60 Minutes - Season 1
Season 1
60 Minutes' first season aired as a bi-weekly broadcast hosted by Mike Wallace and Harry Reasoner, debuting on September 24, 1968, and alternating weeks with other CBS News productions on Tuesday evenings at 10:00 p.m. Eastern Time. The first edition was described by Reasoner in the opening as a "kind of a magazine for television."
Network
DatesSep 24, 1968 - Apr 22, 1969
Episodes
Season 1Episode 160 min
Pilot
60 Minutes offers a beside-the-scenes look at presidential candidates Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey during their parties' summer nominating conventions then interviews three prominent European political thinkers about the elections before soliciting the opinion of native son and Pulitzer Prize-winning commentator Art Buchwald. A conversation with U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark follows during which he attempts to explain the forces at work in the country's rapidly changing relationship with law enforcement officers. A presentation of the short subject documentary "Why Man Creates" concludes this inaugural episode.
Sep 24, 1968
Season 1Episode 260 min
8 Oct. 1968
An exclusive interview with Richard Nixon, the Republican Party candidate for president, a look at highlights from an original musical comedy produced by Theatre Atlanta, and an examination of U.S. Defense research into germ and gas warfare.
Oct 8, 1968
Season 1Episode 360 min
22 Oct. 1968
An exclusive interview with Democratic Party presidential candidate and current Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, an interview with controversial Independent presidential candidate George Wallace, and the second part of an investigative story on U.S. Defense germ and gas warfare research.
Oct 22, 1968
Season 1Episode 460 min
12 Nov. 1968
A look back at last week's election of Richard Nixon as President, a profile of NFL football star quarterback Joe Namath of the New York Jets and a look at some footage of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia shot in Prague.
Nov 12, 1968
Season 1Episode 560 min
26 Nov. 1968
An interview with former nun and current president of Webster College, Jacqueline Grennan, who left the Roman Catholic Church after challenging its stance on birth control; a trip to the famous Laurent Restaurant with food critic Craig Claiborne; an interview with recently re-elected Senator Edmund Muskie.
Nov 26, 1968
Season 1Episode 660 min
10 Dec. 1968
An investigation into how sexual assaults are becoming more common in U.S. prisons,a look at cheating in football, shoplifting, and a profile of former ambassador Averell Harriman.
Dec 10, 1968
Season 1Episode 760 min
24 Dec. 1968
Interviews of Coretta Scott King, Bernice King, Dexter King, Yolanda King, family of the late activist Martin Luther King, Jr. during Christmas in Atlanta, Georgia;
Report on illiteracy in the U.S.;
Interview with Ethel Kennedy the widow of the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy;
Essay by Andy Rooney on "What Jesus Christ looked like?"
Dec 24, 1968
Season 1Episode 860 min
7 Jan. 1969
Jan 7, 1969
Season 1Episode 960 min
14 Jan. 1969
Jan 14, 1969
Season 1Episode 1060 min
22 Apr. 1969
Apr 22, 1969
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