Tropical Heat
| Tropical Heat | |
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Tropical Heat title card
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| Genre |
Action Comedy |
| Created by | Sam Egan |
| Starring |
Rob Stewart Carolyn Dunn Ian Tracey |
| Opening theme | "Any Way the Wind Blows" |
| Composer(s) | Fred Mollin |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 66 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Location(s) |
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, Eilat, Israel, Pretoria, South Africa |
| Running time | approx. 48 min. |
| Release | |
| Original network |
CBS (U.S.) IO International, SafriTel |
| Original release | April 8, 1991 – October 18, 1993 |
| Chronology | |
| Followed by | Criss Cross |
Tropical Heat (known as Sweating Bullets in the United States) is a Canadian action series produced in co-operation with Mexico and Israel that aired between 1991 and 1993 (and in the U.S. eventually as part of the CBS umbrella series Crimetime After Primetime).
The series ran for three seasons totaling 66 episodes. Season one was filmed in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico due to tax breaks the production was eligible for under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Season two was filmed in Eilat, Israel. Season three was filmed in Pretoria, South Africa, with some sequences shot on the Isle of Mauritius.
The plot revolves around private investigator, Nick Slaughter, an ex-DEA agent, who after arriving in the fictional resort town of Key Mariah, Florida, and setting up a detective agency there, meets up with local tourist agent, Sylvie Girard, to solve a variety of different cases.
The series was particularly popular in Serbia, where it gained cult status. In a tumultuous social environment – with UN trade embargo imposed on the country and civil war raging nearby – Nick Slaughter's character became a tongue-in-cheek role model, particularly among urban youth, and eventually even a symbol of opposition politics.
During the 1990s, the series was broadcast on four Serbian television stations – TV Politika (1992–93), NS+ (1993–94), RTS 3K (1994–95), and RTV Pink (1996–97) – and rerun numerous times. Aside from its dry humor and exciting plot, the show was extremely well received because its idyllic tropical island atmosphere was an absolute contrast to mid-1990s Serbia. The reruns in the then-isolated country made the show immensely popular, turning it into a minor national cultural phenomenon.
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