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Box office. $24.4 million [3] In the Heat of the Night is a 1967 American mystery drama film directed by Norman Jewison, produced by Walter Mirisch, and starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger. It tells the story of Virgil Tibbs (Poitier), a Black police detective from Philadelphia, who becomes embroiled in a murder investigation in a small ...
In the Heat of the Night. (TV series) In the Heat of the Night is an American police procedural crime drama television series loosely based on the 1967 film and 1965 novel of the same title that starred Carroll O'Connor as police chief Bill Gillespie and Howard Rollins as police detective Virgil Tibbs. The series was broadcast on NBC from March ...
Sparta P.D. gets its first black policewoman, Officer Christine Rankin. She is shot and killed on her first day on duty, and Gillespie tracks down her killer. The late Officer Rankin is replaced at the end of the episode by Officer Luanne Corbin (Crystal R. Fox). 35. 5. "Crackdown". E.W. Swackhamer.
Hugh O'Connor. John Carroll O'Connor (August 2, 1924 – June 21, 2001) was an American actor whose television career spanned over four decades. O'Connor found widespread fame as Archie Bunker (for which he won four Emmy Awards), the main character in the CBS television sitcoms All in the Family (1971–1979) and its continuation, Archie Bunker ...
Larry Martin Hagman (September 21, 1931 – November 23, 2012) was an American film and television actor, director, and producer, best known for playing ruthless oil baron J. R. Ewing in the 1978–1991 primetime television soap opera Dallas, and the befuddled astronaut Major Anthony Nelson in the 1965–1970 sitcom I Dream of Jeannie.
Residence (s) Fresno, California, U.S. Occupation. NFL football player, actor, radio host, politician. Carlos Alan Autry Jr. (also known for a time as Carlos Brown; born July 31, 1952), is an American actor, politician, and former football player. During his brief career in the National Football League (NFL), he played as a quarterback and was ...
Followed by. The Cool Cottontail. In the Heat of the Night is a 1965 mystery novel by John Ball set in the community of Wells, South Carolina. The main character is a black police detective named Virgil Tibbs passing through the small town during a time of bigotry and the civil rights movement. The novel is the basis of the 1967 award-winning ...
In the Heat of the Night. In the Heat of the Night may refer to: In the Heat of the Night (novel), a 1965 novel by John Ball. In the Heat of the Night (film), a 1967 film based on the novel. In the Heat of the Night (TV series), a 1988–1995 television series based on the film.