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Resurrecting Chrysler | Evidence of Innocence | Novak Djokovic

TV Flash files “Resurrecting Chrysler | Evidence of Innocence | Novak Djokovic” as hour 295 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 44, episode 25, aired 2012-03-25, 60 min.

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This leaf is S44E25: listed hour 295 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 25 of 34 in season 44. It aired 2012-03-25 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “SpaceX | Face Blindness” (S44E24). Next is “Hard Landing | Sugar | Art Market” (S44E26). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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Where does Resurrecting Chrysler | Evidence of Innocence | Novak Djokovic sit in the 60 Minutes guide?

S44E25 is listed hour 295 of 767 — hour 25 of 34 in season 44, season 44 episode 25.

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Resurrecting Chrysler | Evidence of Innocence | Novak Djokovic aired 2012-03-25 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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