In the Heat of the Night
Season 5
199122 episodes
Episode 1
A Woman Much Admired
Oct 1, 19911h
Gillespie's old flame returns to Sparta to settle some business matters and see Bill. When she is murdered he travels to Gulfport and meets his daughter Lana for the first time.
Episode 2
Baby for Sale
Oct 8, 19911h
After Bubba's cousin adopts a baby her husband is blackmailed by the child's real parents - they want him to help them steal the payroll where he works.
Episode 3
Obsession
Oct 22, 19911h
A flirtatious schoolteacher is stalked by a madman.
Episode 4
Liar's Poker
Oct 29, 19911h
A game of high stakes poker ends in murder.
Episode 5
Ruda's Awakening
Nov 5, 19911h
Virgil's Aunt Ruda is the only witness to a struggle between Bubba and a young robbery suspect that ends in the young mans death.But her prejudice against the police -- and Virgil clouds her memory of the incident.
Episode 6
Unfinished Business
Nov 12, 19911h
Bubba returns to Los Angeles to testify at a murder trial and is reunited with Pat Day as they try to protect Mike from killers sent to prevent him from testifying.
Episode 7
The More Thing's Change
Nov 19, 19911h
A man murders his business partner and frames the man's illegitimate daughter for the crime in an attempt to gain the man's business and his wife.
Episode 8
Sweet, Sweet Blues
Nov 26, 19911h
The lyrics to a blues song recall a murder that happened 50 years earlier.The victim - Sweet's grandfather.And the only people left with the answers are the bluesman who wrote the song and a retired sheriff.
Episode 9
Sparta Gold
Dec 3, 19911h
A deputy provides protection for a cotton grower who is running a pot growing operation.But the deputy makes a big mistake when he wounds Bubba's girlfriend.
Episode 10
An Eye for an Eye
Dec 10, 19911h
The father of a man Gerard prosecuted kidnaps the DA's daughter.
Episode 11
The Littlest Victim
Dec 17, 19911h
Lonnie makes a heartbreaking discovery about a woman he dated in high school.
Episode 12
The Landlord
Jan 7, 19921h
A drug dealing slumlord is murdered by his accomplices.
Episode 13
Fool for Love
Jan 14, 19921h
A doctor plots to eliminate his wife -- and his mistress.
Episode 14
Love, Honor and Obey
Feb 4, 19921h
Parkers investigation into a purse snatching reveals an abused woman.
Episode 15
Odessa
Feb 11, 19921h
Racists target a ceremony honoring a civil rights pioneer.
Episode 16
A Time to Trust
Feb 18, 19921h
Althea fears for one of her students after her mother's boyfriend is linked to a criminal operation that has resulted in the deaths of several truckers.
Episode 17
By Means Most Foul
Feb 25, 19921h
A restaurateur and her mechanic boyfriend plot to eliminate her husband, but their scheme backfires.Gillespie takes heat over a string of mailbox bashings.And Virgil soon regrets ignoring Parker's theory regarding where the vandals would strike next.
Episode 18
Trundel's Will Be Done
Mar 3, 19921h
V.J. Trundel's widow takes Harriet to court to gain custody of Eric.But Harriet is determined that her nephew will not be raised in the home of the man who ordered the murder of her sister.
Episode 19
Moseley's Lot
Mar 31, 19921h
Gillespie learns that the son of an old friend is a compulsive gambler.The young man wants his father to pay off his losses.But when two gangsters show up from New Orleans to collect, his jealous sibling sees the perfect opportunity to get rid of his troubled brother.
Episode 20
Family Reunion
Apr 7, 19921h
An ex-convict attempts to retrieve his loot from his wife and her new husband in this tongue-in-cheek episode.
Episode 21
Sanctuary
May 12, 19921h
A political prisoner who entered the country illegally,seeks sanctuary in a monastary.Gillespie and Tibbs find themselves at odds with Sheriff McComb when they try to help the man.
Episode 22
The Law on Trial
May 19, 19921h
Gillespie,Tibbs and Father DiMarco must stand trial for harbouring a fugitive and obstructing justice.