The WORST episodes of 60 Minutes
Every episode of 60 Minutes ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of 60 Minutes!
60 Minutes has been on the air since 1968, beginning on a Tuesday, but spending most of its time on Sundays, where it remains today. This popular news magazine provides both hard hitting investigations, interviews and features, along with people in the news and current events. 60 Minutes has set unprecedented records in the Nielsen's ratings with a number 1 rating, five times, making it among the most successful TV programs in all of television history. This series has won more Emmy awards than any other news program and in 2003, Don Hewitt, the creator (back in 1968), was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Emmy, along with the 60 Minute correspondents. Added to the 11 Peabody awards, this phenomenally long-lived series has collected 78 awards up to the 2005 season and remains among the viewers top choice for news magazine features.
#1 - The Gene from Limone/The Sarcophagus/Death Wish
Season 27 - Episode 44 - Aired 7/16/1995
#2 - The Boy Who Knew Too Much/Back on Broadway/Women at Risk?
Season 28 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/22/1995
#3 - The Blue Wall of Silence/Take Me Out to the Ball Game/The Worst Nightmare
Season 28 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/15/1995
#4 - What About Vince Foster/The Other America/Stars on the Parallel Bars
Season 28 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/8/1995
#5 - Packing a Gun/Comrade Ambassador/HMO
Season 28 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/1/1995
#6 - The Chief/Too Good to Be True?/Ben Bradlee
Season 28 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/24/1995
#7 - The Women/In Over His Head/An Exercise in Hypocrisy
Season 27 - Episode 52 - Aired 9/10/1995
#8 - Up Against the Wall-Mart/Seventy Years Old/The CIA's Cocaine
Season 27 - Episode 51 - Aired 9/3/1995
#9 - Harry Wu/Dwayne Sexton/Crusader
Season 27 - Episode 50 - Aired 8/27/1995
#10 - Gulf War Syndrome/Behind the Seams/A Letter from Jermarr
Season 27 - Episode 49 - Aired 8/20/1995
#11 - Last Rights/Lisa Herdahl vs Pontotoc County/Politics Taiwan Style
Season 27 - Episode 48 - Aired 8/13/1995
#12 - Femme Fatale/Summer Camp/E-Systems
Season 27 - Episode 47 - Aired 8/6/1995
#13 - The Getaway Drivers/What About Orphanages?/Stradivari
Season 27 - Episode 46 - Aired 7/30/1995
#14 - Rolling Stones/Confessions of a Tobacco Lobbyist/Derivatives
Season 27 - Episode 45 - Aired 7/23/1995
#15 - Deadbeat Dad/Madam Speaker/Land Mines
Season 28 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/29/1995
#16 - What Assault Weapons Ban?/The Second Wave/Life & Death in an Irish Town
Season 27 - Episode 43 - Aired 7/9/1995
#17 - The Spoils of War/Skunk Works/Going, Going, Gone
Season 27 - Episode 42 - Aired 7/2/1995
#18 - Corruption, Inc./Infomercials/Routine Blood Test
Season 27 - Episode 41 - Aired 6/25/1995
#19 - Don't Count Them Out/Wampum Wonderland/The Vogels
Season 27 - Episode 40 - Aired 6/18/1995
#20 - Mr. Robinson/They're Her Elephants/Jennifer and Everardo
Season 27 - Episode 39 - Aired 6/11/1995
#21 - Thalidomide/N.O.P.D. Blues/NPR
Season 27 - Episode 38 - Aired 6/4/1995
#22 - DNA/Tin Man/A Sweet Deal
Season 27 - Episode 37 - Aired 5/28/1995
#23 - The Pentagon Turned Its Back on Them/Absolutely Fabulous/Flight 712/Riccardo Muti
Season 27 - Episode 36 - Aired 5/21/1995
#24 - What Really Happened?/Christiane Amanpour/The Axman Cometh
Season 27 - Episode 35 - Aired 5/14/1995