In the Heat of the Night (1993) Season 7
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.
01 Chief Gillespie is fired by the city council and Sparta's new police chief Hampton Forbes arrives in town.Bill's last case with Sparta P.D. is a murder investigation in which a young boy has been implicated.
9/16/1993
02 Hampton Forbes assumes the office of Chief of Police and Bill becomes the Sheriff of Newman county.Former Spartan Wade Hatton returns to Sparta hoping to make sense of his life and rekindle his relationship with Sarah Hallisey.Bubba and Covey take the new chief on a tour of Sparta and Bill takes Wade to visit some distant cousins.Meanwhile two young criminals involve a mentally handicapped young man in a terrible crime.
9/18/1993
03 Wade and Sarah try to keep young Henry from being punished for a crime he did not commit and Forbes and his officers search for the two men who are really responsible.
9/18/1993
04 The daughter of an old friend asks Bubba to arrest the man who knowingly gave her AIDS.
9/23/1993
Incident at Brewer's Pond 05 A night of revelry at a local pond turns deadly.
9/30/1993
06 Lana's ex- boyfriend comes to see her and brings a load of stolen rifles with him.
10/14/1993
07 Luann moonlights as a singer at a nightclub and finds romance with the clubs owner.Her happiness is shortlived when she realizes that the bartender is dealing drugs.
10/28/1993
Virgil Tibbs, Attorney at Law 08 Attorney Virgil Tibbs returns to Sparta and is soon assigned his first case as a defense attorney.
11/4/1993
09 Bubba travels to Atlanta to help his nephew after the boy overdoses on drugs.He soon teams up with a street wise cop to take down the drug ring.
11/10/1993
10 A neglected baby stirs maternal feelings in Luann.
11/25/1993
11 Tragic story of an alcoholic teen who accidentally kills a little girl while she is drinking and driving.
12/9/1993
13 Virgil defends Parker after he is falsely accused of police brutality by a drug dealer.The prosecution's main witness - the man's girlfriend, who was once engaged to Parker.
1/6/1994
14 Maybelle's new phone sex business is a great success - until one her girls decides to moonlight as a prostitute.
1/12/1994
15 Forbes is delighted when his fiancee Angela comes to see him,but is disappointed when he realizes that they have very different plans for the future.
1/19/1994
16 Lonnie must protect his Aunt Cordelia when her cherished friendship with Ches Collins angers one of his cousins.
1/26/1994
17 Virgil accepts a position at a prominent law firm.But as a former police officer he feels conflicting emotions when he realizes that one of their clients is guilty of murder.
2/2/1994
18 A Rabbi returns to Sparta after many years.Racists vandalize his synagogue and soon after their Torah is stolen.Forbes investigates but the Rabbi refuses to trust Bill because of his inaction while investigating a hate crime many years ago.
2/9/1994
19 Eugene tries to protect a friend who was an unwilling accomplice to a robbery and in doing so endangers his probation -- and his life.
3/9/1994
20 Harriet tries to stop an arrogant developer from destroying an important archeological site.
3/16/1994
21 Comedic episode in which Parker's ne'er-do-well stepfather returns to Sparta with a new wife, a stolen painting and two inept art thieves who are determined to steal the painting back.
3/30/1994
22 Bill and Harriet's wedding plans are interrupted by a sniper who mistakes Bill for Sheriff McComb.
5/4/1994
In the Heat of the Night: Give Me Your Life 23 In the Heat of the Night: Give Me Your Life is a film directed by Russ Mayberry released on May 11, 1994.
5/11/1994
24 Bill and Harriet return home.The cult kidnaps the girl from her foster home.And Forbes and his men arrest a man who has been supplying drugs used to keep the cult members under control.Soon a standoff develops and the officers realize that they have no intention of surrendering.Sarah is taken hostage.As they attempt to rescue the women and children Lonnie and Parker find themselves defusing a bomb and Bubba risks his life to rescue a small child from the building.
5/11/1994
