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31 Episodes 1993 - 1994
Episode 1
Tue, Jan 19, 1993 60 mins
A report on what correspondent Jon Scott calls "the dirty little secret of the horse industry"---allegations of payoffs made for killing animals to collect insurance. Included: comments from owners and insurance experts.
Episode 2
Tue, Feb 2, 1993 60 mins
Scheduled: Examining problems in the funeral industry, including how some funeral homes, segment producer John Siceloff says, "take your money and do not perform the services that you contracted for." Included: problems involving cremations, with comments from a crematory worker. Michele Gillen reports.
Episode 3
Tue, Feb 9, 1993 60 mins
Scheduled: The investigation of "an Atlanta couple who," segment producer Michael Austin says, "are now charged with organizing a massive insurance-fraud scheme." Examined is the impact on some of "the victims of the alleged scam," says Austin. Brian Ross is the reporter.
Episode 4
Tue, Feb 16, 1993 60 mins
Scheduled: The impact of a child-custody case in which "the judge determined that the mother...was more 'career oriented' than 'family oriented'." Jane Pauley reports.
Episode 5
Tue, Mar 9, 1993 60 mins
Scheduled: A report on what producer John Grassie calls "an increasing practice...jailing the mentally ill." Included: a visit to a Kentucky jail. Stone Phillips is the correspondent.
Episode 6
Tue, Mar 16, 1993 60 mins
Scheduled: A study considers the inaccessibility of some university professors---an "increasing trend," says producer Jamie Deans. Included: comments from students. Lea Thompson is the correspondent.
Episode 7
Tue, Mar 23, 1993 60 mins
Scheduled: A report considers infants born addicted to drugs. Included: comments from pharmacology professor Lawrence Halpern. Lea Thompson is the correspondent.
Episode 8
Tue, Mar 30, 1993 60 mins
Scheduled: The rapid IRS-refunds available---a program that correspondent Brian Ross calls "a consumer rip-off." According to Ross, "the refund is really a bank loan at interest rates as high as 215 percent."
Episode 9
Tue, Apr 6, 1993 60 mins
A report on baseball's spring training and players trying to become Seattle Mariners focuses on rookie Jim Converse and veteran Mike Marshall. Included: comments from Mariners manager Lou Piniella. Jon Scott is the correspondent.
Episode 10
Tue, May 18, 1993 60 mins
Jane Pauley visits "Cheers" during the taping of its final episode. Discussed: the plans of the actors, whom the segment producer calls "the most happy group of people working together that I've ever seen."
Episode 11
Tue, May 4, 1993 60 mins
Scheduled: The competition among manufacturers of sneakers. Jon Scott is the correspondent.
Episode 12
Tue, Jun 8, 1993 60 mins
Jane Pauley profiles Tina Turner. Included are scenes of Turner rehearsing for a tour; opening night in Reno. Also: clips of the movie based on Turner's life, "What's Love Got to Do with It."
Episode 13
Tue, Jun 15, 1993 60 mins
Scheduled: A report on what producer John Block calls the "racial harassment" that allegedly led to the shooting of a black soldier at an Anchorage, Alaska, Army base. Stone Phillips is the correspondent.
Episode 14
Tue, Jun 29, 1993 60 mins
Scheduled: Brian Ross reports on "cheating at the gas pumps," which "costs the Government a fortune in taxes." Included: ways that gas pumps may be rigged; how gasoline is sometimes diluted.
Episode 15
Tue, Jul 6, 1993 60 mins
Scheduled: A report on hearing aids. Segment producer Mary Whittington says that there are "disappointed purchasers" to whom products have been "misrepresented." Included: comments from FDA commissioner, Dr. David Kessler.
Episode 16
Tue, Jul 13, 1993 60 mins
Scheduled: Jane Pauley interviews Dr. Joycelyn Elders, surgeon-general designate.
Episode 17
Tue, Jul 20, 1993 60 mins
Scheduled: A report on a serial arsonist who, according to producer Steve Cheng, "set more than 70 fires during a five-month period." Included: comments from a chief investigator and fire victims.
Episode 18
Tue, Jul 27, 1993 60 mins
Jane Pauley profiles singer Garth Brooks.
Episode 19
Tue, Aug 17, 1993 60 mins
Maria Sansone, a 12-year-old TV sports reporter in Erie, Pa., who has interviewed Michael Jordan and other athletes on her own TV segment, "Down to Size." Included: comments from her parents and co-workers.
Episode 20
Tue, Aug 24, 1993 60 mins
Stone Phillips interviews singer Wynonna, who discusses her career (since her mother's retirement).
Episode 21
Tue, Aug 31, 1993 60 mins
Jane Pauley interviews Andre Agassi, who discusses the 1993 U.S. Open; Wimbledon; his split with longtime-coach Nick Bollettieri. Also: comments from Bollettieri.
Episode 22
Tue, Sep 7, 1993 60 mins
A report on the Churches, a couple whose 8-year-old daughter was born with hydrochepalus (water on the brain) and was not expected to live. Included: comments from Tim and Sandy Church and their daughter Leah.
Episode 23
Tue, Sep 21, 1993 60 mins
A report on a West Virginia woman who attempted to sell her 1-month-old son to a couple working undercover. Faith Daniels is the correspondent.
Episode 24
Thu, Sep 30, 1993 60 mins
A profile of Paul Simon.
Episode 25
Tue, Oct 5, 1993 60 mins
Considering the safety of the Nation's blood supply. Included: comments from representatives of the Red Cross and blood banks. Stone Phillips is the correspondent.
Episode 26
Tue, Oct 12, 1993 60 mins
Stone Phillips interviews Howard Stern; Jane Pauley profiles a school custodian who earned a degree in education and a teaching position at a Norfolk, Va., elementary school.
Episode 27
Tue, Oct 26, 1993 60 mins
Deborah Roberts reports on bureaucratic waste and how taxpayers are paying for excesses at some U.S. embassies. Included: comments from Evan Galbraith, former U.S. ambassador to France; Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.).
Episode 28
Tue, Nov 9, 1993 60 mins
Tony Curtis discusses his autobiography. Also: Dr. Jack Kevorkian talks about his plan to have death-row inmates become organ donors. Included are comments from cardiovascular surgeon Michael DeBakey.
Episode 29
Tue, Nov 16, 1993 60 mins
Jane Pauley interviews "Seinfeld" cast members, who discuss the show's popularity. Also: Brian Ross reports on "the adulteration of orange juice." Included: comments from a representative of the Florida Citrus Commission.
Episode 30
Tue, Dec 7, 1993 60 mins
A report recalling the 1932 Lindbergh kidnapping considers the guilt of Bruno Hauptmann, who was executed in 1936, though he maintained that he was innocent. Included: comments from author Noel Behn ("Lindbergh: The Crime").
Episode 31
Tue, Dec 28, 1993 60 mins
A report on credit cards and hidden charges that consumers may pay. Included: comments from a Maryland family concerning payments. Lea Thompson is the correspondent.