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I'm Mike Wallace: A 60 Minutes Tribute

TV Flash files “I'm Mike Wallace: A 60 Minutes Tribute” as a desk essential hour — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 38, episode 32, aired 2006-05-21, 60 min.

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How this hour is filed

This leaf is S38E32: listed hour 135 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, last listed hour of season 38. It aired 2006-05-21 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The New Boss | The Harlem Children's Zone | Not Ready to Make Nice” (S38E31). Next is “Five Years Later” (S39E01). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

Essential hour

Essential hour: “I'm Mike Wallace: A 60 Minutes Tribute”. I'm Mike Wallace: A 60 Minutes Tribute is the house salute: ambush-craft as biography, the template honoring its own sharpest instrument.

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Mike Wallace was too rough? He's sorry? An actress flirted with him off and on camera? His depression was worse than he's ever admitted? The grand inquisitor himself fesses up when his own colleagues ask him the questions in a special edition of 60 MINUTES dedicated entirely to the program's legendary correspondent. These personal revelations and many of Wallace's most controversial and engaging interviews can be seen and heard when Morley Safer, Ed Bradley, Steve Kroft and Lesley Stahl interview Wallace this Sunday. And Andy Rooney has a few thoughts on Mike too.

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Where does I'm Mike Wallace: A 60 Minutes Tribute sit in the 60 Minutes guide?

S38E32 is listed hour 135 of 767 — last listed hour of season 38, season 38 episode 32.

When did 60 Minutes S38E32 air?

I'm Mike Wallace: A 60 Minutes Tribute aired 2006-05-21 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.

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Filed by Vivian Cross · The Carpet Report · Show package

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…

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