
Eric Sevareid
Self - Host
Series
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Synopsis
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."
Episodes
1. WildcatterNow viewing1981-10-0228mBill 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.
2. The Colonel Comes to Japan1981-10-0928mLoy Weston, the American chairman of Kentucky Fried Chicken Japan, presides over 324 stores. Witness the setting up of a new outlet in northeast Tokyo.
3. Gulliver's New Travels1981-10-1628mExamining the future of AT&T as its telephone monopoly ends and a new era of tooth-and-nail competition begins.
4. Fast Horse in a Bull Market1981-10-2329mThe bizarre preparations for an auction where millionaires bid for race horses. (Tom Gentry Farms)
5. Bankrupt1981-10-3028mInforex 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.
6. The Making of a Package Deal1981-11-0627mEntertainment 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.
7. Dogfight Over New York1981-11-1328mOne 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.
8. Catfish Fever1981-11-2029mUnhappy with the unpredictability of cotton prices, many Mississippi Delta farmers are converting their hardscrabble land to catfish "farms" of 80-acre ponds.
9. Not by Jeans Alone1981-11-2729mLevi-Strauss attempt to market a moderately priced, mass produced men's suit.
10. The Kyocera Experiment1981-12-0428mThe San Diego subsidiary of Japan's fastest-growing company -- Kyoto Ceramic -- illustrates Japan's management techniques.
11. One Man's Multinational1981-12-1128mTom Bata, chairman of Bata Shoe, visits his company's manufacturing plants in Chile, Upper Volta, Mauritius, Sri Lanka, and Kenya.
12. The Jet Set: Boeing vs. the World1981-12-1828mHow market leader Boeing stays on top of the world aircraft business.
13. Start-Up1981-12-2528mJohn DeLorean, a former executive at General Motors, has used his fortune, reputation, expertise, and connections to produce a new sports car.Cast
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Enterprise has 3 seasons and 38 episodes.
Enterprise first aired in 1981.
Enterprise's status on TMDB is: Ended.
Enterprise is classified as Documentary.