All episodes Season 51 S51E16 2019-01-27 60 min 1980s CBS

60 Minutes

Howard Schultz | Small Satellites | Jerry and Marge Selbee

TV Flash files “Howard Schultz | Small Satellites | Jerry and Marge Selbee” as hour 525 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 51, episode 16, aired 2019-01-27, 60 min.

From the desk

How this hour is filed

This leaf is S51E16: listed hour 525 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 16 of 30 in season 51. It aired 2019-01-27 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The Committee | The Oracle of AI | A Different Kind of Vision” (S51E15). Next is “Andrew McCabe | The Chibok Girls” (S51E17). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

60 Minutes — Howard Schultz | Small Satellites | Jerry and Marge Selbee (S51E16)

Catalog log

Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.

Howard Schultz: The lifelong Democrat tells 60 Minutes both parties are not doing what's necessary on behalf of the American people. Small Satellites: A private company has set off a revolution in space by launching hundreds of small satellites, enough to photograph the entire landmass of the Earth every day. Jerry and Marge Selbee: It was completely legal and it won them millions. Jon Wertheim reports on how Jerry Selbee and his wife Marge used "basic arithmetic" to crack the code on certain lottery games.

Viewer FAQ

Where does Howard Schultz | Small Satellites | Jerry and Marge Selbee sit in the 60 Minutes guide?

S51E16 is listed hour 525 of 767 — hour 16 of 30 in season 51, season 51 episode 16.

When did 60 Minutes S51E16 air?

Howard Schultz | Small Satellites | Jerry and Marge Selbee aired 2019-01-27 and is listed at 60 minutes.

Is 1980s 60 Minutes different from today's?

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.

In the series

Why this series still plays

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…

Open the 60 Minutes package · Season 51 hub

Filed against

Also in season 51

← Full episode guide · Show package · All shows