Is this the end of the road for Brian Stead?

A wage claim at Mogul's biggest chemical works brings Stead into unlikely alliance with a communist shop steward, in a head-on clash with Langley.

Traditions often die hard. But Thornton meets with more violent opposition, when Mogul's New Zealand pipeline clashes with Maori interests.

It's a nice thought. But men like Stead and Langley can'always separate their private lives from their business.

Willy Izard intends to spend his South of France holiday nursing his wife back to health and forgetting about Mogul. But escape is not so easy, even on a camping site.

Corsica's main export is brains, they say. It is also the birthplace of Napoleon - and Thornton, Izard and Langley find they are not allowed to forget it.

Raising money is never simple-but even Willy Izard finds it tough when Stead and Langley demand several million pounds each, before four o'clock.

A Polynesian paradise - or is it? Thornton finds even the South Pacific has its share of difficult people.

Disaster or triumph? Willy Izard faces the two extremes in the rarified air of Mexico City, as he tackles his toughest-ever test, both in business and his private life.

Drama at sea as Peter Thornton and HMS Ark Royal race to the rescue of a stricken tanker.

A computer brings Thornton and Izard into contact with an ambitious girl and an extraordinary man in the outback.

Mogul seem to have struck it rich in the Bay of Biscay. But it means danger for Thornton and Langley.

Trouble in the Peruvian Andes for Thornton in the shadow of the Spanish Conquistadores brings Langley his first test as deputy chairman.

The threat to Stead becomes reality as Langley takes up his post as Deputy Chairman, and Willy Izard reaches the end of the road.

The men from Mogul come thundering back. First stop is Scandinavia, with an oil find bringing problems for Mogul and a new man posing a threat to Stead.