"60 Minutes" (1968) TV series 1968-????

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Creator:

Don Hewitt

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 23 | 28 | 35 | 41 | unknown

Release Date:

24 September 1968 (USA)

Genre:

Documentary | News

Plot:

The premiere television News magazine.

Plot Keywords:

Magazine | Time For Title | Newsmagazine | Non Fiction | Number In Title

Awards:

Won Golden Globe. Another 14 wins & 24 nominations

US TV Schedule:

Sun. July 19	7:00 PM	CBS
Sun. July 26	7:00 PM	CBS

Cast

Morley Safer	...	Himself - Correspondent / ... (40 episodes, 1970-2009)
Lesley Stahl	...	Herself - Correspondent / ... (38 episodes, 1991-2009)
Mike Wallace	...	Himself - Correspondent / ... (38 episodes, 1968-2006)
Ed Bradley	...	Himself - Correspondent / ... (35 episodes, 1981-2006)

Also Known As:

"TV Land Legends: The 60 Minutes Interviews" (USA) (rerun title)

Runtime:

60 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

West 57th Street, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Company:

CBS News Productions

Trivia:

Stopwatches used: Minerva: starting with the third show and for several shows after Heuer: late 1968 to the late 1970s Aristo: late 1970s to present No stopwatch was in the first two shows of October 8th and 15th, 1968

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: In Andy Rooney's segment of 30 November 2008, the location of his seat in Giants Stadium was digitally blurred at the top of his season ticket - though the blurred region shifted enough to reveal most of the information - but all for naught as the same information was left unobstructed and even pointed to by Mr. Rooney at the bottom of the ticket, as well as the ticket's bar code and accompanying number.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "The Nanny: Close Shave (#2.21)" (1995)

Still on Top after Almost 40 years!

60 Minutes does something that the other shows like Primetime Live and Dateline try to capture. 60 Minutes is the top show if you're a serious journalist. If you're not, go elsewhere. On this show, ratings are always high and it was higher during the years before it led to Murder, She Wrote on Sunday nights. 60 Minutes has the best journalists around. They take their jobs seriously and treat every story as if it was the most important around. Some stories like Iraq, Afghanistan, Washington D.C., etc. deserve the attention and most of them do the best job around with research and they get the job done. They also do lighter stories like real estate, celebrity profiles, and other light-hearted stories like Netflix and Starbucks. Of course, you can't forget Andy Rooney who always gives us what he's thinking as it is. They don't talk down to the audience but they treat us with respect and intellect. They enlighten, inform, and educate us about certain issues. Lesley Stahl, the late Ed Bradley, Morley Safer, Peter Simon, and others are top notch journalists at the top of their peak. Don't forget the occasional story by Anderson Cooper, Katie Couric, and Christiane Amanpour. Once you made 60 Minutes as a journalist, you're on top of the world.