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Enterprise

  • 1981 – 1984
  • Ended
  • Documentary
  • 3 seasons

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."

Latest: Season 3 · 1984

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Season 3 of Enterprise continued to air weekly, now interspersing updated editions of prior episodes in between the new ones.

  1. E1. Ted Turner and the News War

    Jan 19, 1984 · 28m

    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.

  2. E2. Life After Death

    Jan 26, 1984 · 28m

    Telophase Corporation plans to start America's first chain of low-cost crematoria and to market cremation as an alternative to burials.

  3. E3. Room at the Top

    Feb 9, 1984 · 29m

    Will the new $125-million Westin Hotel in Boston be able to compete in a market already filled to capacity with luxury hotels?

  4. E4. On Key

    Feb 23, 1984 · 28m

    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.

  5. E5. Perfectly Frank

    Mar 1, 1984 · 28m

    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.

  6. E6. Reel Estate

    Mar 15, 1984 · 29m

    Texas real estate developer Trammel Crow attempts to lure Hollywood filmmakers to Dallas by building a state-of-the-art production complex.

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