76%User score 76 percent
Hill Street Blues
1981 · Drama · Crime
User Score
68 votes
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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Season list for In the Heat of the Night
Carroll O'Connor
Bill Gillespie
Howard Rollins
Virgil Tibbs
Alan Autry
Bubba Skinner
Anne-Marie Johnson
Althea Tibbs
Lois Nettleton
Joanne St. John
David Hart
Parker Williams
Geoffrey Thorne
Wilson Sweet
Hugh O'Connor
Lonnie Jamison
Crystal R. Fox
Luann Corbin
Denise Nicholas
Harriet DeLong
Christian LeBlanc
Junior Abernathy
Carl Weathers
Hampton Forbes
Franklin Cover
Jennifer Bassey
Kevin McCarthy
Lisa Guerrero
Larry Gelman
Ronnie Claire Edwards
Christina Pickles
Temi Epstein
GenerationofSwine
January 11, 2023
I know, I know, it doesn't really hold a candle to the movie does it? They are sort of two entirely different beasts and this film... well, it has a lot more of a Hill Street Blues with minimal racial commentary in it than something you would expect from "In the heat of the Night." But Carroll O'Connor sort of kicked butt in this. And you can see the change. If they held on to the racial tension that made the movie s…
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