Season 2

1. Tailspin

January 6, 1983 · 27m

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

2. The Selling of Terri Gibbs

January 13, 1983 · 29m

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

3. The Diamond Game

January 20, 1983 · 28m

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.

4. The Buck Stops in Brazil

January 27, 1983 · 28m

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

5. Buy-Out

February 3, 1983 · 28m

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

6. Fired

February 10, 1983 · 59m

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. Chef's Special

February 17, 1983 · 29m

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

8. Hardball

February 24, 1983 · 28m

The Oakland A's and their new management group encounter the hard realities of the business of baseball during the 1982 season.

9. Hong Kong Dresses Up

March 3, 1983 · 28m

Textile magnate S.T. King and his company Wearbest manufacture designer jeans in one of the most regulation-free economies in the world.

10. West Meets East

March 10, 1983 · 29m

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. All in the Game

March 17, 1983 · 27m

The business of video games, focusing on William Grubb, who left a vice president's position at Atari Inc. to start Imagic.

12. The New Space Race

March 24, 1983 · 29m

Space Services, Space Transportation, and other private companies compete to develop astronautical shipping and traveling services in the business of communications satellites.

13. California Crude

March 31, 1983 · 28m

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