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All episodes Season 55 S55E25 2023-04-09 60 min 1980s CBS

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The Origin of Everything | Sportswashing | The Resurrection of Notre Dame

TV Flash files “The Origin of Everything | Sportswashing | The Resurrection of Notre Dame” as hour 667 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 55, episode 25, aired 2023-04-09, 60 min.

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This leaf is S55E25: listed hour 667 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 25 of 31 in season 55. It aired 2023-04-09 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “MTG | The Secretary and the Border | Fire and Ice” (S55E24). Next is “Revolution | The Unlikely Adventures of David Grann” (S55E26). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

60 Minutes — The Origin of Everything | Sportswashing | The Resurrection of Notre Dame (S55E25)

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The Origin of Everything – 60 MINUTES' Scott Pelley explores images captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the world's most powerful space telescope. Speaking with astrophysicists and astronomers, Pelley reports on the telescope's discoveries of distant galaxies, including one that's over 33 billion light years away, and an observation that, if confirmed, could upend the belief on how the universe formed and more. Pelley visited Webb in 2021 before its historic launch into orbit, 25 years in the making. Sportswashing – In the days of the Roman Coliseum, they called it "bread and circuses" – leaders using entertainment to distract citizens from genuine problems. Today, Saudi Arabia is accused of using the same tactic with a different name: "sportswashing." Is the Kingdom diversifying its economy, as they insist, or covering up human rights abuses and political repression? Correspondent Jon Wertheim traveled to Saudi Arabia to find out. The Resurrection of Notre Dame – Four years after a fire almost destroyed the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Bill Whitaker returns to Paris to witness the resurrection of the medieval structure and powerful symbol of France. Whitaker climbs to the top of the cathedral and speaks with its chief architect about the incredible attention to detail needed to restore the historic monument.

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Where does The Origin of Everything | Sportswashing | The Resurrection of Notre Dame sit in the 60 Minutes guide?

S55E25 is listed hour 667 of 767 — hour 25 of 31 in season 55, season 55 episode 25.

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The Origin of Everything | Sportswashing | The Resurrection of Notre Dame aired 2023-04-09 and is listed at 60 minutes.

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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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