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60 Minutes - Season 42

60 Minutes

Run Time: 44 mins

Air Date: Sun, 27 Sept 2009

Average Rating: ⭐ 6.591 (77 votes)

CBS

46 Episodes

McChrystal/The Liquidator/A Living for the Dead

McChrystal/The Liquidator/A Living for the Dead

Season 42 - Episode 1

McCHRYSTAL - As the news from Afghanistan moves to the front pages of Americans' newspapers, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, tasked with turning th...

The Swindler/130 Million Tons of Waste/The Great Migration

The Swindler/130 Million Tons of Waste/The Great Migration

Season 42 - Episode 2

THE SWINDLER - To understand how Bernard Madoff could have done what he did, listen to so-called "mini-Madoff" Ponzi schemer Marc Dreier tel...

Golf Company/A Blow to the Brain/The Birdmen

Golf Company/A Blow to the Brain/The Birdmen

Season 42 - Episode 3

GOLF COMPANY - Scott Pelley spends time with a U.S. Marine company in Helmand Province, sent there as part of President Obama's troop buildu...

H1N1/The Kanzius Machine/Drew Barrymore

H1N1/The Kanzius Machine/Drew Barrymore

Season 42 - Episode 4

H1N1 - Scott Pelley reports on the H1N1 flu - which is increasingly targeting young, healthy people - and how the government plans to fight ...

60 Billion Dollar Fraud/Fight for a Cure/Tyler Perry

60 Billion Dollar Fraud/Fight for a Cure/Tyler Perry

Season 42 - Episode 5

$60 BILLION FRAUD - Medicare and Medicaid fraudsters are cheating U.S. taxpayers out of an estimated $90 billion a year using a billing scam...

H1N1 Vaccine/Yakuza/The Movie Pirates

H1N1 Vaccine/Yakuza/The Movie Pirates

Season 42 - Episode 6

H1N1 VACCINE - Scott Pelley reports on the manufacture, distribution and safety of the H1N1 flu vaccine. David Gelber, Michael Radutzky and ...

Cyber War/Andre Agassi

Cyber War/Andre Agassi

Season 42 - Episode 7

CYBER WAR - Could foreign hackers get into the computer systems that run crucial elements of the world's infrastructure, such as the power g...

The Deadliest Weapon/B-Rex/Resurrecting Eden

The Deadliest Weapon/B-Rex/Resurrecting Eden

Season 42 - Episode 8

THE DEADLIEST WEAPON - Byron Pitts and 60 MINUTES cameras spend two days on the road with a bomb-hunting unit in Afghanistan as they encount...

The Cost of Dying / Witness / Cameron's Avatar

The Cost of Dying / Witness / Cameron's Avatar

Season 42 - Episode 9

THE COST OF DYING - Many Americans spend their last days in an intensive care unit, subjected to uncomfortable machines or surgeries to prol...

Congo's Gold War / Robert Ballard

Congo's Gold War / Robert Ballard

Season 42 - Episode 10

CONGO GOLD - Five million people have died in the Democratic Republic of Congo in a war fueled primarily from gold mined in the country by w...

The Zone/Personal Foul

The Zone/Personal Foul

Season 42 - Episode 11

THE ZONE - Geoffrey Canada's remarkable experiment in inner-city education, the Harlem Children's Zone, has helped put historically low-achi...

President Obama/Growing Body Parts/Ricky Gervais

President Obama/Growing Body Parts/Ricky Gervais

Season 42 - Episode 12

PRESIDENT OBAMA - In his first extensive interview since his speech announcing his troop build-up in Afghanistan, President Obama talks abou...

California Water Drought/Oust al Qaeda/The Birdmen

California Water Drought/Oust al Qaeda/The Birdmen

Season 42 - Episode 14

RUNNING DRY - A three-year drought in California is bringing a decades-long fight over water to a head, forcing tough choices. Lesley Stahl ...

A Crack In The Swiss Vault/Delay, Deny And Hope That I Die/The Secret Language Of Elephants

A Crack In The Swiss Vault/Delay, Deny And Hope That I Die/The Secret Language Of Elephants

Season 42 - Episode 15

A CRACK IN THE SWISS VAULT - Swiss bank accounts offered people, including American tax cheats, a safe place to hide money. But Switzerland’...

Watching The Border/Revelations From The Campaign/Resurrecting The Extinct

Watching The Border/Revelations From The Campaign/Resurrecting The Extinct

Season 42 - Episode 16

WATCHING THE BORDER - Steve Kroft reports on the status of the multi-billion-dollar "virtual fence" being built at the U.S.-Mexican border, ...

Haiti/Football Island/Penelope Cruz

Haiti/Football Island/Penelope Cruz

Season 42 - Episode 17

HAITI - News from Haiti as Correspondent Byron Pitts reports on the efforts of the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division to help rescue, feed a...

The Quiet Professionals/White Hot/Beyonce

The Quiet Professionals/White Hot/Beyonce

Season 42 - Episode 18

THE QUIET PROFESSIONALS - In a rare chance to show America's elite Special Forces up close, 60 MINUTES spent over two months with a Green Be...

Made In America/Davos/Pigeon Fever

Made In America/Davos/Pigeon Fever

Season 42 - Episode 19

MADE IN THE USA - Could crucial parts of the equipment Iran is using in its uranium enrichment facility have come from the U.S.? American la...

Blackwater 61/Bloom Box/Ground Zero

Blackwater 61/Bloom Box/Ground Zero

Season 42 - Episode 20

BLACKWATER 61 - "Blackwater 61" is the call sign of a plane flown by the embattled government contractor Blackwater that crashed into a moun...

Stealing America's Secrets/Battle Over History/Kathryn Bigelow

Stealing America's Secrets/Battle Over History/Kathryn Bigelow

Season 42 - Episode 21

STEALING AMERICA'S SECRETS -- 60 MINUTES has obtained an FBI videotape showing a Defense Department employee selling secrets to a Chinese sp...

Inside The Collapse/Derek

Inside The Collapse/Derek

Season 42 - Episode 22

INSIDE THE COLLAPSE - Former trader-turned author Michael Lewis writes about a handful of Wall Street outsiders who realized the subprime mo...

The Case Against Nada Prouty/The Russian Is Coming/The Sharkman

The Case Against Nada Prouty/The Russian Is Coming/The Sharkman

Season 42 - Episode 24

THE CASE AGAINST NADA PROUTY - Former FBI and CIA terrorism fighter Nada Prouty was herself accused of aiding terrorism, but in her first in...

Who Owns Your Genes?; Death Sentences Survived; Smokeless Cigarettes

Who Owns Your Genes?; Death Sentences Survived; Smokeless Cigarettes

Season 42 - Episode 25

Smokeless Cigarettes Morley Safer with Lori Andrews, professor of law who insists your genes are yours alone. Another lawyer who happens to ...

Gotti Family Member; Meet the New Missing Link

Gotti Family Member; Meet the New Missing Link

Season 42 - Episode 26

In our first story, a double-length report, Steve Kroft with John Gotti, Jr., son of big time, well known mobster, John Gotti. Known as "Dap...

Con men who promise cures to dying victims; actor Al Pacino discusses his career and upcoming roles.

Con men who promise cures to dying victims; actor Al Pacino discusses his career and upcoming roles.

Season 42 - Episode 27

Scott Pelley investigates medical con artists who prey on dying patients by using the promise of stem cells to cure almost any disease. Also...

Conan O'Brien, The All American Canal,, Chef Jose Andres

Conan O'Brien, The All American Canal,, Chef Jose Andres

Season 42 - Episode 31

Late-night television comedian Conan O'Brien appears in his first interview since having to give back his spot on the "Tonight Show" to Jay ...

Homegrown terror, Sec. of State Hillary Clinton, people walking out on their mortgages

Homegrown terror, Sec. of State Hillary Clinton, people walking out on their mortgages

Season 42 - Episode 32

Steve Kroft reports on homegrown terror; Plus, Scott Pelley travels withSteve Kroft reports on homegrown terror; Plus, Scott Pelley travels ...

Deepwater Horizon disaster, Conductor Gustavo Dudamel

Deepwater Horizon disaster, Conductor Gustavo Dudamel

Season 42 - Episode 33

On tonight's edition of "60 Minutes", Scott Pelley investigates the Deepwater Horizon disaster, Bob Simon catches up with Conductor Gustavo ...

Are They Safe?/The Seed School/Marty's Big Idea

Are They Safe?/The Seed School/Marty's Big Idea

Season 42 - Episode 34

"Are They Safe?" investigates the danger posed by phthalates a set of chemical compounds that are found in many plastics. "The Seed School" ...

The Deadliest Weapon/Resurrecting the Extinct/Vogue, Anna Wintour

The Deadliest Weapon/Resurrecting the Extinct/Vogue, Anna Wintour

Season 42 - Episode 35

"The Deadliest Weapon" rebroadcasts a segment on a group of soldiers in Afghanistan who look for roadside bombs. "Resurrecting the Extinct" ...

The Swindler/The Case Against Nada Prouty/The Sharkman

The Swindler/The Case Against Nada Prouty/The Sharkman

Season 42 - Episode 36

"The Swindler" rebroadcasts a segment on a Ponzi scheme run by Marc Dreier. "The Case Against Nada Prouty" rebroadcasts an investigation int...

Sabotaging the System/The Great Explorer

Sabotaging the System/The Great Explorer

Season 42 - Episode 37

"Sabotaging the System" rebroadcasts an investigation into how easily foreign hackers could create havoc by breaking into computer systems c...

Assault on Pelindaba/The Liquidator/A Living for the Dead

Assault on Pelindaba/The Liquidator/A Living for the Dead

Season 42 - Episode 38

"Assault on Pelindaba" rebroadcasts a segment on an attack at a South African nuclear research center. "The Liquidator" rebroadcasts a segme...

Blackwater 61/Fight for a Cure/Cameron's Avatar

Blackwater 61/Fight for a Cure/Cameron's Avatar

Season 42 - Episode 39

"Blackwater 61" rebroadcasts an investigation into the crash of an airline run by a U.S. military contractor. "Fight for a Cure" rebroadcast...

Into the Wild: The Great Migration/The Secret Language of Elephants/B-Rex

Into the Wild: The Great Migration/The Secret Language of Elephants/B-Rex

Season 42 - Episode 40

"The Great Migration" rebroadcasts a looks at a massive animal migration in East Africa. "The Secret Language of Elephants" rebroadcasts a s...

The Lost Children of Haiti/Kathryn Bigelow/White Hot

The Lost Children of Haiti/Kathryn Bigelow/White Hot

Season 42 - Episode 41

"The Lost Children of Haiti" rebroadcasts a visit to the Caribbean country to see how children are managing in the weeks since the earthquak...

Golf Company/Penelope Cruz/Guiding Light

Golf Company/Penelope Cruz/Guiding Light

Season 42 - Episode 42

"Golf Company" rebroadcasts a segment on visits G Company in Afghanistan and the strategy of separating enemy combatants from civilians. "Pe...

The Narrative, Growing body parts, Tyler Perry

The Narrative, Growing body parts, Tyler Perry

Season 42 - Episode 43

"The Narrative" rebroadcasts a segment on an ideology that is used to promote anti-Western sentiment. "Growing Body Parts" rebroadcasts a di...

Out of the Shadows/Discovery/Derek

Out of the Shadows/Discovery/Derek

Season 42 - Episode 44

"Out of the Shadows" rebroadcasts a segment on CIA agent Hank Crumpton who is working against the Taliban. "Discovery" rebroadcasts a segmen...

The Cost of Dying/The Patriarch/Chef Jose Andres

The Cost of Dying/The Patriarch/Chef Jose Andres

Season 42 - Episode 45

"The Cost of Dying" rebroadcasts a segment on the enormous costs associated with end of life care. "The Patriarch" rebroadcasts a profile on...

A Crack in the Swiss Vault/130 Million Tons of Waste/Pacino

A Crack in the Swiss Vault/130 Million Tons of Waste/Pacino

Season 42 - Episode 46

"A Crack in the Swiss Vault" rebroadcasts an examination of how Swiss banks help people secretly conceal wealth overseas. "130 Million Tons ...

The Blowout/The Russian Is Coming

The Blowout/The Russian Is Coming

Season 42 - Episode 47

"The Blowout" rebroadcasts a segment on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster. "The Russian is Coming" rebroadcasts a profile of Russian bi...

Stealing America's Secrets/The Bloom Box/The Birdmen

Stealing America's Secrets/The Bloom Box/The Birdmen

Season 42 - Episode 48

"Stealing America's Secrets" rebroadcasts a segment examining how an American intelligence analyst gave secrets to China. "The Bloom Box" re...

60 Billion Dollar Fraud/The Seed School/Doubles

60 Billion Dollar Fraud/The Seed School/Doubles

Season 42 - Episode 49

"60 Billion Dollar Fraud" rebroadcasts a segment on government agents fighting Medicare Fraud. "The Seed School" rebroadcasts a segment on a...

21st Century Snake Oil/Beyonce

21st Century Snake Oil/Beyonce

Season 42 - Episode 50

"21st Century Snake Oil" rebroadcasts an investigation into a medical conman who is attempting to profit by offering miracle cures involving...

The Swindler/White House Diary: Jimmy Carter/Football Island

The Swindler/White House Diary: Jimmy Carter/Football Island

Season 42 - Episode 51

"The Swindler" rebroadcasts a segment on a Ponzi scheme run by Marc Dreier. "White House Diary: Jimmy Carter" interviews the former presiden...

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