8.7/10100 votes#1 - A Woman Much Admired
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 10/1/1991
Gillespie's old flame returns to Sparta to settle some business matters and see Bill. When she is murdered he travels to Gulfport and meets his daughter Lana for the first time.
Director: Harry Harris
Writer: N/A
7.9/1058 votes#2 - Baby for Sale
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 10/8/1991
After Bubba's cousin adopts a baby her husband is blackmailed by the child's real parents - they want him to help them steal the payroll where he works.
Director: Harry Harris
Writer: N/A
8.0/1060 votes#3 - Obsession
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/22/1991
A flirtatious schoolteacher is stalked by a madman.
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: N/A
7.9/1068 votes#4 - Liar's Poker
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/29/1991
A game of high stakes poker ends in murder.
Director: Harry Harris
Writer: N/A
8.3/1056 votes#5 - Ruda's Awakening
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 11/5/1991
Virgil's Aunt Ruda is the only witness to a struggle between Bubba and a young robbery suspect that ends in the young mans death.But her prejudice against the police -- and Virgil clouds her memory of the incident.
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: N/A
7.9/1061 votes#6 - Unfinished Business
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 11/12/1991
Bubba returns to Los Angeles to testify at a murder trial and is reunited with Pat Day as they try to protect Mike from killers sent to prevent him from testifying.
Director: Leo Penn
Writer: Joe Gannon
8.8/1083 votes#7 - The More Thing's Change
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 11/19/1991
A man murders his business partner and frames the man's illegitimate daughter for the crime in an attempt to gain the man's business and his wife.
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: N/A
8.6/10120 votes#8 - Sweet, Sweet Blues
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 11/26/1991
The lyrics to a blues song recall a murder that happened 50 years earlier.The victim - Sweet's grandfather.And the only people left with the answers are the bluesman who wrote the song and a retired sheriff.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: N/A
8.4/1065 votes#9 - Sparta Gold
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 12/3/1991
A deputy provides protection for a cotton grower who is running a pot growing operation.But the deputy makes a big mistake when he wounds Bubba's girlfriend.
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Writer: N/A
8.2/1070 votes#10 - An Eye for an Eye
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 12/10/1991
The father of a man Gerard prosecuted kidnaps the DA's daughter.
Director: Leo Penn
Writer: N/A
7.9/1058 votes#11 - The Littlest Victim
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 12/17/1991
Lonnie makes a heartbreaking discovery about a woman he dated in high school.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/1056 votes#12 - The Landlord
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 1/7/1992
A drug dealing slumlord is murdered by his accomplices.
Director: Larry Hagman
Writer: N/A
8.0/1070 votes#13 - Fool for Love
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 1/14/1992
A doctor plots to eliminate his wife -- and his mistress.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: N/A
8.7/1072 votes#14 - Love, Honor and Obey
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 2/4/1992
Parkers investigation into a purse snatching reveals an abused woman.
Director: Reza Badiyi
Writer: N/A
7.7/1054 votes#15 - Odessa
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 2/11/1992
Racists target a ceremony honoring a civil rights pioneer.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: N/A
7.5/1046 votes#16 - A Time to Trust
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 2/18/1992
Althea fears for one of her students after her mother's boyfriend is linked to a criminal operation that has resulted in the deaths of several truckers.
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Writer: N/A
8.1/1055 votes#17 - By Means Most Foul
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 2/25/1992
A restaurateur and her mechanic boyfriend plot to eliminate her husband, but their scheme backfires.Gillespie takes heat over a string of mailbox bashings.And Virgil soon regrets ignoring Parker's theory regarding where the vandals would strike next.
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: Joe Gannon
8.4/1073 votes#18 - Trundel's Will Be Done
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 3/3/1992
V.J. Trundel's widow takes Harriet to court to gain custody of Eric.But Harriet is determined that her nephew will not be raised in the home of the man who ordered the murder of her sister.
Director: Harry Harris
Writer: N/A
7.9/1051 votes#19 - Moseley's Lot
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 3/31/1992
Gillespie learns that the son of an old friend is a compulsive gambler.The young man wants his father to pay off his losses.But when two gangsters show up from New Orleans to collect, his jealous sibling sees the perfect opportunity to get rid of his troubled brother.
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Writer: Joe Gannon
8.3/1078 votes#20 - Family Reunion
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 4/7/1992
An ex-convict attempts to retrieve his loot from his wife and her new husband in this tongue-in-cheek episode.
Director: Harry Harris
Writer: N/A
8.2/1073 votes#21 - Sanctuary
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 5/12/1992
A political prisoner who entered the country illegally,seeks sanctuary in a monastary.Gillespie and Tibbs find themselves at odds with Sheriff McComb when they try to help the man.
Director: Mario Philip Azzopardi
Writer: N/A
8.0/1071 votes#22 - The Law on Trial
Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 5/19/1992
Gillespie,Tibbs and Father DiMarco must stand trial for harbouring a fugitive and obstructing justice.
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of In the Heat of the Night Season 5
Every episode of In the Heat of the Night Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of In the Heat of the Night Season 5!
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Genres:CrimeDrama
Network:CBS
Season 5 Ratings Summary
"A Woman Much Admired" is the best rated episode of "In the Heat of the Night" season 5. It scored 8.7/10 based on 100 votes. Directed by Harry Harris and written by N/A, it aired on 10/1/1991. This episode is rated 0.8 points higher than the second-best, "Baby for Sale".