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 Women/In Over His Head/An Exercise in Hypocrisy
Season 27 - Episode 52 - Aired 9/10/1995
#2 - Cash Now Die Later/Earthquakes, Riots, and Now the Subway/Capital Hill Nine
Season 28 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/17/1995
#3 - The President/Who Poisoned Maryann/Pay Attention!
Season 28 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/10/1995
#4 - Toto Constant/Martha Stewart/The Last Time We Saw Paris
Season 28 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/3/1995
#5 - Life... By Transplant/Come Blow Your Horn/Unsportsmanlike Conduct
Season 28 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/26/1995
#6 - Over There/One Voice/A Hole in His Head
Season 28 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/19/1995
#7 - Cigarettes/Car Talk/Southbury
Season 28 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/12/1995
#8 - Yitzhak Rabin/Racial Tracking/To Your Health
Season 28 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/5/1995
#9 - Deadbeat Dad/Madam Speaker/Land Mines
Season 28 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/29/1995
#10 - The Boy Who Knew Too Much/Back on Broadway/Women at Risk?
Season 28 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/22/1995
#11 - The Blue Wall of Silence/Take Me Out to the Ball Game/The Worst Nightmare
Season 28 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/15/1995
#12 - What About Vince Foster/The Other America/Stars on the Parallel Bars
Season 28 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/8/1995
#13 - Packing a Gun/Comrade Ambassador/HMO
Season 28 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/1/1995
#14 - The Chief/Too Good to Be True?/Ben Bradlee
Season 28 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/24/1995
#15 - Welcome Back Mrs. Khadder/Nadja/Jennifer and Everardo
Season 28 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/24/1995
#16 - Up Against the Wall-Mart/Seventy Years Old/The CIA's Cocaine
Season 27 - Episode 51 - Aired 9/3/1995
#17 - Harry Wu/Dwayne Sexton/Crusader
Season 27 - Episode 50 - Aired 8/27/1995
#18 - Gulf War Syndrome/Behind the Seams/A Letter from Jermarr
Season 27 - Episode 49 - Aired 8/20/1995
#19 - Last Rights/Lisa Herdahl vs Pontotoc County/Politics Taiwan Style
Season 27 - Episode 48 - Aired 8/13/1995
#20 - Femme Fatale/Summer Camp/E-Systems
Season 27 - Episode 47 - Aired 8/6/1995
#21 - The Getaway Drivers/What About Orphanages?/Stradivari
Season 27 - Episode 46 - Aired 7/30/1995
#22 - Rolling Stones/Confessions of a Tobacco Lobbyist/Derivatives
Season 27 - Episode 45 - Aired 7/23/1995
#23 - The Gene from Limone/The Sarcophagus/Death Wish
Season 27 - Episode 44 - Aired 7/16/1995
#24 - What Assault Weapons Ban?/The Second Wave/Life & Death in an Irish Town
Season 27 - Episode 43 - Aired 7/9/1995