Season 1

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  Wildcatter

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/2/1981

  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, viewers learn alongside the wildcatter and his backers whether the well does in fact strike gas.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  The Colonel Comes to Japan

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/9/1981

  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.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Gulliver's New Travels

  Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/16/1981

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

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Fast Horse in a Bull Market

  Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/23/1981

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

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Bankrupt

  Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/30/1981

  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-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.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  The Making of a Package Deal

  Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/6/1981

  Entertainment 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.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Dogfight Over New York

  Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/13/1981

  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.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Catfish Fever

  Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/20/1981

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

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Not by Jeans Alone

  Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/27/1981

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

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  The Kyocera Experiment

  Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/4/1981

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

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  One Man's Multinational

  Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/11/1981

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

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  The Jet Set: Boeing vs. the World

  Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/18/1981

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

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Start-Up

  Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/25/1981

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

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown