Title: In the Heat of the Night (TV series)
Content:  In the Heat of the Night is an American police procedural crime drama television series loosely based on the 1967 film and 1965 novel of the same title. It starred Carroll O'Connor as police chief Bill Gillespie and Howard Rollins as police detective Virgil Tibbs, and was broadcast on NBC from March 6, 1988 until May 19, 1992, then on CBS from October 28, 1992 until May 16, 1995. Its executive producers were Fred Silverman, Juanita Bartlett and O'Connor.
Title: Alan Autry
Content: In the Heat of the Night (1988–95) as Officer/Sergeant/Lieutenant/Captain Bubba Skinner ; Grace Under Fire (1995–96) as Rick Bradshaw ; Style & Substance (1998) as Earl ; Sons of Thunder (1999) as Butch McMann 
Title: In the Heat of the Night (TV series)
Content:  name, he first becomes a target, then framed for murder himself. Chief Gillespie travels to Philly to get Virgil out of jail, help him solve the mystery of what happened to his friend and seek justice for him, expose the corrupt officers and make it back home to Sparta in time for the twins' birth. William and Sarah Tibbs were welcomed into the world on September 18, 1990. Other stories include Bubba going to Los Angeles to extradite a Sparta resident responsible for a fire that killed two people, which was actually the first of two backdoor pilots for a series that featured Alan Autry, but neither were picked up by the network.
Title: Sweet, Sweet Blues
Content:  "Sweet, Sweet Blues" is an episode of the NBC drama series In the Heat of the Night, starring Carroll O'Connor as Chief Bill Gillespie and Howard Rollins as Detective Virgil Tibbs. In the Heat of the Night was based on the 1965 novel by John Ball, which was also the basis for the Academy Award winning film of the same name starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger, directed by Norman Jewison.
Title: In the Heat of the Night (TV series)
Content:  Ian Griffith ; Renée Jones ; Michael Beck ; Kevin Conway ; Randy Brooks ; Art Evans ; Nicolas Cowan ; Lou Walker ; Alan Arbus ; Robert Goulet ; Kenny Leon ; Bobby Short ; William Sadler ; Michael Spound ; Bill McKinney ; Lisa Pelikan ; Mark Rolston ; Susan Blakely ; Jennifer Bassey ; Marc Macaulay ; Jean Simmons ; Thomas Jefferson Byrd ; Vanessa Bell Calloway ; J.D. Hall ; John Davis Chandler ; George C. Scott ; Willie Gault ; Joe Seneca ; Stephen Root ; Bruce Kirby ; Lisa Rieffel ; Marla Gibbs ; Ernest Lee Thomas ; Ken Marshall ; Kim Hawthorne ; Logan Ramsey 
Title: In the Heat of the Night (TV series)
Content:  final appearance on the show (air date February 2, 1994). In the episode "Ches and the Grand Lady", Bobby Short reprises his role as Ches Collins, the blues musician from "Sweet, Sweet Blues" in Season 5. The episode also guest stars Jean Simmons as the dying grand dame of Sparta who also happens to be Ches's old flame and the overbearing great-aunt of Lonnie Jamison. Harriet's son Eugene once again finds himself at odds with the police, endangering his parole trying to help a friend. Maybelle Chesboro (played by Elizabeth Ashley), the ex-madam, returns. (The role of Maybelle was initially played by Diane Ladd in Season 3's "Home Is Where The Heart Is".) 
Title: In the Heat of the Night (TV series)
Content: Carroll O'Connor (1989–95) as Matt Harris ; Mark Rodgers (1989–90) ; David Moessinger (1988–89) ; Jeri Taylor (1988–89) ; Edward Deblasio (1989–90) ; Nancy Bond (1988–90) ; William J Royce (1989–94) ; Cynthia Deming (1990–94) ; Robert Bielak (1990–91) ; Mitch Schneider (1990–94) ; Joe Gannon (1991–94) ; Denise Nicholas (1992–95) ; Terri Erwin (1989–91) ; Bill Taub (1991) 
Title: In the Heat of the Night (film)
Content:  In the Heat of the Night is a 1967 American mystery drama film directed by Norman Jewison. It is based on John Ball's 1965 novel of the same name and tells the story of Virgil Tibbs, a black police detective from Philadelphia, who becomes involved in a murder investigation in a small town in Mississippi. It stars Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger, and was produced by Walter Mirisch. The screenplay was written by Stirling Silliphant. The film won five Academy Awards, including the 1967 awards for Best Picture and Rod Steiger for Best Actor. The quote "They call me Mister Tibbs! was listed as number 16 on the American Film Institute's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes, a list of top film quotes. The film also appears on AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies, a list of the 100 greatest movies in American cinema. In 2002, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Title: In the Heat of the Night (TV series)
Content:  Stella Stevens ; Josh Lucas (as Joshua Lucas) ; Ted Manson ; Jason Beghe ; Christopher Templeton ; Eric Pierpoint ; Barbara Stock ; Meshach Taylor ; Francesco Quinn ; Jeffrey Buckner Ford ; Gary Anthony Williams ; Richard McKenzie ; Michael Horton ; Craig Shoemaker ; Traci Wolfe ; Elizabeth Ashley ; Stephen Nichols ; Darnell Williams ; Stacy Keach ; Mitchell Anderson ; James Best ; Sonny Shroyer ; Michael Warren ; Byron Cherry ; Whitman Mayo ; John Diehl ; Ken Curtis ; Louise Fletcher ; Jerry Stiller ; Clifton Powell ; Franklin Cover During the series' 7-season run, many familiar, unfamiliar, and longtime character actors and actresses have 
Title: In the Heat of the Night (TV series)
Content:  a man whom he arrested years ago, an episode that Carroll O'Connor wrote himself under the pseudonym Matt Harris ("A Trip Upstate"). During the filming of the episode "Walkout", Carroll O'Connor began to experience fatigue. It was discovered that he needed sextuple heart bypass surgery, due to years of heavy smoking. During the last four episodes of the season, Joe Don Baker was brought in as Tom Dugan, a replacement for Chief Gillespie, who was said to be away at a police training conference at Quantico. The episodes where Gillespie was away were "Fifteen Forever", "Ladybug, Ladybug", "The Pig Woman of Sparta" and "Missing". Dugan was appointed acting chief by Councilwoman 

Question: who played bubba in the heat of the night?
Answer: Carlos Alan Autry Jr.