How Long to Watch “L.A. Heat”?

leaving a long trail of broken windows, wrecked automobiles and devastated buildings in their wake. Also in the cast were Renee Tenison as August's wife Kendra, who worked at an inner-city recreation center, and Kenneth Tigar as McDonald and Brooks' explosive senior officer, Captain Jensen. During the series' first season, Chase was going steady with a girl named Jody (Dawn Radenbaugh, aka Dawn Eason), who wanted him to quit police work and join her in opening an art gallery; after Jody left the scene, Chase played the field with a variety of attractive women. Filmed on location in Southern California and packaged by the PM Entertainment Group, L.A. Heat began production in 1996, but the producers were unable to secure a network, cable or syndicated timeslot in the U.S. Thus, the series was first distributed to Europe, where it scored a phenomenal success--most notably in Germany, where it even out-rated the most popular American import of the period, Baywatch. On March 15, 1999, nearly a full year after the series closed down production, the 48-episode L.A. Heat was finally picked up for American consumption by cable's TNT network, where it ran on a daily basis for the next two seasons.