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In The Heat of the Night was a Syndication network drama TV series based on the 1965 novel and 1967 film of the same title, starring Carroll O'Connor (who was also one of the executive producers on the show) and Howard Rollins.
In the Heat of the Night is an American police procedural crime drama television series loosely based on the 1967 film and 1965 novel of the same title that starred Carroll O'Connor as police chief Bill Gillespie and Howard Rollins as police detective Virgil Tibbs.
In the Heat of the Night: Created by James Lee Barrett. With Carroll O'Connor, Alan Autry, David Hart, Hugh O'Connor. The cases and adventures of the police forces in and around Sparta, Mississippi.
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- 1988-03-06
- Crime, Drama, Mystery
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White police chief Bill Gillespie (Carroll O'Connor), and his black Chief of Detectives Virgil Tibbs (Howard E. Rollins Jr.) keep the peace in the small town of Sparta, Mississippi.
In the Heat of the Night is a neo-noir/mystery film released in 1967. In the film, a black police officer travelling through Mississippi is mistaken for a killer by the bigoted locals. A suspect is eventually caught, but the evidence don't line up, so he takes it upon himself to solve the case to the dismay of some locals. The film was directed by Norman Jewison and stars Sidney Poitier, Rod ...
In the Heat of the Night was a 1988–95 Police Procedural series set as a distant sequel to the 1967 film of the same name, itself based on a 1965 novel by John Ball. The TV series picks up twenty years on, with a newly-married Detective Virgil Tibbs moving to Sparta, Mississippi after his mother's death.
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Singer Eddie Larran (Robert Goulet) returns to Sparta for a concert, but not everyone is a fan. An angry man (Gary Crosby) insists that Eddie owes him money. And their dispute soon ends in violence.
