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The Troubleshooters — Storyline

The Troubleshooters is a British television series made by the BBC between 1965 and 1972, created by John Elliot. During its run, the series made the transition from black and white to colour transmissions.

The series was based around an international oil company – the "Mogul" of the title. The first series was mostly concerned with the internal politics within the Mogul organisation, with episodes revolving around industrial espionage, internal fraud and negligence almost leading to an accident on a North Sea oil rig.

Cast & Crew

• Created by: John Elliot
• Starring: Geoffrey Keen, Ray Barrett, Philip Latham

The Troubleshooters — Series Details

The Troubleshooters — Episode Guide

Season 1

• E1: Kelly's Eye (1965-07-07) — Mogul strikes oil in the North Sea and everyone is sworn to secrecy. So when the story leaks to the press, executive Brian Stead wants the culprit sacked. Peter Thornton is sent to
• E2: Young Turk (1965-07-14) — Robert Driscoll is sent out to take over negotiations for an important Middle East oil concession after the mogul representative has been killed in the desert. Driscoll antagonises
• E3: Safety Man (1965-07-21)
• E4: Wildcat (1965-07-28) — Wildcat drilling is a calculated risk for Mogul. But for an African executive backing his own judgment it brings still greater hazards.
• E5: Tosh and Nora (1965-08-05) — Heavy drinking Tosh Brinkwater has married late in life and starts to regret the decisions he has made and needs to settle down. Stuck in a boat in Egypt he decides to jump ship an
• E6: The Schloss Belt (1965-08-12)
• E7: Out of Range (1965-08-19) — The desert is like the sea. It takes possession of a man's soul. For a young geologist seeking to prove himself it is exciting. But like the sea the desert is dangerous.
• E8: The Way It Crumbles (1965-08-26) — Motor racing means excitement; it also means danger. Driscoll faces personal risk when he opposes Stead and tries to steer Mogul into Grand Prix racing.
• E9: A Job for Willy (1965-09-02) — Trouble erupts around Mogul's new North Sea rig when a few unguarded words open old wounds in a Tyneside shipyard.
• E10: Meet Miss Mogul (1965-09-09) — The glittering world of advertising is a wonderful dream for Miss Mogul, Sandra Spratt. But others have a different view – and create a headache for Derek Prentice and Mogul.
• E11: Stoneface (1965-09-16) — Prejudice has deep roots. Driscoll is involved in an explosive situation in northern Canada when Mogul takes an Iroquois Indian for an important job.
• E12: Driver of the Year (1965-09-22) — Freedom is very desirable. But when Peter Thornton envies the life of a Mogul tanker driver he finds that no man is as free as he seems.
• E13: Borrowed Time (1965-09-29) — A beautiful girl and a heart attack combine to make Brian Stead want to retire. But attacks from within Mogul rouse his fighting instincts and complicate his decision.

Season 2

• E1: Is That Tiger, Man (1966-04-30) — Peter Thornton is in the West Indies. His marriage to Steve is rocky and she has met Tiger, a local diver. Alec Stewart arrives to expand the new oil field but has taken Thornton's
• E2: When You Gotta Go (1966-05-07)
• E3: Thea (1966-05-14)
• E4: If You Can't Lick 'Em (1966-05-21)
• E5: This Is Where I Came In (1966-05-28)
• E6: Birdstrike (1966-06-04) — The first aircraft using Mogul's new fuel crashes. Who was to blame – Mogul or the pilot?
• E7: The Fires of Hell (1966-06-11)
• E8: Wingless Wonder (1966-06-18)
• E9: Cablegrams Come Expensive (1966-06-25)
• E10: Operation Saigon (1966-07-02) — A bomb explodes as Stewart arrives at Saigon Airport. Soon he becomes heavily involved in the conflicts of a warring people.
• E11: Baptism of Fire (1966-07-09) — Fire, explosions and dangerous break outs in Mogul's new rig in the Persian Gulf. Stewart and Thornton clash head-on in their efforts to save it.
• E12: Join the Club (1966-07-16) — Trouble boils up for Stead during a cross-country car rally. Izard has to put his personal life before Mogul
• E13: Do Your Best For The Lads (1966-07-23) — The building of a new super tanker for Mogul in a Tees-side shipyard becomes a seven milion pound headache for Thornton.
• E14: Someone's Head Has To Roll (1966-07-30) — Izard faces a desperate threat to his position at Mogul. As usual he views the crisis with amused detachment – although this may be just a protective front.
• E15: Troubled Waters (1966-08-06) — Thornton faces great danger when a hurricane strikes Mogul's new Caribbean drilling rig.
• E16: What's Yours Is Mine (1966-08-13) — Stead faces a crisis when an African state seizes a Mogul refinery.
• E17: The Bigger They Are (1966-08-20) — Mogul bring in Dr Newman to make a decision over where their new oil platform in the Mediterranean should be. For some reason the Italian office are not cooperating.
• E18: Some Wet Night In Sauchiehall Street (1966-08-27) — Professional and personal conflicts have broken out between two Scots engineers at one of Mogul's pumping stations in North Africa. Glaswegian MacCallum and Garvie from Edinburgh h
• E19: Error of Judgement (1966-09-03) — A joy-ride becomes a nightmare for Alec Stewart, driving through France in an international rally.
• E20: They're Probably Drilling For Oil (1966-09-10) — Trapped in the Arctic wastes of Spitsbergen, one mistake could cost Peter Thornton his life.
• E21: A Run For Their Money (1966-09-17) — There is strong local opposition to Mogul's plan to build a thirty million pound refinery on the west coast of Wales.
• E22: Happy Landings (1966-09-24) — Trouble flares for Alec Stewart when a hero from his past intrudes on his present.
• E23: There's Nothing Like The Great Outdoors (1966-10-01) — Looking for a new drilling site, a survey team has been working in Northern Ontario for two years in vain. Time is running short and Thornton is sent out to hurry things along. He
• E24: Out Of Your Evil Dream (1966-10-08) — Is Mogul's new chemical crop spray a killer? Stewart must judge when a scientist rebels.
• E25: Four Cheers For Geoffrey (1966-10-15) — Blackmailer, fraudster, agitator – or brilliant young exceutive? Finding out the truth about Brady is one of Thornton's toughest assignments.
• E26: No Such Thing As Luck (1966-10-22) — Mogul is the only major oil company which has so far failed to strike gas in the North Sea. Bad weather has put all the drilling rigs out of action and the company is in danger of

Season 3

• E1: Words Are Softer Than Oil (1967-01-30)
• E2: A Damn Great Lump Of Iron (1967-02-06)
• E3: My Daughter Knows Her Way Around (1967-02-20)
• E4: Home And Dry (1967-02-27)
• E5: We're None Of Us Perfect (1967-03-06)
• E6: Think Big (1967-03-13)
• E7: Some Days You Just Can't Win (1967-03-20) — Stead's life is in Thornton's hands when the Rhodesian oil ban takes them to Africa
• E8: Nothing To Do With Mogul (1967-03-27)
• E9: No Sentiment In Business? (1967-04-03)
• E10: Journey From The Interior (1967-04-10)
• E11: Long Knives Cut Deep (1967-04-17)
• E12: Women And Business Never Did Mix (1967-04-24)
• E13: There's Always A Next Time (1967-05-01)

Season 4

• E1: Dragon By The Tail (1967-10-13)
• E2: The Daring Young Man (1967-10-20) — Find this man and bring him here, Stead orders Thornton. But the man in question is crossing the Sahara Desert!
• E3: Where The Carpet Ends (1967-10-27) — Why was Ann Rendell sacked? Izard fights an injustice, but finds himself enmeshed in a sinister operation.
• E4: Winner Lose All (1967-11-10) — Thornton faces danger in the international power boat race. But for Mogul there are greater risks on shore.
• E5: A Nice White Girl – Is She For Sale? (1967-11-17) — Adesert sheik tries to buy Eileen O'Rourke. But Szabo thinks this is too high a price for an oil concession.
• E6: Me Know-How (1967-11-24) — Willy Izard tries to repay a debt to his former boss. But loyalty can cloud a man's judgment – as Willy learns to his cost.
• E7: And The Walls Came Tumbling Down (1967-12-01)
• E8: Good Lord, No, It's Illegal (1967-12-08) — A loan Mogul desperately needs for a new refinery is being blocked by the Bank. Stead thinks that the manager is mentally unbalanced.
• E9: Thanks For Nothing (1967-12-15) — Alec Stewart, now chief of the New York office of Mogul, battles with America's oil giants. But has he made a fatal mistake?
• E10: Rest You Merry (1967-12-22)
• E11: Who Buys Who? (1967-12-29)
• E12: The Deeper You Dig (1968-01-05)
• E13: Kitchener Knew It Well (1968-01-12) — Returning to the Sudan arouses forgotten memories for Stead. But Thornton and Eileen are faced with saving a tanker from shipwreck.
• E14: The Sharp End Of The Wedge (1968-01-19) — Thornton gets involved with gun-runners when he is sent to Europe to find the secret of an African Power struggle.
• E15: Just A Bunch Of Arabs In Kilts (1968-01-26) — Mogul strike oil off Scotland. But when Thornton disappears, Stead discovers there can be more problems at home than in the desert.
• E16: Not For My Friend – He's Driving (1968-02-09) — Personal conflict flares when Stewart and Grandmercy try to carry a dangerous cargo into the Venezuelan Jungle.
• E17: Stop It, You're Breaking My Heart (1968-02-16)
• E18: A Girl To Warm Your Feet On (1968-02-23) — Thornton takes a chance in Thailand – and lands Mogul in trouble.
• E19: Give Me The Simple Life (1968-03-01)
• E20: A Slight Problem With The Press (1968-03-08)
• E21: Never The Twain (1968-03-15)
• E22: Cut Off Whose Nose (1968-03-22)
• E23: The Day The Sea Caught Fire (1968-03-29) — Bad weather causes the collapse of an oil rig in the Caribbean with loss of life. Mogul's problems mount when witnesses say the rig had a major structural problem.
• E24: The Dispossessed (1968-04-05)
• E25: The Wrecking Of The Sierra Nevada (1968-04-19) — Mogul makes efforts to save a giant tanker aground off Florida with a cargo of 100,000 tons of crude oil. Thornton, acting for Stead, wants to bomb the ship, but Stewart has his ow
• E26: The Minister of the Crown… and the Very Compromising Photograph (1968-05-03)

Season 5

• E1: A Dirty Old Man And A Rare Bird (1969-01-06) — Zenith drop a bombshell into the world of Mogul. The repercussions will influence the company for a long time to come.
• E2: Twenty Years Is No Time At All (1969-01-13) — Thornton is sent to Singapore on a secret mission.
• E3: How Much Is One Man Worth? (1969-01-20) — How much is one man worth? When Ted Kihi is trapped in a Malaysian cave Peter Thornton turns the whole resources of Mogul, and his own skill as an oil man, to the rescue operation.
• E4: If He Hollers, Let Him Go (1969-01-27) — The lovely Mrs. Foss, wife of Mogul's founder, turns up in London in the middle of a takeover battle. Inevitably she brings chaos and confusion – particularly to Alec Stewart.
• E5: A Very Special Relationship (1969-02-03) — Stead's plans for expansion in Europe as part of his fight against Zenith take a knock when a French multi-millionaire marries a film starlet.
• E6: There's A Nasty Word – Love (1969-02-10) — Alec and Roz Stewart find themselves in the uncomfortable world between east and west when they arrive in Japan, where the traditions of a thousand years conflict with life in the
• E7: You're Not Going to Believe This, But… (1969-02-17) — Why should the manager of Mogul's Malaysian station insult the local sultan? Why does he not remember things? Why does he turn against Thornton, an old friend, when he tries to hel
• E8: Take-Over Is Two Four-Letter Words (1969-02-24) — Mogul faces protests and demonstrations when a group of redundant employees occupy a distribution depot. A situation which starts as something small quickly develops into tension a
• E9: Everybody Is That Kind Of Man (1969-03-03) — Are Stewart and Stead trying to bribe their way to an important refinery project in Scotland? And what part does Zenith play in the attempts to corrupt a Scots official?
• E10: So You Think You're One Of Us (1969-03-10) — Angola spells trouble for Mogul when Thornton becomes a pawn in the struggle between African rebels and the Portuguese authorities.
• E11: They've More Than Their Assets Frozen (1969-03-17) — Thornton faces incredible hardship in Alaska. But added to the dangers and difficulties is the knowledge that the whole future of Mogul could depend on his success or failure.
• E12: There's This Bird, See… (1969-03-24) — A remote island in the Indian Ocean may seem the perfect drilling location. No population, beautiful weather, not even a foreign government to deal with for it is British owned. Bu
• E13: You Want A Clockwork Nightingale (1969-03-31) — The executives of Mogul's South African subsidiary think their office boy Zeke is only capable of 'totin' barges and liftin' bales', but Willy Izard has other ideas. Zeke has secre
• E14: Don't Ask, Take (1969-04-14) — Eccentric individualists cannot be successfully absorbed into big organisations, but Brian Stead decides to take up the challenge. He realises that an inventor has got something th
• E15: Doctor Liebling, I Presume (1969-04-21) — Papuan headhunters are not a common danger to Mogul. But they are only one of the hazards Peter Thornton has to face. Why does the Australian District Commissioner try to stop him
• E16: You Can't Trust Women (1969-04-28) — Ghislaine Foss's hand is sought by both Zenith and Mogul. Why? Because besides having a young and glamourous millionairess at the end of it it also contains a fistful of Mogul shar
• E17: Really. She Did, She Really Did (1969-05-05) — Brian Stead takes the entire board of Mogul International across the Atlantic on the Queen Elizabeth II. But this is no empty gesture. The moment of decision has arrived in the mer
• E18: Some Of The Mud Is Bound To Stick (1969-05-12) — Is Alec Stewart a spy? The Algerian authorities think so. It is possible. He travels all over the world, is accepted everywhere without question and he moves in the highest circles
• E19: Lord, What A Tangled Web (1969-05-19) — Memories of 1945 come flooding back to Brian Stead when he revisits Berlin, where Mogul are drilling for natural gas. He served there at the end of the war, and an incident twenty-
• E20: And One Wise Man Came Out From The East (1969-06-02) — Thornton questions his loyalty when he is lost in the Australian outback without radio and without salt tablets. Struggling to survive he wonders whether Mogul's demands are too gr
• E21: Let's All Drop Out Together (1969-06-09) — Thornton resigns from Mogul. Lying peacefully on a beach in Fiji he resists attempts from Stead and Izard to change his mind. But Stead has a few tricks to pull before he admits de
• E22: She'll Be Right Mate (1969-06-16) — Thornton returns to the fold – straight into a row between the New Zealand government and Mogul over the movement of a drilling rig from that country to Indonesia.
• E23: It's A Very Bad Day For Travelling (1969-06-23) — An important contract can be won in Ceylon. But Mogul's manager there, Henry Burton, doesn't seem to be trying. Thornton must not only find out why but also take the decisions need
• E24: This Place Is A Paradise, Mister (1969-06-30) — Thornton is taken prisoner on a Caribbean island paradise. 'King' George Watt doesn't want a Mogul invasion and he is supported by French anthropologist Dr. Leduc, who is using the
• E25: They Call Me Israel (1969-07-07)
• E26: Over The Hill (1969-07-14)

Season 6

• E1: The Slick And The Dread (1970-05-18) — Stead is back in his haven, all's right with the world. But his quiet trip to the Caribbean on a Mogul supertanker produces unexpected developments.
• E2: A Pig In A Pipe (1970-05-25) — Stead's visit to a Mogul refinery in Africa causes problems for Peter Thornton. The simple job of organizing a ceremonial event becomes highly dangerous when a sacked engineer thre
• E3: Camelot On A Clear Day (1970-06-01) — A world famous leprosy hospital lies in the path of Mogul's exploration teams in East Africa. The ageing Dr. Hoffman who runs it is idolised by millions, including Willy Izard, who
• E4: Who Did You Say Inherits The Earth? (1970-06-08)
• E5: The Price Of A Bride (1970-06-15) — What is the price of a bride? When the government of the African state of Manzaya decide to throw out Mogul's manager three men are faced with this question: Ralph Grant, the manag
• E6: Operation Black Gold (1970-06-22) — What is it like to be captured by dangerous mercenaries in an African civil war? Willy Izard finds out when he replaces Thornton on a trip to Ebon. Mogul's frantic attempts to free
• E7: We All Need Experts (1970-06-29) — When management efficiency experts arrive, rumours of redundancy sweep Mogul's head office.
• E8: I'm Glad I'm Just an Oilman… (1970-07-06) — In the desert water can be just as valuable as oil – and just as explosive, as Peter Thornton finds out to his cost.
• E9: Boys And Girls Come Out To Play (1970-07-13) — The attempts of Stead, Thornton and Izard to pin down a multi-millionaire take them to a health farm, the Cannes Film Festival, a continental casino and a Scottish cattle sale.
• E10: The Dangerous Green Impala (1970-07-20) — Haiti is notorious for its voodoo and its secret police. Stead becomes involved in a desperate and dangerous battle for control of Mogul's local company.
• E11: A Truly Exotic Development (1970-07-27) — Alec Stewart is involved in an explosive situation. Mogul's drilling rig on a Caribbean island has been sabotaged. Stead send Alec's old rival Thornton out to investigate.
• E12: That's Africa, Baby (1970-08-03) — Tribal quarrels, witch doctors, political double-dealing, a drunken hotel-keeper and a mysterious blow-back on a decrepit drilling rig – all hundreds of miles from nowhere in the A
• E13: They Shall Not Pass (1970-08-10)
• E14: Let's See The Colour Of Your Money (1970-08-17)
• E15: Hey We've Got A Problem Here (1970-08-24) — Mogul's experiments in shipping oil out of Alaska under the ice in giant submarine tankers have gone well. Now Izard, Stead and Thornton visit their submarine, not in Alaska but in
• E16: The Order Of The Good Time (1970-08-31) — Industry, pollution, overcrowding – Stead is feeling the pressures of them all when he gets to Nova Scotia. Here he finds the perfect site for Mogul's new refinery. But is it perfe
• E17: Injury To The Nation (1970-09-07) — Stead, Thornton and Izard are on trial tonight. State secrets have been leaked to a foreign power, and the Ministry of defence investigator, Commander Frayne, says the leak must be

Frequently Asked Questions

How many seasons does The Troubleshooters have? 7 season(s) with 136 episodes.

Who created The Troubleshooters? John Elliot.

Where can I watch The Troubleshooters? See the Where to Watch section above for current streaming options.