
Troubleshooters
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.
- 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
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.