60 Minutes
Mike Wallace: Some of My Favorite Stories
TV Flash files “Mike Wallace: Some of My Favorite Stories” as a desk essential hour — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 39, episode 36, aired 2007-06-03, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S39E36: listed hour 154 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, last listed hour of season 39. It aired 2007-06-03 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “President Bush | Duke LaCrosse Rape Case” (S39E18). Next is “President Ahmadinejad | Pot Shops | The Match of His Life” (S40E01). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Essential hour: “Mike Wallace: Some of My Favorite Stories”. Mike Wallace: Some of My Favorite Stories is a second Wallace landmark: favorite stories as the archive, tick-tick-tick still the brand.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Dr. Jack Kevorkian, who says he has helped more than 130 people commit suicide, would now refuse to aid in anyone's death, even someone in terrible pain, because he promised his parole board that he would not. Kevorkian talked to Mike Wallace today after serving more than eight years in prison for second-degree murder in the assisted suicide of a patient in 1998. The interview with Kevorkian, conducted today (1) at the McCamly Hotel in Battle Creek, Mich., was his first since gaining his freedom on parole this morning at 10:00 AM, ET.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Mike Wallace: Some of My Favorite Stories sit in the 60 Minutes guide?
S39E36 is listed hour 154 of 767 — last listed hour of season 39, season 39 episode 36.
When did 60 Minutes S39E36 air?
Mike Wallace: Some of My Favorite Stories aired 2007-06-03 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…