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46 Days | The Leaning Tower of San Francisco | Alma Deutscher

TV Flash files “46 Days | The Leaning Tower of San Francisco | Alma Deutscher” as hour 479 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 50, episode 7, aired 2017-11-05, 60 min.

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This leaf is S50E07: listed hour 479 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 7 of 37 in season 50. It aired 2017-11-05 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “God of War | The Blockade of Qatar | The Forger” (S50E06). Next is “Friendly Fire | Aly Raisman” (S50E08). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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An update on Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria; the sinking Millennium Tower in San Francisco and lawsuits; 12-year-old Alma Deutscher, a natural composer and prodigy who plays piano and violin, discusses music, and speaks Mozart as a "first language."

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Where does 46 Days | The Leaning Tower of San Francisco | Alma Deutscher sit in the 60 Minutes guide?

S50E07 is listed hour 479 of 767 — hour 7 of 37 in season 50, season 50 episode 7.

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46 Days | The Leaning Tower of San Francisco | Alma Deutscher aired 2017-11-05 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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