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Greg Mortenson | The Case of Beckett Brennan | The Co-Founder

TV Flash files “Greg Mortenson | The Case of Beckett Brennan | The Co-Founder” as hour 265 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 43, episode 29, aired 2011-04-17, 60 min.

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This leaf is S43E29: listed hour 265 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 29 of 34 in season 43. It aired 2011-04-17 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The Murder of Louis Allen | The Library | Albert Pujols” (S43E28). Next is “Mount Athos | The Billionaire” (S43E30). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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Where does Greg Mortenson | The Case of Beckett Brennan | The Co-Founder sit in the 60 Minutes guide?

S43E29 is listed hour 265 of 767 — hour 29 of 34 in season 43, season 43 episode 29.

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Greg Mortenson | The Case of Beckett Brennan | The Co-Founder aired 2011-04-17 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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