A documentary series of six stories in which advisers set out to solve other people's problems.

Four strong candidates fought the Dundee by-election in March. The Conservatives, the Socialists, the Liberals and the Scottish Nationalists all had high hopes that their man would take his seat at Westminster.
The Conservative candidate was Lord Provost Fitzgerald. His chief adviser in the run-up to polling day was a young political scientist called John Berridge. This film is the story of the Conservatives' campaign - of the evolving election strategy that was finally put to the test at the poll.