Season 5
Episodes
S5 · E1 · 1 Oct 1991 · 60 min
A Woman Much Admired
Gillespie's old flame returns to Sparta to settle some business matters and see Bill. When she is murdered he travels to Gulfport and meets his daughter Lana for the first time.
S5 · E2 · 8 Oct 1991 · 60 min
Baby for Sale
After Bubba's cousin adopts a baby her husband is blackmailed by the child's real parents - they want him to help them steal the payroll where he works.
S5 · E3 · 22 Oct 1991 · 60 min
Obsession
A flirtatious schoolteacher is stalked by a madman.
S5 · E4 · 29 Oct 1991 · 60 min
Liar's Poker
A game of high stakes poker ends in murder.
S5 · E5 · 5 Nov 1991 · 60 min
Ruda's Awakening
Virgil's Aunt Ruda is the only witness to a struggle between Bubba and a young robbery suspect that ends in the young mans death.But her prejudice against the police -- and Virgil clouds her memory of the incident.
S5 · E6 · 12 Nov 1991 · 60 min
Unfinished Business
Bubba returns to Los Angeles to testify at a murder trial and is reunited with Pat Day as they try to protect Mike from killers sent to prevent him from testifying.
S5 · E7 · 19 Nov 1991 · 60 min
The More Thing's Change
A man murders his business partner and frames the man's illegitimate daughter for the crime in an attempt to gain the man's business and his wife.
S5 · E8 · 26 Nov 1991 · 60 min
Sweet, Sweet Blues
The lyrics to a blues song recall a murder that happened 50 years earlier.The victim - Sweet's grandfather.And the only people left with the answers are the bluesman who wrote the song and a retired sheriff.
S5 · E9 · 3 Dec 1991 · 60 min
Sparta Gold
A deputy provides protection for a cotton grower who is running a pot growing operation.But the deputy makes a big mistake when he wounds Bubba's girlfriend.
S5 · E10 · 10 Dec 1991 · 60 min
An Eye for an Eye
The father of a man Gerard prosecuted kidnaps the DA's daughter.
S5 · E11 · 17 Dec 1991 · 60 min
The Littlest Victim
Lonnie makes a heartbreaking discovery about a woman he dated in high school.
S5 · E12 · 7 Jan 1992 · 60 min
The Landlord
A drug dealing slumlord is murdered by his accomplices.
S5 · E13 · 14 Jan 1992 · 60 min
Fool for Love
A doctor plots to eliminate his wife -- and his mistress.
S5 · E14 · 4 Feb 1992 · 60 min
Love, Honor and Obey
Parkers investigation into a purse snatching reveals an abused woman.
S5 · E15 · 11 Feb 1992 · 60 min
Odessa
Racists target a ceremony honoring a civil rights pioneer.
S5 · E16 · 18 Feb 1992 · 60 min
A Time to Trust
Althea fears for one of her students after her mother's boyfriend is linked to a criminal operation that has resulted in the deaths of several truckers.
S5 · E17 · 25 Feb 1992 · 60 min
By Means Most Foul
A restaurateur and her mechanic boyfriend plot to eliminate her husband, but their scheme backfires.Gillespie takes heat over a string of mailbox bashings.And Virgil soon regrets ignoring Parker's theory regarding where the vandals would strike next.
S5 · E18 · 3 Mar 1992 · 60 min
Trundel's Will Be Done
V.J. Trundel's widow takes Harriet to court to gain custody of Eric.But Harriet is determined that her nephew will not be raised in the home of the man who ordered the murder of her sister.
S5 · E19 · 31 Mar 1992 · 60 min
Moseley's Lot
Gillespie learns that the son of an old friend is a compulsive gambler.The young man wants his father to pay off his losses.But when two gangsters show up from New Orleans to collect, his jealous sibling sees the perfect opportunity to get rid of his troubled brother.
S5 · E20 · 7 Apr 1992 · 60 min
Family Reunion
An ex-convict attempts to retrieve his loot from his wife and her new husband in this tongue-in-cheek episode.
S5 · E21 · 12 May 1992 · 60 min
Sanctuary
A political prisoner who entered the country illegally,seeks sanctuary in a monastary.Gillespie and Tibbs find themselves at odds with Sheriff McComb when they try to help the man.
S5 · E22 · 19 May 1992 · 60 min
The Law on Trial
Gillespie,Tibbs and Father DiMarco must stand trial for harbouring a fugitive and obstructing justice.
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