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Healing and Hope | Who is Ray Epps | Nicolas Cage

TV Flash files “Healing and Hope | Who is Ray Epps | Nicolas Cage” as hour 669 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 55, episode 27, aired 2023-04-23, 60 min.

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This leaf is S55E27: listed hour 669 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 27 of 31 in season 55. It aired 2023-04-23 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Revolution | The Unlikely Adventures of David Grann” (S55E26). Next is “The Domino Effect | Out of Thin Air | An American Down Under” (S55E28). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

60 Minutes — Healing and Hope | Who is Ray Epps | Nicolas Cage (S55E27)

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Healing and Hope – After catastrophic earthquakes devastated war-torn northwest Syria in February, Scott Pelley travels to the battleground to meet an American medical charity and volunteers for the White Helmets who braved the odds. Pelley speaks with healthcare workers, survivors, and first responders about the earthquakes and the constant attacks on healthcare ordered by Syria's Bashar Al-Assad and his ally, Russia's Vladimir Putin. Who is Ray Epps – Ray Epps is notorious among consumers of right-wing media as the man who initiated the Jan. 6 attack to undermine President Trump. The convoluted theory posits Epps was a secret agent of the "deep state," and members of Congress have promoted it. Death threats and harassment forced Epps and his wife, Robyn, to sell their Arizona ranch and go into hiding. So who is Ray Epps? Bill Whitaker spent several days with the Epps in their first television interview. Nicolas Cage – Actor Nicolas Cage invites 60 MINUTES into his eclectic Las Vegas home to meet his African crow, Huginn, and discuss his over 40 years of making movies, including his latest role as Count Dracula in "Renfield." Sharyn Alfonsi speaks with Cage about his love of cinema, his wide-ranging catalog of inspiration, and the ups and downs along the way.

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Where does Healing and Hope | Who is Ray Epps | Nicolas Cage sit in the 60 Minutes guide?

S55E27 is listed hour 669 of 767 — hour 27 of 31 in season 55, season 55 episode 27.

When did 60 Minutes S55E27 air?

Healing and Hope | Who is Ray Epps | Nicolas Cage aired 2023-04-23 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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