All episodes Season 44 S44E22 2012-03-04 60 min 1980s CBS

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Stuxnet | The Archbishop of Dublin | Redshirting

TV Flash files “Stuxnet | The Archbishop of Dublin | Redshirting” as hour 292 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 44, episode 22, aired 2012-03-04, 60 min.

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This leaf is S44E22: listed hour 292 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 22 of 34 in season 44. It aired 2012-03-04 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Going to Extremes” (S44E21). Next is “The Spymaster Speaks | Teacher to the World | Aerosmith” (S44E23). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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S44E22 is listed hour 292 of 767 — hour 22 of 34 in season 44, season 44 episode 22.

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Stuxnet | The Archbishop of Dublin | Redshirting aired 2012-03-04 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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