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S1 E5 Blind Spot (Part 1)

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TV-14

47m

Mar 28, 1988

Sparta is overjoyed when a local boy turned, successful businessman offers to bring new prosperity to the Mississippi hamlet by moving his business interests back home. But all of his business interests may not be exactly legal. (Part 1 of 2)

Season 1, 7 Episodes

Pilot (Part 1& 2),

(1/2) When Virgil Tibbs joins the Sparta, MI, police, resentment festers in Chief of Police Bill Gillespie. (2/2) After Nan and, subsequently, Willie Jones' murders, racial tensions are especially high in Sparta.

TV-14 1h 36m 1988

Police Chief Bill Gillespie (Carroll O'Connor) and Chief of Detectives Virgil Tibbs (Howard Rollins) are at odds when Tibbs suspects that Gillespie's old friend, Sonny Mims, killed his wife because of his involvement with the dead woman's cousin.

Emotions run high when a black businessman (Randy Brooks) comes to Sparta to buy the town's newspaper, and it is suspected that he is romancing the paper's married white owner (Nana Visitor). Carroll O'Connor and Howard Rollins star.

Blind Spot (Part 1),

Sparta is overjoyed when a local boy turned, successful businessman offers to bring new prosperity to the Mississippi hamlet by moving his business interests back home. But all of his business interests may not be exactly legal. (Part 1 of 2)

Blind Spot (Part 2),

After Virgil (Howard Rollins) narrowly escapes death at the hands of Ritchie Epson's henchmen, Chief Gillespie (Carroll O'Connor) still does not have enough evidence to prove that former hometown boy Epson (Bill Sadler) is a major drug supplier.

A Necessary Evil,

The Sparta jail descends into complete and utter chaos when the six wives of a bigamist (guest star Ted Lange) all show up to visit and shower him with gifts. But when the man turns up dead in his cell, which of his wives turns out to be a murderer?

...And Then You Die,

An escaped convict and his girlfriend leave a trail of bodies in their wake as they travel through Mississippi and eventually take Althea and Scooter, the grandson of one of their victims, as hostages in a desperate bid for freedom.

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In the Heat of the Night

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TV-14

7 Seasons

1h 36m

Carroll O'Connor steps into the role of Bill Gillespie, a southern, white sheriff, and Howard Rollins takes on the mantle of Virgil Tibbs, an African American detective, who must put animosity aside to solve crimes in a racially-charged hamlet.

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