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. Tailspin1983-01-06 · 27mBraniff executives try to restructure their company in this behind-the-scenes story of America's first major airline bankruptcy.
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2. The Selling of Terri Gibbs1983-01-13 · 29mTerri Gibbs, award-winning country-and-western singer, tries for a second hit album and super-stardom.
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3. The Diamond Game1983-01-20 · 28mWilliam Goldberg, president of the Diamond Dealers Club, offers a window on the intensely secretive diamond market as we see newly mined diamonds graded, cleaved, sawed, polished,
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4. The Buck Stops in Brazil1983-01-27 · 28mThe high-stakes world of international banking in Sao Paulo, Brasilia, New York, and Zurich.
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5. Buy-Out1983-02-03 · 28mHyatt-Clark, a former General Motors subsidiary, is now one of the largest experiments in employee ownership in the country.
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6. Fired1983-02-10 · 59mA despondent fired executive must pull himself together and find another job in this Oscar-nominated docudrama produced by the National Film Board of Canada.
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7. Chef's Special1983-02-17 · 29mChef David Garo Sokitch arranges and oversees every complex detail that precedes the opening of his new San Francisco restaurant.
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8. Hardball1983-02-24 · 28mThe Oakland A's and their new management group encounter the hard realities of the business of baseball during the 1982 season.
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9. Hong Kong Dresses Up1983-03-03 · 28mTextile magnate S.T. King and his company Wearbest manufacture designer jeans in one of the most regulation-free economies in the world.
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10. West Meets East1983-03-10 · 29mFour employees of California-based National Semiconductor Corporation tour Japan to observe how the Japanese are rivaling and surpassing American industry in a variety of fields.
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11. All in the Game1983-03-17 · 27mThe business of video games, focusing on William Grubb, who left a vice president's position at Atari Inc. to start Imagic.
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12. The New Space Race1983-03-24 · 29mSpace Services, Space Transportation, and other private companies compete to develop astronautical shipping and traveling services in the business of communications satellites.
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13. California Crude1983-03-31 · 28mSun Oil Company prepares to bid on tracts off the California coast, in the risky and expensive business of oil leases.
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