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Councilwoman DeLong's son objects to her romance with Chief Gillespie and refuses to cooperate after witnessing the gang-style execution of his best friend.
Chief Gillespie is caught between Harriet and her son when Eugene agrees to identify the gang members responsible for his best friend's murder.
While investigating the death of the woman he once loved, Gillespie meets his daughter for the first time.
A friend of Bubba's, fearing the loss of his adopted son, is coerced by the boy's biological father into committing a fatal armed robbery.
Gillespie and Tibbs meet legal resistance trying to protect a high-school teacher from a disturbed admirer.
A man (Warren Kendrick) comes to his son's (Justin Lazard) rescue when the lad is caught gambling with someone else's money. With Carroll O'Connor.
An insurance investigator's murder points to an ex-convict (Robert Donner) seeking his 14-year-old stash.
Tibbs and Gillespie are charged with obstruction of justice when they aid a fugitive who wishes to avoid returning to his homeland and certain death.
Gillespie and Tibbs are tried on charges that their actions led to the death of the fugitive they were trying to save from deportation.
Willing suspects hamper the investigation after a paroled convict is murdered; Gillespie is held responsible for the convict's earlier release.
Gillespie appears to be apathetic about prosecuting Harriet DeLong's ex-husband, who has been arrested on a murder and robbery charge.
All signs point to bookstore owner Carl Tibbitts as a suspect in his wife's murder, but Sweet believes in his friend's innocence.
Virgil's cousin is the prime suspect in a robbery-murder, complicating Virgil's attempts to reconcile his aunt with the family.
Gillespie must stop a hired bounty hunter who plans to kill a Sparta man wanted for questioning in a Houston murder.
A local reporter (Judith Robinson) writes an article on an unconsenting Chief Gillespie (Carroll O'Connor), who suspects her motives. With Howard Rollins and Alan Autry.
An accident related to moonshine whiskey blinds a high-school football star and kills his girlfriend.
A psychiatrist protects a patient who confessed to a murder for which an innocent man stands to be executed.
Virgil's arrest of a young drug pusher has serious side effects for the youth's family, particularly his brother, and for Althea.
Virgil suspects the promoters of a crooked real estate deal in the murder of his friend, even though their alibi appears to be airtight.
A young blind woman reports hearing what she thinks is a murder, but Gillespie and Tibbs cannot find a body.
A man prohibits his son from contacting the police after the boy witnesses a rape, fearing it will affect his future.
Bubba and an insurance investigator (Debra Sandlund) search Los Angeles for a bail jumper from Sparta.
Lonnie Jamison and Virgil show a despondent Eugene DeLong, whose father is facing the death penalty for murder, that life continues.
Gillespie and Tibbs track the killers of two drug dealers; Althea worries about the dangers Virgil faces and suggests he change careers.