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Actor Michael J. Fox is known to millions for the "Back to the Future" films and the TV series "Family Ties" and "Spin City." But for the past two decades it's been his battle with Parkinson's disease, and his search for a cure, that may have generated the most attention. Looking back, he tells anchor Jane Pauley that sharing his battle publicly and joining with others to raise money has been "one of the great gifts of my life." He is now launching an online study to help researchers develop new therapies for the disease.
Fifty years ago Charles Kuralt set out "On The Road" to find news of a different stripe. Steve Hartman looks back at the man behind countless unforgettable stories, and talks with Izzy Bleckman, Kuralt's cameraman, who also drove the RV that brought cameras to parts of America that were rarely seen on TV.
The filmmaker who is king of things that go bump in the night is a musical master of horror as well. Lee Cowan talks with director-composer John Carpenter, whose next film is a "real" sequel to his classic 1978 horror film "Halloween," with returning star Jamie Lee Curtis.
Correspondent Luke Burbank meets an unusual mortician who wants you to re-think everything you think you know about death. Caitlin Doughty, author of the New York Times bestsellers "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" and her latest, "From Here to Eternity," and who hosts "Ask a Mortician" on YouTube, is out to change the way people approach funerals and the process of saying goodbye to the dearly departed.
On October 29th, 1692 the special court used to try suspected witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts was disbanded, after 20 people had been executed. Jane Pauley reports.
Magicians have a long tradition of misdirection, but some are breaking with our expectations of this most astonishing theatrical art. Nancy Giles talks to some of today's leading illusionists, including Jonathan Bayme, Dan White, Ron Carnell, and blind magician Richard Turner, and tries her hand at some card tricks.
We leave you this Sunday Morning in the company of grey bats, in a cave near Park City, Kentucky. Videographer: Carl Mrozek. To read Mrozek's essay on filming bats click here.
In this web extra, Miley Cyrus talks about being in the Disney universe as star of the show "Hannah Montana," and offers some wise words to kids.
In this web extra, Miley Cyrus talks about the very first songs she wrote as a child, including one about her "evil mother" after she'd been grounded.
In this web extra, expert card manipulator Richard Turner - who is blind - demonstrates for correspondent Nancy Giles how to deal the queen of hearts.