Tropical Heat

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Tropical Heat, also known as Sweating Bullets, was a Canadian TV series, made in cooperation with Mexico and Israel and released between 1991 and 1993 (eventually as part of the CBS umbrella series, Crimetime After Primetime). It was about two private investigators, ex-police officer Nick Slaughter and ex-tourist agent Silvie Girard, solving a variety of different cases.

The series ran for three seasons, totalling 66 episodes. Season One was filmed in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Season Two was filmed in Eilat, Israel. Season Three was filmed in Pretoria, South Africa, with some sequences shot on the Isle of Mauritius.^[1]

Lead actor Rob Stewart, a hypnotist, met his bride in Mexico during the first season. He now lives in California.

1 Popularity in Serbia
2 Cast
3 References
4 External links
5 See also

[edit] Popularity in Serbia

The series was broadcast on Serbian television stations during the '90s and re-run numerous times. It was the reruns in the then isolated country that made the show, initially percieved as terrible, extremely popular, although still terrible. An epitome of a bad show over-aired on TV, its badness turned to a type of cult and a cultural phenomenon which is no surprise having in mind Serbian dry sense of humor. Atheist Rap, a Serbian punk band, paid a "tribute" to the show's protagonist by recording a song titled "Nick Slaughter, Serbia hails to you" [in Serbian: "Sloteru Niče, Srbija ti kliče"]. During the massive months-long protests against the rule of Slobodan Milošević in 1996 and 1997, the slogan "Slaughter Nick for President" (Slotera Nika za predsednika) was often seen on banners and badges of the anti-Milošević protesters.