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Season 2
January 6, 1983

Season 2

01. Tailspin

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

27min
January 6, 1983

02. The Selling of Terri Gibbs

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

29min
January 13, 1983

03. The Diamond Game

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.

28min
January 20, 1983

04. The Buck Stops in Brazil

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

28min
January 27, 1983

05. Buy-Out

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

28min
February 3, 1983

06. Fired

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.

59min
February 10, 1983

07. Chef's Special

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

29min
February 17, 1983

08. Hardball

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

28min
February 24, 1983

09. Hong Kong Dresses Up

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

28min
March 3, 1983

10. West Meets East

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.

29min
March 10, 1983

11. All in the Game

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

27min
March 17, 1983

12. The New Space Race

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

29min
March 24, 1983

13. California Crude

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

28min
March 31, 1983