Episodes
1. Tailspin
January 6, 1983
27 min
Braniff executives try to restructure their company in this behind-the-scenes story of America's first major airline bankruptcy.
2. The Selling of Terri Gibbs
January 13, 1983
29 min
Terri Gibbs, award-winning country-and-western singer, tries for a second hit album and super-stardom.
3. The Diamond Game
January 20, 1983
28 min
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.
4. The Buck Stops in Brazil
January 27, 1983
28 min
The high-stakes world of international banking in Sao Paulo, Brasilia, New York, and Zurich.
5. Buy-Out
February 3, 1983
28 min
Hyatt-Clark, a former General Motors subsidiary, is now one of the largest experiments in employee ownership in the country.
6. Fired
February 10, 1983
59 min
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.
7. Chef's Special
February 17, 1983
29 min
Chef David Garo Sokitch arranges and oversees every complex detail that precedes the opening of his new San Francisco restaurant.
8. Hardball
February 24, 1983
28 min
The Oakland A's and their new management group encounter the hard realities of the business of baseball during the 1982 season.
9. Hong Kong Dresses Up
March 3, 1983
28 min
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
March 10, 1983
29 min
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
March 17, 1983
27 min
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
March 24, 1983
29 min
Space Services, Space Transportation, and other private companies compete to develop astronautical shipping and traveling services in the business of communications satellites.
