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The Road to Syria | Life After Death Row | Hamilton

TV Flash files “The Road to Syria | Life After Death Row | Hamilton” as hour 413 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 48, episode 15, aired 2016-01-10, 60 min.

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This leaf is S48E15: listed hour 413 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 15 of 37 in season 48. It aired 2016-01-10 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Lost in the Bermuda Triangle | Agromafia | Little Jazz Man” (S48E14). Next is “The Great Brain Robbery | Sean Penn | Mountain Lions of L.A.” (S48E16). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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The Road to Syria - Bill Whitaker and 60 Minutes cameras were permitted to visit and report from Russia's main military base in Syria, where the Russians are waging an air war against the enemies of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Whitaker also interviews a top Russian lawmaker with a critical role in the campaign who expresses his dissatisfaction with Assad, an ally of Russia. Life After Death Row - Three unjustly convicted people who spent years in prison and then were exonerated tell Scott Pelley how they are adjusting to being free. Hamilton - An unorthodox musical with a diverse cast about the life of Alexander Hamilton is creating waves on Broadway and beyond while it smashes box office records.

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Where does The Road to Syria | Life After Death Row | Hamilton sit in the 60 Minutes guide?

S48E15 is listed hour 413 of 767 — hour 15 of 37 in season 48, season 48 episode 15.

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The Road to Syria | Life After Death Row | Hamilton aired 2016-01-10 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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Filed by Vivian Cross · The Carpet Report · Show package

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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