In the Heat of the Night (TV series)

In the Heat of the Night
Foreground: Carroll O'Connor; left middle: Howard Rollins; back row left to right: Hugh O'Connor; David Hart; Geoffrey Thorne; Alan Autry
Genre	Police procedural Crime drama
Based on	Characters created by John Ball
Developed by	James Lee Barrett
Starring	Carroll O'Connor Howard Rollins Alan Autry Anne-Marie Johnson David Hart Christian LeBlanc Lois Nettleton Geoffrey Thorne Hugh O'Connor Carl Weathers Crystal R. Fox Denise Nicholas Randall Franks
Theme music composer	Quincy Jones Alan and Marilyn Bergman
Opening theme	performed by Bill Champlin
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	7
No. of episodes	147 + 4 TV movies (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Fred Silverman Juanita Bartlett David Moessinger Carroll O'Connor
Production companies	The Fred Silverman Company Juanita Bartlett Productions MGM/UA Television Productions MGM Television
Original release
Network	NBC
Release	March 6, 1988 (1988-03-06) – May 19, 1992 (1992-05-19)
Network	CBS
Release	October 28, 1992 (1992-10-28) – May 16, 1995 (1995-05-16)
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In the Heat of the Night is an American police procedural crime drama television series loosely based on 1965 novel of the same title and the 1967 film of the same name. The TV series starred Carroll O'Connor as police chief Bill Gillespie and Howard Rollins as police detective Virgil Tibbs. The series was broadcast on NBC from March 6, 1988 to May 19, 1992 before moving to CBS, where it aired from October 28, 1992 to May 16, 1995. Its executive producers were O'Connor, Fred Silverman and Juanita Bartlett. This series marked O'Connor's return to a series for the first time since the All in the Family spinoff Archie Bunker's Place ended in 1983.