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60 Minutes Presents: Going to Extremes

TV Flash files “60 Minutes Presents: Going to Extremes” as hour 348 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 46, episode 14, aired 2013-12-29, 60 min.

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This leaf is S46E14: listed hour 348 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 14 of 31 in season 46. It aired 2013-12-29 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Susan Rice | Rocky Mountain High | Quarterback Guru” (S46E13). Next is “The Cleantech Case | Hollywood's Villans | Volcanos” (S46E15). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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Where does 60 Minutes Presents: Going to Extremes sit in the 60 Minutes guide?

S46E14 is listed hour 348 of 767 — hour 14 of 31 in season 46, season 46 episode 14.

When did 60 Minutes S46E14 air?

60 Minutes Presents: Going to Extremes aired 2013-12-29 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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