Episode guide
The Troubleshooters: Season 3
13 episodes · first aired Jan 30, 1967
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- 1 Words Are Softer Than Oil Jan 30, 1967 · 50m Peter Thornton believes the North Sea gas field extends into Dutch waters, and Mogul plans a diversion to secure it before rivals catch on. Brian Stead sends his son John, who has little…
- 2 A Damn Great Lump Of Iron Feb 6, 1967 · 49m Mogul wants a new supertanker built quickly and for no more than seven million pounds. Alec Stewart leans on Lord Ravenscar, owner of the yard, who threatens to shut the yard rather than…
- 3 My Daughter Knows Her Way Around Feb 20, 1967 · 49m On a routine trip to the Middle East, Alec Stewart is kidnapped and taken into the desert to meet a man who claims to speak for plotters against Nasser. He wants to know whether Mogul…
- 4 Home And Dry Feb 27, 1967 · 49m When a fatal accident wipes out the crew of Mogul's underwater habitat MogAqua One, Brian Stead suspends the costly programme. Peter Thornton travels to Tembigo to look into it with…
- 5 We're None Of Us Perfect Mar 6, 1967 · 50m A computer-led cost-cutting plan calls for closing Mogul's Burling bulk plant, setting Peter Thornton and Alec Stewart against each other over how to handle the unions. Stewart is prepared…
- 6 Think Big Mar 13, 1967 · 49m While Peter Thornton and Alec Stewart push ahead with plans for a giant tanker berth in County Kerry, Brian Stead is offered a high-profile government appointment for three years. He…
- 7 Some Days You Just Can't Win Mar 20, 1967 · 50m When Togamo, a small West African country, asks to charter a tanker, the odd request leads Alec Stewart to suspect that the country's petrol is being sold on in breach of sanctions against…
- 8 Nothing To Do With Mogul Mar 27, 1967 · 48m Alec Stewart's Easter plans are overturned by news that his estranged aunt has taken her own life in Stoke-on-Trent. As the only relative who can be contacted, he goes to deal with her…
- 9 No Sentiment In Business? Apr 3, 1967 · 48m When Harry Telfall is killed in a car crash, Alec Stewart and Brian Stead see a chance to buy his engineering firm and its research into battery-powered cars, which could threaten much of…
- 10 Journey From The Interior Apr 10, 1967 · 50m With no word from the Dibouti pipeline Mogul shares with Trident, Peter Thornton is sent to find out what is happening, only to stumble into a tribal rebellion. Ambushed and stranded, he…
- 11 Long Knives Cut Deep Apr 17, 1967 · 50m A mining accident in Bradgate injures Will Faulkner, whose son Gordon is part of the Gas Council team negotiating North Sea gas prices with Mogul. Looking for an advantage, Brian Stead…
- 12 Women And Business Never Did Mix Apr 24, 1967 · 46m Alec Stewart and Brian Stead are negotiating to buy the British arm of the Vornkind Group, a deal that would hand Mogul more than a third of Britain's plastics trade. Uneasy about the…
- 13 There's Always A Next Time May 1, 1967 · 49m When Mogul finds commercial oil in West Pakistan, director Alec Stewart wants the field developed at once, but Brian Stead has the wells capped and the find kept secret because of the…