"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 12	7:00 PM	CBS
Sun. July 19	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:

Featured in Who Killed the Electric Car? (2006)

Still the Gold Standard

"60 Minutes" is definitely the originator of all the great television news magazines. Every Sunday night for several years I have either watched the show or listened to it on the local CBS radio affiliate here in Los Angeles. To me "60 Minutes" works in two different ways. The first is as an investigative program that looks hard at very controversial issues that the public should be made aware of. The show also is great at doing wonderful celebrity profiles. It really allows the general public to look at the lives of various celebrities and show what they are like once the spotlight is off. Of course, the show has its detractors who say that it has become very self important, but this will always be to me one of the most influential shows in the history of television.