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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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