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Argentine Prosecutor Assassination | Golf Company Reunion | James Levine | Laminate Flooring Update

TV Flash files “Argentine Prosecutor Assassination | Golf Company Reunion | James Levine | Laminate Flooring Update” as hour 388 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 47, episode 23, aired 2015-03-08, 60 min.

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This leaf is S47E23: listed hour 388 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 23 of 33 in season 47. It aired 2015-03-08 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The Storm after the Storm | Lumber Liquidators | Larry David” (S47E22). Next is “Dead or Alive | A Few Good Women | Back to the Wild” (S47E24). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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Where does Argentine Prosecutor Assassination | Golf Company Reunion | James Levine | Laminate Flooring Update sit in the 60 Minutes guide?

S47E23 is listed hour 388 of 767 — hour 23 of 33 in season 47, season 47 episode 23.

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Argentine Prosecutor Assassination | Golf Company Reunion | James Levine | Laminate Flooring Update aired 2015-03-08 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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