Enterprise (1981) is a documentary web series in English. On New MovieLinkBD: full story, cast, ratings, season & episode guide, official trailer and where to watch Enterprise online in HD.
Enterprise — Storyline
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."
Cast & Crew
- Starring: Eric Sevareid
Enterprise — Series Details
| First Air Date | 1981-10-02 |
| Seasons | 3 |
| Episodes | 38 |
| Genre | Documentary |
| Language | English |
| Network | PBS |
| Status | Ended |
Enterprise — Episode Guide
Season 1
- E1: Wildcatter (1981-10-02) — 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, viewe
- E2: The Colonel Comes to Japan (1981-10-09) — 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.
- E3: Gulliver's New Travels (1981-10-16) — Examining the future of AT&T as its telephone monopoly ends and a new era of tooth-and-nail competition begins.
- E4: Fast Horse in a Bull Market (1981-10-23) — The bizarre preparations for an auction where millionaires bid for race horses. (Tom Gentry Farms)
- E5: Bankrupt (1981-10-30) — 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-
- E6: The Making of a Package Deal (1981-11-06) — Entertainment industries, searching for safer products with bigger returns on investments, have joined forces to create 'properties'. Witness one such property progress from incept
- E7: Dogfight Over New York (1981-11-13) — 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.
- E8: Catfish Fever (1981-11-20) — Unhappy with the unpredictability of cotton prices, many Mississippi Delta farmers are converting their hardscrabble land to catfish "farms" of 80-acre ponds.
- E9: Not by Jeans Alone (1981-11-27) — Levi-Strauss attempt to market a moderately priced, mass produced men's suit.
- E10: The Kyocera Experiment (1981-12-04) — The San Diego subsidiary of Japan's fastest-growing company — Kyoto Ceramic — illustrates Japan's management techniques.
- E11: One Man's Multinational (1981-12-11) — Tom Bata, chairman of Bata Shoe, visits his company's manufacturing plants in Chile, Upper Volta, Mauritius, Sri Lanka, and Kenya.
- E12: The Jet Set: Boeing vs. the World (1981-12-18) — How market leader Boeing stays on top of the world aircraft business.
- E13: Start-Up (1981-12-25) — John DeLorean, a former executive at General Motors, has used his fortune, reputation, expertise, and connections to produce a new sports car.
Season 2
- E1: Tailspin (1983-01-06) — Braniff executives try to restructure their company in this behind-the-scenes story of America's first major airline bankruptcy.
- E2: The Selling of Terri Gibbs (1983-01-13) — Terri Gibbs, award-winning country-and-western singer, tries for a second hit album and super-stardom.
- E3: The Diamond Game (1983-01-20) — 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,
- E4: The Buck Stops in Brazil (1983-01-27) — The high-stakes world of international banking in Sao Paulo, Brasilia, New York, and Zurich.
- E5: Buy-Out (1983-02-03) — Hyatt-Clark, a former General Motors subsidiary, is now one of the largest experiments in employee ownership in the country.
- E6: Fired (1983-02-10) — 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.
- E7: Chef's Special (1983-02-17) — Chef David Garo Sokitch arranges and oversees every complex detail that precedes the opening of his new San Francisco restaurant.
- E8: Hardball (1983-02-24) — The Oakland A's and their new management group encounter the hard realities of the business of baseball during the 1982 season.
- E9: Hong Kong Dresses Up (1983-03-03) — Textile magnate S.T. King and his company Wearbest manufacture designer jeans in one of the most regulation-free economies in the world.
- E10: West Meets East (1983-03-10) — 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.
- E11: All in the Game (1983-03-17) — The business of video games, focusing on William Grubb, who left a vice president's position at Atari Inc. to start Imagic.
- E12: The New Space Race (1983-03-24) — Space Services, Space Transportation, and other private companies compete to develop astronautical shipping and traveling services in the business of communications satellites.
- E13: California Crude (1983-03-31) — Sun Oil Company prepares to bid on tracts off the California coast, in the risky and expensive business of oil leases.
Season 3
- E1: Ted Turner and the News War (1984-01-19) — Ted Turner and Satellite News Network executive Lloyd Werner vie for advertisers, subscribers, and cable-system carriers as they jockey for position in the cable news business.
- E2: Life After Death (1984-01-26) — Telophase Corporation plans to start America's first chain of low-cost crematoria and to market cremation as an alternative to burials.
- E3: Room at the Top (1984-02-09) — Will the new $125-million Westin Hotel in Boston be able to compete in a market already filled to capacity with luxury hotels?
- E4: On Key (1984-02-23) — Ned Steinberger, owner of a small business that produces an innovative and extremely popular electric bass guitar, must cope with impatient customers and new competition.
- E5: Perfectly Frank (1984-03-01) — Frank Perdue, the man who turned chicken into a brand-name item in the Northeast, plans to market a new product: chicken franks. WARNING: May contain scenes of animal trauma.
- E6: Reel Estate (1984-03-15) — Texas real estate developer Trammel Crow attempts to lure Hollywood filmmakers to Dallas by building a state-of-the-art production complex.
- E7: Workout (1984-04-05) — The Gloria Stevens chain of health clubs struggles to find a formula for survival in a volatile business climate.
- E8: Cash on the Vine (1984-04-26) — The prize-winning Matanzas Creek Winery in California attempts to escalate production without disrupting the delicate balance of supply, demand, and high quality.
- E9: The Million Dollar Scan (1984-05-17) — Israeli firm Elscint tries to develop, produce, and deliver a superior medical diagnostic scanner to compete with larger corporations.
- E10: Hot Chocolate (1984-06-07) — Winners — and losers — stake their fortunes on cocoa in the futures market.
- E11: Crosswind Take-Off (1984-06-28) — Lear Fan Ltd. and Beech Aircraft vie for a larger share of the market by developing a light, efficient corporate plane while battling technical problems, skeptical investors, and b
- E12: Hard Sell, Soft Sell (1984-07-12) — Salespeople demonstrate their personal tricks of the ancient trade, to illustrate the psychology of selling.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many seasons does Enterprise have? 3 season(s) with 38 episodes.
Where can I watch Enterprise? See the Where to Watch section above for current streaming options.
