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The Troubleshooters

TV series
1965–1972
7 seasons
BBC One
Drama

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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.

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The Troubleshooters (titled Mogul for its first series) is a British television drama series made by the BBC and broadcast on BBC1 from 1965 to 1972. Created by John Elliot, it followed the executives and field men of Mogul, a fictional international oil company, from the boardroom in London to drilling rigs, refineries and tankers around the world.

The first series, produced by Peter Graham Scott, was a run of largely self-contained plays and drew disappointing audiences, but it was renewed on condition that it became more popular and took a new title. From 1966, as The Troubleshooters, it centred on a small regular cast led by Geoffrey Keen as Brian Stead, Ray Barrett as Peter Thornton, Philip Latham as Willy Izard and Robert Hardy as Alec Stewart. It won the Guild of Television Producers and Directors award for the best drama series of 1966, regularly drew audiences of seven to nine million, and was sold overseas. Anthony Read produced the last three series, the final two of which were made in colour.

The series ran for seven series and 136 episodes. Under the BBC's wiping policy of the time most of the videotapes were erased, and 48 episodes are known to survive, most of them as black-and-white film recordings.

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