
In the Heat of the Night
Bubba Skinner returns to Los Angeles to tie up some unfinished business on an arson case.

Bubba Skinner returns to Los Angeles to tie up some unfinished business on an arson case.

Virgil's aunt (Fran Bennett) lets anger cloud her recollection of a young black man's shooting.

Gillespie comes under scrutiny for trying to clear a prostitute charged with killing a wealthy man.

Gillespie and Tibbs face legal obstacles when protecting a woman.

Threatened with losing his adopted son, Bubba aids the natural father in a robbery.

An old flame of Gillespie’s reappears in Sparta with her daughter, the product of the affair that they had.

Gillespie and Tibbs pursue the killers of drug dealers; Althea worries about her husband's safety.

Tibbs and Jamison urge Harriet DeLong's son to persevere after his father's death sentence.

Bubba Skinner goes to Los Angeles to take custody of a suspected arsonist and bring him back to Sparta.

A man forbids his son to tell police he saw a rape, for fear of the youth's chances for seminary.

A blind woman hears an apparent murder in a neighboring duplex, and Parker uncovers a motive.

Sparta Police investigate a suspicious car crash and discover connections to a fraudulent development plan.

Virgil's arrest of a young pusher affects one of Althea's students.

Gillespie must pry a confessed killer's name from a psychiatrist.

An accident blinds a high school football star and kills his girlfriend.

A reporter with questionable motives makes Gillespie the subject of an article.

Gillespie tries to stop a bounty hunter from killing a man wanted for a rich woman's murder.

Tibbs' attempts to reconcile family members stall when his cousin is implicated in a crime.

All signs point to bookstore owner Carl Tibbitts as a suspect in his wife's murder.

Gillespie tries to remain aloof in the prosecution of Harriet DeLong's ex, for robbery and murder.