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“HE WANTED OFFICE, THEY WANTED MORE...”

Blind Ambition (1979)

First aired May 20, 19792h/ep1 season · 4 epsEnded
5.5

2 votes

War & PoliticsDrama

Overview

The Watergate crisis as viewed by John Dean and his wife Maureen, based on their personal accounts -- his best-seller, her book on how it affected their marriage -- and distilled into an eight-hour drama with all of the political figures of the day parading by as Dean relates his story to his attorney when his world, based on blind ambition, begins crashing down on him.

Top Billed Cast

Martin Sheen

Martin Sheen

John Dean

Theresa Russell

Theresa Russell

Maureeen Dean

Michael Callan

Michael Callan

Charles Colson

Lonny Chapman

Lonny Chapman

L. Patrick Gray

William Daniels

William Daniels

G. Gordon Liddy

Clifford David

Clifford David

Fred Fielding

Ed Flanders

Ed Flanders

Charles Shaffer

Fred Grandy

Fred Grandy

Donald Segretti

Christopher Guest

Christopher Guest

Jeb Stuart Magruder

Graham Jarvis

Graham Jarvis

John Ehrlichman

Edward Mallory

Edward Mallory

Henry Petersen

Gerald S. O'Loughlin

Gerald S. O'Loughlin

John J. 'Jack' Caufield

Alan Oppenheimer

Alan Oppenheimer

George Simonson

Lawrence Pressman

Lawrence Pressman

H.R. Haldeman

John Randolph

John Randolph

John Mitchell

Peter Mark Richman

Peter Mark Richman

Robert Mardian

Seasons

Status

Ended

Language

English

Type

Miniseries

Last Air Date

May 23, 1979

Networks

CBS

Production

Time-Life Television Productions

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