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Tropical Heat: Sweating Bullets Complete Series

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This show is a pleasure to get re-acquainted with. I didn't really watch it on television as often as I might have liked back in the 90s, but 11:30 was a bit late for me (still is!). A friend, back in those days, referred to CBS's "Crime Time after Prime Time" shows- most of which had male protagonists called Nick- as "Nick at Night"! I would ask, "Which one is it tonight? Nick the vigilante Judge, Nick the vampire cop, or Nick the hippie private eye?" Well, Nick the Hippie Private Eye was always my favorite. The show is fun, serious at the appropriate moments (without becoming too serious), and funny most of the time without descending into parody. Rob Stewart and Carolyn Dunn are rare treasures. He is wasted in guest shots; he should have his own regular show, period.
He can carry one, easily. She could do the same, and her O.T.T. serious Sylvie is a perfect foil for ne'er-do-well, ladykiller Nick. Tropical Heat- or Sweating Bullets, as I first knew it and prefer to call it- is not unlike Magnum, P.I. (I've been known to refer to Nick Slaughter as the low-rent Magnum!), and if you like Magnum, you'll probably like Sweating Bullets for the same reasons. Would that Sweating Bullets had been on as long as Magnum, P.I.!

Finally Tango released the second and third season of Tropical Heat. the picture and sound quality is ok. There are up to 8 episodes on each DVD. Nick and Sylvie are back on Key Mariah!

It is like some sort of weird, budget, low brow lite mix of Magnum PI, Moonlighting, Miami Vice, and soft porn.
Presumably it filled a void when all those other great shows had just ended their runs in the late 80's. Nick Slaughter delivers his lines like a mix of David Addison, Hawkeye Pierce and Mike Hammer. It is total escapism and because of this and it's mix of influences I enjoy sitting down, relaxing, and watching an episode or two when I just want to switch off my brain for a while. The new character Spider in season two is an annoying little knob, the guy playing bartender in the first season was better. This shows weaknesses are it's strengths, so if you can get over the low budget and some dodgy acting (Nick and Sylvie are OK though), you can sink in to it and have some fun.

The quality of the DVD image is not that good, it was originally filmed on video by the looks of it and compressed to DVD. The audio on the first episode was only coming out of one channel. So overall it is probably a bit over priced as a DVD set, but that didn't stop me buying it cause I knew I was going to have fun. This show could easily diassapear wthout a trace so best to grab it while you can if you want it is my suggestion.

My English is very poor but I can say that Tropical Heat is a very funny series and is one of the best memory that I bring, even if you audio in Spanish, I have decided to buy it because I think it's a series that must be saved forever.
Tropical Heat: Sweating Bullets Complete Series

Great and funny series about detective Nick Slaughter and his partner (and boss) Sylvie Girard. It's not for demanding audience. It's for relaxing! It's Great relax (don't think, just watch). Amazing tropical nature, wonderful girls, bad boys, more girls, Nick in shirt...

I like this DVD, although i miss english subtitles and quality of DVD video (screen) could be better. Go Nick and Silvie, go..

Finally Tango released all the episodes. I ordered 2 years ago the first season hopping that they will release the rest of the episodes and now here they are. I already posted my order of the complete pack.
The episodes doesn't contain Portuguese subtitles but I understand the English and the most important to me is to watch again the other episodes of Nick and Sylvie adventures, with the presence of Spider Garvin.
Thanks Tango and thanks Amazon.

In the Canadian-made private eye series SWEATING BULLETS, Rob Stewart is Nick Slaughter, a ponytailed Mel Gibson clone of some charm. Whether working on a case or not, Nick saunters around an imaginary Florida Key with one of his hundreds of busy-print shirts always unbuttoned, so we can see that tan and sexy chest hair.

Nick's double-batch redhead partner Sylvie Girard (Carolyn Dunn), she of the entrancing blue eyes, sports flimsy blouses padded at the shoulders like an NFL lineman (it was the style back then). Sorry, her shirts are buttoned, guys. Sylvie sneers at Nick's many romantic escapades but we know despite protests to the contrary that the lady wants to climb into bed with him, too.

Nick's English-born buddy is Ian Stewart (John David Bland), a bleach-blonde ex-musician who owns a dive shop and tiki bar on the beach where all the babes congregate. Nick often stops by long enough for a blast and to pick up tonight's bed warmer. (Ian's hangout, Tropical Heat, is also the show's American name.)

The stories are escapist fluff with easy-to-solve plots, ideal for non-Floridians mired down in the wintry north. We locals however can get distracted by this show's inaccuracies (like vehicles with front license plates or low mountains and non-native trees), and tend to watch with bemused tolerance.

Technically, these dubs are imperfect and sometimes blurry. Episode One has stereo music but all voices are extreme left channel. The fifth show of Season One is missing its credit scroll music. Show #8 is interrupted by a commercial bumper. And so on.

Despite such limitations, the price is right. I'm satisfied with this purchase, and if you favor intellectually untaxing whodunits decorated with beautiful bodies in Technicolor wardrobes, SWEATING BULLETS just may be for you, as well.

If you're fond of lightweight, comedic detective shows set in tropical climes (think Magnum or VIP or the uber-kitschy Acapulco HEAT), you'll like this one. The transfers are a bit pixelated, but who cares? (At 8 shows per disk, that's hardly surprising.) My wife and I particularly love watching it in winter, when the fictional Key Mariah looks like a little bit of heaven. As someone else observes, there are no mountains in the Florida Keys, but that just adds to the show's cheesy charm. (It was shot, I believe, in a different location each season--Mexico, Israel (!), and South Africa.)

I remember watching this series back in the early 90's. I came across the complete series during a search on Amazon.com. I strongly recommend purchasing this DVD!

I was so excited to find this series. It brought back so many memories from when I was a teen. My kids even walk around singing the theme song
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