ON THIS DAY: In 1988, the television series IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT premiered, starring Carroll O'Connor as a Mississippi police chief and Harold Rollins as a police detective who investigate crime in the rural South. (The show went off the air in 1994 but can still be found in reruns.) The series was based on the 1967 Oscar-winning film IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT, with Rod Steiger and Sidney Poitier as, respectively, the chief of police and the (out-of-town) cop. Not only is the film a powerful condemnation of racism, but it's a darn good detective yarn, too. [today's movie at IMDb]

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