In the Heat of the Night

Chief of Police Bill Gillespie (Carol O'Connor) has long directed the forces of law enforcement of the small cotton town when Virgil Tibbs (Harold Rollins) returns to Sparta, MI for his mother's funeral.

Police Chief Bill Gillespie and Chief of Detectives Virgil Tibbs are Based on the 1967 Oscar winner about a small southern town and its at odds when Tibbs suspects that Gillespie's friend, Sonny Mims, killed his wife because of his involvement with P

Emotions run high when Ty Hayes (RANDY BROOKS), a black businessman, Based on the 1967 Oscar winner about a small southern town and its comes to Sparta to buy the town's newspaper, and it is suspected that he is romancing the paper's married white ow

Two missing youths, a sample of pure cocaine and Virgil's reluctance Based on the 1967 Oscar winner about a small southern town and its to forget his grudge against a high school classmate somehow seem tied together. Wealthy local-boy Richie Epson (B

Virgil narrowly escapes death at the hands of Richie Epson's henchmen, Based on the 1967 Oscar winner about a small southern town and its but Gillespie still does not have enough evidence to prove the former hometown boy is a major drug supplier. Mea

The Sparta jail is filled with women when the six wives of bigamist Based on the 1967 Oscar winner about a small southern town and its James Jeffson visit bearing gifts of food only to become suspects when the man dies of poisoning. If that were not

Escaped convict Lester Sproles (Will Bledsoe) and his girlfriend, Based on the 1967 Oscar winner about a small southern town and its Audine (Mariska Hargitay), travel through Mississippi, leaving a trail of bodies in their wake, and eventually take