SPARTA, Wis. (WKBT) — Sparta area landowners Pete and Ginny Quirin have come together with Mississippi Valley Conservancy to protect another 22 acres of land in the area, according to a Tuesday ...

African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie (Rod Steiger), the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi.

When I was in middle school, In the Heat of the Night was just "that cop show adults watched after Wheel of Fortune." My friends and I couldn't have explained its themes if you bribed us with a bucket ...

When I was in middle school, In the Heat of the Night was just "that cop show adults watched after Wheel of Fortune." My friends and I couldn't have explained its themes if you bribed us with a bucket ...

Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, and Warren Oates in the poster for In the Heat of the Night (Image via IMDb) In the Heat of the Night was released on August 2, 1967, premiering at a theater in New York.

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If his role in “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” was panned as a character too perfect to properly address interracial marriage, Sidney Poitier’s Virgil Tibbs in “In the Heat of the Night” boldly ...