Season 2

episodes

1. 1. Tailspin 1983-01-06 27 min Braniff executives try to restructure their company in this behind-the-scenes story of America's first major airline bankruptcy.
2. 2. The Selling of Terri Gibbs 1983-01-13 29 min Terri Gibbs, award-winning country-and-western singer, tries for a second hit album and super-stardom.
3. 3. The Diamond Game 1983-01-20 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, an...
4. 4. The Buck Stops in Brazil 1983-01-27 28 min The high-stakes world of international banking in Sao Paulo, Brasilia, New York, and Zurich.
5. 5. Buy-Out 1983-02-03 28 min Hyatt-Clark, a former General Motors subsidiary, is now one of the largest experiments in employee ownership in the country.
6. 6. Fired 1983-02-10 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. 7. Chef's Special 1983-02-17 29 min Chef David Garo Sokitch arranges and oversees every complex detail that precedes the opening of his new San Francisco restaurant.
8. 8. Hardball 1983-02-24 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. 9. Hong Kong Dresses Up 1983-03-03 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. 10. West Meets East 1983-03-10 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. 11. All in the Game 1983-03-17 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. 12. The New Space Race 1983-03-24 29 min Space Services, Space Transportation, and other private companies compete to develop astronautical shipping and traveling services in the business of communications satellites.
13. 13. California Crude 1983-03-31 28 min Sun Oil Company prepares to bid on tracts off the California coast, in the risky and expensive business of oil leases.