All episodes Season 42 S42E24 2010-03-21 60 min 1980s CBS

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Chief of Staff | The Lost Children of Haiti | Tennis Twins

TV Flash files “Chief of Staff | The Lost Children of Haiti | Tennis Twins” as hour 227 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 42, episode 24, aired 2010-03-21, 60 min.

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This leaf is S42E24: listed hour 227 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 24 of 33 in season 42. It aired 2010-03-21 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Inside The Collapse | Derek” (S42E23). Next is “The Case Against Nada Prouty | The Russian is Coming | The Sharkman” (S42E25). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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Where does Chief of Staff | The Lost Children of Haiti | Tennis Twins sit in the 60 Minutes guide?

S42E24 is listed hour 227 of 767 — hour 24 of 33 in season 42, season 42 episode 24.

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Chief of Staff | The Lost Children of Haiti | Tennis Twins aired 2010-03-21 and is listed at 60 minutes.

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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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