
In the Heat of the Night
Tibbs and Gillespie clash over a black murder suspect, whose arrest causes racial strife.

Tibbs and Gillespie clash over a black murder suspect, whose arrest causes racial strife.

Althea does not know that a visiting friend is a fugitive from justice.

Gillespie investigates the hit-and-run death of a young woman.

The madam (Diane Ladd) of a traveling bordello is suspected of murdering a preacher who opposed her.

The search for the parents of an abandoned baby leads Gillespie on a trail of blackmail and murder.

Problems arise when a teenage girl's father is found dead and her mother is reported missing.

A retired detective assists Gillespie's probe of a murder at a rest home; guest Louise Fletcher.

A councilwoman tries art therapy on a mute boy who may have witnessed his father's murder.

Gillespie tries to prevent a man who shot his wife and her lover from harming anyone else.

A doctor is murdered after his misdiagnosis causes the death of the wife of Gillespie's friend.

A down-and-out boxer who witnessed a murder ignores Gillespie's advice to cooperate with the FBI.

A young Vietnamese robbery suspect may be the son of a former Sparta police officer.

The widow and brothers of a man Bubba killed during a holdup seek revenge.

Parker has a crush on a dance teacher linked to an unsolved death.

Gillespie investigates Dugan's murder and impedes the visit of an endangered civil rights leader.

Sweet tries to save a 14-year-old crack addict and jail her supplier.

Gillespie feels responsible for the death of his first black policewoman.

Gillespie investigates the murder of a man by his wife and her lover.

The investigation of a beauty contestant's death uncovers extortion and overambition.

An acquaintance rapes Althea, but police don't have enough evidence to prosecute.