
Season 4
Season 4

Season 4
Season 4
- Air date:1990-09-18
- User score:0.0
- Number of episodes:22
List of Episodes

Air date: 1990-09-18
Runtime: 60 min
Virgil goes to Philadelphia to investigate a friends death.And Bubba (reluctantly) fills in as Althea's Lamaze coach.

Air date: 1990-09-18
Runtime: 60 min
Virgil is framed for murder and Gillespie travels to Philly to help him clear his name.

Air date: 1990-09-25
Runtime: 60 min
Gillespie sends Parker to confirm suspicions that a local truck stop is really a front for a prostitution business.When a young prostitute is found dead Gillespie is shocked at her fathers reaction.Parker is dismayed when he recognizes one of the ladies.

Air date: 1990-10-02
Runtime: 60 min
A mild mannered school teacher is accused of child molestation.

Air date: 1990-10-23
Runtime: 60 min
Gillespie and his officers are outraged when a drug courier who ran down the son of Virgil's next door neighbor makes a deal with the F.B.I. to avoid prosecution.

Air date: 1990-10-30
Runtime: 60 min
Bubba is reunited with his high school sweetheart, but his happiness is short lived after she resorts to murder to silence an attorney who was threatening to stop her from inheriting her late husband's estate.

Air date: 1990-11-06
Runtime: 60 min
The investigation into the death of an abandoned infant leads to a mentally handicapped teenager.

Air date: 1990-11-13
Runtime: 60 min
A lawyer has personal reasons for trying to gain early release for a man who was sent to prison after an accident he caused while drinking and driving.

Air date: 1990-11-20
Runtime: 60 min
Harriet and Eugene are devastated after Gene's father is arrested for murder.

Air date: 1990-11-27
Runtime: 60 min
Sweet is heartbroken when an elderly woman who befriended him is murdered in her bookstore.

Air date: 1990-12-04
Runtime: 60 min
Virgil's dream of a better relationship with his Aunt Ruda and her son is shattered when his cousin takes part in a string of burglaries that result in murder.

Air date: 1990-12-11
Runtime: 60 min
Gillespie receives word that a former Spartan is wanted for the murder of a socialite in Houston.But a ruthless bounty hunter, sent by the victim's jealous husband is already in Sparta and sees the man's sister as a means to locate his quarry.

Air date: 1990-12-18
Runtime: 60 min
In this Christmas episode the officers share memories with a reporter from the Sparta Herald.

Air date: 1991-01-08
Runtime: 60 min
A bottle of spiked moonshine leads to an accident that claims the life of one teen and blinds another.

Air date: 1991-01-15
Runtime: 60 min
A psychiatrist tells Gillespie that one of her patients has confessed to a crime that another man is about to be executed for, but she refuses to divulge his identity.

Air date: 1991-02-05
Runtime: 60 min
A story of two brothers one an honor student that Althea has great plans for, the other a dangerous drug dealer as they struggle to influence a younger sibling.

Air date: 1991-02-12
Runtime: 60 min
Virgil soon regrets telling an old friend that his new business partners are being investigated by the police.

Air date: 1991-02-19
Runtime: 60 min
Parker protects a blind woman who heard her neighbors murder.

Air date: 1991-03-19
Runtime: 60 min
Bubba travels to Los Angeles to arrest an arsonist.When the man is murdered to keep him from talking Bubba teams up with a pretty insurance investigator to solve the crime.

Air date: 1991-03-26
Runtime: 60 min
Harriet tries to keep Eugene from giving up when his father faces the death penalty.And the police search for three suspects in connection to a robbery/murder.

Air date: 1991-04-30
Runtime: 60 min
Althea thinks Virgil needs a new line of work after seeing the aftermath of a deadly shooting at a roadhouse.Virgil finds himself in danger when they arrest the man who committed the crime.
Top Cast

Carroll O'Connor
Bill Gillespie

Howard Rollins
Virgil Tibbs

Alan Autry
Bubba Skinner

Anne-Marie Johnson
Althea Tibbs

David Hart
Parker Williams

Geoffrey Thorne
Wilson Sweet

Hugh O'Connor
Lonnie Jamison

Crystal R. Fox
Luann Corbin

Denise Nicholas
Harriet DeLong
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