L'ispettore Tibbs Don't Look Back: Part 1 (1988–1995) Online
- Original Title :
- Donu0027t Look Back: Part 1
- Genre :
- TV Episode / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
- Year :
- 1988–1995
- Directror :
- Peter Levin
- Cast :
- Carroll O'Connor,Howard E. Rollins Jr.,Alan Autry
- Writer :
- James Lee Barrett,Jeri Taylor
- Type :
- TV Episode
- Time :
- 1h
- Rating :
- 8.4/10
It is 1968. A young woman, Billie Jo Bradley, is murdered and her heart cut out. Her husband, Bo Bradley, is later executed for the crime. Now it is 1988, and Sparta is preparing to celebrate its 150th centennial. Curiously, another young woman, Michelle Carpenter, is murdered and her heart removed. Newspaper editor Reed Nicholson, who was suspected in the earlier murder, comes under suspicion again. Chief Bill Gillespie is anonymously threatened, and Virgil Tibbs is attacked during the investigation. The case may connected to Marie Babineaux, the local voodoo queen.
| Episode cast overview, first billed only: | |||
 | Carroll O'Connor | - | Chief William O. 'Bill' Gillespie |
 | Howard E. Rollins Jr. | - | Chief of Detectives Virgil Tibbs (as Howard Rollins) |
 | Alan Autry | - | Sgt. V. L. 'Bubba' Skinner |
 | Anne-Marie Johnson | - | Althea Tibbs |
 | Lois Nettleton | - | Joanne St. John |
 | David Hart | - | Officer Parker Williams |
 | Geoffrey Thorne | - | Officer Wilson Sweet |
 | Hugh O'Connor | - | Cpl. Lonnie Jamison |
 | Iman | - | Marie Babineaux |
 | Thomas Ian Griffith | - | Luke Potter |
 | Tony Higgins | - | Andy White |
| Stuart Culpepper | - | Reed Nicholson |
| Ashley Josey | - | Jack Henry |
| Maceo Walker | - | Atticus Paul |
| Deborah Atkinson | - | Michelle Carpenter |
This episode, and the next one, In the Heat of the Night: Don't Look Back: Part 2 (1988), originally aired as a TV film called "In the Heat of the Night: The Case of the Voodoo Murders". The producers (and syndicators) of the series later edited the film into episodes of the show.