William 'Bill O. Gillespie(Carroll O'Connor)
Attorney Virgil Tibbs(Howard E. Rollins)
Althea Tibbs(Anne-Marie Johnson)
V. L. 'Bubba' Skinner(Alan Autry)
Parker Williams(David Hart)
Joanne St. John(Lois Nettleton)
Lonnie Jamison(Hugh O'Connor)
Abernathy(Christian LeBlanc)
Wilson Sweet(Geoffrey Thorne)
Luanne Corbin(Crystal R. Fox)
Dee Shepard(Dee Shaw)
Harriet DeLong(Denise Nicholas)
Randy Goode(Randall Franks)