8.7/1065 votes#1 - Child's Play
Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1993
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.
Director: Harry Harris
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1075 votes
#2 - Hatton's Turn (1)
Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 9/18/1993
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.
Director: Carroll O'Connor
Writer: N/A
- 8.6/1066 votes
#3 - Hatton's Turn (2)
Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 9/18/1993
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.
Director: Carroll O'Connor
Writer: N/A
- 8.9/1088 votes
#4 - A Depraved Heart
Season 7 Episode 4 - Aired 9/23/1993
The daughter of an old friend asks Bubba to arrest the man who knowingly gave her AIDS.
Director: Harry Harris
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1058 votes
#5 - Incident at Brewer's Pond
Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 9/30/1993
A night of revelry at a local pond turns deadly.
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1054 votes
#6 - A Love Lost
Season 7 Episode 6 - Aired 10/14/1993
Lana's ex- boyfriend comes to see her and brings a load of stolen rifles with him.
Director: Larry Hagman
Writer: Joe Gannon
- 8.6/1070 votes
#7 - Singin' the Blues
Season 7 Episode 7 - Aired 10/28/1993
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1057 votes
#8 - Virgil Tibbs, Attorney at Law
Season 7 Episode 8 - Aired 11/4/1993
Attorney Virgil Tibbs returns to Sparta and is soon assigned his first case as a defense attorney.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1073 votes
#9 - Every Man's Family
Season 7 Episode 9 - Aired 11/10/1993
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.
Director: Harry Harris
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1053 votes
#10 - A Baby Called Rocket
Season 7 Episode 10 - Aired 10/25/1993
A neglected baby stirs maternal feelings in Luann.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1069 votes
#11 - Little Girl Lost
Season 7 Episode 11 - Aired 12/9/1993
Tragic story of an alcoholic teen who accidentally kills a little girl while she is drinking and driving.
Director: Larry Hagman
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1054 votes
#12 - Your Own Kind
Season 7 Episode 12 - Aired 12/16/1993
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Director: Dick Martin
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1057 votes
#13 - Good Cop, Bad Cop
Season 7 Episode 13 - Aired 1/6/1994
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.
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1060 votes
#14 - Maybelle Returns
Season 7 Episode 14 - Aired 1/12/1994
Maybelle's new phone sex business is a great success - until one her girls decides to moonlight as a prostitute.
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: Joe Gannon
- 7.9/1048 votes
#15 - The Last Round
Season 7 Episode 15 - Aired 1/19/1994
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.
Director: Reza Badiyi
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1065 votes
#16 - Ches and the Grand Lady
Season 7 Episode 16 - Aired 1/26/1994
Lonnie must protect his Aunt Cordelia when her cherished friendship with Ches Collins angers one of his cousins.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1050 votes
#17 - Conspiracy of One
Season 7 Episode 17 - Aired 2/2/1994
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.
Director: Joe Gannon
Writer: Joe Gannon
- 7.2/1054 votes
#18 - The Rabbi
Season 7 Episode 18 - Aired 2/9/1994
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.
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Writer: David O'Connor, Elsye O'Connor
- 7.7/1043 votes
#19 - Hard Choices
Season 7 Episode 19 - Aired 3/9/1994
Eugene tries to protect a friend who was an unwilling accomplice to a robbery and in doing so endangers his probation -- and his life.
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1046 votes
#20 - Time's Long Shadow
Season 7 Episode 20 - Aired 3/16/1994
Harriet tries to stop an arrogant developer from destroying an important archeological site.
Director: N/A
Writer: David O'Connor, Elsye O'Connor
- 7.6/1060 votes
#21 - Poor Relations
Season 7 Episode 21 - Aired 3/30/1994
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.
Director: Reza Badiyi
Writer: N/A
- 8.6/1063 votes
#22 - Dangerous Engagement
Season 7 Episode 22 - Aired 5/4/1994
Bill and Harriet's wedding plans are interrupted by a sniper who mistakes Bill for Sheriff McComb.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/10109 votes
#23 - In the Heat of the Night: Give Me Your Life
Season 7 Episode 23 - Aired 5/11/1994
In the Heat of the Night: Give Me Your Life is a film directed by Russ Mayberry released on May 11, 1994.
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1070 votes
#24 - Give Me Your Life (2)
Season 7 Episode 24 - Aired 5/11/1994
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.
Director: Russ Mayberry, Carroll O'Connor
Writer: N/A
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Season 7 Ratings Summary
"Child's Play" is the best rated episode of "In the Heat of the Night" season 7. It scored 8.7/10 based on 65 votes. Directed by Harry Harris and written by N/A, it aired on 9/16/1993. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "Hatton's Turn (1)".