In the Heat of the Night - Season 7 - Eps 2: Hatton's Turn (1)
Hampton Forbes assumes the office of Chief of Police and Bill becomes the Sheriff of Newman county.Former Spartan Wade Hatton returns to Sparta hoping to make sense of his life and rekindle his relationship with Sarah Hallisey.Bubba and Covey take the new chief on a tour of Sparta and Bill takes Wade to visit some distant cousins.Meanwhile two young criminals involve a mentally handicapped young man in a terrible crime.
About In the Heat of the Night

Title: In the Heat of the Night
First Air Date: 1988-03-06
Last Air Date: 1995-05-16
Status: Ended
Rating: 7.443/10 (from 61 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 8
Total Episodes: 146
Network: NBC CBS
Genres: Crime, Drama
Production Companies: MGM Television, Fred Silverman Productions, JADDA Productions, Juanita Bartlett Production, Fred Silverman Company
Synopsis
In the Heat of the Night is an American television series based on the motion picture and novel of the same name starring Carroll O'Connor as the white police chief William Gillespie, and Howard Rollins as the African-American police detective Virgil Tibbs. It was broadcast on NBC from 1988 until 1992, and then on CBS until 1995. Its executive producers were Fred Silverman, Juanita Bartlett and Carroll O'Connor. TGG Direct released the first season of the series to DVD on August 28, 2012.
Cast

Carroll O'Connor
Bill Gillespie

Alan Autry
Bubba Skinner

David Hart
Parker Williams

Hugh O'Connor
Lonnie Jamison

Crystal R. Fox
Luann Corbin

Denise Nicholas
Harriet DeLong

Carl Weathers
Hampton Forbes