Season 3
(1989)
Cast
as Bill Gillespie
as Virgil Tibbs
as Bubba Skinner
as Althea Tibbs
as Parker Williams
as Wilson Sweet
as Lonnie Jamison
as Luann Corbin
as Harriet DeLong
Episodes
Rape 0.0
October 24, 1989
After being released by his captors, the chief discovers that his abduction is part of a plot to assassinate a visiting…
Fairest of Them All 0.0
October 31, 1989
Virgil struggles to help Althea after she is raped by a fellow teacher.Darnell does not think they can get a conviction…
Murder Most Ancient 0.0
November 7, 1989
A beauty contest is marred by blackmail and the ambitious mother of a contestant.
First Girl 0.0
November 14, 1989
An unhappy wife asks her lover to place a bomb in her abusive husband's truck.
Crackdown 0.0
November 21, 1989
Sparta P.D. gets it's first black policewoman.
Anniversary 0.0
November 28, 1989
Someone is selling crack to teenagers and Sweet tries desperately to save a young addict.
Time of the Stranger 0.0
December 5, 1989
After a private investigator searching for a missing child is found dead, the evidence points to a local dance teacher …
Vengeance 0.0
December 12, 1989
An outlaw family seeks revenge against Bubba after he is forced to shoot one of them during a holdup.The chief wants hi…
My Name is Hank 0.0
December 19, 1989
A young refugee claims to be the son of a Sparta cop who died in the war.But quickly becomes a suspect in a murder/robb…
King's Ransom 0.0
January 2, 1990
The F.B.I. tries to talk an ex-boxer into testifying against a mobster he once worked for, but the fighter sees the sit…
Epitaph for a Lady 0.0
January 16, 1990
A long time friend of the Chief makes threats against a doctor he believes is responsible for his wife's death .When th…
Triangle 0.0
January 23, 1990
A man murders his wife and her lover after he catches them together,then flees to a remote cabin with his daughter who …
Hello in There 0.0
January 30, 1990
Bubba refuses to believe that a former teamate embezzled funds from the bank where he worked.And sets out to prove that…
December Days 0.0
February 13, 1990
The Sparta police investigate a suspicious death in a nursing home.
A Loss of Innocence 0.0
February 20, 1990
Darnell plans on indicting a teenager for murder after her father is found in the basement and her mother turns up miss…
Bubba's Baby 0.0
February 27, 1990
Someone abandons a baby at Bubba's door.
Home is Where The Heart Is 0.0
March 6, 1990
Maybelle the madam returns to Sparta with her "" nieces "".And sets up shop just out of Gillespie's jurisdiction.Her re…
An Angry Woman 0.0
March 13, 1990
First the mother,then the father of two young children are murdered.Althea takes responsibility for the children. The k…
Indiscretions 0.0
March 20, 1990
Althea does not realize that an old friend from Philly is hiding a dark secret, nor does Sweet who has fallen in love w…
Night of the Killing 0.0
March 27, 1990
Racial tensions run high when a white cabbie is murdered in the bottoms.
Citizen Trundel (1) 0.0
May 1, 1990
Harriet's sister is murdered on the orders of the wealthy white man who fathered her child.
Citizen Trundel (2) 0.0
May 8, 1990
Harriet's efforts to bring V.J. Trundel to trial are fruitless.The Chief does not believe they will ever get enough evi…