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In the Heat of the Night (TV Series 1988–1995) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Find out who starred in the classic crime drama film directed by Norman Jewison and based on a novel by John Ball. See the full list of actors, writers, producers, composers and other crew members on IMDb.
Find out the cast, crew, ratings, trivia, and episodes of the TV series In the Heat of the Night, based on the movie and starring Carroll O'Connor. The show follows the police forces in a small town in the American South, dealing with crime, mystery, and racial issues.
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- 1988-03-06
- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- 60
Find out who starred in the 1988-2024 crime drama series based on the Oscar-winning film and novel. See the full list of directors, writers, producers, composers and actors who appeared in the show.
- Harry Harris
- 8
In the Heat of the Night is a 1967 American mystery drama film directed by Norman Jewison, produced by Walter Mirisch, and starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger. It tells the story of Virgil Tibbs (Poitier), a Black police detective from Philadelphia, who becomes embroiled in a murder investigation in a small town in Mississippi.
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 and was broadcast on NBC from March 6, 1988-May 19, 1992 before moving to CBS ...
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African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real killer. Their investigation takes them through every ...
