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
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  1. Positive: 1 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 4
  3. Negative: 1 out of 4
  1. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Tom Shales
    Apr 22, 2014
    80
    Benefits incalculably from the presence of Carroll O'Connor and Howard Rollins in the lead roles -- a stubborn old Southern sheriff and the young black professional dispatched to assist him...[It is] pedestrian as murder mysteries go, but what sustains interest are the clashes and the growing camaraderie of the two men. [5 Mar 1988, p.B1]
  2. Newsday
    Reviewed by: David Friedman
    Apr 22, 2014
    10
    In two unbearably long hours, the film says nothing that wasn't said first, or better, 21 years ago. And where the original had a palpable air of menace, a mood hot and sticky with fear, the TV sequel is as fast-moving as a stagnant pond. [4 Mar 1988, p.7]
  3. 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.
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