In the Heat of the Night (1988)
In the Heat of the Night (1988)
In the Heat of the Night is an American television series based on the motion picture and novel of the same name starring Carroll O'Connor as the white police chief William Gillespie, and Howard Rollins as the African-American police detective Virgil Tibbs. It was broadcast on NBC from 1988 until 1992, and then on CBS until 1995. Its executive producers were Fred Silverman, Juanita Bartlett and Carroll O'Connor. TGG Direct released the first season of the series to DVD on August 28, 2012.

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5x01 A Woman Much Admired

01 October, 1991 8:00 am
Gillespie's old flame returns to Sparta to settle some business matters and see Bill. When she is murdered he travels to Gulfport and meets his daughter Lana for the first time.

5x02 Baby for Sale

08 October, 1991 8:00 am
After Bubba's cousin adopts a baby her husband is blackmailed by the child's real parents - they want him to help them steal the payroll where he works.

5x03 Obsession

22 October, 1991 8:00 am
A flirtatious schoolteacher is stalked by a madman.

5x04 Liar's Poker

29 October, 1991 8:00 am
A game of high stakes poker ends in murder.

5x05 Ruda's Awakening

05 November, 1991 8:00 am
Virgil's Aunt Ruda is the only witness to a struggle between Bubba and a young robbery suspect that ends in the young mans death.But her prejudice against the police -- and Virgil clouds her memory of the incident.

5x06 Unfinished Business

12 November, 1991 8:00 am
Bubba returns to Los Angeles to testify at a murder trial and is reunited with Pat Day as they try to protect Mike from killers sent to prevent him from testifying.

5x07 The More Things Change

19 November, 1991 8:00 am
A man murders his business partner and frames the man's illegitimate daughter for the crime in an attempt to gain the man's business and his wife.

5x08 Sweet, Sweet Blues

26 November, 1991 8:00 am
The lyrics to a blues song recall a murder that happened 50 years earlier.The victim - Sweet's grandfather.And the only people left with the answers are the bluesman who wrote the song and a retired sheriff.

5x09 Sparta Gold

03 December, 1991 8:00 am
A deputy provides protection for a cotton grower who is running a pot growing operation.But the deputy makes a big mistake when he wounds Bubba's girlfriend.

5x10 An Eye for an Eye

10 December, 1991 8:00 am
The father of a man Gerard prosecuted kidnaps the DA's daughter.

5x11 The Littlest Victim

17 December, 1991 8:00 am
Lonnie makes a heartbreaking discovery about a woman he dated in high school.

5x12 The Landlord

07 January, 1992 8:00 am
A drug dealing slumlord is murdered by his accomplices.

5x13 Fool for Love

14 January, 1992 8:00 am
A doctor plots to eliminate his wife -- and his mistress.

5x14 Love, Honor and Obey

04 February, 1992 8:00 am
Parkers investigation into a purse snatching reveals an abused woman.

5x15 Odessa

11 February, 1992 8:00 am
Racists target a ceremony honoring a civil rights pioneer.

5x16 A Time to Trust

18 February, 1992 8:00 am
Althea fears for one of her students after her mother's boyfriend is linked to a criminal operation that has resulted in the deaths of several truckers.

5x17 By Means Most Foul

25 February, 1992 8:00 am
A restaurateur and her mechanic boyfriend plot to eliminate her husband, but their scheme backfires.Gillespie takes heat over a string of mailbox bashings.And Virgil soon regrets ignoring Parker's theory regarding where the vandals would strike next.

5x18 Trundel's Will Be Done

03 March, 1992 8:00 am
V.J. Trundel's widow takes Harriet to court to gain custody of Eric.But Harriet is determined that her nephew will not be raised in the home of the man who ordered the murder of her sister.

5x19 Moseley's Lot

31 March, 1992 9:00 am
Gillespie learns that the son of an old friend is a compulsive gambler.The young man wants his father to pay off his losses.But when two gangsters show up from New Orleans to collect, his jealous sibling sees the perfect opportunity to get rid of his troubled brother.

5x20 Family Reunion

07 April, 1992 8:00 am
An ex-convict attempts to retrieve his loot from his wife and her new husband in this tongue-in-cheek episode.

5x21 Sanctuary

12 May, 1992 8:00 am
A political prisoner who entered the country illegally,seeks sanctuary in a monastary.Gillespie and Tibbs find themselves at odds with Sheriff McComb when they try to help the man.

5x22 The Law on Trial

19 May, 1992 8:00 am
Gillespie,Tibbs and Father DiMarco must stand trial for harbouring a fugitive and obstructing justice.

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