• Air date: 14 Sep '92 36 episodes
      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.
  • List of Episodes (36)
    • 1. Twice as Dead

      14 Sep '92
      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.
    • 2. Deadly Switch (1)

      28 Sep '92
      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
    • 3. Deadly Switch (2)

      05 Oct '92
      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.
    • 4. Over My Dead Body

      12 Oct '92
      Nick is seriously injured. Very concerned, Sylvie sits at his bedside and thinks about the evolution of their relationship.
    • 5. White Hot

      26 Oct '92
      Nick goes to Israel to find the little girl; Susanna, kidnapped and taken there by her own father.
    • 6. Stranger in Paradise

      09 Nov '92
      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.
    • 7. The Pro & the Con

      16 Nov '92
      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.
    • 8. Don't Say Nothin' Bad About My Baby

      23 Nov '92
      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
    • 9. Ocean Park

      30 Nov '92
      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.
    • 10. Jack of Diamonds

      07 Dec '92
      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 phon
    • 11. His Pal Joey

      08 Feb '93
      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.
    • 12. Grasping at Shadows

      15 Feb '93
      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 o
    • 13. The Last of the Magnificent

      22 Feb '93
      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.
    • 14. The Patsy

      01 Mar '93
      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
    • 15. May Divorce Be with You

      03 May '93
      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.
    • 16. Feedback

      10 May '93
      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.
    • 17. Basic Black

      17 May '93
      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 t
    • 18. Born Tomorrow

      24 May '93
      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.
    • 19. Object of Desire

      31 May '93
      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, w
    • 20. Royal Pain

      07 Jun '93
      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.
    • 21. Poison Ivy

      14 Jun '93
      Industrial espionage has Nick tailing a woman, who's found dead after slipping him a drug.
    • 22. Massage in a Bottle

      21 Jun '93
      Evidence implicating a doctor in a nurse's death is stolen while in Nick's care.
    • 23. Mutiny and the Bounty

      28 Jun '93
      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.
    • 24. Seen at the Crime

      05 Jul '93
      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.
    • 25. You Stole My Heart

      12 Jul '93
      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.