Guest Stars
During the series' seven and 1/2-season run, many unfamiliar actors and/or actresses have made guest appearances, and others were newcomers who have gone on to become well-known, among them appearing in Heat of the Night episodes: Frances Fisher, Mel Stewart, Nana Visitor, Gail O'Grady, Don Galloway, Dana Barron, Marco St. John, Ted Lange, Mickey Jones, Mitchell Laurance, Laura Johnson, Jordan Vaughn, Martha Byrne, Walton Goggins, Maury Covington, Earl Holliman, Randy Brooks, Wayne Brady, Art Evans, Nicolas Cowan, Lou Walker, Robert Goulet, Bobby Short, William Sadler, Michael Spound, Bill McKinney, Lisa Pelikan, Mark Rolston, Jennifer Bassey, Marc Macaulay, Jean Simmons, Thomas Jefferson Bird, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Matthew McConaughey, J.D. Hall, George C. Scott, Stephen Root, Bruce Kirby, Lisa Rieffel, Ernest Lee Thomas, Ken Marshall, Laurence Fishburne, Ted Manson, Mariska Hargitay, Meshach Taylor, Francesco Quinn, Jeffrey Buckner Ford, Gary Anthony Williams, Richard McKenzie, Craig Shoemaker, Stephen Nichols, Mitchell Anderson, James Best, Sonny Shroyer, Byron Cherry, Whitman Mayo, among many others. Future Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman stars, Helene Udy, William Shockley and Chad Allen made guest appearances. Future Desperate Housewives star Doug Savant and veteran actor Kevin McCarthy also made their guest appearances on the two-part pilot episode, as well as former football star later turned convicted felon O. J. Simpson in a cameo appearance.
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