The movie shown on a TV near the beginning is the 1958 Best Picture Oscar nominee The Defiant Ones (1958) starring Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier. Carroll O'Connor had an uncredited part in the movie as a truck driver. In 1967, Poitier would play the original Virgil Tibbs in Best Picture of the Year winner, In the Heat of the Night (1967).
Towards the beginning of this episode, mother and daughter are shown watching TV. The viewer sees that they're watching a movie starring Sidney Poitier. In the original In the Heat of the Night (1967) movie, Sidney Poitier played Virgil Tibbs.