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In the Heat of the Night

1988 ‧ Drama ‧ 8 seasons
7.6/10 · IMDb
Carroll O'Connor stars as a small-town police chief (and later a sheriff) in fictional Sparta, Miss. For a small town, Sparta has its share of murder, rape, corruption, racism and drunken driving, so O'Connor's Chief William Gillespie has his...
First episode date: March 6, 1988 (USA)
Final episode date: May 16, 1995
Networks: CBS and NBC
Executive producers: Fred Silverman; Juanita Bartlett; David Moessinger; Carroll O'Connor

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 ...
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When Althea is raped by a colleague, Gillespie and the Sparta PD must solve the case before a furious Virgil gets revenge on his own.
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