60 Minutes - Season 42
Run Time: 44 mins
Air Date: Sun, 27 Sept 2009
Average Rating: ⭐ 6.591 (77 votes)
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...