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All episodes Season 49 S49E37 2017-05-28 60 min 1980s CBS

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A Survivor's March | In the Path of Fire | Life in Outer Space

TV Flash files “A Survivor's March | In the Path of Fire | Life in Outer Space” as the last listed hour of season 49 — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 49, episode 37, aired 2017-05-28, 60 min.

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This leaf is S49E37: listed hour 472 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, last listed hour of season 49. It aired 2017-05-28 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Operation Car Wash | Snitches | Space Archeaology” (S49E36). Next is “Hurricane | The Fighter | Divided” (S50E01). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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A Survivor's March - Veteran Ben Skardon survived the Bataan Death March that killed thousands of American and Filipino soldiers during WWII. Now, at nearly 100, he's still marching -- to pay tribute. Ben Skardon plans on walking the Bataan Memorial Death March in 2018 -- when he'll be 100 years old. He continues to awe and inspire others at the event who have to wonder what's more remarkable: Skardon surviving the cruel WWII march as a young man or his continuing participation in the memorial event as he approaches a century of age. He's been walking in the Bataan Memorial Death March for 10 years and is the only survivor of the infamous 1942 march to do so. Sharyn Alfonsi walked with Skardon in New Mexico last year for a story In the Path of Fire - As more Americans live closer to the nation's wildernesses, their homes are at greater risk from wildfires that are on the rise due to droughts and climate change. The federal government is spending billions of dollars to protect homes, but property owners can be more effective with simple maintenance. Life in Outer Space - NASA has partnered with a Las Vegas entrepreneur to design large, lightweight structures that inflate in space -- a technology that could dramatically change how humans live and work in zero gravity.

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Where does A Survivor's March | In the Path of Fire | Life in Outer Space sit in the 60 Minutes guide?

S49E37 is listed hour 472 of 767 — last listed hour of season 49, season 49 episode 37.

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A Survivor's March | In the Path of Fire | Life in Outer Space aired 2017-05-28 and is listed at 60 minutes.

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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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