60 Minutes
The Airport Road | The First Man | The Winner
TV Flash files “The Airport Road | The First Man | The Winner” as hour 110 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 38, episode 7, aired 2005-11-06, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S38E07: listed hour 110 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 7 of 32 in season 38. It aired 2005-11-06 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The Outing of Valerie Plame | Whose Life Is It Anyway? | Prince Charles” (S38E06). Next is “After Shock | Burning Rage | Mad Money Man” (S38E08). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Airport Road | The First Man | The Winner sit in the 60 Minutes guide?
S38E07 is listed hour 110 of 767 — hour 7 of 32 in season 38, season 38 episode 7.
When did 60 Minutes S38E07 air?
The Airport Road | The First Man | The Winner aired 2005-11-06 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Is 1980s 60 Minutes different from today's?
The grammar is the same: multi-segment hour, stopwatch motif, investigations plus profiles. In the 1980s it frequently outrated sitcoms — proof news could dominate prime time.
In the series
Why this series still plays
The template of TV newsmagazine power — for the craft of the package and the history of broadcast investigation. Hewitt's stopwatch, Wallace's ambush, Safer and Bradley and Rooney's endnotes: Sunday night investigative theater that outrated sitcoms. Appointment news before the infinite scroll. Tick, tick, tick.
Tick, tick, tick — not a theme song, a weapon. CBS's 60 Minutes, Don Hewitt's stopwatch since 1968, was an 1980s Nielsen bully that outrated sitcoms on Sunday night: investigative pieces, profiles, commentator segments, correspondent star power. Mike Wallace, Morley Safer, Harry Reasoner, Ed Bradley, Diane Sawyer, Andy Rooney's endnotes. **Ambush interviews and gotcha lore made Wallace a fearsome brand.** The museum guard wants the package as civic virtue. The flash is the ambush. Appointment news before the…
Filed against
- Mike Wallace as Correspondent
Mike Wallace’s ambush made 60 Minutes Sunday-night investigative theater that outrated sitcoms — Hewitt’s stopwatch, Safer and Bradley and Rooney’s endnotes, 1960s-into-1980s newsmagazine power. Appointment news before the internet stole…
- Morley Safer as Correspondent
Morley Safer’s packages helped 60 Minutes outrate sitcoms on Sunday night — Hewitt’s stopwatch, Wallace’s ambush, Bradley and Rooney’s endnotes, 1960s-into-1980s newsmagazine power. Appointment news before the internet stole the clock. TV…
- Harry Reasoner as Correspondent
Harry Reasoner was a 60 Minutes correspondent when the stopwatch became civic theater — Hewitt's newsmagazine power, Wallace ambush, Safer and Bradley and Rooney's endnotes, Sunday night investigation that outrated sitcoms. Appointment…
- Ed Bradley as Correspondent
Ed Bradley made 60 Minutes correspondent craft look like Sunday-night theater — Hewitt's stopwatch, investigative packages that outrated sitcoms, and a presence that treated the story as a public square. Appointment news before the…
- Diane Sawyer as Correspondent
Diane Sawyer worked 60 Minutes as correspondent steel — Hewitt’s stopwatch, Wallace’s ambush, Safer and Bradley and Rooney’s endnotes, Sunday-night investigative theater that outrated sitcoms. Template of TV newsmagazine power. TV Flash…
Also in season 38
- S38E01 Hostage | The Search for Bin Laden | The Captain
- S38E02 Chalabi | A Fractured Mind | Elian
- S38E03 My FBI | The Dinner Set Gang | Nascar Family
- S38E04 Addicted to Heroin | Romo | The Lord God Bird
- S38E05 38 Years, 6 Months, 4 Days | Michael Jordan | Rex
- S38E06 The Outing of Valerie Plame | Whose Life Is It Anyway? | Prince Charles