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Putin's Public Enemy | Dr. Fauci | Hell Flight

TV Flash files “Putin's Public Enemy | Dr. Fauci | Hell Flight” as hour 580 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 53, episode 5, aired 2020-10-18, 60 min.

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This leaf is S53E05: listed hour 580 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 5 of 36 in season 53. It aired 2020-10-18 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Treating COVID-19 Today | The Lincoln Project | Grizzlies” (S53E04). Next is “Election Edition: The Candidates” (S53E06). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

60 Minutes — Putin's Public Enemy | Dr. Fauci | Hell Flight (S53E05)

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Putin's Public Enemy – The Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny tells Lesley Stahl that President Vladimir Putin poisoned him with a banned nerve agent that's said to be 10 times more powerful than sarin.  Dr. Fauci - The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases gives Dr. Jon LaPook the latest information on how the U.S. is faring in the pandemic as the number of new cases of COVID-19 begins to increase.  Hell Flight – Early in the pandemic, dozens of cruise ship passengers sick or infected with COVID-19 returned to the United States on a hellish charter flight. As Sharyn Alfonsi reports, they were inexplicably allowed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to mix with unsuspecting travelers in the world's busiest airport and risk spreading the virus.

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Where does Putin's Public Enemy | Dr. Fauci | Hell Flight sit in the 60 Minutes guide?

S53E05 is listed hour 580 of 767 — hour 5 of 36 in season 53, season 53 episode 5.

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Putin's Public Enemy | Dr. Fauci | Hell Flight aired 2020-10-18 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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Filed by Vivian Cross · The Carpet Report · Show package

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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