In the Heat of the Night

African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real killer. Their investigation takes them through every social level of the town, with Tibbs making enemies as well as unlikely friends as he hunts for the truth.

The Last Frontier

Three trappers become scouts for a cavalry captain who loses his fort to a hated colonel.

Bring on the Girls

A millionaire joins the Navy hoping to find a girl who'll marry him for himself, not for his money. A beautiful gold-digger who works at a resort hotel sets out to get him.

The Brute Man

A facially disfigured and mentally unhinged man wreaks his revenge on those he blames for his condition.

Domino Kid

A rancher vows revenge on the five men responsible for his father's death.

Valley of the Sun

An Arizona frontiersman steals an Indian agent's girlfriend, followed by trouble.

Pericles on 31st Street

Racial tensions break out on 31st Street, a multi-ethnic community. Sam Peckinpah directed this original adaptation of the Harry Mark Petrakis novel for NBC, and the project became an hour-long presentation for NBC's The Dick Powell Theatre, premiering on Apr. 12, 1962.