Police Chief Bill Gillespie

She-Ra, whoever it is, man.

Chief Gillespie, whoever it is.

Shows them what a good job they did.

or, or at least sits down or, or even for, you know, they got another row and it's people that was murderers or people that was, uh, not flushing the toilet and people, you know, people that's being dirty and they got, you know, God sitting there or whoever, you know, coyote John or whatever that guy's name is.

In the heat of the night is director Norman Jewison's racially tense Southern Gothic murder mystery.

He directed Moonstruck and it stars five time Oscar winner Sidney Pottier as Mr. Virgil Tibbs and Rod Steiger as Gillespie.

And I'm choosing to say Gillespie because I can't remember if it's Gillespie or Gillespie.

So

I think it is.

And I'm sure there's movie sleuths out there who will watch it.

And in the first 15 minutes, we'll know exactly where it's going to go.

Beyond that, though, and not even just sort of the plot, I think moments where like Gillespie specifically is dealing with Virgil when they're talking together.

And of course, the scripture I gave him for the particular scene that we were doing was 1 Corinthians 13, 13 and the greatest of these is charity.

And that became the very first scripture that the character that Carol played in our series of chief Bill Gillespie uttering a scripture on the show.

But that was not the first time.

I mean, that was not the last time.

That was the first time that occurred.

But it became a regular occurrence throughout the remainder of the series that the Bible and the story of God was shared to 25 million Americans each and every Tuesday night through the words of members of our cast, but primarily through the character of Chief Bill Gillespie.

And coming from the star, There are people who never crossed the foyer of a church door that heard the gospel in the words that were shared through the scriptures.

And so he allowed me to be there to start and plant that first seed and, of course, continue to talk to Carol about that topic.