In the Heat of the Night

  • Premiered: Mar 1988
  • Episodes: 146
  • Followers: 5
  • Ended
  • CBS
  • Unknown
  • Crime Drama Mystery Thriller

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Season 2
2x1
Don't Look Back (1)
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 04, 1988
A copycat recreates a shocking unsolved murder from the past.Gillespie feels threatened after Ted Marcus suggests that Virgil should become the Chief.The situation becomes more tense after Virgil criticizes Parker and Bubba's actions.
2x2
Don't Look Back (2)
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 04, 1988
Tibbs,Gillespie and Bubba pursue different leads in a bizarre murder case and the Chief realizes that the killer has plans for him.
2x3
The Family Secret
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 06, 1988
The murder of well respected man turns up a shocking secret about his family.
2x4
The Hammer and the Glove
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 13, 1988
Virgil is delighted when Matthew his former partner from Philidelphia comes to visit.But he soon learns his friend has another purpose for coming to Sparta.Althea is uncomfortable .. show full overview
2x5
Prisoners
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 20, 1988
Sweet risks his life to prove that the Sheriff of a neighboring county is guilty of the racially motivated murder of a young man that Sweet was friends with in high school.
2x6
Hot Nights
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 27, 1988
Bubba is seduced by an alluring writer who has more on her mind than romance.Bill and Virgil worry that he is in over his head.Bubba tries to protect her from her estranged husband, but things get complicated after she shoots someone.
2x7
Gunshot
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 03, 1989
Virgil is forced to shoot a suspect in an armed robbery.He has trouble dealing with the consequences of his actions, after he realizes the person he shot was a teenaged girl - and no one can locate the gun he believed she was pointing at him.
2x8
Country Mouse, City Mouse
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 10, 1989
Virgil's visiting niece and Bubba's nephew team up in an effort to escape the boredom of small town life.But they get more excitement than they bargained for when they cross paths with a dangerous parolee.
2x9
Stranger in Town
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 17, 1989
Gillespie suspects that JoAnn's new cook is connected to the murder of a young prostitute.But Virgil suspects the culprit maybe a local pimp who has been intimidating the women.
2x10
Tear Down the Walls
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 31, 1989
A minister who was integrating his church(by inviting Virgil and Althea to attend services)is poisoned.
2x11
A Trip Upstate
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 07, 1989
In this thought provoking episode.Gillespie is surprised when a man he arrested asks to see him on the eve of his execution.He must confront his feelings about the death penalty when the prisoner asks him to witness his death.
2x12
A.k.a. Kelly Kay
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 14, 1989
The past comes back to haunt JoAnn in the form of an escaped convict.
2x13
These Things Take Time
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 21, 1989
A teenage mother from an impoverished family is arrested for murder after her infant is found dead, but Virgil believes there is more to the case than meets the eye.Meanwhile Althea .. show full overview
2x14
Intruders
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 07, 1989
The police search for a burglar who preys on elderly women.And the prime suspect is the son of a city councilwoman.
2x15
The Creek
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 14, 1989
The investigation of a possible assault brings back nightmarish and confusing childhood memories for Virgil.
2x16
Sister, Sister
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 21, 1989
A vivacious socialite's return to Sparta delights her ailing father and childhood friend Virgil, but her sister is less than thrilled at her homecoming.After their father is poisoned the jealous siblings become suspects in his murder.
2x17
Walkout
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 28, 1989
A bitter strike leads to a murder investigation on a snowy day in Sparta.
2x18
Accused
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 04, 1989
Bubba tries to rescue a woman from a rapist, but she mistakes him for her attacker.Gillespie tangles with an ambitious district attorney who plans to use the case to further his career.
2x19
Fifteen, Forever
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 25, 1989
Sparta grieves after a drunk driver causes a fatal crash with high school cheerleaders on their way home from a game.While the officers try to find other driver, Althea tries to help the .. show full overview
2x20
Ladybug, Ladybug
Episode overview
Air date
May 02, 1989
With the Chief in Quantico Bubba and Virgil try to catch a serial arsonist.Things get complicated after a man dies in one of the fires.And Councilwoman White stirs things up by appointing Tom Dugan acting chief of police in Gillespie's absence.
2x21
The Pig Woman of Sparta
Episode overview
Air date
May 09, 1989
It seems that a serial killer has been burying his victims in a wooded area owned by a wealthy hermit that Virgil refers to as ""Sparta's Howard Hughes"". Suspicion immediately falls on .. show full overview
2x22 Season finale
Missing
Episode overview
Air date
May 16, 1989
Gillespie is kidnapped and Virgil believes that Tom Dugan is involved.

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