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 - A Small War: Part 1
Release Date: 28 Oct. 1992While Sparta's police chief William O. 'Bill' Gillespie celebrates a mis-trial with Harriet DeLong, they worry about her son Eugene Glendon, who is out on probation. He was tricked into waiting in his friend Byron's car while Byron bought cocaine from dealer Clay Wilson. The crack pusher gang 'the Crew' from Jackson kills both by shooting through the wall. Sparta's police investigates and tries to keep the drug pests from spreading from the city. The Crew returns to spread free drug samples, soon causing an OD wave.
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Episode 2 - A Small War: Part 2
Release Date: 4 Nov. 1992Despite his disdain for Bill Gillespie, Harriet's son Eugene helps the Sparta Police bring down the crack house after he is an eyewitness to his best friend's drug-related murder.
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Episode 3 - Brother's Keeper
Release Date: 11 Nov. 1992Luann is furious when her slacker brother returns and is immediately accused of robbing a shady sports bar. Her mother is in denial and insists her son has changed.
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Episode 4 - A Frenzied Affair
Release Date: 18 Nov. 1992A troubled high school student murders his ex-girlfriend's lover, then fixes it so her stepfather is blamed for the crime. Althea suffers a nervous breakdown after witnessing the student's suicide.
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Episode 5 - Discovery
Release Date: 18 Nov. 1992Virgil enlists the help of Dr. Levi Atwill to help bring Althea out of her funk and return to her teaching job. The murder investigation is complicated when the dead student's ex-girlfriend acquires yet another boyfriend who murders her stepfather and seriously injured one of Gillespie's good friends.
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Episode 6 - Random's Child
Release Date: 25 Nov. 1992Bill Gillespie makes peace with his estranged daughter after she comes to Sparta to settle her deceased mother's affairs.
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Episode 7 - An Occupational Hazard
Release Date: 2 Dec. 1992Computer thieves provide a man with a window of opportunity to cover up for his wife's violent retaliation against her abusive boss.
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Episode 8 - Last Rights
Release Date: 9 Dec. 1992The doctor treating Virgil's dying aunt is the chief suspect in a series of mercy killings.
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Episode 9 - When the Music Stopped
Release Date: 16 Dec. 1992A washed up country singer, whose biggest fan is Bubba Skinner, is accused of the murder of his former road manager.
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Episode 10 - Flowers from a Lady
Release Date: 6 Jan. 1993Bubba is first on the scene of a carjacking and first in the heart of the victim, a city council woman with a history of "man problems".
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Episode 11 - Private Sessions
Release Date: 12 Jan. 1993When a young woman takes her life by jumping off a bridge, her boyfriend, who is also Virgil's law school classmate, stands accused of her murder.
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Episode 12 - Judgement Day
Release Date: 20 Jan. 1993A prominent judge's wife threatens to reveal a skeleton in his closet unless he grants her a lucrative divorce.
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Episode 13 - Falsely Accused
Release Date: 3 Feb. 1993Wilson Sweet's job is put on the line when he is accused of soliciting a bribe from a shady used car salesman.
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Episode 14 - A Step Removed
Release Date: 10 Feb. 1993A threat made in anger makes Parker's stepfather the prime suspect in the murder of his former boss.
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Episode 15 - A Deadly Affection
Release Date: 17 Feb. 1993A single mother is harassed by her landlord, who also happens to be her ex-boyfriend.
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Episode 16 - The Leftover Man: Part 1
Release Date: 3 Mar. 1993When a racist politician visits Sparta during his political rally, a staged assassination attempt intended to make him look better to his perspective voters goes horribly wrong.
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Episode 17 - The Leftover Man: Part 2
Release Date: 3 Mar. 1993The Sparta Police investigate when it is discovered that the murder attempt may not have been staged after all.
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Episode 18 - A Dish Best Served Cold
Release Date: 17 Mar. 1993When an embezzler returns to Sparta after serving a prison sentence, quite a few people become suspects when the man is killed.
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Episode 19 - Legacy
Release Date: 24 Mar. 1993A man is determined to make sure a young woman does not receive her inheritance, promised by his grandfather 3 decades earlier.
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Episode 20 - Even Nice People
Release Date: 28 Apr. 1993Shady real estate developers try to drive Gillespie's daughter out of her property, in order to make way for a new development project.
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Episode 21 - Lake Winahatchie
Release Date: 5 May 1993The common-law husband of Lana's mother returns to Sparta and tries to extort money from the land developers, who are eventually driven out of town.
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Episode 22 - A Correct Settling
Release Date: 12 May 1993Sparta Police investigate the possibility of a prison bishop being forced off the road being racially motivated. Bill Gillespie and Harriet Delong discuss taking their relationship to the next level.