Adam Smith's Money World, the weekly half hour show, was broadcast on PBS from 1984 to 1997. It proved to be a pioneer and the most honored program in its area. It won an Emmy its first year on the air, for its presentation, and Mr. Goodman was nominated as Best Interviewer, against such stalwarts as Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings, and Bill Moyers. Adam Smith's Money World won four Emmys in its run, and many Emmy nominations. Mr. Goodman won the Emmy as Best Interviewer in 1995. Adam Smith's Money World pioneered the use of bright cartoon graphics to explain dense economic material.

Adam Smith Global Television actually started as PBS specials (one time documentaries that were an hour or several half hours). In 1985, Goodman took his team to China for an essay on the Chinese consumer revolution, "From Marx to Mastercard," also broadcast throughout China with an audience of more than three hundred million. Adam Smith produced four specials from China, three from Russia, and individual programs from Poland, Hungary, Argentina, Mexico, Korea, Japan, Germany, France, and several series from the Middle East.

The specials produced by Adam Smith Global Television won the Overseas Press Club Award, the gold medal at The Flagstaff International Film Festival, and the gold medal at the Houston International Film Festival.

Adam Smith's Money World was distributed by WNET in New York, which had copies of the tapes. The archive copies are held at the Gotlieb Archive at Boston University, and are available to journalists and scholars writing with appropriate credentials.

The specials from Adam Smith Global Television were broadcast by WPBT Channel 2 in Miami, which sold copies of the tape for a time. They are also archived at the library at Boston University.

In 1990, Adam Smith's Money World was broadcast, with a Russian track, throughout the Soviet Union, on Channel One of Soviet Television, as "Mir Finansov". (Financial World). The program continued to be broadcast for nearly three years after the breakup of the Soviet Union. It was also broadcast weekly on the English channel of Singapore Television, and on a more occasional basis in many other countries.

The international television specials were all broadcast on PBS.

Russia: Threat or Promise  WNET New York, and WPBT Miami

China Crossroads    WNET New York, and WPBT Miami

Asia Financial Crisis   WNET New York, and WPBT Miami

Adam Smith television shows are archived at The Gotlieb Archive, Boston University, 771 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215.