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In the Heat of the Night
1988 · TV series · 60 min episodes · 8 seasons
Created by James Lee Barrett
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.
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There was an excellent episode of In the Heat of the Night in 1991 called "Sweet Sweet Blues", which was a murder-mystery about a murder ballad. The crime happened 40 years earlier, and they solved it by tracking down the composer of the song.
The answer to the question "whodunnit" was a lyric in the song that the composer had kept out of all performances since soon after the crime. It's awesome how they work the music and performance into the act - a really fun episode!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0610671/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet%2C_Sweet_Blues