Episodes List
Ep.1 Tailspin
Air Date: 1983-01-06
Braniff executives try to restructure their company in this behind-the-scenes story of America's first major airline bankruptcy.
Ep.2 The Selling of Terri Gibbs
Air Date: 1983-01-13
Terri Gibbs, award-winning country-and-western singer, tries for a second hit album and super-stardom.
Ep.3 The Diamond Game
Air Date: 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.
Ep.4 The Buck Stops in Brazil
Air Date: 1983-01-27
The high-stakes world of international banking in Sao Paulo, Brasilia, New York, and Zurich.
Ep.5 Buy-Out
Air Date: 1983-02-03
Hyatt-Clark, a former General Motors subsidiary, is now one of the largest experiments in employee ownership in the country.
Ep.6 Fired
Air Date: 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.
Ep.7 Chef's Special
Air Date: 1983-02-17
Chef David Garo Sokitch arranges and oversees every complex detail that precedes the opening of his new San Francisco restaurant.
Ep.8 Hardball
Air Date: 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.
Ep.9 Hong Kong Dresses Up
Air Date: 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.
Ep.10 West Meets East
Air Date: 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.
Ep.11 All in the Game
Air Date: 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.
Ep.12 The New Space Race
Air Date: 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.
Ep.13 California Crude
Air Date: 1983-03-31
Sun Oil Company prepares to bid on tracts off the California coast, in the risky and expensive business of oil leases.
