
In the Heat of the Night
Charges of rape against Bubba test the loyalties of Gillespie and Tibbs.

Charges of rape against Bubba test the loyalties of Gillespie and Tibbs.

An ambitious councilman won't support black workers who crossed an all-white picket line.

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

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.

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.

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 respected citizen and prominent businessman of Sparta (Wallace Wilkinson) is mysteriously murdered.

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.

Though Tibbs was nearly killed, Gillespie still can't prove Epson is a drug trafficker.