All episodes Season 48 S48E23 2016-03-06 60 min 1980s CBS

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Prime Minister Trudeau | King of Coal | Death Row in Livingston Texas

TV Flash files “Prime Minister Trudeau | King of Coal | Death Row in Livingston Texas” as hour 421 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 48, episode 23, aired 2016-03-06, 60 min.

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This leaf is S48E23: listed hour 421 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 23 of 37 in season 48. It aired 2016-03-06 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Dead or Alive | Face Blindness” (S48E22). Next is “Encryption | Aid in Dying | Starchitect” (S48E24). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau; the case against coal company CEO Don Blankenship; coal miners from Upper Big Branch mine discuss working conditions; death-row inmates.

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Where does Prime Minister Trudeau | King of Coal | Death Row in Livingston Texas sit in the 60 Minutes guide?

S48E23 is listed hour 421 of 767 — hour 23 of 37 in season 48, season 48 episode 23.

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Prime Minister Trudeau | King of Coal | Death Row in Livingston Texas aired 2016-03-06 and is listed at 60 minutes.

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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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