Sergeant Olli Porter from Philadelphia arrives to Mariah Key chasing the killer. He asks Sylvie and Nick for help.

Hard Case

An animal activist tracks smugglers, that import very rare parrots from South America over Key Mariah to the USA.

Fowl Play

Sylvie Girard works for a travel agency. She rented a big yacht that wasn't hers to a guy who has disapeared. She asks Nick Slaughter, a private investigator, to find him. Otherwise she will be in a big trouble.

Death's a Beach

Nick and Sylvie are supposed to find a brother of their new client.

Family Affair

3 men want to get the license for building a casino on Key Mariah.One of them is the Mafioso Bruno Gateaux. But also the businessman Winston Drake who works with slush funds. Sylvie falls in love with Drake and wants to leave Nick in order to work for Drake in the casino. But Drake puts her in danger. At their dinner for two, someone shoots at them and they can hardly rescue themselves. Sylvie doesn't realize that Drake had staged the attack and she also doesn't know that there is a bomb in the case with money she takes to Nick as indemnity for losing his partner.

Roll of the Dice

Nick's new love; Mina, believes in the power of Tarot cards. But for Nick they aren't good. His alleged destiny is that everyone around him is in danger. Soon the prophecy seems to come true: Nick and Sylvie follow Alex Crane's wife. But instead of proving that she has an affair with an other man they see how the attractive Mrs Crane is killed by her ""friend"". Nick and Sylvie are now going to catch the mysterious murderer.

Double Time

Ian finds a young woman who had escaped from a man and had fallen from the wharf. She hasn't any money, no identity card and she doesn't know who she is. Ian asks Nick and Sylvie for help.The only leads are a small bottle of perfume and an inscribed piece of paper.

Forget Me Not

Ian's ex-girlfriend arrives to Mariah Key. She claims that she needs money to pay her debts. She wants Ian to sell the rights of their band's hit song.

For a Song

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?

Marissa

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.

The Mariah Connection

Nick meets his ex-girlfriend Maria. They seem to fall in love once again. But it's soon become obvious that the girl is hardly connected with mafia's boss Scarrano. Nick doesn't suspetct that booth of them want just use him.

Mafia Mistress

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.

A Perfect .38

Patricia Poston believes that her grandpa Walter is on pain of pirats'curse. They both manage to persuade Nick and Silvie to help them look for a tresure.

Dead Men Tell

Denise Lawson believes that her ex-husband has kidnapped their son. So she asks Nick and Silvie to find him. The investigators find out that the guy is somehow connected with the criminals and that the kid is in danger. They find the boy but suddenly, both parents are missing.

Big Brother is Watching

A beautiful model is being extorted by a sleazy private detective with compromising photos, so she asks Nick to help retrieve them. When the detective turns up dead, the model becomes the key suspect.

This Year's Model

Dunford accompanies Nick during jazzman's death investigation. He wants to collect materials to his the newest book.

Writer Wrong

When a young woman steals a poison, from a laboratory, her sister hires Nick to find her. Finding out her boyfriend is an ecological activist adds new demention to the case. As does the revelation that the poison is actually a biological weapon.

Runaway

Sex, Lies and Lullabies

Nick lost his job with the DEA because he helped a women escape capture. When this old flame shows up on Key Mariah, he is amazed at how much she has changed. However, she is being blackmailed, and when dead bodies start appearing, Nick starts to have doubts of her innocence.

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.

Tara, Tara, Tara

Beth Godnight's mother has been missing twenty years. But suddenly she gets a sign of life from her. It's from Key Mariah. Beth wants Nick and Sylvie to find her mother. The clue leads them to a psychiatric hospital, where business people are in therapy. Nick and Sylvie decide to join a therapy group for couples. Soon they find Beth's mother who knows too much about the hospital, which uses the therapy in order to find out everything about the people's firms.

Abandoned

Ray Hampton, leader of a big coorporation, believes that his wife wants to kill him. He asks Nick to check it.

Deceit

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.

Party Girl

Spider and a tourist who go deep sea fishing, find the head of a dead body. It belongs to a fisherman, whose boat is gone. Because the fisherman had a high life insurance, the insurance company wants Nick and Sylvie to find out if his wife Glenda Lee is involved in her husbands death.

Double Fault

Nick has disappeared. His friends at Key Mariah, especially Spider and Sylvie can't believe he is dead. They think a dealer named Jason Colt is at the bottom of it. Actually Colts men tried to kill Nick but just wounded him. But Nick was lucky. He made it to the house of the attractive but strange actress Rachael. But Nick wasn't so lucky as it seemed. Rachael is a dangerous psychopath who imagines Nick is her old lover. And she doesn't want to let him go...

Alive and Kicking

On Key Mariah is a man who drugs, rapes and tattoos the women he dates. Nick is hired to investigate by one of the victims. Nick begins to investigate and visits a man who tattoos. But he can't ask him because he's dead. Nick finds a hint of who might be the next victim. So Nick and Sylvie find the woman. But when the man finally sees he will be caught, he takes the two women as hostages and flees.

Tattooed Lady

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.

Users

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.

Frame Up

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.

Going to the Dogs

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.

Dial 9 for Murder

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.

Twice as Dead

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.

Deadly Switch (1)

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.

Deadly Switch (2)

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

Over My Dead Body

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

White Hot

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.

Stranger in Paradise

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.

The Pro and the Con

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.

Don't Say Nothin' Bad About My Baby

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.

Ocean Park

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.

Jack of Diamonds

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.

His Pal Joey

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.

Grasping at Shadows

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.

The Last of the Magnificent

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.

The Patsy

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.

May Divorce Be with You

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.

Feedback

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!

Basic Black

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.

Born Tomorrow

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.

Object of Desire

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.

Royal Pain

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

Poison Ivy

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

Massage in a Bottle

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.

Mutiny and the Bounty

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.

Seen at the Crime

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.

You Stole My Heart

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.

Gun Shy

Nick discovers that an assassin is in Key Mariah.

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

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.

Spider's Tale

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.

Turning Screws

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

Tess

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

Deal of a Lifetime

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.

Katie's Secret

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.

Slummin’ It

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.

Man with the Midas Touch

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.

Forbidden Fruit

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.

Smut and Nothin' But

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.

All Episodes of Tropical Heat

All Episodes of Tropical Heat

Season 1

Hard Case

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/8/1991

Fowl Play

Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/15/1991

Death's a Beach

Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/22/1991

Family Affair

Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/29/1991

Roll of the Dice

Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 5/6/1991

Double Time

Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 5/13/1991

Forget Me Not

Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/20/1991

For a Song

Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 5/27/1991

Marissa

Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 6/3/1991