60 Minutes
The Purge/One Laptop Per Child/Will Smith
TV Flash files “The Purge/One Laptop Per Child/Will Smith” as hour 165 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 40, episode 11, aired 2007-12-02, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S40E11: listed hour 165 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 11 of 16 in season 40. It aired 2007-12-02 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Awakenings/Hi-Tech Heist/Eagles” (S40E10). Next is “Kings of Congo/Prescription for Addiction/LT MVP” (S40E12). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Purge/One Laptop Per Child/Will Smith sit in the 60 Minutes guide?
S40E11 is listed hour 165 of 767 — hour 11 of 16 in season 40, season 40 episode 11.
When did 60 Minutes S40E11 air?
The Purge/One Laptop Per Child/Will Smith aired 2007-12-02 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 40
- S40E01 President Ahmadinejad | Pot Shops | The Match of His Life
- S40E02 The Justice Nobody Knows/What Killed Rebecca Riley?/Invincible
- S40E03 The Man from Interpol/Roots/Springsteen/The Bird Man of Idaho
- S40E04 Blackwater/A Clean Version of Hell/Joel Osteen/Dubai Inc.
- S40E05 The Age of Megafires/Life Saver/No Ordinary Spy
- S40E06 Bombing Afghanistan/What's Wrong with the Bees?/Sarko L'Americain