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After Shock | $80 Million Con | The Last Vaquitas

TV Flash files “After Shock | $80 Million Con | The Last Vaquitas” as hour 433 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 48, episode 35, aired 2016-05-22, 60 min.

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This leaf is S48E35: listed hour 433 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 35 of 37 in season 48. It aired 2016-05-22 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Inside Edge / Valerie Jarrett” (S48E34). Next is “The Republican Ticket | Bastille Day Tragedy | Mountain Lions of L.A.” (S48E36). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

60 Minutes — After Shock | $80 Million Con | The Last Vaquitas (S48E35)
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Where does After Shock | $80 Million Con | The Last Vaquitas sit in the 60 Minutes guide?

S48E35 is listed hour 433 of 767 — hour 35 of 37 in season 48, season 48 episode 35.

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After Shock | $80 Million Con | The Last Vaquitas aired 2016-05-22 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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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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