Enterprise
TV ShowEnded

Enterprise

1981
3 seasons
38 episodes
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

  • Wildcatter

    1.Wildcatter

    02-10-198128m

    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, viewe...

  • The Colonel Comes to Japan

    2.The Colonel Comes to Japan

    09-10-198128m

    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.

  • Gulliver's New Travels

    3.Gulliver's New Travels

    16-10-198128m

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

  • Fast Horse in a Bull Market

    4.Fast Horse in a Bull Market

    23-10-198129m

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

  • Bankrupt

    5.Bankrupt

    30-10-198128m

    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-...

  • The Making of a Package Deal

    6.The Making of a Package Deal

    06-11-198127m

    Entertainment industries, searching for safer products with bigger returns on investments, have joined forces to create 'properties'. Witness one such property progress from incept...

  • Dogfight Over New York

    7.Dogfight Over New York

    13-11-198128m

    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.

  • Catfish Fever

    8.Catfish Fever

    20-11-198129m

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

  • Not by Jeans Alone

    9.Not by Jeans Alone

    27-11-198129m

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

  • The Kyocera Experiment

    10.The Kyocera Experiment

    04-12-198128m

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

  • One Man's Multinational

    11.One Man's Multinational

    11-12-198128m

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

  • The Jet Set: Boeing vs. the World

    12.The Jet Set: Boeing vs. the World

    18-12-198128m

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

  • Start-Up

    13.Start-Up

    25-12-198128m

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

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