Enterprise (1981)
Half-hour program on the "real-life adventure" of big business. Newsman Eric Sevareid, who served as host, described the series as neither "chamber of commerce boosterism" nor anti-establishment; rather, "an effort to report how various industrial sectors actually work."
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Episodes
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1. Wildcatter1981-10-02 · 28mBill Brodnax (Taurus Petroleum) drills for gas in the Cajun country of southern Louisiana. Witness how drilling is planned, financed, and carried out. In the closing moments, viewe
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2. The Colonel Comes to Japan1981-10-09 · 28mLoy Weston, the American chairman of Kentucky Fried Chicken Japan, presides over 324 stores. Witness the setting up of a new outlet in northeast Tokyo.
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3. Gulliver's New Travels1981-10-16 · 28mExamining the future of AT&T as its telephone monopoly ends and a new era of tooth-and-nail competition begins.
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4. Fast Horse in a Bull Market1981-10-23 · 29mThe bizarre preparations for an auction where millionaires bid for race horses. (Tom Gentry Farms)
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5. Bankrupt1981-10-30 · 28mInforex was a $70 million-a-year computer firm that rode the high-tech wave to prosperity in the early 1970s. Founded in 1968, it had burst on the scene with the IKE, a television-
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6. The Making of a Package Deal1981-11-06 · 27mEntertainment industries, searching for safer products with bigger returns on investments, have joined forces to create 'properties'. Witness one such property progress from incept
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7. Dogfight Over New York1981-11-13 · 28mOne of the new airlines challenging the giants of the industry in the wake of deregulation, New York Air is followed from start-up to inaugural flight.
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8. Catfish Fever1981-11-20 · 29mUnhappy with the unpredictability of cotton prices, many Mississippi Delta farmers are converting their hardscrabble land to catfish "farms" of 80-acre ponds.
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9. Not by Jeans Alone1981-11-27 · 29mLevi-Strauss attempt to market a moderately priced, mass produced men's suit.
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10. The Kyocera Experiment1981-12-04 · 28mThe San Diego subsidiary of Japan's fastest-growing company -- Kyoto Ceramic -- illustrates Japan's management techniques.
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11. One Man's Multinational1981-12-11 · 28mTom Bata, chairman of Bata Shoe, visits his company's manufacturing plants in Chile, Upper Volta, Mauritius, Sri Lanka, and Kenya.
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12. The Jet Set: Boeing vs. the World1981-12-18 · 28mHow market leader Boeing stays on top of the world aircraft business.
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13. Start-Up1981-12-25 · 28mJohn DeLorean, a former executive at General Motors, has used his fortune, reputation, expertise, and connections to produce a new sports car.
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