The Troubleshooters

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 African bush.

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.

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.

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.

In the desert water can be just as valuable as oil - and just as explosive, as Peter Thornton finds out to his cost.

When management efficiency experts arrive, rumours of redundancy sweep Mogul's head office.

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 him centre on Jane Webb, Stead's former secreatary.

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 manager with a South African wife, Jack Robbins, who lives up country with an African girl, and Peter Thornton himself.

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, with Thronton's help, has to cope with the problems involved.

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 threatens to blow up the refinery.

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.

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.

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 defeat.

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 great.

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-four years old is dragged up in an attempt to discredit him.

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. But he has never expressed strong political opinions and he certainly doesn't need the money. So why should he spy?

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 merger battle. For the crucial board meeting the directors must be away from outside interference.

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 shares. Vital shares as the Mogul - Zenith battle reaches its climax.

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 going to see Dr. Liebling? And what is Dr. Liebling doing there anyway? It takes a terrifying experience to clear up the mystery.

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 that Mogul needs. The big question is: what has Mogul got that the inventor needs?

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 secret ambitions - and qualifications - which Willy decides to further. He expected to come up against apartheid, but another completely unexpected obstacle crops up which calls for uncharacteristic forcefulness from the normally gentle Izard.

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. But - there's this bird, see.... and birds, feathered of course, spell trouble for Mogul.

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.

Angola spells trouble for Mogul when Thornton becomes a pawn in the struggle between African rebels and the Portuguese authorities.

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?

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 and danger.

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 help? This is one of Thornton's most puzzling assignments, and even when he solves it he does not believe what he finds.

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 twentieth century.

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.

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.

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.

Thornton is sent to Singapore on a secret mission.

Zenith drop a bombshell into the world of Mogul. The repercussions will influence the company for a long time to come.

Thornton takes a chance in Thailand - and lands Mogul in trouble.

Personal conflict flares when Stewart and Grandmercy try to carry a dangerous cargo into the Venezuelan Jungle.

Mogul strike oil off Scotland. But when Thornton disappears, Stead discovers there can be more problems at home than in the desert.

Thornton gets involved with gun-runners when he is sent to Europe to find the secret of an African Power struggle.

Returning to the Sudan arouses forgotten memories for Stead. But Thornton and Eileen are faced with saving a tanker from shipwreck.

Alec Stewart, now chief of the New York office of Mogul, battles with America's oil giants. But has he made a fatal mistake?

A loan Mogul desperately needs for a new refinery is being blocked by the Bank. Stead thinks that the manager is mentally unbalanced.

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.

Adesert sheik tries to buy Eileen O'Rourke. But Szabo thinks this is too high a price for an oil concession.

Thornton faces danger in the international power boat race. But for Mogul there are greater risks on shore.

Why was Ann Rendell sacked? Izard fights an injustice, but finds himself enmeshed in a sinister operation.

Find this man and bring him here, Stead orders Thornton. But the man in question is crossing the Sahara Desert!

Stead's life is in Thornton's hands when the Rhodesian oil ban takes them to Africa

Trouble flares for Alec Stewart when a hero from his past intrudes on his present.

There is strong local opposition to Mogul's plan to build a thirty million pound refinery on the west coast of Wales.

Trapped in the Arctic wastes of Spitsbergen, one mistake could cost Peter Thornton his life.

A joy-ride becomes a nightmare for Alec Stewart, driving through France in an international rally.

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 have presented totally different schemes for re-equipping the station and their conflict has now reached the point where Stead has to send out Thornton to arbitrate.

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.

Stead faces a crisis when an African state seizes a Mogul refinery.

Thornton faces great danger when a hurricane strikes Mogul's new Caribbean drilling rig.

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.

The building of a new super tanker for Mogul in a Tees-side shipyard becomes a seven milion pound headache for Thornton.

Trouble boils up for Stead during a cross-country car rally. Izard has to put his personal life before Mogul

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.

A bomb explodes as Stewart arrives at Saigon Airport. Soon he becomes heavily involved in the conflicts of a warring people.

The first aircraft using Mogul's new fuel crashes. Who was to blame - Mogul or the pilot?

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 promotion and instead offered the job of regional manager.

Trouble erupts around Mogul's new North Sea rig when a few unguarded words open old wounds in a Tyneside shipyard.

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.

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.

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 and head home but gets no further than a brothel.

Wildcat drilling is a calculated risk for Mogul. But for an African executive backing his own judgment it brings still greater hazards.

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 the men on the spot, particularly the area manager Charles Andrews, who thought that he should have had the job.

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 the rig to discover which rigger talked.