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

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.

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.

Ex-police Capt. Dugan suspends retirement to probe three deaths.