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The White Helmets | The Pope's Choir | Denzel

TV Flash files “The White Helmets | The Pope's Choir | Denzel” as hour 448 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 49, episode 13, aired 2016-12-18, 60 min.

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This leaf is S49E13: listed hour 448 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 13 of 37 in season 49. It aired 2016-12-18 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The New Columbia | Lost | Benjamin Netanyahu” (S49E12). Next is “Pope's Choir | Hamilton” (S49E14). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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The Syrian Civil Defense; members and maestro of the pope's choir; actor Denzel Washington.

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Where does The White Helmets | The Pope's Choir | Denzel sit in the 60 Minutes guide?

S49E13 is listed hour 448 of 767 — hour 13 of 37 in season 49, season 49 episode 13.

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The White Helmets | The Pope's Choir | Denzel aired 2016-12-18 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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