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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Episode 1 - A Woman Much Admired
Release Date: 1991-10-01Gillespie'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.
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Episode 2 - Baby for Sale
Release Date: 1991-10-08After 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.
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Episode 3 - Obsession
Release Date: 1991-10-22A flirtatious schoolteacher is stalked by a madman.
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Episode 4 - Liar's Poker
Release Date: 1991-10-29A game of high stakes poker ends in murder.
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Episode 5 - Ruda's Awakening
Release Date: 1991-11-05Virgil'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.
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Episode 6 - Unfinished Business
Release Date: 1991-11-12Bubba 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.
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Episode 7 - The More Thing's Change
Release Date: 1991-11-19A 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.
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Episode 8 - Sweet, Sweet Blues
Release Date: 1991-11-26The 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.
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Episode 9 - Sparta Gold
Release Date: 1991-12-03A 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.
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Episode 10 - An Eye for an Eye
Release Date: 1991-12-10The father of a man Gerard prosecuted kidnaps the DA's daughter.
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Episode 11 - The Littlest Victim
Release Date: 1991-12-17Lonnie makes a heartbreaking discovery about a woman he dated in high school.
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Episode 12 - The Landlord
Release Date: 1992-01-07A drug dealing slumlord is murdered by his accomplices.
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Episode 13 - Fool for Love
Release Date: 1992-01-14A doctor plots to eliminate his wife -- and his mistress.
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Episode 14 - Love, Honor and Obey
Release Date: 1992-02-04Parkers investigation into a purse snatching reveals an abused woman.
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Episode 15 - Odessa
Release Date: 1992-02-11Racists target a ceremony honoring a civil rights pioneer.
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Episode 16 - A Time to Trust
Release Date: 1992-02-18Althea 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.
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Episode 17 - By Means Most Foul
Release Date: 1992-02-25A 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.
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Episode 18 - Trundel's Will Be Done
Release Date: 1992-03-03V.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.
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Episode 19 - Moseley's Lot
Release Date: 1992-03-31Gillespie 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.
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Episode 20 - Family Reunion
Release Date: 1992-04-07An ex-convict attempts to retrieve his loot from his wife and her new husband in this tongue-in-cheek episode.
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Episode 21 - Sanctuary
Release Date: 1992-05-12A 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.
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Episode 22 - The Law on Trial
Release Date: 1992-05-19Gillespie,Tibbs and Father DiMarco must stand trial for harbouring a fugitive and obstructing justice.