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In The Heat Of The Night

1967, Movie, NR, 109 mins

IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT
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"They call me Mister Tibbs!" Superb thriller starring Rod Steiger in an Oscar-winning role as a shrewd southern sheriff, and Sidney Poitier as Virgil Tibbs, a sensitive, intellectual detective from the big city who's mistakenly arrested when a wealthy industrialist is murdered in a small Mississippi town. Read the complete review for In The Heat Of The Night
Year: 1967
Rated NR

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Cast
Sidney Poitier: Virgil Tibbs
Rod Steiger: Bill Gillespie
Warren Oates: Sam Wood
Quentin Dean: Delores Purdy
James Patterson: Purdy
William Schallert: Webb Schubert

 

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Do you remember a show with, ...

Question: Do you remember a show with, I think, the guy from Highway to Heaven and a black actor that was sort of a comedy version of In the Heat of the Night? It's driving me nuts.


Answer: Yes.

Aaaah, you didn't really think I was gonna stop at being a wiseacre and answer your question with one word, did you? You'll never so easily curb my urge to babble, Joon.

Funny you use the word "nuts," since the show in question, ABC's Carter Country, bore the name of former peanut farmer Jimmy Carter, who was president at the time it debuted in September 1977. As you say, it bore a strong resemblance to In the Heat of the Night, which 10 years later would be a hit TV series itself.

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