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Enemy of the State | The F-35 | Cate Blanchett

TV Flash files “Enemy of the State | The F-35 | Cate Blanchett” as hour 353 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 46, episode 19, aired 2014-02-16, 60 min.

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This leaf is S46E19: listed hour 353 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 19 of 31 in season 46. It aired 2014-02-16 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Sex Matters | Philip Seymour Hoffman | 100,000 Homes” (S46E18). Next is “The Shooting at Chardon High | The Con Artist | Liam Neeson” (S46E20). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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Where does Enemy of the State | The F-35 | Cate Blanchett sit in the 60 Minutes guide?

S46E19 is listed hour 353 of 767 — hour 19 of 31 in season 46, season 46 episode 19.

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Enemy of the State | The F-35 | Cate Blanchett aired 2014-02-16 and is listed at 60 minutes.

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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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