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The Worst Episodes of In the Heat of the Night

In the Heat of the Night is an American television series based on the motion picture and novel of the same name starring Carroll O'Connor...

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    #1 - Child's Play

    S7:E1

    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.

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    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:Unknown
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    #2 - Hatton's Turn (1)

    S7:E2

    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.

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    Writer:Unknown
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    #3 - Hatton's Turn (2)

    S7:E3

    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.

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    Writer:Unknown
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    #4 - A Depraved Heart

    S7:E4

    The daughter of an old friend asks Bubba to arrest the man who knowingly gave her AIDS.

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    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:Unknown
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    #5 - Incident at Brewer's Pond

    S7:E5

    A night of revelry at a local pond turns deadly.

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    Director:Russ Mayberry
    Writer:Unknown
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    #6 - A Love Lost

    S7:E6

    Lana's ex- boyfriend comes to see her and brings a load of stolen rifles with him.

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    Director:Larry Hagman
    Writer:Joe Gannon
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    #7 - Singin' the Blues

    S7:E7

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #8 - Virgil Tibbs, Attorney at Law

    S7:E8

    Attorney Virgil Tibbs returns to Sparta and is soon assigned his first case as a defense attorney.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #9 - Every Man's Family

    S7:E9

    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.

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    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:Unknown
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    #10 - Little Girl Lost

    S7:E11

    Tragic story of an alcoholic teen who accidentally kills a little girl while she is drinking and driving.

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    Director:Larry Hagman
    Writer:Unknown
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    #11 - Your Own Kind

    S7:E12

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    Director:Dick Martin
    Writer:Unknown
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    #12 - Good Cop, Bad Cop

    S7:E13

    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.

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    Director:Winrich Kolbe
    Writer:Unknown
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    #13 - Maybelle Returns

    S7:E14

    Maybelle's new phone sex business is a great success - until one her girls decides to moonlight as a prostitute.

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    Director:Russ Mayberry
    Writer:Joe Gannon
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    #14 - The Last Round

    S7:E15

    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.

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    Director:Reza Badiyi
    Writer:Unknown
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    #15 - Ches and the Grand Lady

    S7:E16

    Lonnie must protect his Aunt Cordelia when her cherished friendship with Ches Collins angers one of his cousins.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #16 - Conspiracy of One

    S7:E17

    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.

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    Director:Joe Gannon
    Writer:Joe Gannon
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    #17 - The Rabbi

    S7:E18

    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.

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    #18 - Hard Choices

    S7:E19

    Eugene tries to protect a friend who was an unwilling accomplice to a robbery and in doing so endangers his probation -- and his life.

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    Director:Russ Mayberry
    Writer:Unknown
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    #19 - Time's Long Shadow

    S7:E20

    Harriet tries to stop an arrogant developer from destroying an important archeological site.

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    #20 - Poor Relations

    S7:E21

    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.

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    Director:Reza Badiyi
    Writer:Unknown
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    #21 - Dangerous Engagement

    S7:E22

    Bill and Harriet's wedding plans are interrupted by a sniper who mistakes Bill for Sheriff McComb.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #22 - In the Heat of the Night: Give Me Your Life

    S7:E23

    In the Heat of the Night: Give Me Your Life is a film directed by Russ Mayberry released on May 11, 1994.

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    Director:Russ Mayberry
    Writer:Unknown
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    #23 - Give Me Your Life (2)

    S7:E24

    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.

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    #24 - In the Heat of the Night: A Matter of Justice

    S8:E1

    In the Heat of the Night: A Matter of Justice is a film directed by Reza Badiyi released on Oct 21, 1994.

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    Director:Reza Badiyi
    Writer:Unknown
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    #25 - Who Was Geli Bendl ?

    S8:E2

    A famous Italian actress returns to Sparta to take care of some unfinished business and rescue her younger sister from a life of drugs and poverty.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

Worst Episodes Summary

"Child's Play" is the worst rated episode of "In the Heat of the Night". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Harry Harris and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/16/1993. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Hatton's Turn (1)".