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Rick Du Brow | Los Angeles Times - March 17, 1990
Carroll O'Connor is sitting at a corner table in his Beverly Hills restaurant, contemplating the past year. He's never been through anything like it.
"No, I certainly haven't," he says, shaking his head.
A year ago this month, O'Connor underwent heart bypass surgery at an Atlanta hospital, a short drive from the Covington, Ga., set of his NBC series, "In the Heat of the Night."
He recovered quickly, returned to the show and, instead of easing off, increased his workload by taking over as co-executive producer.
The police series has also undergone another crisis in its two years on the air as O'Connor's co-star, Howard Rollins, fought his own private battle, which first came to light following his 1988 arrest in Louisiana for drug possession and drunk driving.