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."
Showing Season 2 of 4
Season 2
1983
No overview available.
01. Tailspin
1983-01-06
Braniff executives try to restructure their company in this behind-the-scenes story of America's first major airline bankruptcy.
02. The Selling of Terri Gibbs
1983-01-13
Terri Gibbs, award-winning country-and-western singer, tries for a second hit album and super-stardom.
03. The Diamond Game
1983-01-20
William 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, traded, designed, and sold as jewelry in fashionable Fifth Avenue showrooms.
04. The Buck Stops in Brazil
1983-01-27
The high-stakes world of international banking in Sao Paulo, Brasilia, New York, and Zurich.
05. Buy-Out
1983-02-03
Hyatt-Clark, a former General Motors subsidiary, is now one of the largest experiments in employee ownership in the country.
06. Fired
1983-02-10
A despondent fired executive must pull himself together and find another job in this Oscar-nominated docudrama produced by the National Film Board of Canada.
07. Chef's Special
1983-02-17
Chef David Garo Sokitch arranges and oversees every complex detail that precedes the opening of his new San Francisco restaurant.
08. Hardball
1983-02-24
The Oakland A's and their new management group encounter the hard realities of the business of baseball during the 1982 season.
09. Hong Kong Dresses Up
1983-03-03
Textile magnate S.T. King and his company Wearbest manufacture designer jeans in one of the most regulation-free economies in the world.
10. West Meets East
1983-03-10
Four 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.
11. All in the Game
1983-03-17
The business of video games, focusing on William Grubb, who left a vice president's position at Atari Inc. to start Imagic.
12. The New Space Race
1983-03-24
Space Services, Space Transportation, and other private companies compete to develop astronautical shipping and traveling services in the business of communications satellites.
13. California Crude
1983-03-31
Sun Oil Company prepares to bid on tracts off the California coast, in the risky and expensive business of oil leases.
