60 Minutes
The 99ers | Jane Goodall | Top Gear
TV Flash files “The 99ers | Jane Goodall | Top Gear” as hour 241 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 43, episode 5, aired 2010-10-24, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S43E05: listed hour 241 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 5 of 34 in season 43. It aired 2010-10-24 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “City of David | Stand Down | Market Street” (S43E04). Next is “Anger in the Land | Tax the Rich | Zenyatta” (S43E06). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
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Where does The 99ers | Jane Goodall | Top Gear sit in the 60 Minutes guide?
S43E05 is listed hour 241 of 767 — hour 5 of 34 in season 43, season 43 episode 5.
When did 60 Minutes S43E05 air?
The 99ers | Jane Goodall | Top Gear aired 2010-10-24 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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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…
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- 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 43
- S43E01 A Relentless Enemy | People Behind the Mosque | Cool Brees
- S43E02 Unfinished Business | The Go-To-Guy | Giving Away a Fortune
- S43E03 High Frequency Trading | Nelson Mandela | Eminem
- S43E04 City of David | Stand Down | Market Street
- S43E06 Anger in the Land | Tax the Rich | Zenyatta
- S43E07 President Obama | Pacman