The Troubleshooters

1959

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Synopsis

The Troubleshooters is an American 26-segment half-hour adventure series starring Keenan Wynn as Kodiak and Bob Mathias as Frank Dugan. The show aired on NBC Television from September 11, 1959, to April 10, 1960. Based on events at international construction sites, the program was directed by Robert Altman early in his career. It was the first TV series offered by United Artists. It starred Chet Allen as Slats, Roland "Bob" Harris as Jim, Bob Fortier as Scotty, and stunt actor Carey Loftin as Skinner. Forrest Compton also appeared in two episodes as Davis.

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Meridian Productions

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Kattiera Nana I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
Kailansorac Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.
Numerootno A story that's too fascinating to pass by...
Clarissa Mora The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.
edalweber This really was an interesting and unusual show, quite a change from so much of the routine programming of that era. I suppose that the success of "Sea Hunt" made the idea of a series based on somewhat unusual occupations look like a good idea for a series. I remember one episode where some men were trapped by a cave-in in a tunnel, which was filling with water. The men on the outside used a bulldozer to push a large pipe with a cap on the end, not screwed tight with a wrench so that the men on the inside could remove it with their hands, through the soft cave-in to the inside.They knew that they would have to add another length of pipe, so they put another cap on the end the bulldozer pushed so as not to mess up the threads. Shows you how careful and realistic they tried to be down to the last detail. Great series, too bad it only lasted one season. Hope the episodes have not been lost.
Mike Kidd I watched this show and loved it. The company that my dad was Secretary/Treasurer of had a quarry near Camarillo, CA. One episode was filmed at that quarry. While it wasn't anywhere near the ocean, when you saw the show, it looked as though the quarry was right at the beach. The company held up a dynamite blast in case the show wanted to film it. The production company declined and said that they would do their own. My dad watched it and told me that they made up a little pile of rocks and dirt and set off a very small detonation. When it was shown on TV, it looked like they had taken down an entire mountain! In the opening lead in, they showed Keenan Wynn riding a crane hook. My dad saw that and commented that they never let anyone ride the hooks.
xylx55 For some reason I was recently thinking about this TV show. It is my earliest recollection of TV. I'm 54. I could not remember the name of the show, only that Hartz Mountain (the flea collar people) sponsored it at one time. I looked all over the internet to no avail then remembered for some reason that Keenan Wynn was in the show as some tough guy. So I looked on IMDb and got the answer. I had many Tonka toy construction trucks and used to emulate the show by myself in the house. My parents would not let me take the trucks outside. How messed up is that? I wanted to grow up to blow stuff up. It didn't work out. I'm a lawyer. So I sort of blow stuff up on paper now. I think it is wonderful that people have posted on here about this obscure bit of history. I would pay $1000 for the DVDs if they existed.
chrisd4-1 I know Keenan Wynn was a character actor in the show, I seem to remember him riding a Harley or an Indian in the show. Does anyone out there remember if he did? I was just wondering, I would love to see tape of the show if anyone out there has one. I was very very young when the show aired, and I remember watching it. It always involved something to do with construction, and it seemed they were always traveling all over the world, and Wynn would at some point always end up riding a motorcycle in the show. I seem to remember as it being an early American Vtwin, either a Harley or an Indian. Like I mentioned I was extremely young when the show aired, so I don'r remember to much about the episodes.