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Troubleshooters

  • 1959-1960
  • 1 season
  • NBC
  • Action & Adventure

The Troubleshooters is an American 26-segment half-hour adventure/drama television series starring Keenan Wynn as Kodiak and Bob Mathias as Frank Dugan. The show aired on NBC. The stories were based on events at international construction sites.

Season 1 Episode Guide

26 Episodes 1959 - 1960

Episode 1

Liquid Death

Fri, Sep 11, 1959 30 mins

Episode 2

The Law and the Profits

Fri, Sep 18, 1959 30 mins

Episode 3

Trouble at Elbow Bend

Fri, Sep 25, 1959 30 mins

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Episode 4

The Lower Depths

Fri, Oct 2, 1959 30 mins

Episode 5

Tiger Culhane

Fri, Oct 9, 1959 30 mins

Two construction crews brawl in the Polaris Cafe and demolish it. To cover the damages, each crew selects Its best fighter to battle it out, with the losing crew paying for the repairs. Kodiak picks Tiger Culhane to represent his crew.

Episode 6

Moment of Terror

Fri, Oct 16, 1959 30 mins

Kodiak and his crew are building a hydroelectric plant in the Northwest, when two escaped convicts kidnap him.

Episode 7

Gino

Fri, Oct 23, 1959 30 mins

While he's building a road in Italy, Kodiak's motorcycle is stolen. One of his workmen discovers the thief, a young boy.

Episode 8

Pipeline

Fri, Oct 30, 1959 30 mins

Kodiak and his crew are laying an oil pipeline in a small Middle-Eastern nation. Dugan discovers that rebels are plotting to assassinate the ruler.

Episode 9

Trapped

Fri, Nov 13, 1959 30 mins

A young boy accidentally slips and falls into a huge crack in the ground. Dugan and Kodiak work feverishly to save the youngster's life.

Episode 10

The Big Squeeze

Fri, Nov 20, 1959 30 mins

Kodiak and Dugan are in Canada to speed up work on a dam. But local farmers offer opposition. They fear that the project will help a religious sect's cooperative farm and that they're going to be undersold.

Episode 11

Downrange

Fri, Nov 27, 1959 30 mins

Construction is lagging on one of the company's big Pacific projects, and Kodiak is sent to find out why. The answer: the job boss has been neglecting his work, for a woman.

Episode 12

Tunnel to Yesterday

Fri, Dec 4, 1959 30 mins

Drilling into the Bavarian Alps, Kodiak and Dugan uncover an underground military fortress, manned by a group of fanatical Nazis. They are unaware that World War II is over.

Episode 13

The Chain

Fri, Dec 11, 1959 30 mins

The construction job is finished when Kodiak and Dugan discover that their project is partly on private property. A girl is the owner of the land and Dugan gets the job of persuading her to sign a settlement.

Episode 14

Trouble at the Orphanage

Fri, Dec 25, 1959 30 mins

In Greece on a construction job, Kodiak investigates a minor theft. The trail takes him to an orphanage. He discovers that the children have no fresh water, so he decides to dig a well for the orphanage.

Episode 15

The Mountain That Moved

Fri, Jan 1, 1960 30 mins

Episode 16

High Steel

Fri, Jan 15, 1960 30 mins

A tribe of Mohawk Indians, famous for their construction work high in the air, are assigned to Kodiak to complete a project. The Indians take delight in taunting one member of their crew who is afraid of heights.

Episode 17

Harry Maru

Fri, Jan 22, 1960 30 mins

Episode 18

The Big Blaze

Fri, Jan 29, 1960 30 mins

Episode 19

Head-Hunter Road

Mon, Feb 1, 1960 30 mins

Kodiak and Dugan are building a road in a jungle in the Far East when work is stopped by some unreconstructed head-hunters and the pair are held captive by the savages

Episode 20

The Town That Wouldn't Die

Fri, Feb 19, 1960 30 mins

Families and crew members living in the same place for two years during a construction job, decide they want to remain permanently in the small town by the Mississippi river. They request that Kodiak allow them use of the company's equipment in order to build dikes for protection from floods.

Episode 21

Incident at Rain Mountain

Fri, Feb 26, 1960 30 mins

During a rush construction job at Rain Mountain, a young girl appeals to Dugan to look for her fiance, who was in a plane crash. Kodiak orders Dugan to finish the job first, but Dugan refuses.

Episode 22

Senorita

Fri, Mar 4, 1960 30 mins

For saving the life of a South American farmer, Kodiak receives a burro that seems more trouble than she's worth.

Episode 23

The Landmark

Fri, Mar 11, 1960 30 mins

The bulldozers come to a barn which turns out to be a Civil War monument. Dugan and Kodiak are not certain it ought to be razed.

Episode 24

Fire in the Hole

Fri, Mar 18, 1960 30 mins

Construction boss resents the new M.I.T. Engineering School graduate sent to him by his company. But the young man proves his worth when a cave-in occurs.

Episode 25

No Stone Unturned

Fri, Mar 25, 1960 30 mins

Working on a flood-control project in South Vietnam, Kodiak has to buck interference from a gentleman named Mr. Moon, who makes demands on the native laborers' time and money.

Episode 26

The Carnival

Sun, Apr 10, 1960 30 mins

"The Carnivsl" is slated to give a benefit performance for a crippled youngster. But its owner has an accident near Kodiak's construction job and threatens to move the show out of town.

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