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In the Heat of the Night

Season 5 1991 - 1992

  • 1991-10-01T04:00:00Z on CBS
  • 1h
  • 22h (22 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Drama, Crime
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.

22 episodes

Season Premiere

1991-10-01T04:00:00Z

5x01 A Woman Much Admired

Season Premiere

5x01 A Woman Much Admired

  • 1991-10-01T04:00:00Z1h

Gillespie's old flame returns to Sparta to settle some business matters and see Bill. When she is murdered he travels to Gulfport and meets his daughter Lana for the first time.

1991-10-08T04:00:00Z

5x02 Baby for Sale

5x02 Baby for Sale

  • 1991-10-08T04:00:00Z1h

After Bubba's cousin adopts a baby her husband is blackmailed by the child's real parents - they want him to help them steal the payroll where he works.

1991-10-22T04:00:00Z

5x03 Obsession

5x03 Obsession

  • 1991-10-22T04:00:00Z1h

A flirtatious schoolteacher is stalked by a madman.

1991-10-29T05:00:00Z

5x04 Liar's Poker

5x04 Liar's Poker

  • 1991-10-29T05:00:00Z1h

A game of high stakes poker ends in murder.

1991-11-05T05:00:00Z

5x05 Ruda's Awakening

5x05 Ruda's Awakening

  • 1991-11-05T05:00:00Z1h

Virgil's Aunt Ruda is the only witness to a struggle between Bubba and a young robbery suspect that ends in the young mans death.But her prejudice against the police -- and Virgil clouds her memory of the incident.

1991-11-12T05:00:00Z

5x06 Unfinished Business

5x06 Unfinished Business

  • 1991-11-12T05:00:00Z1h

Bubba returns to Los Angeles to testify at a murder trial and is reunited with Pat Day as they try to protect Mike from killers sent to prevent him from testifying.

1991-11-19T05:00:00Z

5x07 The More Thing's Change

5x07 The More Thing's Change

  • 1991-11-19T05:00:00Z1h

A man murders his business partner and frames the man's illegitimate daughter for the crime in an attempt to gain the man's business and his wife.

1991-11-26T05:00:00Z

5x08 Sweet, Sweet Blues

5x08 Sweet, Sweet Blues

  • 1991-11-26T05:00:00Z1h

The lyrics to a blues song recall a murder that happened 50 years earlier.The victim - Sweet's grandfather.And the only people left with the answers are the bluesman who wrote the song and a retired sheriff.

1991-12-03T05:00:00Z

5x09 Sparta Gold

5x09 Sparta Gold

  • 1991-12-03T05:00:00Z1h

A deputy provides protection for a cotton grower who is running a pot growing operation.But the deputy makes a big mistake when he wounds Bubba's girlfriend.

1991-12-10T05:00:00Z

5x10 An Eye for an Eye

5x10 An Eye for an Eye

  • 1991-12-10T05:00:00Z1h

The father of a man Gerard prosecuted kidnaps the DA's daughter.

1991-12-17T05:00:00Z

5x11 The Littlest Victim

5x11 The Littlest Victim

  • 1991-12-17T05:00:00Z1h

Lonnie makes a heartbreaking discovery about a woman he dated in high school.

1992-01-07T05:00:00Z

5x12 The Landlord

5x12 The Landlord

  • 1992-01-07T05:00:00Z1h

A drug dealing slumlord is murdered by his accomplices.

1992-01-14T05:00:00Z

5x13 Fool for Love

5x13 Fool for Love

  • 1992-01-14T05:00:00Z1h

A doctor plots to eliminate his wife -- and his mistress.

1992-02-04T05:00:00Z

5x14 Love, Honor and Obey

5x14 Love, Honor and Obey

  • 1992-02-04T05:00:00Z1h

Parkers investigation into a purse snatching reveals an abused woman.

1992-02-11T05:00:00Z

5x15 Odessa

5x15 Odessa

  • 1992-02-11T05:00:00Z1h

Racists target a ceremony honoring a civil rights pioneer.

1992-02-18T05:00:00Z

5x16 A Time to Trust

5x16 A Time to Trust

  • 1992-02-18T05:00:00Z1h

Althea fears for one of her students after her mother's boyfriend is linked to a criminal operation that has resulted in the deaths of several truckers.

1992-02-25T05:00:00Z

5x17 By Means Most Foul

5x17 By Means Most Foul

  • 1992-02-25T05:00:00Z1h

A restaurateur and her mechanic boyfriend plot to eliminate her husband, but their scheme backfires.Gillespie takes heat over a string of mailbox bashings.And Virgil soon regrets ignoring Parker's theory regarding where the vandals would strike next.

1992-03-03T05:00:00Z

5x18 Trundel's Will Be Done

5x18 Trundel's Will Be Done

  • 1992-03-03T05:00:00Z1h

V.J. Trundel's widow takes Harriet to court to gain custody of Eric.But Harriet is determined that her nephew will not be raised in the home of the man who ordered the murder of her sister.

1992-03-31T05:00:00Z

5x19 Moseley's Lot

5x19 Moseley's Lot

  • 1992-03-31T05:00:00Z1h

Gillespie learns that the son of an old friend is a compulsive gambler.The young man wants his father to pay off his losses.But when two gangsters show up from New Orleans to collect, his jealous sibling sees the perfect opportunity to get rid of his troubled brother.

1992-04-07T04:00:00Z

5x20 Family Reunion

5x20 Family Reunion

  • 1992-04-07T04:00:00Z1h

An ex-convict attempts to retrieve his loot from his wife and her new husband in this tongue-in-cheek episode.

1992-05-12T04:00:00Z

5x21 Sanctuary

5x21 Sanctuary

  • 1992-05-12T04:00:00Z1h

A political prisoner who entered the country illegally,seeks sanctuary in a monastary.Gillespie and Tibbs find themselves at odds with Sheriff McComb when they try to help the man.

Season Finale

1992-05-19T04:00:00Z

5x22 The Law on Trial

Season Finale

5x22 The Law on Trial

  • 1992-05-19T04:00:00Z1h

Gillespie,Tibbs and Father DiMarco must stand trial for harbouring a fugitive and obstructing justice.

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