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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!

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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,

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Tropical Heat Season 3 Episode 23 - Mutiny and the Bounty
    9.3/10(726 votes)

    #1 - Mutiny and the Bounty

    S3:E23

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  2. Tropical Heat Season 3 Episode 28 - Spider's Tale
    9.2/10(728 votes)

    #2 - Spider's Tale

    S3:E28

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  3. Tropical Heat Season 3 Episode 29 - Turning Screws
    9.0/10(18 votes)

    #3 - Turning Screws

    S3:E29

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  4. Tropical Heat Season 3 Episode 30 - Tess
    8.9/10(18 votes)

    #4 - Tess

    S3:E30

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Tropical Heat Season 3 Episode 34 - Man with the Midas Touch
    8.8/10(19 votes)

    #5 - Man with the Midas Touch

    S3:E34

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  6. Tropical Heat Season 2 Episode 20 - Going to the Dogs
    8.6/10(19 votes)

    #6 - Going to the Dogs

    S2:E20

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  7. Tropical Heat Season 3 Episode 26 - Gun Shy
    8.6/10(20 votes)

    #7 - Gun Shy

    S3:E26

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  8. Tropical Heat Season 3 Episode 35 - Forbidden Fruit
    8.6/10(16 votes)

    #8 - Forbidden Fruit

    S3:E35

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  9. Tropical Heat Season 3 Episode 10 - Jack of Diamonds
    8.5/10(21 votes)

    #9 - Jack of Diamonds

    S3:E10

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  10. Tropical Heat Season 3 Episode 13 - The Last of the Magnificent
    8.5/10(25 votes)

    #10 - The Last of the Magnificent

    S3:E13

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  11. Tropical Heat Season 2 Episode 21 - Dial 9 for Murder
    8.4/10(18 votes)

    #11 - Dial 9 for Murder

    S2:E21

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  12. Tropical Heat Season 3 Episode 21 - Poison Ivy
    8.4/10(18 votes)

    #12 - Poison Ivy

    S3:E21

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

    Director:Unknown
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  13. Tropical Heat Season 3 Episode 33 - Slummin’ It
    8.4/10(19 votes)

    #13 - Slummin’ It

    S3:E33

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  14. Tropical Heat Season 3 Episode 7 - The Pro and the Con
    8.3/10(18 votes)

    #14 - The Pro and the Con

    S3:E7

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  15. Tropical Heat Season 3 Episode 12 - Grasping at Shadows
    8.3/10(20 votes)

    #15 - Grasping at Shadows

    S3:E12

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  16. Tropical Heat Season 3 Episode 16 - Feedback
    8.3/10(19 votes)

    #16 - Feedback

    S3:E16

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  17. Tropical Heat Season 3 Episode 19 - Object of Desire
    8.3/10(21 votes)

    #17 - Object of Desire

    S3:E19

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  18. Tropical Heat Season 2 Episode 9 - Sex, Lies and Lullabies
    8.2/10(23 votes)

    #18 - Sex, Lies and Lullabies

    S2:E9

    Serial killer (Pike) stalks Sylvie.

    Director:Unknown
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  19. Tropical Heat Season 2 Episode 14 - Party Girl
    8.2/10(21 votes)

    #19 - Party Girl

    S2:E14

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  20. Tropical Heat Season 2 Episode 18 - Users
    8.2/10(20 votes)

    #20 - Users

    S2:E18

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  21. Tropical Heat Season 2 Episode 19 - Frame Up
    8.2/10(20 votes)

    #21 - Frame Up

    S2:E19

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  22. Tropical Heat Season 3 Episode 1 - Twice as Dead
    8.2/10(20 votes)

    #22 - Twice as Dead

    S3:E1

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  23. Tropical Heat Season 3 Episode 9 - Ocean Park
    8.2/10(19 votes)

    #23 - Ocean Park

    S3:E9

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  24. Tropical Heat Season 1 Episode 9 - Marissa
    8.1/10(32 votes)

    #24 - Marissa

    S1:E9

    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?

    Director:Unknown
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  25. Tropical Heat Season 2 Episode 11 - Tara, Tara, Tara
    8.1/10(23 votes)

    #25 - Tara, Tara, Tara

    S2:E11

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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Best Episodes Summary

"Mutiny and the Bounty" is the best rated episode of "Tropical Heat". It scored 9.3/10 based on 726 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 6/28/1993. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Spider's Tale".