Episode
Benson: Stocks & Options
Overview
Benson accepts some stock from Pete as a debt payment. He tells Denise this information and tells her not to tell anyone. She accidentally slips and tells Gretchen and Clayton and they invest in the stock too. Unfortunately when Pete gets the idea that his stock went up, he buys back the stock from Benson and Clayton and Kraus get an unfortunate end of the deal. The stock they bought was in a rubber ball factory, but they thought they were buying in a satellite investment.
Details
- Series
- Benson
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 10
- Air date
- 1982-01-22
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
Stocks & Options is Episode 10 in Season 3 of Benson. It aired on 1982-01-22. The runtime is 30 min.
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