Acapulco H.E.A.T.

Acapulco H.E.A.T.

Acapulco H.E.A.T. is a 1993 syndicated television series that followed the Hemisphere Emergency Action Team [H.E.A.T.], a group of top-secret agents based in Acapulco, Mexico and recruited by C-5, a secret government coalition, to fight terrorism and international crime. The team kept a low profile, by acting as models and photographers who represented a Beach Fashion enterprise.

DramaAction & AdventureCrime

Seasons

Code Name: Checkmate (1)

1. Code Name: Checkmate (1)

Air Date: 1993-09-28

In the series opener, the crime-fighting Hemisphere Emergency Action Team, H.E.A.T., receives an assignment to provide security at a counterterrorism summit, but its efforts are jeopardized by the wife of a prince.

Code Name: Checkmate (2)

2. Code Name: Checkmate (2)

Air Date: 1993-09-28

The team discovers that Strake, who was thought to be dead, is behind the kidnapping.

Code Name: Honeymoon Lost

3. Code Name: Honeymoon Lost

Air Date: 1993-10-09

The team is given the mother of all assignments: protect honeymooning Gulf War hero Alex Lassiter without the commander's knowledge.

Code Name: Strange Bedfellow

4. Code Name: Strange Bedfellow

Air Date: 1993-10-16

Ashley and Mike and Brett and Cat, pose as newlyweds at an island resort owned by a man suspected of contaminating the waters.

Code Name: Million Dollar Ladies (a.k.a. Vanished)

5. Code Name: Million Dollar Ladies (a.k.a. Vanished)

Air Date: 1993-10-23

Mike's suspicions of Ashley's friend Sergio Lanti are well founded: Lanti abducts her and makes her a captive in a white-slavery ring.

Code Name: Feminine Intuition

6. Code Name: Feminine Intuition

Air Date: 1993-10-30

H.E.A.T. travels to Colombia to stop Ashley's rival from assassinating the judge who's prosecuting a drug kingpin.

Code Name: Desert Dragon

7. Code Name: Desert Dragon

Air Date: 1993-11-06

At a karate competition, Tommy goes undercover as a coach to protect the son of an influential member of the C-5.

Code Name: Archangel

8. Code Name: Archangel

Air Date: 1993-11-13

Mike's former colleague heads security at an exhibition of a Leonardo da Vinci that H.E.A.T. suspects is targeted for theft by a neo-Nazi.

Code Name: Arabesque

9. Code Name: Arabesque

Air Date: 1993-11-20

Cat infiltrates a drug cartel run by former KGB agents to investigate the disappearance of a UN employee who may have joined the ring.

Code Name: Body Double

10. Code Name: Body Double

Air Date: 1993-11-27

Brett poses as the son of an industrialist to stop a kidnapping ring.

Code Name: Perfect Specimen

11. Code Name: Perfect Specimen

Air Date: 1993-12-04

Trailing a scientist suspected of developing biological weapons, the team stumbles onto part of his research, a man whose body's being genetically altered.

Code Name: Easy Riders

12. Code Name: Easy Riders

Air Date: 1994-01-22

Vacationers assist the H.E.A.T. in an effort to find the doctor who's running a black-market baby ring.

Code Name: Rip Van Winkle

13. Code Name: Rip Van Winkle

Air Date: 1994-01-29

The H.E.A.T. goes undercover at a rest home for former agents to find the one who's leaking information about a spy working in Russia.

Code Name: The Stalking Horse

14. Code Name: The Stalking Horse

Air Date: 1994-02-05

The H.E.A.T. must identify the person sent to assassinate a Chinese dissident from a group of 146 guests at a resort hotel.

Code Name: Frameup

15. Code Name: Frameup

Air Date: 1994-02-12

Mike is framed for murder, kidnapped and held for ransom by a terrorist whose brother he captured and sent to prison.

Code Name: Ghosts

16. Code Name: Ghosts

Air Date: 1994-02-19

A detective and a letter addressed to Ashley from a boyfriend thought to be dead complicate an investigation into an illegal arms ring.

Code Name: Stranded

17. Code Name: Stranded

Air Date: 1994-02-26

Stranded on a desert island, Cat, Krissie, Marcos and Tommy encounter a reclusive Vietnam veteran who believes that they are enemy soldiers.

Code Name: Shamrock

18. Code Name: Shamrock

Air Date: 1994-03-05

Mike suspects that a high-school buddy, now linked with a terrorist group, may be planning an attack on politicians attending a free-trade conference in Mexico.

Code Name: Stalemate (1)

19. Code Name: Stalemate (1)

Air Date: 1994-04-30

The H.E.A.T. guards a former KGB agent attending a chess match, but the game may be up when the team's nemesis returns to assassinate the Russian.

Code Name: Stalemate (2)

20. Code Name: Stalemate (2)

Air Date: 1994-05-07

Mike and Ashley match wits with Strake, who demands Sokol in return for Krissie.

Code Name: Deep Six

21. Code Name: Deep Six

Air Date: 1994-05-14

Cat bristles when the deep-sea diver she and Brett are assigned to protect refuses to allow her on an expedition.

Code Name: Assassin

22. Code Name: Assassin

Air Date: 1994-05-21

When Mike is shot, Ashley immediately suspects Neil Strake. But there's one problem -- Strake's being held in a high-security facility in Mexico.

Code Name: The Raven (1)

1. Code Name: The Raven (1)

Air Date: 1998-09-23

The team is restructured and given a tough assignment: find a criminal who stole a warehouse full of art.

Code Name: The Raven (2)

2. Code Name: The Raven (2)

Air Date: 1998-09-30

The newly re-formed H.E.A.T. bands together to cage The Raven.

Code Name: Spear of Destiny

3. Code Name: Spear of Destiny

Air Date: 1998-10-07

The H.E.A.T. searches for a religious icon rumored to have mystical powers, which is also being sought by a dangerous extremist group.

Code Name: Day of the Dead

4. Code Name: Day of the Dead

Air Date: 1998-10-14

The team is hired to recover stolen gold in Puerto Vallarta, and ends up dealing with competing factions who are also looking for it.

Code Name: Dream Girl

5. Code Name: Dream Girl

Air Date: 1998-10-21

A young woman asks the team for asylum in exchange for information about a terrorist.

Code Name: The Killing Club

6. Code Name: The Killing Club

Air Date: 1998-10-28

A man asks the team to look for his missing nephew, but Tommy's search on a private island leads to his own kidnapping.

Code Name: Mr. Paradise

7. Code Name: Mr. Paradise

Air Date: 1998-11-04

A mob boss calls a contract on the people connected with a car accident that killed his son.

Code Name: The Mouse That Squeaked

8. Code Name: The Mouse That Squeaked

Air Date: 1998-11-11

A peace activist starting his own republic may be robbing banks to finance his venture.

Code Name: Easy Green

9. Code Name: Easy Green

Air Date: 1998-11-18

A payment turns out to be in phony money, spurring the gang to take on a counterfeiting ring.

Code Name: Dangerous Bait

10. Code Name: Dangerous Bait

Air Date: 1998-11-25

Cat poses as the wife of a visiting dignitary to prevent a kidnapping.

Code Name: Million Dollar Man

11. Code Name: Million Dollar Man

Air Date: 1998-12-02

A mafioso wants to turn himself in to the authorities and give the reward to his daughter as a wedding present, so he hires the team to protect him from a rival mob.

Code Name: Death of a Friendship

12. Code Name: Death of a Friendship

Air Date: 1999-01-23

The team investigates the car-bombing murder of the president of a Caribbean island.

Code Name: Sister Soothsayer

13. Code Name: Sister Soothsayer

Air Date: 1999-01-30

A psychic hires the team to find her brother, whom she suspects is in El Salvador.

Code Name: Hot Chains

14. Code Name: Hot Chains

Air Date: 1999-02-06

The sister of a kidnap victim hires the H.E.A.T. team to investigate a possible white-slavery ring.

Code Name: Till Death Do Us Part

15. Code Name: Till Death Do Us Part

Air Date: 1999-02-13

A widow needs the team to prove her husband is really dead and not faking it, but their investigation reveals that the man has several other grieving wives.

Code Name: Cumshaw

16. Code Name: Cumshaw

Air Date: 1999-02-20

The murder of a soldier and a string of arms thefts leads an army colonel to hire the team to secretly investigate the crimes.

Code Name: Phantom

17. Code Name: Phantom

Air Date: 1999-02-27

A film director hires the H.E.A.T. team to investigate a series of accidents that occurred on the set.

Code Name: Bucket of Blood

18. Code Name: Bucket of Blood

Air Date: 1999-03-06

Doctors learn that the blood of a wounded criminal could save the lives of sick children, but the man escapes before they can collect it from him.

Code Name: Cult Zero

19. Code Name: Cult Zero

Air Date: 1999-03-13

The H.E.A.T. team is asked to provide security for a supposedly peaceable cult, but Johanna is drawn to the organization. Then her companions learn the cult's real purpose.

Code Name: Blood Ties

20. Code Name: Blood Ties

Air Date: 1999-04-24

A former H.E.A.T. member enlists Nicole and the team to save his fiancée after she's kidnapped by her own father, a powerful senator opposed to the impending nuptials.

Code Name: Matador

21. Code Name: Matador

Air Date: 1999-05-01

Cat urges her cohorts into action after she witnesses the death of a drug dealer and uncovers a mysterious conspiracy of silence on behalf of the proper officials.

Code Name: Juice

22. Code Name: Juice

Air Date: 1999-05-08

A female D.E.A. agent helps the team bust a ring of drug smugglers supplying illegal steroids to athletes after Tommy's karate opponent dies during a match.

Code Name: Lollipop, Lollipop

23. Code Name: Lollipop, Lollipop

Air Date: 1999-05-15

The team tries to rescue a millionaire's niece who was abducted by a South American drug czar, but it seems she may not want to be saved.

Code Name: The Stolen Leg

24. Code Name: The Stolen Leg

Air Date: 1999-05-22

Hired by a tennis star to track down his missing prosthetic limb, the team stumbles upon a counterfeiting ring that needs the contents of the athlete's appendage.

Code Name: Flight 401

25. Code Name: Flight 401

Air Date: 1999-05-29

The team springs into action after an embittered ex-CIA operative seizes control of a commercial flight.

Code Name: I Remember

26. Code Name: I Remember

Air Date: 1999-06-05

In the series finale, through a series of flashbacks and clips, the team members recall their most daring rescues.

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Rating

5.1/10

Release Date

1993-09-28

Episodes

48 (2 seasons)

Status

Ended

Cast

Production Companies

Keller Entertainment Group

M6 Films

M6 Films

Les Films du Triangle

CNC

CNC

Balenciaga Productions