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LA Heat

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LA Heat	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })LA Heat is an action series created by Joseph Merhi and Richard Pepin of PM Entertainment, Inc.note Current copyright is held by Echo Bridge Entertainment The show revolves around two LAPD detectives.The series began filming in 1996 in Southern California, in locations that included Los Angeles (also Long Beach, Beverly Hills and Hollywood) and San Diego. However, because it didn't have the backing of a major US network, it was not picked up for domestic distribution. Instead it was sold overseas, and it became popular in Europe. Due to PM Entertainment's financial troubles, the production ended in 1998 after two seasons (and 48 episodes). On March 15, 1999, the show finally made its US premiere when it was sold to TNT cable network. The episodes were shown on weekdays at 6 PM, and its first run concluded on May 19, 1999. When TNT's contract to run the show expired, the show disappeared from the airwaves and has not aired on US TV ever since.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })It is currently available via Amazon for streaming.It follows the classic Buddy Cop Show format. Naturally, the detectives are a Salt and Pepper Odd Couple: Chester "Chase" McDonald (Wolf Larson) has been on the force for 7 years. A risk-taker, he likes living on the edge and is passionate about his work. When he's not busy keeping LA safe, he makes metal sculptures which he shows at a local art gallery. Though he's a born leader, he often needs the guidance of someone with his partner's experience to keep him out of trouble. That partner is... ...August Brooks (Steven Williams), a Vietnam War veteran who has been on the force for 16 years. In his youth he was a promising boxer, but after discovering that his manager and promoter were embezzling funds from fellow boxers, and forced him to throw his first pro fight, he quit and joined the police force. Outside that, he runs the Hoover Street Youth Boxing Center for underprivileged children in an effort to try to keep them out of gangs.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })Also prominently featured were their girlfriends: August is Happily Married to Kendra Lee Brooks (Renee Tenison) for five years in the pilot episode. She works at August's youth center, and is known by all the kids who frequent it, and she helps them with their problems from time to time. Chase's first girlfriend was Jodi (Dawn Radenbaugh-Eason). At the start of the series, they have been dating for a year. She worked at an art gallery where Chase's metal sculptures were displayed. Having never been happy with Chase's dangerous job, she constantly tried to pressure him to quit his job and focus exclusively on his sculpting. In Episode 19, she got a job offer to run an art gallery in Dallas and pressured him even more to quit his job and come with her. Chase refused, insisting they could work things out, but ultimately, she left without him.This is not the same as the 1989 film of the same name.
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LA Heat / int_135b9977	comment	Bloodless Carnage: So much so that its violence is so similar to their other movie efforts such as Rage (which, ironically, was its eighth episode in the series).
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LA Heat / int_143350c6	type	Officer O'Hara
LA Heat / int_143350c6	comment	Officer O'Hara: Chase (Chester McDonald). We learn that he actually is part Irish in Episode 42.
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LA Heat / int_244e413	type	Bolivian Army Cliffhanger
LA Heat / int_244e413	comment	Bolivian Army Cliffhanger and Left Hanging: The final episode, with Chase being wounded after a stand-off with crime lord Bobby Cole. A third season was planned for 2000, possibly implying he was intended to survive.
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LA Heat / int_45ca5950	type	Never Accepted in His Hometown
LA Heat / int_45ca5950	comment	Never Accepted in His Hometown: The series began filming in 1996, and in 1997, it already premiered in Germany on RTL 2 on January 20; in France on March 16, and in Portugal on May 18, and became popular. Sometime in 1998, it even began airing in the Czech Republic. Meanwhile in the US, since it didn't have a backing of a major network, it was not picked up for domestic distribution. It's US premiere came on March 15, 1999 on TNT cable network. And after TNT's contract to run the show expired, it disappeared from the American airwaves.
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LA Heat / int_4856ac40	type	Stock Footage
LA Heat / int_4856ac40	comment	Stock Footage: Many of the show's big budget car chases and explosions were sourced from scenes from PM Entertainment's feature films.
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LA Heat / int_71329e49	type	Turn in Your Badge
LA Heat / int_71329e49	comment	Turn in Your Badge and Cowboy Cop: In the finale, after his girlfriend, Nicole Stockman was killed by the series' Arc Villain Bobby Cole, Chase is suspended from the force for destroying important papers belonging to Cole. After that, he goes rogue to get Cole himself, becoming the latter in spades.
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LA Heat / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
LA Heat / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Jodi after Episode 19.
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LA Heat / int_830b0ac9	type	Final Battle
LA Heat / int_830b0ac9	comment	Final Battle: The final episode features a battle between Chase and Bobby Cole in the streets with semi-trucks, helicopters and rocket launchers, ending with a final stand-off on a pier.
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LA Heat / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
LA Heat / int_8a295a46	comment	Cool Car: The cars driven by Chase: Acura/Honda NSX and Porsche 911 (993) Carrera Cabrio. Even a one-off Bizzarini BZ-2001(provided by Watkins Properties) in the pilot episode Daybomber, and it's featured in the poster above.
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LA Heat / int_8cb4ea46	type	By-the-Book Cop
LA Heat / int_8cb4ea46	comment	The older, more experienced August, is more of a By-the-Book Cop and the pepper to the younger Chase's salt, he is more a loose cannon Cowboy Cop.
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LA Heat / int_985e118a	type	Odd Couple
LA Heat / int_985e118a	comment	Odd Couple and Saltand Pepper: The older, more experienced August, is more of a By-the-Book Cop and the pepper to the younger Chase's salt, he is more a loose cannon Cowboy Cop. Chase enjoys health food, while August likes to annoy him by eating hamburgers and bacon.
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LA Heat / int_a3385649	type	In-Joke
LA Heat / int_a3385649	comment	In-Joke: In Episode 23, Oliver King suggests cutting an action sequence from an earlier-produced film into a new project that is in production, something done on a regular basis in L.A. Heat. Also in the same episode, a boy asks 1960s TV star Wayne Berry to sign his picture of Captain Crimestopper. The boy says his name is Ricky Pepin. Richard Pepin is one of the creators and executive producers of L.A. Heat. In Episode 25, Chase tells August "I bet you don't even watch The X-Files." At the time, Steven Williams had a recurring role in the series.
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LA Heat / int_a4be7043	type	Da Chief
LA Heat / int_a4be7043	comment	Da Chief: Captain Robert Jensen, played by Kenneth Tigar.
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LA Heat / int_a6fa41b	type	Recycled Premise
LA Heat / int_a6fa41b	comment	Recycled Premise: The episode "National Security" shares things in common with the sci-fi film The Silencers, right down to the chase scene and stunts it borrows from, but it has a dream sequence in which a younger Chase sees a cow abducted by aliens.
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LA Heat / int_ad9559e6	type	Arc Villain
LA Heat / int_ad9559e6	comment	Arc Villain: Bobby Cole in Season 2.
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LA Heat / int_b9c673a6	type	Market-Based Title
LA Heat / int_b9c673a6	comment	Market-Based Title: In French-speaking countries/territories, it's known as Los Angeles Heat.
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LA Heat / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
LA Heat / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: August drops one of these during the parking garage chase in the episode "Cop Killer", but it can be hard to hear.
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LA Heat / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
LA Heat / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: August and Kendra.
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LA Heat / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
LA Heat / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: In Episode 22, when Chase visits his mentally disabled cousin, Treat, in a mental hospital, he is imitating a Tarzan yell, then asks Chase "Pretty good Tarzan, huh?", to which Chase (Wolf Larson) replies "I've heard better."
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LA Heat / int_d51263b9	type	Fake Shemp
LA Heat / int_d51263b9	comment	Fake Shemp: Detective Nicole Stockman was played by Sandra Ferguson during her first three appearances, but because Ferguson had booked a soap opera before she could be booked by LA Heat producers, in her fourth (and last) appearance she was played by Jillian McWhirter.
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LA Heat / int_db4b76d1	type	Pre-Asskicking One-Liner
LA Heat / int_db4b76d1	comment	Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: Whit in "Strange Currencies", before the shootout. Also doubles as a Punctuated! For! Emphasis!:
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LA Heat / int_ffa0483f	type	Cut Short
LA Heat / int_ffa0483f	comment	Cut Short: The filming ended in 1998 after two seasons were filmed due to financial troubles within PM Entertainment. In Fall 2000, a third season was intended to start filming. However, because financing couldn't be secured, the season was never made. PM Entertainment itself went bankrupt in 2002 and the show's creators went on their own.
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