The film was the first Best Picture Oscar winner to be adapted into a regular prime-time TV series (NBC: 1988-1992 and CBS: 1992-1995), with Carroll O'Connor as Sheriff Bill Gillespie and Howard Rollins as Virgil Tibbs.He explained how he had been exiled onto Delta Vega due to his failed experiment involving an Admiral's dog.Louis (1944),The Pirate (1948)andThe Band Wagon (1953), among others.]It is an integrated musical, meaning that the songs and dances blend perfectly with the story.As in many musicals, the plot of this film is not its most important element.One of the film's highlights is its impressive finale - an ambitious, colorful, imaginative, 13 minute avante-garde "dream ballet" costing a half million dollars to produce.Kane finds him packing his office to expediently leave town (he folds an American flag, and a miniature scale of justice and places both into his saddlebags), recommending that Kane do the same while reminding him of the courtroom threat Miller had delivered many years earlier o kill both of them:Have you forgotten that I'm the man who passed sentence on Frank Miller?Although there's "no time for a lesson in civics," he does indeed deliver a civics lesson, illustrated by two historical incidents in towns that surrendered their freedom to returning tyrants.Meanwhile, Carina fled into an astronomy shop (with a sign reading: "NO DOGS NO WOMEN"), a nautical instrument store where she bought a pocket-sized chronometer (to study an impending "blood moon") from the astonished male store-owner.