Eric Sevareid
Enterprise (1981)
Season 2
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."
Released Oct. 2, 1981
Episode 42 min
None+
Genres: Documentary
Keywords: tmdb.industry, tmdb.business
Production Companies: WGBH Boston
Network: PBS
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S2E1 - Tailspin
Braniff executives try to restructure their company in this behind-the-scenes story of America's first major airline bankruptcy.
Jan. 6, 1983, midnight
S2E2 - The Selling of Terri Gibbs
Terri Gibbs, award-winning country-and-western singer, tries for a second hit album and super-stardom.
Jan. 13, 1983, midnight
S2E3 - The Diamond Game
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.
Jan. 20, 1983, midnight
S2E4 - The Buck Stops in Brazil
The high-stakes world of international banking in Sao Paulo, Brasilia, New York, and Zurich.
Jan. 27, 1983, midnight
S2E5 - Buy-Out
Hyatt-Clark, a former General Motors subsidiary, is now one of the largest experiments in employee ownership in the country.
Feb. 3, 1983, midnight
S2E6 - Fired
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.
Feb. 10, 1983, midnight
S2E7 - Chef's Special
Chef David Garo Sokitch arranges and oversees every complex detail that precedes the opening of his new San Francisco restaurant.
Feb. 17, 1983, midnight
S2E8 - Hardball
The Oakland A's and their new management group encounter the hard realities of the business of baseball during the 1982 season.
Feb. 24, 1983, midnight
S2E9 - Hong Kong Dresses Up
Textile magnate S.T. King and his company Wearbest manufacture designer jeans in one of the most regulation-free economies in the world.
March 3, 1983, midnight
S2E10 - West Meets East
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.
March 10, 1983, midnight
S2E11 - All in the Game
The business of video games, focusing on William Grubb, who left a vice president's position at Atari Inc. to start Imagic.
March 17, 1983, midnight
S2E12 - The New Space Race
Space Services, Space Transportation, and other private companies compete to develop astronautical shipping and traveling services in the business of communications satellites.
March 24, 1983, midnight
S2E13 - California Crude
Sun Oil Company prepares to bid on tracts off the California coast, in the risky and expensive business of oil leases.
March 31, 1983, midnight
Network: PBS
Episode Runtime: 42 min.
Season Runtime: 42 min.
Released: Oct. 2, 1981
Last Air Date: July 12, 1984, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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