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Troubleshooter | |
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Genre | Business |
Presented by | Sir John Harvey-Jones |
Narrated by | Andrew Sachs |
Country of origin | England |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 5 |
No. of episodes | 31 |
Production | |
Executive producer | Richard Reisz |
Producer | BBC Television |
Production location | United Kingdom |
Release | |
Original network | BBC |
Original release | 1990 – 1993 |
Related | |
I'll Show Them Who's Boss! |
Troubleshooter was a British reality television series, produced and broadcast by the BBC from 27 March 1990. It was hosted by Sir John Harvey-Jones, formerly of ICI, who visited and advised struggling UK businesses. [1] .
The series won a BAFTA, and made Harvey-Jones "the most famous industrialist since Isambard Kingdom Brunel". [2]
The greatest achievement of the Troubleshooter was to make business management a popular discussion subject in the homes of millions of British people, and to provide a role model for people wanting to enter business. [3]
A follow-up series titled Troubleshooter – Back in Business aired in 2000 and saw Sir John return to companies featured in the original series from a decade before. In that time there had been a number of changes. Tri-ang Toys had been unable to turn its fortunes around and its UK factory had been demolished. The Morgan Motor Company, where previously Sir John had encountered great resistance, had in fact made many of the changes he suggested.[ citation needed ]
After originally approaching companies to produce the first series, the BBC production team for the subsequent series were overwhelmed by applications from various British businesses and enterprises. This was in part for the quality of consultation that Harvey-Jones gave, but also for the publicity, which often resulted in an immediate revival for the company through increased sales.
After selecting a breadth of companies, industries and situations, Harvey-Jones and executive producer Richard Reisz would review the applications to choose the selected applicants. Harvey-Jones would nominally only have access to any published accounts, management provided plans, and any items of press and media that could be found, before engaging the company. [4]
The period of consultation was given over a period of at least three months per company, resulting in the third series requiring Harvey-Jones to have reserved dates in his diary for 50 weeks of the year: the major reason he gave up the programme, to concentrate on his charitable activities and family. [4]
At its peak, Troubleshooter gained three million viewers per episode. [4] This was attrbuted to Harvey-Jones' personable, frank and straightforward style, with judgements given through his distinctive style:[ citation needed ]
His manner was sharp in order to be kind, and he emphasised the need to confront change in order to survive. [5]
Organisations featured included Morgan Motor Company, Copella apple juice and Tri-ang toys, [6] where Harvey-Jones put his finger on the problems they faced or in some cases had created, and pointed the way to success. Sometimes they followed his advice, such as at Copella, and sometimes, notably at Morgan, he was met with strong resistance. [7] [3] [8]
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