All episodes Season 51 S51E08 2018-11-18 60 min 1980s CBS

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A Dose of Hope | A Dose of Greed | Tim Green

TV Flash files “A Dose of Hope | A Dose of Greed | Tim Green” as hour 517 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 51, episode 8, aired 2018-11-18, 60 min.

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This leaf is S51E08: listed hour 517 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 8 of 30 in season 51. It aired 2018-11-18 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Your Data | Ultra Deep | The Pact” (S51E07). Next is “Chaos on the Border | Robots to the Rescue | To Kill a Mockingbird” (S51E09). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

60 Minutes — A Dose of Hope | A Dose of Greed | Tim Green (S51E08)

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A Dose of Hope: Widespread use of naloxone, an opioid overdose antidote, is needed more than ever in the U.S. A Dose of Greed: 60 Minutes reports on one drug company that claims to be increasing access by pricing an injector of naloxone at $4000+. Tim Green: On coping with the ALS he thinks was caused by football, the game he loves.

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Where does A Dose of Hope | A Dose of Greed | Tim Green sit in the 60 Minutes guide?

S51E08 is listed hour 517 of 767 — hour 8 of 30 in season 51, season 51 episode 8.

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A Dose of Hope | A Dose of Greed | Tim Green aired 2018-11-18 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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