60 Minutes season 1

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No. of episodes20
Original networkCBS
Original releaseSeptember 24, 1968 (1968-09-24) 
July 22, 1969 (1969-07-22)
60 Minutes
Season 1
Logo of 60 Minutes, a CBS news magazine television show broadcast continuously since 1968]
No. of episodes20
Release
Original networkCBS
Original releaseSeptember 24, 1968 (1968-09-24) 
July 22, 1969 (1969-07-22)
Season chronology
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List of episodes

60 Minutes's first season, twenty episodes from September 1968 to April 1969.[1] The two hosts were Harry Reasoner and Mike Wallace.[2]

No.TitleTopic(s)Original release date
1"U.S. Presidential Candidates[3][2]"US politics; law enforcement; cultureSeptember 24, 1968 (1968-09-24)

2"Richard Nixon Interview"US defense; US politics; sportsOctober 8, 1968 (1968-10-08)

Commentary by Art Buchwald.

3"Hubert H. Humphrey Interview[3]"US politics; US defense; lifestyleOctober 22, 1968 (1968-10-22)

4"Richard Nixon campaign/Joe Namath/invasion of Czechoslovakia/Percy Foreman[3]"US politics; sports; French politicsNovember 12, 1968 (1968-11-12)

5"Jacqueline Grennan/Laurent Restaurant/Edmund Muskie[3]"US politics; religion; foodNovember 26, 1968 (1968-11-26)

6"W. Averell Harriman/Prison Assaults/Dirty Football/Shoplifting/Adam Smith[3]"Incarceration in the United States; US politics; sports; international financeDecember 10, 1968 (1968-12-10)

7"Family of Martin Luther King, Jr./Ethel Kennedy/Jesus Christ[8]"US civil rights; education; US politics; religionDecember 24, 1968 (1968-12-24)

8"Review 1968/Spiro Agnew/Smothers Brothers/Otto Skorzeny[13][14][15]"international events; US politics; entertainmentJanuary 7, 1969 (1969-01-07)

9"Middle East tensions/American whiskey/Enzymes[13]"Middle East; lifestyleJanuary 21, 1969 (1969-01-21)
10"Duke and Duchess of Windsor/Airline Hijacking/Eric Hoffer[13][17]"UK royalty; travel safety; US crimeFebruary 4, 1969 (1969-02-04)

11"Welfare/Skiing/Danny the Red/NYC Snow[13]"US government; lifestyle; weatherFebruary 18, 1969 (1969-02-18)

  • The Welfare Mess: Country Style"
  • "The Billion Dollar Ski Boom" - CBS Sports commentator Heywood Hale Broun examines the surging popularity of skiing in the U.S. and on the large expense needed to finance the hobby.
  • "Daniel Cohn-Bendit" - interview conducted in Frankfurt, with 23-year-old German student activist "Danny the Red" Cohn-Bendit, who discusses the French student revolt of 1968, his personal philosophy and his candid opinions on LBJ, President Nixon, Martin Luther King and Karl Marx. Interview by Mike Wallace.
  • Report on heavy snowstorms in New York City of February 1969.
12"Fillmore/Presidential press conference/Pearl Harbor[13]"entertainment; US politics; Japan-US relationsMarch 4, 1969 (1969-03-04)

13"Welfare/Palm Beach/John Mitchell/Baseball[13]"US government; lifestyle; US defense; sportsMarch 18, 1969 (1969-03-18)

14"H.L. Hunt/Post-war German children/Heroin addiction[13][22][23]"TBAApril 1, 1969 (1969-04-01)

  • "The Richest Man in the World?" - Interview with multi-billionaire H. L. Hunt, who discusses his conservative ideas on politics and women, philanthropy, and why he feels that Calvin Coolidge was the last great U.S. President ("Money Talks")
  • "The Heroin Epidemic" Report on heroin addiction in the U.S.
  • "Black, German AND Illegitimate" - Report on fatherless German war babies
  • Reflections on the death of Dwight D. Eisenhower
15"Alice Roosevelt Longworth/Why Man Creates/Negative income tax/Nudity in Arts[13]"TBAApril 22, 1969 (1969-04-22)

16"Tora, Tora, Tora/The CLIO Awards[13][24][25]"TBAMay 13, 1969 (1969-05-13)

17"Africa war/Vaccine for German Measles/Fiddler on the Roof[13]"TBAJune 10, 1969 (1969-06-10)

  • Report on the war between Biafra and Nigeria, featuring a look into the causes and possible solutions to the conflict. Included are interviews with political and military leaders from both nations, among them Biafra's Gen. Philip Effiong.
  • Report on a vaccine for German measles.
  • Films of a production of Fiddler on the Roof performed by Black and Puerto Rican young people in New York City.
18"The Death of Venice/American Detention Camps/Tito/Hair[13][26]"TBAJune 24, 1969 (1969-06-24)

  • "The Death of Venice" - Examination of the beautiful Italian city's plight as it sinks into the sea.
  • "American Detention Camps" - Report on the establishment of various detention centers in the U.S. and on the associated controversy
  • Interview with Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, focusing on how response to youths' cries for more freedom of expression. Interviewer by Sir Fitzroy MacLean British journalist and former British liaison officer to Tito's World War II partisans.
  • Excerpts of Hair, the musical from a Yugoslavian production at Atelje 212 in Belgrade.[27][28]
19"Youth Rebellion / German Gas Warface[13]"TBAJuly 8, 1969 (1969-07-08)

  • In a conversation telecast on Philadelphia's WCAU-TV, Harry Reasoner and his son Stuart discuss the youth rebellion and generation gap; topics include the seriousness with which young people approach the world's problems and the Establishment's attitudes and systems concerning morality and ethics.
  • "German Gas Warfare" - Rebroadcast of 10/8 & 10/22/68: A look at U.S. efforts to develop a weapons system potentially more dangerous than our nuclear arsenal.
20"Duke and Duchess of Windsor/Money Talks/Whiskey[13]"TBAJuly 22, 1969 (1969-07-22)

Rebroadcast of three segments:

  • Interview with the Duke and Duchess of Windsor (Repeat S01E11 from February 4, 1969)
  • "Money Talks" - Interview with H.L. Hunt (Repeat S01E15 from April 1, 1969)
  • "Essay on Whiskey" (Repeat S01E10 from January 21, 1969)

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