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- A down-on-his-luck newsman, Phillip Werris, checks into a flea-bag hotel with his wife Jan, where he finds a manual on how to prospect for gold. That night while sleepwalking, Phillip types a short story that features the author of the manual and his brother. Against his wishes, Jan submits the story to be published. After publication, the story takes on an unnatural air, leading to an amazing climax.
- Convicted killer John Marriott is seemingly becoming the hardest man to execute.
- From early childhood Stephen Bolt has frightening dreams of a man's ominous face. Later he sees that the man's hand threatens him with a knife. Stephen knows the dreams are a premonition of his death, but his family are unsympathetic. When he grows up, Stephen goes to sea to escape his tormentor.
- 1959–196130mApproved7.3 (244)TV EpisodeA man visiting a small Mediterranean island is stunned when all of the island's residents recognize him and insist that he is an island resident who has returned after many years, even though he knows he has never been there before.
- Miss Cartwright is hired to be the new governess to young Pamela. Cartwright immediately dismisses Pamela's beloved nanny, Mrs. Murphy, and finds a punishment room for the child in the basement. Pamela's favorite toy is a stuffed tiger, which becomes the focus of Pamela's revenge against the dictatorial governess. Strange and ominous things begin to happen that can only be explained as psychic phenomena.
- In 1922 the town of Chico, California was pelted by rocks falling from an empty sky. A writer who called himself The Ghost took credit for the phenomena, but was never identified. Similarly, in 1917 a stranger appeared to government officials in Washington, D. C. and demonstrated a new fuel made from water that could power an auto engine. After his successful exhibition, the stranger vanished as quickly as he had appeared. The FBI and Secret Service searched for months and could never find him.
- Adelle Tompkins arrives on the stagecoach with plans to marry Pat Buttram, but Pat has sent her Gene Autry's picture instead of his own. On the same stage is Jan Carter Gray, who has come to meet her gang of outlaws for less lofty purposes.
- Bubba Skinner is determined to have a womanizing real estate agent charged with attempted murder after the man knowingly infected Bubba's friend with HIV.
- Despite his disdain for Bill Gillespie, Harriet's son Eugene helps the Sparta Police bring down the crack house after he is an eyewitness to his best friend's drug-related murder.
- Virgil defends Parker Williams when he is accused of police brutality during an arrest involving Parker's ex-fiance.
- 1988–199545mTV-PG7.5 (55)TV EpisodeA local drunk kills the man he believed was having an affair with his wife.
- Womanizer Frank Davenport is the general contractor on a large residential project in Sparta that threatens an area of slave artifacts. He is also having a torrid affair with his new secretary, Cindy Jenk, whose father Gus is a protective hot head. There are hard feelings, even fights, among the townspeople who either support or oppose stopping the construction project to save the antiquities. It is a toss-up who will get to Davenport first.
- An interracial high school couple is the target of a racist sniper on the Sparta High School field.
- Althea Tibbs is kidnapped and taken hostage by the prime suspect in a serial murder investigation.
- Luann tries desperately to adopt a baby that was abandoned in a crack house raid.
- Sparta Police investigate the possibility of a prison bishop being forced off the road being racially motivated. Bill Gillespie and Harriet Delong discuss taking their relationship to the next level.
- 1988–199546mTV-PG7.8 (61)TV EpisodeWhen an embezzler returns to Sparta after serving a prison sentence, quite a few people become suspects when the man is killed.
- Virgil Tibbs finds himself on both sides of the law when he is asked to handle the probate of a verbally abusive alcoholic woman, whose death may not have been an accident.
- A single mother is harassed by her landlord, who also happens to be her ex-boyfriend.
- Bubba travels to Atlanta, GA in an attempt to improve his drug addicted nephew's quality of life.
- Wilson Sweet's job is put on the line when he is accused of soliciting a bribe from a shady used car salesman.
- The Sparta Police Department welcome their first female officer.
- A prominent judge's wife threatens to reveal a skeleton in his closet unless he grants her a lucrative divorce.
- A man is determined to make sure a young woman does not receive her inheritance, promised by his grandfather 3 decades earlier.
- Former madam Maybelle Chesboro returns to Sparta and opens up a phone sex operation disguised as a communications business.
- Luann moonlights as a singer at her boyfriend's new nightclub and she unwittingly uncovers a drug dealing operation run by the bartender.
- A synagogue comes to Sparta and is quickly vandalized and robbed. The Rabbi does not believe Sheriff Gillespie is worthy of investigating the incident.
- 1988–199546mTV-PG8.2 (52)TV EpisodeVirgil Tibbs returns to Sparta with a law degree, news of his failed marriage and a murder suspect to defend.
- A troubled high school student murders his ex-girlfriend's lover, then fixes it so her stepfather is blamed for the crime. Althea suffers a nervous breakdown after witnessing the student's suicide.
- A psychiatrist, bound by her own rule of confidentiality, holds information proving that a man about to be executed for murder may actually be innocent.
- D.A. Darnell's daughter is kidnapped by the father of a man Darnelle sent to prison, who committed suicide.
- During the Christmas season, a flirtatious newspaper reporter prints an unflattering story about the Sparta Police Department.
- Althea's colleague is the latest victim of a serial rapist who preys on single, blonde women.
- Bubba is first on the scene of a carjacking and first in the heart of the victim, a city council woman with a history of "man problems".
- Gillespie and Forbes become fast friends when both police forces team up and solve the triple murder. Attorney Wade Hatton returns to Sparta and hopes to rekindle a romance from the past with Sarah Hallisey.
- Bubba Skinner enters into a whirlwind romance with a seductive author passing through Sparta.
- Parker finds himself attracted to the main witness of a murder investigation, a beautiful blind girl who overheard her neighbor's murder.
- Harriet's son tries to have his father's death row conviction overturned.
- When Officer Sweet's first bust, his best friend from childhood, dies in the Newman County Jail under mysterious circumstances, he presses Gillespie to investigate the matter.
- When a young woman takes her life by jumping off a bridge, her boyfriend, who is also Virgil's law school classmate, stands accused of her murder.
- After a prominent businessman is mysteriously murdered, evidence of incestuous relationships with his daughter and granddaughter are uncovered.
- Lonnie Jamison is saddened to discover that his high school girlfriend is now an impoverished, single mother.
- Bubba returns to Los Angeles to tie up some loose ends from his last trip there.
- 1988–199547mTV-PG7.2 (62)TV EpisodeA washed up country singer, whose biggest fan is Bubba Skinner, is accused of the murder of his former road manager.
- When a woman plots to kill her husband in order to continue her torrid love affair, things don't go exactly as planned.
- A paroled robber returns to Sparta in search of a $750,000 stash.
- The son of a local electrical contractor resents the fact that his father is always bailing his younger brother out of financial messes.
- Sparta Police is on guard to control racial tension when a ceremony is held to honor the first black woman who registered to vote in Sparta.
- A local jazz musician reveals information about the murder of Officer Sweet's grandfather, which reopens the 40-year-old case.
- 1988–199548mTV-PG8.8 (81)TV EpisodeCyrus Chambers threatens to sell his business and leave for an extended trip with his wife Irene, to the dismay of his junior partner, Tom Dalton, who is having a torrid affair with Irene. Chambers also has financial problems with his illegitimate African-American daughter, Faith Todd. Subsequent events bring disaster and redemption.