In the Heat of the Night

Resentment festers in Chief of Police Bill Gillespie when an African American detective joins his southern, small-town police force (Part 1 of 2).

Chief Gillespie and Virgil Tibbs are at odds when Tibbs suspects that the chief's old friend killed his wife because he was having an affair.

The Sparta jail is in chaos when the 6 wives of a bigamist show up to care for him. But when the mans end up dead, which of the them is the murderer?

Emotions run high when a black businessman comes to Sparta to buy the town newspaper and is suspected of romancing the paper's married white owner.

Even after Virgil escapes from Ritchie Epson's henchmen, Gillespie still does not have enough evidence to prove that Epson is a drug supplier.

An escaped convict and his girlfriend leave a trail of bodies in their wake and take Althea and Scooter as hostages in a desperate bid for freedom.