Tropical Heat

Tropical Heat

1991
Tropical Heat
Tropical Heat

Tropical Heat

7.6 | TV-14 | en | Drama

Tropical Heat is a Canadian action series The plot revolves around private investigator, ex-DEA agent Nick Slaughter who after arriving in the fictional resort town of Key Mariah, Florida and setting up a detective agency there, met up with local tourist agent Sylvie Girard to solve a variety of different cases.

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EP36  Smut and Nothin' But
Oct. 18,1993
Smut and Nothin' But

Nick and Sylvie are hired by an insurance company to investigate the head of an adult film studio that took out a large insurance policy on a studio actress shortly before her murder. During their investigation they uncover a much deeper and sinister plot involving other murders.

EP35  Forbidden Fruit
Oct. 04,1993
Forbidden Fruit

Nick and Sylvie are hired to prove that a wealthy businessman didn't murder his unpleasant wife. Among the suspects are the woman's two grown up children, and her business partner. A business partner who is very eager that Nick stays off the case.

EP34  Man with the Midas Touch
Sep. 27,1993
Man with the Midas Touch

After an elderly friend of Nick's is conned out of her life savings, Nick comes up with a plan to con the money back from the man responsible. Despite help from Sylvie and Spider, the plan gets dangerously out of hand when it starts to include a local mob boss and the con artist's former partner who has her own score to settle.

EP33  Slummin’ It
Sep. 20,1993
Slummin’ It

Nick and Sylvie are hired by a wealthy, but unscrupulous lady, who owns several slums in Key Mariah, to investigate her son's fiancé. However, they soon find themselves having to protect the woman from a dangerous young man who blames her for the death of his father.

EP32  Katie's Secret
Sep. 13,1993
Katie's Secret

Sylvie's niece Katie arrives in town for a fashion shoot, and takes an instant liking to Nick. Before long, however, Nick is investigating a different kind of shooting.

EP31  Deal of a Lifetime
Aug. 23,1993
Deal of a Lifetime

A famous painter blackmails Nick into a casino heist in Africa.

EP30  Tess
Aug. 16,1993
Tess

A beautiful woman lures Nick into a plot to kill her jealous husband.

EP29  Turning Screws
Aug. 09,1993
Turning Screws

Tricked by a client into helping her plan a robbery, Nick is arrested by Gregory and charged with theft and attempted murder. Sylvie and Spider struggle to prove Nick's innocence, while Nick gets involved with the gang responsible for framing him.

EP28  Spider's Tale
Aug. 02,1993
Spider's Tale

Spider tells to his female friends from the beach about one of Silvie and Nick's investigations. He explains to them what kind of relationship both investigators have, as well.

EP27  Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Jul. 26,1993
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Nick discovers that an assassin is in Key Mariah.

EP26  Gun Shy
Jul. 19,1993
Gun Shy

While on a case, Sylvie is forced to defend herself and shoots a suspect dead. However, the suspect turns out to be an undercover cop and Sylvie is charged with manslaughter. With Sylvie's self-confidence all but gone, Nick sets out to prove that the dead cop was in fact being bribed.

EP25  You Stole My Heart
Jul. 12,1993
You Stole My Heart

Nick, Sylvie and Spider find their lives threatened when Rollie's brother, a mortician, arrives in Key Mariah carrying the transplanted heart of a crime lord. To make things worse, the heart is also being pursued by a reckless female cop who will stop at nothing to get it.

EP24  Seen at the Crime
Jul. 05,1993
Seen at the Crime

Nick and Sylvie are hired to protect restaurant critic Sherry Fox who feels that her life is in danger. When Sherry is murdered in her home, a young woman who claims to be psychic and that she dreamt about Sherry's death approaches Nick. She predicts that more deaths will occur including Nick's, but Nick is skeptical. However, he soon changes his mind when she is proved right.

EP23  Mutiny and the Bounty
Jun. 28,1993
Mutiny and the Bounty

When Nick and Sylvie go out of town to follow up on a kidnapping case, Spider gets himself into hot water by getting involved with two bounty hunters, Rip Chase and his partner Gina, who have tracked their prey to Key Mariah. His situation isn't helped by the fact that Rip is a loose cannon who is partial to blowing things up, and that his partner Gina is just as reckless.

EP22  Massage in a Bottle
Jun. 21,1993
Massage in a Bottle

Evidence implicating a doctor in a nurse's death is stolen while in Nick's care.

EP21  Poison Ivy
Jun. 14,1993
Poison Ivy

Industrial espionage has Nick tailing a woman, who's found dead after slipping him a drug.

EP20  Royal Pain
Jun. 07,1993
Royal Pain

Russell Wyndham accidentally kills his girlfriend with an enhancing drug during a lovemaking session, then seconds later... his wife Alexandra walks in. Fearing for her life after Russell threatens to kill her if she calls for help, Alexandra turns to Nick for help. Russell Wyndham though, just happens to be the 6th Duke of Stowbridge, and he'll resort to any means to cover his murky tracks and keep his regal reputation clean.

EP19  Object of Desire
May. 31,1993
Object of Desire

An attractive brunette girl is flirting with Nick in a grocery store at night. Unfortunately for Nick, this pleasant diversion is rudely interrupted by a masked armed robber. The criminal is soon dispatched dead through a window by our pony-tailed hero, but the girl sees another gunman at the back of the shop, who escapes. Later at the Police Department, the grocery store clerk tells Lt Gregory that he didn't see the other gunman and neither did Nick. After a few interesting plot developments, which include Morgan (the girl) practically stalking Nick, she claims that the second gunman is now trying to kill her, and Nick comes across more twists.

EP18  Born Tomorrow
May. 24,1993
Born Tomorrow

Big Marv Pardee and his attractive wife Casey are having a domestic situation with the 'goldfish' coming off worse. When Casey goes missing, Big Marv assigns Nick to the case, but not before we discover that Bob Sterling, the President of Marv's business corporation has a 'thing' for Casey.

EP17  Basic Black
May. 17,1993
Basic Black

On the beach, Nick meets an old P.I. colleague from way back, called Danny Le Beck. During their chit-chat, Danny suddenly excuses himself, then secretly follows an attractive beach-babe to her brief rendezvous with a grey haired guy old enough to be her father, to her entering a holiday apartment alone. Danny then joins her, strips down to his pants whereupon they kiss and embrace passionately. Nick, our ever nosy P.I. has followed and sees all this. Next time Nick sees Danny, Danny's back on the beach, all washed up... and DEAD! Back at the office, Sylvie introduces Nick to their next client, one Mary Lee Rush, who wants them to take over from the 'other' P.I. (Danny) and investigate the murder of her father, a wealthy property developer. Trouble is, he's not actually dead... YET!

EP16  Feedback
May. 10,1993
Feedback

A married woman's affair turns deadly when a man who has been recording her liaisons with her young lover blackmails her. He gives her a choice: pay up or die. Nick and Sylvie are hired to find out the identity of the blackmailer, but things get out of hand when the woman is found murdered, and her lover is framed for the crime.

EP15  May Divorce Be with You
May. 03,1993
May Divorce Be with You

With Noah Sterne and his wife Alicia filing for divorce, Nick and Sylvie end up on opposing sides of the same case after a bet they make. Nick, working for the beautiful Alicia, tries to find evidence of her husband having an affair. Likewise, Sylvie wants to know if Alicia is being unfaithful to her client, Noah, and finally prove to Nick that she is the better investigator.

EP14  The Patsy
Mar. 01,1993
The Patsy

Nick and Sylvie are called upon to visit posh English couple Patsy and Nigel Stratten. The Strattens are staying with their friend, Divo Melini, after being shot-at in their hotel. They believe that Nigel's ex-accomplice, Clement St John, may be trying to kill them if they don't co-operate with his blackmail demands. St John allegedly wants money and revenge after Nigel's evidence had him imprisoned for illegal drug trafficking. Trying to get a lead on St John from the manager of some apartments, the trail leads Nick to an Italian model called Lucia de Morfi. 'Investigating' Lucia through her apartment window, Nick sees the stunning model being passionate with non other than... Nigel Stratten. Soon afterwards, Nick's investigation is severely hampered when some key characters wind up dead.

EP13  The Last of the Magnificent
Feb. 22,1993
The Last of the Magnificent

Clint Walker is an aging actor in western movies, and one of Nick's childhood hero's. There are mysterious accidents on the set of his last movie. He hires Nick and Sylvie to find out who is sabotaging his picture. Nick goes under cover as a stunt man, while Spider is under cover as a fire and safety inspector.

EP12  Grasping at Shadows
Feb. 15,1993
Grasping at Shadows

Whilst Yasmin, a new waitress at the Tropical Heat Bar is working, two Middle Eastern type thugs appear and try to abduct her. In the ensuing disturbance, Nick has to use a wooden tray as a shield when a big sharp pointy knife is thrown at him. The abductors flee after their failure, and afterwards, Yasmin tells Nick that they probably work for Jabril, a dangerous man who thinks that she has secrets pertaining to a certain Middle Eastern government (her homeland). As Nick feels he might be out of his depth with sensitive international issues, he and Sylvie go to see a US government expert in such delicate matters, the enigmatic, charming and suspicious Jack Laslo. Then the case and Yasmin's life are placed in jeopardy when Sylvie uncharacteristically loses her professional focus and falls for Laslo's charms.

EP11  His Pal Joey
Feb. 08,1993
His Pal Joey

Teenage Joey; a girl whom Nick has once helped, visits him. Nick takes her to Silvie. Joey is jealous. She also needs help once again.

EP10  Jack of Diamonds
Dec. 07,1992
Jack of Diamonds

A mature and debonair man is entertaining his elegant young lady friend with champagne in a posh hotel apartment. With seductive piano music tinkling in the background, he watches her safely lock away her expensive diamond necklace, then receives a phone call and excuses himself for a short while. The following morning when Nick and Sylvie are in the office, Sylvie reads in the newspaper headlines that wealthy socialite Christine Atherton has been murdered in her hotel room. Then Nick has a phone call from the Police Department to inform him that his father has been arrested for her murder. Through Nick reminiscing about his past to Sylvie, we learn that his father, Jack Slaughter, abandoned fatherhood to become a professional con-artist who now lives off wealthy women. Nick though, does not believe that his father killed Christine for her diamond necklace.

EP9  Ocean Park
Nov. 30,1992
Ocean Park

Carl Morrisson is dead and his wife Julie, dolphin scientist, is suspected. Matt Grady, the director of the Ocean Park where both worked, wants Nick and Sylvie to find the murderer. They soon find out that Julie had an affair with Grady and that his wife Sara knew that. Jealousy? Then Grady is killed too and Nick's in danger.

EP8  Don't Say Nothin' Bad About My Baby
Nov. 23,1992
Don't Say Nothin' Bad About My Baby

Spider's old love Anita visits him in order to ask him for help. She fears that Melito, her lover, would kill her because she ran away. Although Spider has had some bad experiences with Anita, he realizes that he still loves her and persuades Nick to help them. Melito is found dead in his hotel room. Anita swears that she isn't the murderer but it was her pistol that killed Melito. Spider tries to hide her but Anita found and is arrested. Anita tells him that she thinks Melito's accomplices had killed him because they wanted the money Anita had stolen. But that isn't her only secret.

EP7  The Pro and the Con
Nov. 16,1992
The Pro and the Con

D.J. Littlefield, a famous football player, has to end his career because of health and his investment advisers ruined him by speculation. Later one of them is killed and everyone believes that the hothead Littlefield is the murderer. Nick is the only one who is sure that he is innocent. The courts acquit Littlefield, but instead of beginning a new life, he gets himself more and more into trouble.

EP6  Stranger in Paradise
Nov. 09,1992
Stranger in Paradise

When a young girl, student of an exclusive school, is killed, Nick and his partner are asked to find the murder. To do this, they are going to work in the school. Sylvie as a secretary and Nick as a teacher of English.

EP5  White Hot
Oct. 26,1992
White Hot

Nick goes to Israel to find the little girl; Susanna, kidnapped and taken there by her own father.

EP4  Over My Dead Body
Oct. 12,1992
Over My Dead Body

Nick is seriously injured. Very concerned, Sylvie sits at his bedside and thinks about the evolution of their relationship.

EP3  Deadly Switch (2)
Oct. 05,1992
Deadly Switch (2)

Monica Cobb has feigned her dead in order to collect on her life insurance. But it must be realistic so another woman had to die instead of Monica. Monica's accomplice was the dentist in whose office the unknown woman died. But although Nick and Sylvie already know a lot, they can't catch Monica. She works with too many tricks.

EP2  Deadly Switch (1)
Sep. 28,1992
Deadly Switch (1)

In Dr. Cooper's dental clinic a girl named Monica Cobb dies. The reason: heart stoppage. Nick begins to investigate when a woman from the insurance company tells him that Monica had a life insurance policy of about $2.5 million. Her business partner Morris now gets the money. And there is also a mysterious friend: Sandy Parker. After the money is stolen, Sandy is suspected. While Nick talks to Zach Sanders who knows all of them from college, Dr. Cooper is killed. And then the next surprise: The dead girl from the dentist isn't Monica Cobb.

EP1  Twice as Dead
Sep. 14,1992
Twice as Dead

Linda Stone asks Nick and Sylvie for help. Her husband who died two years ago, reappears and is killed. His name wasn't Stone, it was Streeter. Linda realizes that her husband had feigned his death two years ago and took a new name. A clue leads Nick and Sylvie to a yacht club. They posed as a married couple and Sylvie teases him by making as if Nick is very silly. Nick gets revenge while they are at a clinic. But suddenly Sylvie is in danger.

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7.6 | TV-14 | en | Drama , Comedy , Action & Adventure | More Info
Released: 1991-04-08 | Released Producted By: Safritel , IO International Country: Canada Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
Synopsis

Tropical Heat is a Canadian action series The plot revolves around private investigator, ex-DEA agent Nick Slaughter who after arriving in the fictional resort town of Key Mariah, Florida and setting up a detective agency there, met up with local tourist agent Sylvie Girard to solve a variety of different cases.

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Rob Stewart , Carolyn Dunn , Ian Tracey

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Reviews

shaaazbat57 Sweating Bullets or Tropical Heat as I knew it in the UK hasn't had as much good press from reviewers as it deserves. People focus on the fact that it was filmed in Mexico, Israel and finally South Africa with beach scenes in Mauritius. Who cares I say, they look just as exciting and colourful as south Florida Keys where it is set. Then people attack the alleged bad acting, plots and scripts, yeah yeah I say, you have the same scenario on any TV show, even Magnum PI, Miami Vice and Silk Stalkings had similar negative issues. What Tropical Heat had loads of, was, charm, plenty of action and humour, and all achieved on a fraction of the budget of similar productions in Hollywood. Rob Stewart, the star and protagonist of Tropical Heat was about twenty-nine years of age when they began filming in 1990(ish) and had only done a few minor roles before this, yet, he held the show up high with his heartfelt, charm-filled boyish performance. Drama, pathos, tragedy and comedy were all thrown into the many types of plot-lines covered within this action show, with Rob weaving his acting skill with the gravitas of a young Pacino or De Niro. The genius even wrote and directed a few episodes. On a smaller than Hollywood budget like this had, many of the crew did other tasks. Harel Goldstein who was Executive Producer also directed, wrote and was even Second Unit Director on some episodes. Another of the writers, R. Scott Gemmill, went on to be a 'main man' on ER. JAG and NCIS LA. Many character traits that our protagonist Nick Slaughter has, appear to have been included in recent fictional characters, eg., Rick Castle in 'Castle' and Tony DiNozzo in NCIS. All these characters share a love of movies, flirt with the ladies, are incredibly mischievous and juvenile and are to quote Nick, probably "The World's Greatest Detective." Mention must go to composer Jeff Danna who scored the show from middle of season 1 and through to end of season 2 for adding a touch of musical class to the show when similar shows were using 'cheesy' jazzy music (like what Tropical early season 1 and ALL of season 3 also had). Mr Danna had what I would describe as 'ground-breaking' music for action crime. The BBC currently have a crime drama that share many of Tropical Heat's attributes, Hawaiian shirts, beach scenes and witty/smart one-liners. Yes, 'Death in Paradise, so I guess the Heat crew were way ahead of their time over twenty years ago. Someone please bring this amazing show back for a new batch of Tropical Heat stories (I have a potential feature-length episode all ready to go). Who knows, maybe Rob is still available..?
aimless-46 First off, if you hated season one of "Tropical Heat" a/k/a Sweating Bullets" don't completely write off the show. It was one of those rare times a show actually got better in its second and third seasons. Yet even the lame first season included the catchy reggae theme song "Anyway the Wind Blows" and the two stars (Rob Stewart and Carolyn Dunn) playing off each others as only total opposites can. Steward plays maverick ex-DEA agent Nick Slaughter who moves to one of the Florida Keys and starts a detective agency. Dunn plays his buttoned- down travel agent business partner Sylvie Gerard. It is an uneasy partnership. Swarthy Nick is laid back, likes to party, and is not particularly keen on working. Sylvie is a burn-don't tan redhead, a brittle uptight computer nerd who disapproves of Nick's lifestyle. When Nick is busy chasing anything in skirts, Sylvie keeps her focus on agency cash flow. Of course Dunn is far hotter than any of the women Nick is constantly dogging so there is an undercurrent of frustrated attraction between the two; hidden beneath their constant put-downs. The discerning viewer will quickly spot certain production design issues. The series was filmed in Israel, Mexico, and South Africa; not on location in the Florida Keys and they just didn't have enough of a budget to effectively disguise a vaguely foreign feeling. But once you know this it is possible to suspend disbelief and just concentrate on the characters. Even stranger than the vaguely off-kilter setting are Season One's choice of guest actresses. Both "Tropical Heat" and its counterpart "Silk Stalkings" targeted the male demographic. "Silk Stalkings" was perceptive enough to cast really hot young actresses for each episode, with more concern about their exploitation potential than their acting ability. But for some strange reason "Tropical Heat" filled these roles with the most average looking collection of women you are likely to find this side of your local DVM line. Your basic acting-for-the-camera class has three tiers of would-be actress. The hot first tier: actresses who look good enough that their acting skills are a bonus, not a necessity. The bottom tier: dogs, pigs, and elephants who can find work in character roles if they look strange enough. The middle tier: girls who need extraordinary acting skills because they look so ordinary, and even those should give serious thought to cooking school. For its first season "Tropical Heat's" hired exclusively from the middle tier (plus a few of their mothers); and disqualified those who received "C" or better grades. And they wonder why these things are not more popular. Season one writing is also pretty weak although the Nick-Sylvie exchanges are usually entertaining and appear to have been written by someone who knew what they were doing; apparently the rest of the script writing fell to the second team. The Season One DVD (which contains most of the Season Two episodes as well) is cheap in both cost and quality. It is viewable but there is no supplemental material and navigation is extremely basic. Then again, what do I know? I'm only a child.
Princessoftales I remember this show, it was around the time that 'Silk Stalkings' was hot. I remember thinking it was a knock-off 'Silk Stalkings', but it was still a good show from what I remember; but it disappeared quickly. I think they were cops. I was so young I can't remember everything about it. I think this show came on late at night on Fox, at least where I live that's the channel it came on.I actually wish a lot of old shows like this would come back on so I can now enjoy them. For some reason I thought the actor Jack Scalia played the lead in this show, but I guess I was wrong. Maybe he had another show like this named 'Point Blank' or something like that.
gt2002 "Sweating Bullets" is the best of the five "Crime Time After Prime Time" CBS-TV shows which rotated nightly at 11:30 P.M. A pleasing combination of action, beautiful women and sarcastic wit with Rob Stewart the ruggedly handsome--like a Steven Seagal/ Alec Baldwin--cool dude who can really deliver a line; with his clothes blazing in flames, he crashes through a 2nd floor window and lands in a swimming pool, face to face with a gorgeous young woman and says to her, "and I thought I was HOT!""Silk Stalkings" and the other 'Crime Time' shows were also good but not as charming.