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Grave Injustice | Survival of the Friendliest | Comparative Oncology

TV Flash files “Grave Injustice | Survival of the Friendliest | Comparative Oncology” as hour 653 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 55, episode 11, aired 2022-11-27, 60 min.

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This leaf is S55E11: listed hour 653 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 11 of 31 in season 55. It aired 2022-11-27 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The Most Dangerous Place in the World |The Panini Sticker Phenomenon | Wild Horses” (S55E10). Next is “The French President | Return to Gorongosa | The South Dakota Kid” (S55E12). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

60 Minutes — Grave Injustice | Survival of the Friendliest | Comparative Oncology (S55E11)

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Grave Injustice – Scott Pelley speaks with residents and archeologists about lost graves from African American cemeteries in Clearwater, Florida. He follows their efforts as they excavate erased graveyards to help reclaim history. They describe how they plan to keep digging for truth in more of America's forgotten sites.  Survival of the Friendliest – Anderson Cooper reports on the links between dog and human evolution and explores how dogs diverged from wolves and developed what one geneticist calls "friendliness mutations." Those mutations are found in the same genes deleted in some people with a condition called Williams Syndrome.  Comparative Oncology – Anderson Cooper reports some of the most promising genetic research in dogs and people involves cancer. In a growing field called Comparative Oncology, scientists, physicians, and veterinarians team up to study and treat similar cancers in pet dogs and people. They use what they learn to speed potentially lifesaving treatments for both species.

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Where does Grave Injustice | Survival of the Friendliest | Comparative Oncology sit in the 60 Minutes guide?

S55E11 is listed hour 653 of 767 — hour 11 of 31 in season 55, season 55 episode 11.

When did 60 Minutes S55E11 air?

Grave Injustice | Survival of the Friendliest | Comparative Oncology aired 2022-11-27 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.

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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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