aunt (Fran Bennett) lets anger cloud her recollection of a young black man's shooting.

Gillespie comes under scrutiny for trying to clear a prostitute charged with killing a wealthy man.

Gillespie and Tibbs face legal obstacles when protecting a woman.

Threatened with losing his adopted son, Bubba aids the natural father in a robbery.

Gillespie leaves town to investigate an ex-lover's murder and must face the daughter he never knew.

Gillespie and Tibbs pursue the killers of drug dealers; Althea worries about her husband's safety.

Tibbs and Jamison urge Harriet DeLong's son to persevere after his father's death sentence.

Bubba searches Los Angeles for a Sparta fugitive who jumped bail.

A man forbids his son to tell police he saw a rape, for fear of the youth's chances for seminary.