1. Child's Play
Aired: Sep 16, 1993Many changes come to Sparta. Virgil Tibbs has left the Sparta Police Departme...
2. Hatton's Turn: Part 1
Aired: Sep 18, 1993Gillespie gets the last laugh against the city council when he is named Newma...
3. Hatton's Turn: Part 2
Aired: Sep 18, 1993Gillespie and Forbes become fast friends when both police forces team up and ...
4. A Depraved Heart
Aired: Sep 23, 1993Bubba Skinner is determined to have a womanizing real estate agent charged wi...
5. Incident at Brewer's Pond
Aired: Sep 30, 1993A local drunk kills the man he believed was having an affair with his wife.
6. A Love Lost
Aired: Oct 14, 1993When Lana's ex-boyfriend comes to Sparta, dim-witted Randy Calhoun stumbles u...
7. Singin' the Blues
Aired: Oct 28, 1993Luann moonlights as a singer at her boyfriend's new nightclub and she unwitti...
8. Virgil Tibbs: Attorney at Law
Aired: Nov 3, 1993Virgil Tibbs returns to Sparta with a law degree, news of his failed marriage...
9. Every Man's Family
Aired: Nov 9, 1993Bubba travels to Atlanta, GA in an attempt to improve his drug addicted nephe...
10. A Baby Called Rocket
Aired: Oct 25, 1993Luann tries desperately to adopt a baby that was abandoned in a crack house r...
11. Little Girl Lost
Aired: Dec 8, 1993A hit-and-run accident caused by an alcoholic teenager claims the life of a 1...
12. Your Own Kind
Aired: Dec 15, 1993An interracial high school couple is the target of a racist sniper on the Spa...
13. Good Cop, Bad Cop
Aired: Jan 5, 1994Virgil defends Parker Williams when he is accused of police brutality during ...
14. Maybelle Returns
Aired: Jan 11, 1994Former madam Maybelle Chesboro returns to Sparta and opens up a phone sex ope...
15. The Last Round
Aired: Jan 18, 1994Angela Dolphy, Chief Forbes's fiancée, is in Sparta from Memphis for a week t...
16. Ches and the Grand Lady
Aired: Jan 25, 1994Jazz musician Ches Collins returns to Sparta and it is soon evident that he h...
17. Conspiracy of One
Aired: Feb 1, 1994Virgil Tibbs finds himself on both sides of the law when he is asked to handl...
18. The Rabbi
Aired: Feb 8, 1994A synagogue comes to Sparta and is quickly vandalized and robbed. The Rabbi d...
19. Hard Choices
Aired: Mar 8, 1994Eugene Glendon is accused of committing a robbery after he tries to persuade ...
20. Time's Long Shadow
Aired: Mar 15, 1994Womanizer Frank Davenport is the general contractor on a large residential pr...
21. Poor Relations
Aired: Mar 29, 1994In a somewhat comical episode, Parker's stepfather returns to Sparta with his...
22. Dangerous Engagement
Aired: May 4, 1994A newspaper misprint makes Bill Gillespie the target of an escaped killer in ...
23. Give Me Your Life: Part 1
Aired: May 11, 1994Sparta Police and the Newman County Sheriff's Department join forces to inves...
24. Give Me Your Life: Part 2
Aired: May 11, 1994The investigation uncovers evidence of statutory rape and drug dealing within...