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The series drew infamy with its constant stream of fluff stories, [[You Can Panic Now]] stories, and screw-ups -- most notably, an early 1992 episode of the show got into hot water when it falsely claimed that 1973-1987 GM pickup trucks have leaky and explosive gas tanks (when in reality, the only reason they exploded for the cameras is the remote controlled explosives the [[NBC]] crew put there).
Recurring segments include ''The Dirty Dozen'' (in which it takes a critical eye to health inspection scores of various fast-food restaurants), [[Could This Happen to You?]] stories, as well as full length episodes dealing with [[True Crime]] mysteries. Many of the episodes are narrated by Keith Morrison, whose voice can be described as "[[Mister Rogers' Neighborhood|Mr. Rogers]] as-a-creepy-old-man".
The series began to fade by the late 1990s when NBC began shoring up its late night line-up, which meant fewer nights of ''Dateline.'' Stone Phillips left the series (Jane Pauly left several years earlier) and Anne Curry and Chris Hansen took over as main anchors for the series.
The series would returned to the spotlight in 2004, when a segment Chris Hansen did with the group Perverted Justice catching men attempting to arrange sexual encounters with underage teenagers, "To Catch A Predator," garnered a huge amount of publicity. This led to a whole series of ''Dateline'' "To Catch A Predator" specials and a spin-off, "To Catch A Predator: The Raw Tapes", which shows longer versions of the confrontations between Chris Hansen and the predators. Controversy was sparked, mostly by accusations of entrapment by lawyers for the accused predators and a high profile suicide of one man caught in the sting (but who did not appear on the show, having discovered prior to his death that he had been nailed in a sting operation). The show and Chris Hansen ultimately achieved [[Memetic Mutation]], with parodies appearing on different shows like [[South Park]], [[It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
''Dateline'' is still on the air in a [[Friday Night Death Slot]] (right before the local news), and also airs on Sundays opposite ''[[Sixty Minutes]]'' between season of NFL [[American Football|football]]. It has some internal infamy, as CNBC airs ''[[Sixty Minutes|60 Minutes]] on CNBC'' rather than ''Dateline: Business Edition'' because of the show's lack of any non-tabloid coverage... Though there ''being'' a ''Dateline: Business Edition'' says something.
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*** Considering the [[Tabloid Melodrama|source]] of that story, its authenticity is questionable. What's more, considering we haven't heard any more developments after Chris's denial, it's shaping up to be false.
* [[Karma Houdini]]: Most of the predators on the show before Dateline began working with law enforcement - even though some of them ended up getting arrested later anyway, some even returning a repeat time.
** Even in cases where the predators were arrested, many of them got [[Off
* [[Lantern Jaw of Justice]]: It is hard to fathom that a person who looks and [[Badass Baritone|sounds]] like Stone Phillips -- and is named ''Stone Phillips'' -- actually exists outside of a comic book.
* [[Missing White Woman Syndrome]]: Unfortunately, in a lot of their missing person cases, this is true.
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