60 Minutes
8 Days in Tehran | The Capitol Dome | The Recyclers
TV Flash files “8 Days in Tehran | The Capitol Dome | The Recyclers” as the last listed hour of season 46 — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 46, episode 31, aired 2014-05-18, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S46E31: listed hour 365 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, last listed hour of season 46. It aired 2014-05-18 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Washington's Open Secret | EMERGENCY | Salmon in the Sea” (S46E30). Next is “The Islamic State | The Tax Refund Scam” (S47E01). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Viewer FAQ
Where does 8 Days in Tehran | The Capitol Dome | The Recyclers sit in the 60 Minutes guide?
S46E31 is listed hour 365 of 767 — last listed hour of season 46, season 46 episode 31.
When did 60 Minutes S46E31 air?
8 Days in Tehran | The Capitol Dome | The Recyclers aired 2014-05-18 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.
In the series
Why this series still plays
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…
Filed against
- Mike Wallace as Correspondent
Mike Wallace’s ambush made 60 Minutes Sunday-night investigative theater that outrated sitcoms — Hewitt’s stopwatch, Safer and Bradley and Rooney’s endnotes, 1960s-into-1980s newsmagazine power. Appointment news before the internet stole…
- Morley Safer as Correspondent
Morley Safer’s packages helped 60 Minutes outrate sitcoms on Sunday night — Hewitt’s stopwatch, Wallace’s ambush, Bradley and Rooney’s endnotes, 1960s-into-1980s newsmagazine power. Appointment news before the internet stole the clock. TV…
- Harry Reasoner as Correspondent
Harry Reasoner was a 60 Minutes correspondent when the stopwatch became civic theater — Hewitt's newsmagazine power, Wallace ambush, Safer and Bradley and Rooney's endnotes, Sunday night investigation that outrated sitcoms. Appointment…
- Ed Bradley as Correspondent
Ed Bradley made 60 Minutes correspondent craft look like Sunday-night theater — Hewitt's stopwatch, investigative packages that outrated sitcoms, and a presence that treated the story as a public square. Appointment news before the…
- Diane Sawyer as Correspondent
Diane Sawyer worked 60 Minutes as correspondent steel — Hewitt’s stopwatch, Wallace’s ambush, Safer and Bradley and Rooney’s endnotes, Sunday-night investigative theater that outrated sitcoms. Template of TV newsmagazine power. TV Flash…
Also in season 46
- S46E01 The Secretary of State | Imminent Danger | Killing Jesus
- S46E02 The Federal Disability Program | America's First Battle With al-Qaida | Asteroids and Comets
- S46E03 Detroit on the Edge | Boy Wonder: Jack Andraka | Fall of Saigon
- S46E04 Washington's Open Secret | Dick Cheney's Heart | Return of the Humpbacks
- S46E05 2012 Al Qaeda Attack on US Consulate in Libya | Former CIA Michael Morrel | Peter Gelb
- S46E06 Guantanamo | Lamborghini | The Perfectionist