8.8/10727 votesLoading...#1 - Spider's Tale
Season 3 Episode 28 - Aired 8/2/1993
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.
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#2 - Mutiny and the Bounty
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 6/28/1993
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.
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- 8.1/1023 votesLoading...
#3 - The Last of the Magnificent
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 2/22/1993
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.
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- 7.8/1029 votesLoading...
#4 - A Perfect .38
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/23/1991
Nick and Sylvie investigate the murder of a beauty contestant's agent. When another contestant is found dead, they realize revenge may only be the beginning.
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#5 - Going to the Dogs
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 5/25/1992
Nick and Sylvie are just sitting in a friend(Rupert)'s club, when someone shoots at Rupert. Fortunately he isn't seriously injured. But that wasn't the first attempt. He has always saved himself. Rupert believes that his competitor Meyer is the culprit. Meyer tries to extort him in order to get Rupert's club. Nick and Sylvie begin to investigate.
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#6 - Turning Screws
Season 3 Episode 29 - Aired 8/9/1993
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.
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#7 - Dial 9 for Murder
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 6/1/1992
Sylvie is approached by her old friend Cory Ann Crawford who works at a telephone sex line. A colleague of hers was murdered after receiving phone calls from a man calling himself Steven, and now that Steven is calling her, she is afraid for her life. Because he looks "like hell in fishnet stockings", Nick sends Sylvie undercover at the telephone line, while he sets about finding Steven.
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#8 - Grasping at Shadows
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 2/15/1993
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.
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#9 - Gun Shy
Season 3 Episode 26 - Aired 7/19/1993
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.
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#10 - Tess
Season 3 Episode 30 - Aired 8/16/1993
A beautiful woman lures Nick into a plot to kill her jealous husband.
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- 7.6/1022 votesLoading...
#11 - Sex, Lies and Lullabies
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/4/1991
Serial killer (Pike) stalks Sylvie.
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- 7.6/1022 votesLoading...
#12 - Tara, Tara, Tara
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 11/18/1991
Tara and Howard Fitzgerald want to spend their honeymoon on Key Mariah. But soon Tara has to ask Nick and Sylvie for help because her husband is gone. Then somebody breaks into their apartment. The thieves are searching for an important diskette. It probably contains information about Howard's modern weapon system. They want to carry off the only witness. Nick can prevent it, but he can't prevent Howard's death.
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- 7.6/1020 votesLoading...
#13 - Party Girl
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 4/13/1992
Edward Collingwoog, a governer, has a big chance to win an election. But one day a party girl accuses his son of rape. Collingwoog asks Silvie and Nick to prove that the boy is innocent.
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#14 - The Pro and the Con
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/16/1992
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.
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- 7.6/1021 votesLoading...
#15 - Smut and Nothin' But
Season 3 Episode 36 - Aired 10/18/1993
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.
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- 7.5/1030 votesLoading...
#16 - Marissa
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 6/3/1991
A strange woman hires Nick to stop her husband who wants to murder her. However, after some investigating, Nick finds evidence that she might be insane. But what if she isn't?
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#17 - The Mariah Connection
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/9/1991
Nick's ex-partner, Chaffey, needs his help to catch a drug lord, who is being helped by a Customs official. After, Nick must decide whether to stay on Key Mariah.
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#18 - Users
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 5/11/1992
Melody Booth's lover Garnier is an arms dealer and so their lives are very dangerous. Melody's father wants Nick to look after his daughter. Soon Melody confesses to Nick, that she really works for a South American who fights for liberty and against her "lover". But the two don't know that Garnier already knows this and is just waiting for a opportunity to kill Melody.
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#19 - Frame Up
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 5/18/1992
After a night out with attractive Amanda, Nick falls into a deep sleep. While he is sleeping somebody shoots a drug dealer with Nick's gun. Later Amanda is found dead too. Nick is suspected of killing both. While he is sitting in prison, Sylvie finds out that someone wants revenge on Nick. There is just one chance left for Nick: He has to break out of prison and to investigate the crimes himself.
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#20 - Ocean Park
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/30/1992
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.
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- 7.5/1020 votesLoading...
#21 - Jack of Diamonds
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 12/7/1992
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.
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#22 - Feedback
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 5/10/1993
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.
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#23 - Object of Desire
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 5/31/1993
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.
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#24 - Poison Ivy
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 6/14/1993
Industrial espionage has Nick tailing a woman, who's found dead after slipping him a drug.
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#25 - Man with the Midas Touch
Season 3 Episode 34 - Aired 9/27/1993
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.
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The Best Episodes of Tropical Heat
Every episode of Tropical Heat ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Tropical Heat!
Tropical Heat is a Canadian action series
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Best Episodes Summary
"Spider's Tale" is the best rated episode of "Tropical Heat". It scored 8.8/10 based on 727 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 8/2/1993. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Mutiny and the Bounty".