In the Heat of the Night (TV series)

In the Heat of the Night - American TV series. This television series is the 1970^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of television series. Article “In the Heat of the Night (TV series)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 11.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 2 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.6 points.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “In the Heat of the Night (TV series)”, its content was written by 9 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 388 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

In the Heat of the Night is on the 1970^th place in global ranking of television series on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 6 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1006 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1816 in November 2011
• Global: #15906 in May 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #21959 in October 2019
• Global: #27471 in January 2022

There are 7 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) In the Heat of the Night (TV series)		47.8598
2	Simple English (simple) In the Heat of the Night (TV series)		11.3745
3	French (fr) Dans la chaleur de la nuit (série télévisée)		9.6788
4	Dutch (nl) In the Heat of the Night (televisieserie)		7.7789
5	German (de) In der Hitze der Nacht (Fernsehserie)		5.0429
6	Italian (it) L'ispettore Tibbs		4.3582
7	Serbo-Croatian (sh) In the Heat of the Night (TV serija)		1.6632

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "In the Heat of the Night (TV series)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) In the Heat of the Night (TV series)		6 239 322
2	Italian (it) L'ispettore Tibbs		77 936
3	German (de) In der Hitze der Nacht (Fernsehserie)		74 435
4	French (fr) Dans la chaleur de la nuit (série télévisée)		49 367
5	Dutch (nl) In the Heat of the Night (televisieserie)		13 506
6	Simple English (simple) In the Heat of the Night (TV series)		2 636
7	Serbo-Croatian (sh) In the Heat of the Night (TV serija)		1 751

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "In the Heat of the Night (TV series)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) In the Heat of the Night (TV series)		28 694
2	Italian (it) L'ispettore Tibbs		385
3	German (de) In der Hitze der Nacht (Fernsehserie)		383
4	French (fr) Dans la chaleur de la nuit (série télévisée)		196
5	Dutch (nl) In the Heat of the Night (televisieserie)		79
6	Simple English (simple) In the Heat of the Night (TV series)		53
7	Serbo-Croatian (sh) In the Heat of the Night (TV serija)		13

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "In the Heat of the Night (TV series)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) In the Heat of the Night (TV series)		285
2	French (fr) Dans la chaleur de la nuit (série télévisée)		37
3	Italian (it) L'ispettore Tibbs		25
4	German (de) In der Hitze der Nacht (Fernsehserie)		20
5	Simple English (simple) In the Heat of the Night (TV series)		9
6	Dutch (nl) In the Heat of the Night (televisieserie)		8
7	Serbo-Croatian (sh) In the Heat of the Night (TV serija)		4

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "In the Heat of the Night (TV series)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) In der Hitze der Nacht (Fernsehserie)		0
2	English (en) In the Heat of the Night (TV series)		0
3	French (fr) Dans la chaleur de la nuit (série télévisée)		0
4	Italian (it) L'ispettore Tibbs		0
5	Dutch (nl) In the Heat of the Night (televisieserie)		0
6	Serbo-Croatian (sh) In the Heat of the Night (TV serija)		0
7	Simple English (simple) In the Heat of the Night (TV series)		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "In the Heat of the Night (TV series)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) In the Heat of the Night (TV series)		516
2	German (de) In der Hitze der Nacht (Fernsehserie)		162
3	Italian (it) L'ispettore Tibbs		147
4	French (fr) Dans la chaleur de la nuit (série télévisée)		119
5	Dutch (nl) In the Heat of the Night (televisieserie)		46
6	Serbo-Croatian (sh) In the Heat of the Night (TV serija)		10
7	Simple English (simple) In the Heat of the Night (TV series)		6

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#	Language	Value
de	German In der Hitze der Nacht (Fernsehserie)
en	English In the Heat of the Night (TV series)
fr	French Dans la chaleur de la nuit (série télévisée)
it	Italian L'ispettore Tibbs
nl	Dutch In the Heat of the Night (televisieserie)
sh	Serbo-Croatian In the Heat of the Night (TV serija)
simple	Simple English In the Heat of the Night (TV series)

Best Rank

Simple English: #21959 10.2019

Global: #27471 01.2022

Best Rank

Simple English: #1816 11.2011

Global: #15906 05.2019

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