Season 1
(1988)
Cast
as Bill Gillespie
as Virgil Tibbs
as Bubba Skinner
as Althea Tibbs
as Parker Williams
as Wilson Sweet
as Lonnie Jamison
as Junior Abernathy
Episodes
Pilot (1) 0.0
March 6, 1988
Virgil Tibbs returns to Sparta and joins the police force as chief of detectives.His arrival is met with resistance fr…
Pilot (2) 0.0
March 6, 1988
The investigation into the brutal murders of a young girl and the suspect in her death, leads Tibbs and Gillespie to th…
Road Kill 0.0
March 15, 1988
The affair between the husband of a wealthy woman and her distant cousin leads to her murder. Virgil immediately suspec…
Fate 0.0
March 22, 1988
Racial tensions run high when a married white woman has an affair with a black businessman from New York.Meanwhile Virg…
Blind Spot (1) 0.0
March 29, 1988
Virgil refuses to let go of a grudge against a wealthy former classmate who cheated him out of a scholarship.The man ha…
Blind Spot (2) 0.0
April 5, 1988
An angry Gillespie seeks answers when an old friend is shot.And Virgil narrowly escapes death after trying to ascertain…
A Necessary Evil 0.0
April 12, 1988
In this humorous episode Virgil and the Chief arrest a man for bigamy.It soon becomes a polygamy case after an endless …
...And Then You Die 0.0
May 3, 1988
The Sparta police search for a killer and his girlfriend.But the case becomes personal when they take Althea and the gr…