Season 2
Episodes • 1983

1. Tailspin
27 minBraniff executives try to restructure their company in this behind-the-scenes story of America's first major airline bankruptcy.
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2. The Selling of Terri Gibbs
29 minTerri Gibbs, award-winning country-and-western singer, tries for a second hit album and super-stardom.
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3. The Diamond Game
28 minWilliam 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.
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4. The Buck Stops in Brazil
28 minThe high-stakes world of international banking in Sao Paulo, Brasilia, New York, and Zurich.
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5. Buy-Out
28 minHyatt-Clark, a former General Motors subsidiary, is now one of the largest experiments in employee ownership in the country.
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6. Fired
59 minA despondent fired executive must pull himself together and find another job in this Oscar-nominated docudrama produced by the National Film Board of Canada.
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7. Chef's Special
29 minChef David Garo Sokitch arranges and oversees every complex detail that precedes the opening of his new San Francisco restaurant.
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8. Hardball
28 minThe Oakland A's and their new management group encounter the hard realities of the business of baseball during the 1982 season.
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9. Hong Kong Dresses Up
28 minTextile magnate S.T. King and his company Wearbest manufacture designer jeans in one of the most regulation-free economies in the world.
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10. West Meets East
29 minFour 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.
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11. All in the Game
27 minThe business of video games, focusing on William Grubb, who left a vice president's position at Atari Inc. to start Imagic.
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12. The New Space Race
29 minSpace Services, Space Transportation, and other private companies compete to develop astronautical shipping and traveling services in the business of communications satellites.
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13. California Crude
28 minSun Oil Company prepares to bid on tracts off the California coast, in the risky and expensive business of oil leases.
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