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.

Last Updated: 8/30/2025Network: CBSStatus: Continuing
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#1 - Canada's Dark Secret/Veronica Guerin/The Clintonization of Tony Blair

Season 29 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/2/1997

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#2 - The Tobacco Tapes/Strive

Season 29 - Episode 33 - Aired 5/4/1997

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#3 - Two Women/Look Who's Talking/Angels by the Sea

Season 29 - Episode 32 - Aired 4/27/1997

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#4 - Corruption at the Border/Getting to Know Him/Running Away from Saddam

Season 29 - Episode 31 - Aired 4/20/1997

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#5 - Not Quite Dead/A Harvard Man/The Texaco Tapes

Season 29 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/13/1997

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#6 - Webster Hubbell/The Shark/Handing Over Hong Kong

Season 29 - Episode 29 - Aired 4/6/1997

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#7 - Heaven's Gate/The Deadliest Prison

Season 29 - Episode 28 - Aired 3/30/1997

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#8 - Cover-Up at the Citadel?/Mary Schiavo/Rafsanjani

Season 29 - Episode 27 - Aired 3/23/1997

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#9 - Our Man in Hanoi/Paula Jones/Rich Air

Season 29 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/16/1997

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#10 - The Memoirs of Manuel Noriega/Car for Rent?/IBP

Season 29 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/9/1997

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#11 - Murder by the Book/Unmasked/The Rumor Mill

Season 29 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/2/1997

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#12 - La Eme/The Wall/Sotheby's

Season 29 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/23/1997

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#13 - Forgive But Not Forget/Stephen King/The Russian Army

Season 29 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/16/1997

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#14 - Madam Secretary/Seinfeld/The Disaster That Wasn't

Season 29 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/9/1997

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#15 - The Court-Martial of Lt. Flinn/Jimmy Buffett/Sisters of Mercy?

Season 29 - Episode 34 - Aired 5/11/1997

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#16 - Media Mogul/The Informer/The Search

Season 29 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/19/1997

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#17 - Working on a Miracle/Here Come the Brides/The 38 Million Dollar Car

Season 29 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/12/1997

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#18 - HMO: Managed or Mangled/Bounty Hunter/Vacco v. Quill

Season 29 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/5/1997

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#19 - How Sweet Is It?/A Very Tough Neigborhood/Martha Curtis' Story

Season 29 - Episode 16 - Aired 12/29/1996

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#20 - What Happened?/Merger Mania/Pork Power

Season 29 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/22/1996

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#21 - This Land Is My Land/Double Exposures/Eight Years and Counting

Season 29 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/15/1996

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#22 - Pain Killer/You Arrogant Journalists/How We Won the War

Season 29 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/8/1996

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#23 - Snafu/Out of This World/Is It Torture?

Season 29 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/1/1996

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#24 - Smoke Screen/Out of Africa/Bambi

Season 29 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/24/1996

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#25 - Rick Nuccio/Evelyn Glennie/The President of Somalia

Season 29 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/17/1996