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Targeting Americans | Billionaire on the Bus | Monaco

TV Flash files “Targeting Americans | Billionaire on the Bus | Monaco” as hour 530 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 51, episode 21, aired 2019-03-17, 60 min.

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This leaf is S51E21: listed hour 530 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 21 of 30 in season 51. It aired 2019-03-17 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The Chairman | ACLU | Genetic Revolution” (S51E20). Next is “Pegasus | All Bets are On | Samuel L. Jackson” (S51E22). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

60 Minutes — Targeting Americans | Billionaire on the Bus | Monaco (S51E21)

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Brain trauma suffered by U.S. diplomats abroad could be work of hostile foreign government; then, a venture capitalist is spreading funding to Middle America; and, Anderson Cooper goes inside Monaco: The ultimate playground for the rich.

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Where does Targeting Americans | Billionaire on the Bus | Monaco sit in the 60 Minutes guide?

S51E21 is listed hour 530 of 767 — hour 21 of 30 in season 51, season 51 episode 21.

When did 60 Minutes S51E21 air?

Targeting Americans | Billionaire on the Bus | Monaco aired 2019-03-17 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.

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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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