
In the Heat of the Night
Lana's (Christine Elise) inherited home plays an important part in a mob-related real estate scam.

Lana's (Christine Elise) inherited home plays an important part in a mob-related real estate scam.

Local mobsters try to force Gillespie's daughter from her home.

Black sharecropper's daughter arrives to claim father's property.

Gillespie is pressured to reopen a 20-year-old embezzlement case.

A sniper kills a white supremacist's campaign manager who staged an attempt on his candidate's life.

Politician and his campaign manager stage assassination attempt.

A man's harassment of a tenant (Teri Austin) he once dated may be linked to a womanizer's murder.

Parker's volatile, recently fired stepfather (Pat Hingle) is arrested for murdering his ex-boss.

Arrested after harassing Gillespie and DeLong, a businessman accuses Sweet of soliciting a bribe.

An ex-convict is accused of murdering a judge's (Ken Kercheval) alcoholic wife; guest Lois Chiles.

A waitress under a psychiatrist's care dies mysteriously; Virgil's friend is a suspect.

The victim of an armed robbery becomes obsessed with Bubba when she misinterprets his kindness for romance.

A country singer accused of stealing songs accidentally kills his accuser.

Morphine tablets have been disappearing from Newton General Hospital and Tibbs investigates.

Rose Murphy is sexually assaulted at work by her boss and, fending off another attack, she kills him.

Gillespie's estranged daughter from a brief romance returns to Sparta to settle her mother's estate.

The suicide of an ex-boyfriend pushes Althea to the brink of a nervous breakdown; guest Allan Arbus.

A man is accused of killing his teen stepdaughter's married lover; guest Allan Arbus.

Corbin (Crystal Fox) pursues her brother (Meshach Taylor), an ex-con who robbed a bar in town.

Sparta is sent reeling from a wave of drug overdose cases as Gillespie and Tibbs close in on The Crew.