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