In the Heat of the Night (1988)

Genre

drama television series, police procedural

Country

United States

Length

8 seasons, 146 episodes

Rated

PG

Rating

7.6 of 10 from 68 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Southern police chief and a big-city detective clash over police methods and racial tensions while solving murders in a small Mississippi town. The show follows their uneasy partnership as they work together on each case.

slow-burntensegroundedseriouscharacter-drivengrittyearnestbrooding

What happens

In the Heat of the Night is an American police procedural crime drama television series loosely based on the 1965 novel by John Ball and the 1967 film directed by Norman Jewison. The TV series starred Carroll O'Connor as Southern police chief William "Bill" Gillespie and Howard Rollins as Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs. The series was broadcast on NBC from March 6, 1988 to May 19, 1992, before moving to CBS, where it aired from October 28, 1992 to May 16, 1995. Its executive producers were O'Connor, Fred Silverman and Juanita Bartlett. This series marked O'Connor's return to a series for the first time since the All in the Family spinoff Archie Bunker's Place ended in 1983. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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