They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
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Oct 5, 2026
Dan GarrisHOST
The success of the film inspired two later sequels.
Dan GarrisHOST
The first one was They Call Me Mr. Tibbs in 1970, and the second one was The Organization in 1971.
Dan GarrisHOST
On the DVD box, it reads, the New York Times called it a powerful film, while the New York Daily News said that it delivers the highest level of exciting entertainment.
Dan GarrisHOST
Its description is, while traveling in the deep south, Virgil Tibbs, a black Philadelphia homicide detective, becomes unwittingly embroiled in the murder investigation of a prominent businessman, when he is first accused of the crime and then asked to solve it.
Nan WhaleyPANELIST
You know, it has the famous line, which is the sixth most famous line, according to the famous line.
Nan WhaleyPANELIST
Oh, 16th.
Nan WhaleyPANELIST
They call me Mr. Tibbs.
Nan WhaleyPANELIST
And the precursor is, what do they call you up in Philadelphia? They call me Mr.
Matt ComegysHOST
Norma Crane was Gretchen.
Matt ComegysHOST
She's best known for playing Goldie in Fiddler on the Roof and also appears in They Call Me Mr. Tibbs, which I had to bring up because I think it comes up again in trivia in a week or two.
Matt ComegysHOST
So...
Matt ComegysHOST
If you could give us a...
Anthony CumiaHOST
call you up there? Yeah, they called
Jim NortonHOST
me Mr. Tibbs.
Jim NortonHOST
Mr. Tibbs.
Jim NortonHOST
Even Sidney did some of that.
Jim NortonHOST
But again, it was from that time.