| rdfs:comment | - "In the Heat of the Night" is the 342nd episode of Casualty and the 22nd episode of the 16th series.
- The show also starred Alan Autry, Anne-Marie Johnson, David Hart, Hugh O'Connor, Lois Nettleton, Randall Franks, Christian LeBlanc, Crystal R. Fox, Denise Nicholas and Carl Weathers. The series first aired on NBC from March 6, 1988 to May 19, 1992 and then aired on the CBS network from October 28, 1992 to May 16, 1995. In total, "In the Heat of the Night" aired for 8 episodes and 142 episodes (including 4 TV movies).
- A 1965 novel by John Ball, In The Heat Of The Night also spawned a film and a television series. The film version, directed by Norman Jewison and starring Rod Steiger and Sidney Poitier, was the Oscar winner for Best Picture of 1967. Ran six seasons. It was kept interesting by brilliant casting choices Carroll O'Connor and Howard Rollins.
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| abstract | - A 1965 novel by John Ball, In The Heat Of The Night also spawned a film and a television series. The film version, directed by Norman Jewison and starring Rod Steiger and Sidney Poitier, was the Oscar winner for Best Picture of 1967. On his way back home after visiting his mother, Black Philadelphian Virgil Tibbs (Poitier) is arrested on suspicion of the murder of a prominent factory owner in Sparta, Mississippi. In his one phone conversation, he reveals that he's actually a homicide detective back 'up North', and is told by his superiors that he should assist the locals in solving the case -- partnered with the casually racist Police Chief Bill Gillespie (Steiger). It's a rocky start to the partnership, but the more Tibbs displays his detective prowess, the more Gillespie comes to respect him. Working together, and fighting together against the truly rabid racism of some of the local rednecks, they solve the case. The TV series picks up twenty years on with a newly-married Virgil Tibbs moving to Sparta after his mother's death. Turns out that at her funeral he was signed on as Chief of [nonexistent] Detectives by the town's opportunistic mayor. It's the 'New South', and everyone's anxious to seem racially progressive. Except, initially at least, Gillespie and his new -- not to say considerably younger and hunkier -- squad of flatfoots. Also, of course, several dozen bad guys. Ran six seasons. It was kept interesting by brilliant casting choices Carroll O'Connor and Howard Rollins.
- "In the Heat of the Night" is the 342nd episode of Casualty and the 22nd episode of the 16th series.
- The show also starred Alan Autry, Anne-Marie Johnson, David Hart, Hugh O'Connor, Lois Nettleton, Randall Franks, Christian LeBlanc, Crystal R. Fox, Denise Nicholas and Carl Weathers. The series first aired on NBC from March 6, 1988 to May 19, 1992 and then aired on the CBS network from October 28, 1992 to May 16, 1995. In total, "In the Heat of the Night" aired for 8 episodes and 142 episodes (including 4 TV movies).
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