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Survivors' Network | Pleistocene Park | The Rock

TV Flash files “Survivors' Network | Pleistocene Park | The Rock” as hour 532 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 51, episode 23, aired 2019-03-31, 60 min.

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This leaf is S51E23: listed hour 532 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 23 of 30 in season 51. It aired 2019-03-31 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Pegasus | All Bets are On | Samuel L. Jackson” (S51E22). Next is “The Principles of Ray Dalio | A Radical Solution | Attu” (S51E24). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

60 Minutes — Survivors' Network | Pleistocene Park | The Rock (S51E23)

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Parents of a 2012 Aurora, Colorado shooting victim travel the country to help others impacted by mass shootings; then, Siberia's Pleistocene Park: Bringing back pieces of the Ice Age to combat climate change; and, German-style program at a Connecticut maximum security prison emphasizes rehab for inmates.

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Where does Survivors' Network | Pleistocene Park | The Rock sit in the 60 Minutes guide?

S51E23 is listed hour 532 of 767 — hour 23 of 30 in season 51, season 51 episode 23.

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Survivors' Network | Pleistocene Park | The Rock aired 2019-03-31 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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