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Sidney Poitier

Rod Steiger

Warren Oates

Peter Whitney

Lee Grant

Anthony James

William Schallert

Scott Wilson

Larry Gates

James Patterson

Virgil Tibbs Trilogy

African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real killer. Their investigation takes them through every social level of the town, with Tibbs making enemies as well as unlikely friends as he hunts for the truth.

Norman Jewison

In the Heat of the Night

Chuck Driskill 

Shaun 

Matt

Detective Tibbs Outsmarts the Coroner | In the Heat of the Night (1967) | TCM

"I'm A Police Officer"

Train Station Scene

Autopsy Scene

TCM Big Screen Classics 55th Anniversary Spot

Mr. Tibbs Slaps Endicott

Official Trailer

Laurence Fishburne on IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT

In the Heat of the Night (1967) Discussion with Lee Grant, Walter Mirisch and Norman Jewison

Rod Steiger winning an Oscar®  for Best Actor

Stirling Silliphant

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Martin Landau

Barbara McNair

Anthony Zerbe

Ed Asner

Jeff Corey

Norma Crane

Juano Hernández

David Sheiner

Beverly Todd

A police detective's investigation of a prostitute's murder points to his best friend.

Gordon Douglas

They Call Me Mister Tibbs!

Detective Tibbs Searches for the Suspect

Police Car Chase Scene

Interrogation Scene

Alan Trustman

James R. Webb

Gerald S. O'Loughlin

Sheree North

Fred Beir

Allen Garfield

Bernie Hamilton

Graham Jarvis

Raúl Juliá

Ron O'Neal

After a group of young revolutionaries break into a company's corporate headquarters and steal $5,000,000 worth of heroin to keep it off the street, they call on San Francisco Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs for assistance.