Enterprise

Oct 2, 1981

Bill 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.

Oct 9, 1981

Loy Weston, the American chairman of Kentucky Fried Chicken Japan, presides over 324 stores. Witness the setting up of a new outlet in northeast Tokyo.

Oct 16, 1981

Examining the future of AT&T as its telephone monopoly ends and a new era of tooth-and-nail competition begins.

Oct 23, 1981

The bizarre preparations for an auction where millionaires bid for race horses. (Tom Gentry Farms)

Oct 30, 1981

Inforex 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.

Nov 6, 1981

Entertainment 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.

Nov 13, 1981

One 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.

Nov 20, 1981

Unhappy with the unpredictability of cotton prices, many Mississippi Delta farmers are converting their hardscrabble land to catfish "farms" of 80-acre ponds.

Nov 27, 1981

Levi-Strauss attempt to market a moderately priced, mass produced men's suit.

Dec 4, 1981

The San Diego subsidiary of Japan's fastest-growing company -- Kyoto Ceramic -- illustrates Japan's management techniques.

Dec 11, 1981

Tom Bata, chairman of Bata Shoe, visits his company's manufacturing plants in Chile, Upper Volta, Mauritius, Sri Lanka, and Kenya.

Dec 18, 1981

How market leader Boeing stays on top of the world aircraft business.

Dec 25, 1981

John DeLorean, a former executive at General Motors, has used his fortune, reputation, expertise, and connections to produce a new sports car.

Jan 6, 1983

Braniff executives try to restructure their company in this behind-the-scenes story of America's first major airline bankruptcy.

Jan 13, 1983

Terri Gibbs, award-winning country-and-western singer, tries for a second hit album and super-stardom.

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.

Jan 27, 1983

The high-stakes world of international banking in Sao Paulo, Brasilia, New York, and Zurich.

Feb 3, 1983

Hyatt-Clark, a former General Motors subsidiary, is now one of the largest experiments in employee ownership in the country.

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.

Feb 17, 1983

Chef David Garo Sokitch arranges and oversees every complex detail that precedes the opening of his new San Francisco restaurant.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mar 31, 1983

Sun Oil Company prepares to bid on tracts off the California coast, in the risky and expensive business of oil leases.

Jan 19, 1984

Ted Turner and Satellite News Network executive Lloyd Werner vie for advertisers, subscribers, and cable-system carriers as they jockey for position in the cable news business.

Jan 26, 1984

Telophase Corporation plans to start America's first chain of low-cost crematoria and to market cremation as an alternative to burials.

Feb 9, 1984

Will the new $125-million Westin Hotel in Boston be able to compete in a market already filled to capacity with luxury hotels?

Feb 23, 1984

Ned Steinberger, owner of a small business that produces an innovative and extremely popular electric bass guitar, must cope with impatient customers and new competition.

Mar 1, 1984

Frank Perdue, the man who turned chicken into a brand-name item in the Northeast, plans to market a new product: chicken franks. WARNING: May contain scenes of animal trauma.

Mar 15, 1984

Texas real estate developer Trammel Crow attempts to lure Hollywood filmmakers to Dallas by building a state-of-the-art production complex.

Apr 5, 1984

The Gloria Stevens chain of health clubs struggles to find a formula for survival in a volatile business climate.

Apr 26, 1984

The prize-winning Matanzas Creek Winery in California attempts to escalate production without disrupting the delicate balance of supply, demand, and high quality.

May 17, 1984

Israeli firm Elscint tries to develop, produce, and deliver a superior medical diagnostic scanner to compete with larger corporations.

Jun 7, 1984

Winners -- and losers -- stake their fortunes on cocoa in the futures market.

Jun 28, 1984

Lear Fan Ltd. and Beech Aircraft vie for a larger share of the market by developing a light, efficient corporate plane while battling technical problems, skeptical investors, and bureaucracy.

Jul 12, 1984

Salespeople demonstrate their personal tricks of the ancient trade, to illustrate the psychology of selling.