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."
Enterprise (Season 2)
Tailspin (Episode 1)
Air date: 1983-01-06
Runtime: 27 min
Overview: Braniff executives try to restructure their company in this behind-the-scenes story of America's first major airline bankruptcy.
The Selling of Terri Gibbs (Episode 2)
Air date: 1983-01-13
Runtime: 29 min
Overview: Terri Gibbs, award-winning country-and-western singer, tries for a second hit album and super-stardom.
The Diamond Game (Episode 3)
Air date: 1983-01-20
Runtime: 28 min
Overview: 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.
The Buck Stops in Brazil (Episode 4)
Air date: 1983-01-27
Runtime: 28 min
Overview: The high-stakes world of international banking in Sao Paulo, Brasilia, New York, and Zurich.
Buy-Out (Episode 5)
Air date: 1983-02-03
Runtime: 28 min
Overview: Hyatt-Clark, a former General Motors subsidiary, is now one of the largest experiments in employee ownership in the country.
Fired (Episode 6)
Air date: 1983-02-10
Runtime: 59 min
Overview: 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.
Chef's Special (Episode 7)
Air date: 1983-02-17
Runtime: 29 min
Overview: Chef David Garo Sokitch arranges and oversees every complex detail that precedes the opening of his new San Francisco restaurant.
Hardball (Episode 8)
Air date: 1983-02-24
Runtime: 28 min
Overview: The Oakland A's and their new management group encounter the hard realities of the business of baseball during the 1982 season.
Hong Kong Dresses Up (Episode 9)
Air date: 1983-03-03
Runtime: 28 min
Overview: Textile magnate S.T. King and his company Wearbest manufacture designer jeans in one of the most regulation-free economies in the world.
West Meets East (Episode 10)
Air date: 1983-03-10
Runtime: 29 min
Overview: 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.
All in the Game (Episode 11)
Air date: 1983-03-17
Runtime: 27 min
Overview: The business of video games, focusing on William Grubb, who left a vice president's position at Atari Inc. to start Imagic.
The New Space Race (Episode 12)
Air date: 1983-03-24
Runtime: 29 min
Overview: Space Services, Space Transportation, and other private companies compete to develop astronautical shipping and traveling services in the business of communications satellites.
California Crude (Episode 13)
Air date: 1983-03-31
Runtime: 28 min
Overview: Sun Oil Company prepares to bid on tracts off the California coast, in the risky and expensive business of oil leases.
