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

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.

Parker's stepfather returns, pursued by murderous art thieves.

Harriet tries to stop construction at a site where pre-Civil War artifacts have been found.

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.

Someone threatens the life of Sparta blues singer Ches Collins.

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.

A woman with a history of drunken driving is involved in a girl's hit-and-run death.