The cases and adventures of the police forces in and around Sparta, Mississippi.The cases and adventures of the police forces in and around Sparta, Mississippi.The cases and adventures of the police forces in and around Sparta, Mississippi.
- Won 1 Primetime Emmy
- 4 wins & 11 nominations total
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- TriviaThe season 7 episode "Every Man's Family" was meant as the pilot for a proposed spinoff for the character of Bubba Skinner. The network did not have any available slots at the time it was first broadcast and In the Heat of the Night ended soon after, so the spinoff never materialized. It would have been set in Atlanta.
- GoofsIn the final season, all of the major long time characters are now senior police officers holding the ranks of Sergeant through Captain. In most every police department, these are "desk jobs" which hardly ever leave the police station, yet in order to keep the action with the main characters, the show has these senior police officials performing routine tasks such as street patrol and first responding to crimes.
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Virgil Tibbs: I want to like you people; and I want you people to like me. But there can't be liking without respect, and until there is that respect you will call me MISTER TIBBS!
- ConnectionsFeatured in The 41st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1989)
- SoundtracksIn the Heat of the Night
Music by Quincy Jones
Lyrics by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman
Arranged by Christopher Page (as Chris Page)
Performed by Bill Champlin
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This show starring Carroll O'Connor is one of the best shows done for TV. Every show taught you a lesson about real life in the south. It showed racial problems and how they could be solved; it showed how drugs and drinking can tear a family apart and how to deal with it. It showed a police force so caring and understanding of what people go through. This is a tv show that was made from a movie and it will go on and on in reruns because it was done so well. Again we have to thank CARROLL O'CONNOR for doing such a great job.
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By what name was In the Heat of the Night (1988) officially released in India in Hindi?
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