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In the Heat of the Night is an American police procedural crime drama television series loosely based on the 1967 film and 1965 novel of the same title that starred Carroll O'Connor as police chief Bill Gillespie and Howard Rollins as police detective Virgil Tibbs.
William O. "Bill" Gillespie is the main protagonist of the television series In the Heat of the Night. Gillespie was an honorable and decent man in a time and place when many of his fellow law enforcement officers were less so.
Learn about the history and trivia of chief Bill Gillespie, the fictional police chief of Sparta, Mississippi, from the novel, film, and TV series. Find out who played him, who almost played him, and how he survived two cancellations.
Police chief Bill Gillespie accuses him of murder and robbery, but soon learns Tibbs is a top homicide detective from Philadelphia, who was passing through town after visiting his mother. Tibbs wants to leave town on the next train, but his Chief in Philadelphia suggests he stay in Sparta to help Gillespie with the murder investigation.
The series starred Carroll O'Connor as Chief Bill Gillepsie and Howard Rollins as Det. Virgil Tibbs, both law enforcement officers of the Sparta Police Department in the fictional town of Sparta, Mississippi. Together they battle crime and racism in the modern day South.
4 paź 2024 · Chief Gillespie in John Ball's In the Heat of the Night is portrayed as an outsider and a complex character. Initially, he appears as an overconfident and abrasive Southern...
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.
