In the Heat of the Night

TCM's Alicia Malone introduces In The Heat Of The Night, 1967.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces In The Heat Of The Night, 1967.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces In The Heat Of The Night, 1967.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces In The Heat Of The Night, 1967.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces In The Heat Of The Night, 1967.

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People forget that Warren Oates as deputy Wood carries the first several sequences, cruising the fictional town of Sparta, Mississippi, to an original tune on the radio, by Quincy Jones and Alan and Marilyn Bergman, sung by Glen Campbell, opening In The Heat Of The Night, 1967.

Sheriff Gillespie (Rod Steiger) and detective Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) on their murder investigation, visit cotton farmer Endicott (Larry Gates), who exhibits blinding racism, a famous scene from Norman Jewison's In The Heat Of The Night, 1967.

Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier), hauled in as a murder suspect, reveals his identity to Mississippi Sheriff Gillespie (Rod Steiger), who summons deputy Wood (Warren Oates), early in Norman Jewison's In The Heat Of The Night, 1967.

Visiting Philadelphia detective Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) pressed into service, has just finished speaking with the murder victim's widow (Lee Grant), and is skeptical when Mississippi sheriff Gillespie (Rod Steiger) et al bring in suspect Harvey (Scott Clark), in In The Heat Of The Night, 1967.

A black police detective from the North forces a bigoted Southern sheriff to accept his help with a murder investigation In The Heat Of The Night (1967).