In the Heat of the Night

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Season 1
  • Network: NBC
  • Series Premiere Date: Mar 6, 1988
Season #: 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
Metascore
42

Mixed or average reviews - based on 4 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 4
  3. Negative: 1 out of 4
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  1. Los Angeles Times
    Apr 22, 2014
    40
    What In the Heat of the Night may lack most, ultimately, is heat, the fundamental tension between Gillespie and Tibbs that would lift them onto some higher ground beyond the TV cliche of innocently bickering partners.
  2. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Clifford Terry
    Apr 22, 2014
    40
    Little more than a routine cop show with a racial overlay. The pornography- laced plot in the premiere is recycled stuff-you don't have to be a big- city detective to come up with the killer early on-and much of the dialogue lies as flat as a plate of week-old catfish. [4 Mar 1988, p.5C]
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