Season 1
13 episodes · Oct 2, 1981
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S1E1Wildcatter
Oct 2, 198128mBill Brodnax (Taurus Petroleum) drills for gas in the Cajun country of southern Louisiana. Witness how drilling is planned, financed, and carried out. In the closing moments, viewers learn alongside the wildcatter and his backers whether the well does in fact strike gas.
S1E2The Colonel Comes to Japan
Oct 9, 198128mLoy Weston, the American chairman of Kentucky Fried Chicken Japan, presides over 324 stores. Witness the setting up of a new outlet in northeast Tokyo.
S1E3Gulliver's New Travels
Oct 16, 198128mExamining the future of AT&T as its telephone monopoly ends and a new era of tooth-and-nail competition begins.
S1E4Fast Horse in a Bull Market
Oct 23, 198129mThe bizarre preparations for an auction where millionaires bid for race horses. (Tom Gentry Farms)
S1E5Bankrupt
Oct 30, 198128mInforex was a $70 million-a-year computer firm that rode the high-tech wave to prosperity in the early 1970s. Founded in 1968, it had burst on the scene with the IKE, a television-like data entry machine that had rendered the old punchcard systems obsolete. But the company had never been able to come up with a profitable second product.
S1E6The Making of a Package Deal
Nov 6, 198127mEntertainment industries, searching for safer products with bigger returns on investments, have joined forces to create 'properties'. Witness one such property progress from inception to spinoff.
S1E7Dogfight Over New York
Nov 13, 198128mOne of the new airlines challenging the giants of the industry in the wake of deregulation, New York Air is followed from start-up to inaugural flight.
S1E8Catfish Fever
Nov 20, 198129mUnhappy with the unpredictability of cotton prices, many Mississippi Delta farmers are converting their hardscrabble land to catfish "farms" of 80-acre ponds.
S1E9Not by Jeans Alone
Nov 27, 198129mLevi-Strauss attempt to market a moderately priced, mass produced men's suit.
S1E10The Kyocera Experiment
Dec 4, 198128mThe San Diego subsidiary of Japan's fastest-growing company -- Kyoto Ceramic -- illustrates Japan's management techniques.
S1E11One Man's Multinational
Dec 11, 198128mTom Bata, chairman of Bata Shoe, visits his company's manufacturing plants in Chile, Upper Volta, Mauritius, Sri Lanka, and Kenya.
S1E12The Jet Set: Boeing vs. the World
Dec 18, 198128mHow market leader Boeing stays on top of the world aircraft business.
S1E13Start-Up
Dec 25, 198128mJohn DeLorean, a former executive at General Motors, has used his fortune, reputation, expertise, and connections to produce a new sports car.