

“Some lines are meant to be crossed.”
A media storm sets off when an African-American cop kills a white teenager in a small North Carolina town.
Creator
Creator
Status
Ended
Type
Scripted
Seasons
1
Episodes
10
10 episodes

In the Heat of the Night is an American television series based on the motion picture and novel of the same name starring Carroll O'Connor as the white police chief William Gillespie, and Howard Rollins as the African-American police detective Virgil Tibbs. It was broadcast on NBC from 1988 until 1992, and then on CBS until 1995. Its executive producers were Fred Silverman, Juanita Bartlett and Carroll O'Connor. TGG Direct released the first season of the series to DVD on August 28, 2012.


Deputy Joshua Beck
Tensions run high between African American citizens and Caucasian cops in Jersey City when a teenage African American boy is critically injured by a cop.