All episodes Season 42 S42E33 2010-05-23 60 min 1980s CBS

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Are They Safe? | The Seed School | Marty's Big Idea

TV Flash files “Are They Safe? | The Seed School | Marty's Big Idea” as the last listed hour of season 42 — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 42, episode 33, aired 2010-05-23, 60 min.

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This leaf is S42E33: listed hour 236 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, last listed hour of season 42. It aired 2010-05-23 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Deepwater Horizon disaster | Conductor Gustavo Dudamel” (S42E32). Next is “A Relentless Enemy | People Behind the Mosque | Cool Brees” (S43E01). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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Where does Are They Safe? | The Seed School | Marty's Big Idea sit in the 60 Minutes guide?

S42E33 is listed hour 236 of 767 — last listed hour of season 42, season 42 episode 33.

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Are They Safe? | The Seed School | Marty's Big Idea aired 2010-05-23 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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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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