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 ...

By Mike Barnes, Duane Byrge Norman Jewison, the multifaceted filmmaker who could direct a racial drama (In the Heat of the Night), stylish ... debut in a minstrel show, which he also directed ...

Still do I remember their second show of the season, THE IMAGINARY INVALID. The image of the enema gloves worn by Michael Gotch and Mic Matarrese is serving a life sentence in my cerebellum.

He was 77. James had made a single brief appearance on a TV series before Norman Jewison cast him as the killer Ralph in 1967’s In the Heat of the Night, starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger.

Oscar-nominated film director and producer Norman Jewison, who steered the 1967 racial drama “In the Heat of the Night” to a best ... Canadian and American TV, he was chafing at the ...