In the Heat of the Night (1988)
The cases and adventures of the police forces in and around Sparta, Mississippi.
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Episode 1 - Don't Look Back: Part 1
Release Date: 4 Dec. 1988A young woman is murdered in the exact same manner to a notorious murder Chief Gillespie investigated 20 years ago and he is threatened as well.
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Episode 2 - Don't Look Back: Part 2
Release Date: 4 Dec. 1988Tension is created between Tibbs & Gillespie when Tibbs is nominated to be the new Chief of Police. The party responsible for the murder is found to be surprisingly close.
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Episode 3 - The Family Secret
Release Date: 6 Dec. 1988After a prominent businessman is mysteriously murdered, evidence of incestuous relationships with his daughter and granddaughter are uncovered.
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Episode 4 - The Hammer and the Glove
Release Date: 13 Dec. 1988Virgil's ex-partner, who was also Althea's ex-lover, comes to Sparta for a reunion nobody will forget.
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Episode 5 - Prisoners
Release Date: 20 Dec. 1988When Officer Sweet's first bust, his best friend from childhood, dies in the Newman County Jail under mysterious circumstances, he presses Gillespie to investigate the matter.
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Episode 6 - Hot Nights
Release Date: 27 Dec. 1988Bubba Skinner enters into a whirlwind romance with a seductive author passing through Sparta.
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Episode 7 - Gunshots
Release Date: 3 Jan. 1989Virgil Tibbs shoots and kills a robbery suspect during a foot pursuit, unaware that it was a girl.
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Episode 8 - Country Mouse, City Mouse
Release Date: 10 Jan. 1989Bubba's nephew and Virgil's visiting niece become friendly and are chased by a dangerous criminal thought to have died in an explosion.
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Episode 9 - Stranger in Town
Release Date: 17 Jan. 1989The investigation of a prostitute's murder is complicated when a traveling cook comes to Sparta and starts working at the Cafe.
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Episode 10 - Tear Down the Walls
Release Date: 31 Jan. 1989A skeleton in the closet of a local pastor surfaces after he mysteriously drops dead during a church service.
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Episode 11 - A Trip Upstate
Release Date: 7 Feb. 1989Gillespie is asked by a condemned prisoner to be present at his execution.
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Episode 12 - A.K.A. Kelly Kay
Release Date: 14 Feb. 1989Joanne must reveal a painful part of her past to Gillespie after a long lost acquointance escapes from prison.
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Episode 13 - These Things Take Time
Release Date: 21 Feb. 1989Tibbs tries to help a teenage mother who was abandoned by her baby's father.
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Episode 14 - Intruders
Release Date: 7 Mar. 1989The son of a city councilwoman is accused of a string of robbery/murders.
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Episode 15 - The Creek
Release Date: 14 Mar. 1989Virgil is disturbed by the investigation of a battered woman.
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Episode 16 - Sister, Sister
Release Date: 21 Mar. 1989Sibling rivalry between two sisters intensifies when their bedridden father dies.
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Episode 17 - Walkout
Release Date: 28 Mar. 1989Sparta becomes a battleground in the midst of a violent union strike.
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Episode 18 - Accused
Release Date: 4 Apr. 1989Bubba and Virgil bond as friends and coworkers when Bubba is accused of rape by two different women.
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Episode 19 - Fifteen Forever
Release Date: 25 Apr. 1989The town of Sparta grieves when a horrific drunk driving accident claims the lives of the entire Sparta High School cheerleading squad.
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Episode 20 - Ladybug, Ladybug
Release Date: 2 May 1989A handicapped woman tricks her boyfriend into murdering her husband.
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Episode 21 - The Pig Woman of Sparta
Release Date: 9 May 1989A crabby and reclusive woman shoots and kills anyone who sets foot onto her property.
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Episode 22 - Missing
Release Date: 16 May 1989Chief Gillespie returns from a convention, only to be kidnapped and presumed dead.