Series
Enterprise
Documentary
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."
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Seasons & episodes
S1 · 13 epS2 · 13 epS3 · 12 ep
1Wildcatter2 Oct 1981 · 28mBill 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.
2The Colonel Comes to Japan9 Oct 1981 · 28mLoy Weston, the American chairman of Kentucky Fried Chicken Japan, presides over 324 stores. Witness the setting up of a new outlet in northeast Tokyo.
3Gulliver's New Travels16 Oct 1981 · 28mExamining the future of AT&T as its telephone monopoly ends and a new era of tooth-and-nail competition begins.
4Fast Horse in a Bull Market23 Oct 1981 · 29mThe bizarre preparations for an auction where millionaires bid for race horses. (Tom Gentry Farms)
5Bankrupt30 Oct 1981 · 28mInforex 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.
6The Making of a Package Deal6 Nov 1981 · 27mEntertainment 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.
7Dogfight Over New York13 Nov 1981 · 28mOne 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.
8Catfish Fever20 Nov 1981 · 29mUnhappy with the unpredictability of cotton prices, many Mississippi Delta farmers are converting their hardscrabble land to catfish "farms" of 80-acre ponds.
9Not by Jeans Alone27 Nov 1981 · 29mLevi-Strauss attempt to market a moderately priced, mass produced men's suit.
10The Kyocera Experiment4 Dec 1981 · 28mThe San Diego subsidiary of Japan's fastest-growing company -- Kyoto Ceramic -- illustrates Japan's management techniques.
11One Man's Multinational11 Dec 1981 · 28mTom Bata, chairman of Bata Shoe, visits his company's manufacturing plants in Chile, Upper Volta, Mauritius, Sri Lanka, and Kenya.
12The Jet Set: Boeing vs. the World18 Dec 1981 · 28mHow market leader Boeing stays on top of the world aircraft business.
13Start-Up25 Dec 1981 · 28mJohn DeLorean, a former executive at General Motors, has used his fortune, reputation, expertise, and connections to produce a new sports car.
Details
- First aired
- 2 Oct 1981
- Last aired
- 12 Jul 1984
- Status
- Ended
- Language
- English
- Network
- PBS
- Episodes
- 38
Cast
Eric SevareidSelf - Host
