Tropical heat
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | Tropical heat |
| Original title | Sweating Bullets |
| Country of production | Canada , Mexico |
| original language | English |
| Year (s) | 1991-1993 |
| length | 50 minutes |
| Episodes | 66 in 3 seasons |
| genre | Detective film |
| Theme music | Fred Mollin - Anyway The Wind Blows |
| idea | Sam Egan |
| First broadcast | April 8, 1991 (USA) on CBS |
| German-language first broadcast |
February 7, 1992 on RTLplus |
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Tropical Heat is a Canadian-Mexican crime series produced by Global , Accent Four , IO International and SafriTel .
action
Nick Slaughter, a former drug enforcement officer, settles on Key Mariah, Florida , to work as a private detective . The main reason to move there is to enjoy the sun and relax. He hires Sylvie Girard as a secretary, who is actually a tourist guide and wanted to open a travel agency. It is then she who constantly drives him to work and gets him into dangerous situations. Nick's friend and important informant is Ian Stewart, who runs a diving school and the Tropical Heat Bar . He has contacts with the local police through the coroner Rollie and Lt. Carillo. After Ian and Lt. Carillo left Florida, it is Spider and Sgt. Gregory who solve the cases with Nick and Sylvie.
Successor works
About three years after the end of production of the series, the two-parter "Tödliches Desire" was cut from the 2nd season into a 90-minute film release and offered on the television market under the title Murder under the Hot Sun (OT: Criss Cross ). This fictional film is not a stand-alone fictional film - as is otherwise stated, but as described only a two-part compilation.
Soundtrack
In Germany, Edel Music released the soundtrack for the series in 1992. It includes u. a. In addition to the title track Anyway The Wind Blows by Fred Mollin, other tracks from the series and other songs adapted to the theme, for example Kingston Town from UB40 or Do You Really Want To Hurt Me from Culture Club .
Worth mentioning
The first season (22 episodes) of Tropical Heat was filmed in Puerto Vallarta , Mexico in 1990 and 1991, the second 22-part season in Eilat , Israel in 1992. The filming locations of the third, also 22-part season, which was created in 1993, were Pretoria in South Africa and Mauritius .
Broadcast Notes
The first 10 episodes were first broadcast on RTLplus on Fridays at 8:15 p.m. from February to April 1992 . A further 34 episodes ran from September 6, 1992 to March 1993, always on Sundays at around 12:00 p.m. on the same station. These were the first 2 seasons produced. Another 18 new episodes of the third season followed in 1994. Finally, another episode was broadcast in 1995 and three more episodes in 1996, so that the series could be seen in Germany on RTL. Repetitions took place at RTL itself (1993–1996), at VOX (1997–2000), ProSieben (1998), Kabel eins (2008) and several times on various pay TV stations (since 2000). The film Murder under the Hot Sun was broadcast on Sat.1 in 2001.
Web links
- Tropical Heat in the Internet Movie Database (English)