--- description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. title: 60 Minutes image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt345219a5cf580527/69869f3006f2c1313b33048c/t100_tv_60_minutes_photofest.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Aug 12, 2014 # _60 Minutes_ by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close  Everett “You know I hate to miss 60 Minutes,” Elaine says in the “Puerto Rican Day” episode of _Seinfeld_. “It’s part of my Sunday weekend wind-down.” For nearly 40 years, _60 Minutes_ has been simultaneously confrontational and as comforting as a mug of warm milk. The show has been much imitated (where would your local-news’ _Shame On You_ segment be without it?) and has had its embarrassments (the tobacco back-down chronicled in the movie _The Insider_, a good number of Andy Rooney segments). But it sticks to the ideal that a camera could be a crowbar to pry out truths. In a medium that depends on millions sitting and watching, it reminds us that TV can be most effective (or scary) when watching you. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3103797/60-minutes/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3103797/60-minutes/"},"headline":"60 Minutes","datePublished":"2014-08-12T15:27:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-02T23:01:49.311Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3103797/60-minutes/","keywords":["Documentary","News"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt345219a5cf580527/69869f3006f2c1313b33048c/t100_tv_60_minutes_photofest.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt345219a5cf580527/69869f3006f2c1313b33048c/t100_tv_60_minutes_photofest.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3103797/60-minutes/","name":"60 Minutes"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"60 Minutes","description":"In a medium that depends on millions sitting and watching, it reminds us that TV can be most effective (or scary) when watching you.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/fgS5MjVK/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2007-09-04T14:20:57.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/fgS5MjVK.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3103797/60-minutes/","duration":"PT30S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3103797/60-minutes/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```