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All episodes Season 58 S58E09 2025-11-23 60 min 1980s CBS

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The Bus on Route 62 | The Last Best Place | The Empty Rooms

TV Flash files “The Bus on Route 62 | The Last Best Place | The Empty Rooms” as hour 744 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 58, episode 9, aired 2025-11-23, 60 min.

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This leaf is S58E09: listed hour 744 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 9 of 31 in season 58. It aired 2025-11-23 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The President's Pardon | Anthropic | Chess Boxing” (S58E08). Next is “Polymarket | CRISPR Kids | Lamine Yamal” (S58E10). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

60 Minutes — The Bus on Route 62 | The Last Best Place | The Empty Rooms (S58E09)

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The Bus on Route 62 – Correspondent Scott Pelley returns to Ukraine for his 13th report inside the war-torn country since Russia invaded. As President Vladimir Putin's attacks have hardened into a brutal stalemate, Pelley travels to the city of Sumy, where two ballistic missiles struck four minutes apart on Palm Sunday. One obliterated a crowded city bus on Route 62. Pelley reports on the civilian toll. Nicole Young is the producer. The Last Best Place – The old license plates read "Big Sky Country," but Montana has an unofficial state motto: "The Last Best Place." Correspondent Jon Wertheim reports from a state that's seen a development boom in recent years and found itself at the center of a national debate over what to do with America's vast reserves of public land. Wertheim speaks with locals and officials for a look at the bipartisan fight to preserve what many Montanans hold most dear. David M. Levine is the producer. The Empty Rooms – For seven years, CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman and photographer Lou Bopp have documented the rooms of children killed in school shootings across the United States. Their bedrooms – virtually untouched as the children left them on the day they were killed – have become memorials to young lives cut short. Correspondent Anderson Cooper visits these spaces and speaks with the parents about their significance. Katie Brennan is the producer.

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Where does The Bus on Route 62 | The Last Best Place | The Empty Rooms sit in the 60 Minutes guide?

S58E09 is listed hour 744 of 767 — hour 9 of 31 in season 58, season 58 episode 9.

When did 60 Minutes S58E09 air?

The Bus on Route 62 | The Last Best Place | The Empty Rooms aired 2025-11-23 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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