
In the Heat of the Night
An assault on a woman conjures up distressing memories for Tibbs and suspicions in Gillespie.

An assault on a woman conjures up distressing memories for Tibbs and suspicions in Gillespie.

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

A tiny newborn infant is found dead in the Sparta city dump, and more than just the teenage mother is suspect.

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

Gillespie (Carroll O'Connor) is informed that a death row prisoner wants him present at his execution.

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 falls for a woman (Barbara Stock) with devious plans for him.

A rookie officer's first arrest, a childhood buddy, dies in jail; guest Ed Ames.

Several murders occur while Tibbs' former partner is visiting.

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

Twenty years after a young woman is gruesomely murdered, a similar crime is committed.

An escaped killer and his girlfriend take Althea and a child hostage to ensure a getaway.

A man's six wives become murder suspects when he dies of food poisoning.

Virgil (Howard Rollins) narrowly escapes death at the hands of Ritchie Epson's henchmen.

Sparta is overjoyed when a local boy turned successful businessman offers to bring his business back home.

Emotions run high when a black businessman (Randy Brooks) comes to Sparta to buy the town's newspaper.

Gillespie and Tibbs are at odds when Tibbs suspects that Gillespie's old friend, Sonny Mims, killed his wife.