
In the Heat of the Night
Sparta is overjoyed when a local boy turned successful businessman offers to bring his business back home.

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 have conflicting suspicions about a woman's murder.

When Virgil Tibbs joins the Sparta, MI, police, resentment festers in Chief of Police Bill Gillespie.

Gillespie (Carroll O'Connor) and Forbes link a suspect to a witness of a hit-and-run fatality.

Businessman runs against Gillespie (Carroll O'Connor) for sheriff.

Mississippi sheriff (Carroll O'Connor) knows actress's (Sydne Rome) identity.

Mississippi policemen (Carroll O'Connor, Carl Weathers) hunt serial killer.

Forbes (Carl Weathers) clashes with a charismatic cult leader (Peter Fonda).

Harriet and Bill become targets of a crazed gunman on the eve of their wedding.

Much to the dismay of Parker Williams, his wayward stepfather and his current girlfriend return to Sparta.

When a number of old slave artifacts are discovered, it triggers a chain of events that ends in murder.

Harriet DeLong's son Eugene witnesses a robbery in which a store owner is wounded.

A rabbi returns to Sparta, his hometown, and faces anti-Semitism.

Attorney Virgil Tibbs is caught between a client and the certainty that the man murdered his wife.

A blues singer starts receiving racist death threats after spending time with Lt. Jamison's wealthy aunt.

Forbes' fiancee delivers an ultimatum; a boxer Forbes has been grooming commits a burglary.

A former madam's (Elizabeth Ashley) phone-sex business creates an uproar.

Tibbs defends Parker against charges that he assaulted an ex-girlfriend's fiance.

The sniper-shooting of a high-school track star may have been racially motivated.