Season 6

1970-05-18 · 50m

Back from convalescence, Brian Stead announces he will name a deputy and sails for the Caribbean aboard one of Mogul's new supertankers, apparently to offer Alec Stewart the post. On board he takes to Captain Millway, a model company man in line to become commodore of the fleet, but starts piecing together evidence about a big spill off Madagascar for which a Greek captain took the blame.

1970-05-25 · 50m

Brian Stead plans to attend the opening of new refinery extensions in the East African state of Manzaya, and sends Peter Thornton ahead to check security after a pipeline engineer was killed. Thornton finds the pipeline has now been blown up and puts heavy pressure on the strained engineer in charge, Bill Jackson, to have the oil flowing in time, while the dead man's widow, Mrs. George, organises the ceremony.

1970-06-01 · 50m

Mogul learns that the leper hospital run for forty years by the revered Dr. Heinrich Hoffmann stands in the middle of its planned drilling area in East Africa, and the government of Kasemba will not alter the concession. Protests pour in from the doctor's admirers around the world, Peter Thornton has to calm restless engineers, and Willy Izard, a longstanding admirer, goes to meet Hoffmann himself.

1970-06-08 · 49m

In Alaska, an Inuit hunter, Nivilak, uses a high-powered rifle to pin down Mogul's drilling crew in protest at the loss of his people's hunting grounds, and rig boss Tommy Eastwind, an Iroquois, sympathises too much to report it. Brian Stead and Peter Thornton, attending an oil conference in Alaska with Nina Kapler as Stead's adviser, learn what is going on, while prospectors serve writs claiming the concessions are theirs.

1970-06-15 · 48m

When the government of Manzaya orders the deportation of Mogul's manager Ralph Grant, apparently because his wife is South African, Peter Thornton goes out to deal with it and finds marriage complicating everything. The man he wants as a replacement, Jack Robbins, is living with an African woman in the bush, and she is expecting his child, and Thornton's own wedding plans with Roley Johnson are threatened by his duties.

1970-06-22 · 50m

In Ebon, an African state torn by civil war, mercenaries serving a breakaway regime hold Mogul's oilfield. Dudley FitzGibbon kidnaps Willy Izard and takes him to Mogul's refinery on the coast, where Commandant Tyler intends to sell oil for cash to pirate tankers. In London, Peter Thornton tracks down FitzGibbon's fiancée Jane Webb, once Brian Stead's secretary, and persuades her to help secure Izard's release.

1970-06-29 · 49m

Brian Stead hires management consultants to reorganise the head office, and fear of redundancy spreads through the building as the experts move from department to department. For two long-serving employees, Henry Wynn and Charles Attwell, the upheaval threatens everything they have built, and Willy Izard is asked to reassure the anxious staff.

1970-07-06 · 47m

Brian Stead travels to an Arab state to negotiate the renewal of Mogul's concessions just as a coup brings a new ruler, Colonel Al Faraj, to power. The colonel will renew only if Mogul first uses its rigs to search for water, and Peter Thornton is sent to run the project alongside Doctor Kharma, the government's expert on water, while political pressures build on every side.

1970-07-13 · 48m

Brian Stead wants to expand into South America through the companies controlled by the immensely rich Ferdinand Perez, who refuses to discuss business during the three months of each year he devotes to pleasure. With a hostile board setting a deadline, Stead sends Willy Izard and Peter Thornton after him on a chase that takes in polo, golf, a health farm, Cannes and the casinos of Europe.

1970-07-20 · 49m

Calling at Haiti en route to Trinidad for a conference, Brian Stead and Willy Izard discover that Captain Vassiere of the Tonton Macoute has ousted the local Mogul manager and installed his own cousin. Stead will not tolerate the interference, and the quarrel turns into a dangerous personal duel between him and the captain, with Izard and Peter Thornton drawn into the fight.

1970-07-27 · 49m

When an explosion that looks like sabotage hits the joint Mogul-Zenith rig off Drake Island, Peter Thornton and security chief George Bartlett are sent from London to investigate, much to the resentment of Alec Stewart, who runs the local operation. Suspicion falls on Drake Island Developments, whose manager Tom McGrath wants the oil workings closed to protect the island's Caribbean tourist trade, and the threats against Thornton grow steadily more serious.

1970-08-03 · 50m

When Mogul offers assistance to the government of the Congo, Willy Izard and Peter Thornton are sent out. While Izard struggles with evasive politicians, Thornton is far out in the bush coping with inexperienced crews, tribal rivalries and superstition, lodging in a rundown hotel kept by a hard-drinking Englishman, Sid Carver, whose knowledge of local affairs proves valuable.

1970-08-10 · 51m

A French lock-keeper, Albert Lefloch, goes on strike over a long-standing grievance, holding up a barge that carries a new aviation oil needed for the development of a supersonic airliner. Brian Stead and Willy Izard try to settle the one-man dispute, and Izard travels to central France to grapple with French bureaucracy and an obstinate old man, while Stead faces a similar problem at home.

1970-08-17 · 49m

Kasemba, an African state, asks Mogul for a refinery that the Americans have dismissed as uneconomic and that the Chinese are keen to construct on a far larger scale. With the government itself split between Western and Chinese sympathies, Peter Thornton and Willy Izard find the capital full of spies and themselves outmanoeuvred by rival interests at every turn.

1970-08-24 · 50m

Having found oil in Alaska, Mogul must find a way to move it, and Brian Stead is testing a submarine tanker designed to travel beneath the ice, using a former Royal Navy submarine off St. Lucia. Stead, Peter Thornton and Willy Izard arrive to see the trials completed, but the submarine, with Stead aboard, becomes stuck on the sea bed, leaving everything in the hands of Captain Simon Broadsword.

1970-08-31 · 51m

Brian Stead travels to Nova Scotia to plan a new refinery. Rejecting the costly industrial site the planning committee favours, he chooses a quiet rural district instead, but the farmers whose families have worked the land for generations are reluctant to sell, and Stead begins to wonder whether he should really disturb the very peace that attracted him.

1970-09-07 · 48m

Mogul is secretly helping the Ministry of Defence build a SEATO naval refuelling base on a small Indian Ocean island, a project known only to Brian Stead, Willy Izard and Peter Thornton. When Commander Fayne of Naval Intelligence comes to Mogul House to investigate a leak, his long evening of questioning leaves the three men on edge and suspicious of one another.