
In the Heat of the Night
Gillespie becomes sheriff; the murders of two Spartans link to a mentally impaired youth.

Gillespie becomes sheriff; the murders of two Spartans link to a mentally impaired youth.

The town council decides not to renew Bill Gillespie’s contract, pushing him into a sudden retirement.

Fearing loss of her son, Harriet agrees to help get her ex-husband's murder sentence reversed.

Gillespie’s daughter continues to defend her home from her mother’s greedy ex-boyfriend and his mob.

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

A landowner is visited by a distant cousin who claims her grandfather was cheated out of the family estate.

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.