8.7/10110 votes#1 - Don't Look Back (1)
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 12/4/1988
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.7/1086 votes#2 - Don't Look Back (2)
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 12/4/1988
Tibbs,Gillespie and Bubba pursue different leads in a bizarre murder case and the Chief realizes that the killer has plans for him.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.6/1098 votes#3 - Family Secret
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 12/6/1988
The murder of well respected man turns up a shocking secret about his family.
Director: Lee H. Katzin
Writer: Nancy Bond
8.2/1097 votes#4 - The Hammer and the Glove
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 12/13/1988
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 because she and Matthew were romantically involved before she met Virgil and she realizes that he is unwilling to accept the fact that she chose Virgil over him.Meanwhile the F.B.I. enlist Sparta P.D.'s aid in hiding a witness.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.8/10110 votes#5 - Prisoners
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 12/20/1988
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.
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: Lee Maddux
7.5/1085 votes#6 - Hot Nights
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 12/27/1988
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.
Director: Harry Harris
Writer: Mark Edward Edens
8.3/1087 votes#7 - Gunshots
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 1/3/1989
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.4/10106 votes#8 - Country Mouse, City Mouse
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 1/10/1989
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.1/1077 votes#9 - Stranger in Town
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 1/17/1989
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.1/1074 votes#10 - Tear Down the Walls
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 1/31/1989
A minister who was integrating his church(by inviting Virgil and Althea to attend services)is poisoned.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.9/10135 votes#11 - A Trip Upstate
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 2/7/1989
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.1/10102 votes#12 - A.k.a Kelly Kay
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 2/14/1988
The past comes back to haunt JoAnn in the form of an escaped convict.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.1/1074 votes#13 - These Things Take Time
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/27/1988
No description available
Director: Harry Harris
Writer: Lee Maddux, Mark Edward Edens
8.0/1067 votes#14 - Intruders
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 3/7/1989
The police search for a burglar who preys on elderly women.And the prime suspect is the son of a city councilwoman.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/1078 votes#15 - The Creek
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 3/14/1989
The investigation of a possible assault brings back nightmarish and confusing childhood memories for Virgil.
Director: Alexander Singer
Writer: Jo William Phillip
8.2/1084 votes#16 - Sister, Sister
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 3/21/1989
A vivacious socialites 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.3/1070 votes#17 - Walkout
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 3/28/1989
A bitter strike leads to a murder investigation on a snowy day in Sparta.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/1077 votes#18 - Accused
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 4/4/1989
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.
Director: Chuck Bowman
Writer: James Novack
8.2/10110 votes#19 - Fifteen, Forever
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 4/25/1989
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 victim's families deal with their loss. The accident brings back painful memories for retired officer Tom Dugan.Meanwhile, district attorney Dutton accuses the department of being inadequate.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/1078 votes#20 - Ladybug, Ladybug
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 5/2/1989
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.
Director: Alexander Singer
Writer: N/A
7.2/1080 votes#21 - The Pig Woman of Sparta
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 5/9/1989
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 an eccentric woman who lives in the woods with her pigs and chases away trespassers with a shotgun.The officers ask the landowner's disturbed son for help and Bubba is surprised to find that a woman he attended high school with is working as the man's ""nurse"".Also Parker and Sweet compete with one another to solve the case.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/10117 votes
#22 - Missing
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 5/16/1989
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of In the Heat of the Night Season 2
Every episode of In the Heat of the Night Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of In the Heat of the Night Season 2!
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Genres:CrimeDrama
Network:CBS
Season 2 Ratings Summary
"Don't Look Back (1)" is the best rated episode of "In the Heat of the Night" season 2. It scored 8.7/10 based on 110 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 12/4/1988. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Don't Look Back (2)".