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Poisoned | Prisoner 760 | Poisoned Again?

TV Flash files “Poisoned | Prisoner 760 | Poisoned Again?” as hour 460 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 49, episode 25, aired 2017-03-12, 60 min.

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This leaf is S49E25: listed hour 460 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 25 of 37 in season 49. It aired 2017-03-12 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Le Pen | Saving the Lions | Voices of the Lost” (S49E24). Next is “Fighting Famine | You're Fired | New Kid on the Street” (S49E26). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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Poisoned: 60 Minutes examines the unfortunate fate that stalks some of Putin's most prominent critics: unsolved shootings, suspicious suicides and poisonings. Prisoner 760: Mohamedou Slahi gives 60 Minutes an uncensored account of the now-illegal enhanced interrogation he endured at Guantanamo Bay -- and why he says it doesn't work. Poisoned Again?: 60 Minutes had already interviewed Putin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza when news broke that he was in the hospital again. Poisoned, he says, for speaking out against the Kremlin.

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Where does Poisoned | Prisoner 760 | Poisoned Again? sit in the 60 Minutes guide?

S49E25 is listed hour 460 of 767 — hour 25 of 37 in season 49, season 49 episode 25.

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Poisoned | Prisoner 760 | Poisoned Again? aired 2017-03-12 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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