Blind Ambition (1979)
Blind Ambition (1979)
Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.
Martin Sheen
John Dean
Theresa Russell
Maureeen Dean
Michael Callan
Charles Colson
Lonny Chapman
L. Patrick Gray
William Daniels
G. Gordon Liddy
Clifford David
Fred Fielding
Ed Flanders
Charles Shaffer
Fred Grandy
Donald Segretti
Christopher Guest
Jeb Stuart Magruder
Graham Jarvis
John Ehrlichman
Edward Mallory
Henry Petersen
Gerald S. O'Loughlin
John J. 'Jack' Caufield
Alan Oppenheimer
George Simonson
Lawrence Pressman
H.R. Haldeman
John Randolph
John Mitchell
Peter Mark Richman
Robert Mardian
William Schallert
Herbert Kalmbach
James Sloyan
Ronald Ziegler
Rip Torn
Richard M. Nixon
William Windom
Richard Kleindienst
Ralph Byers
Hugh Sloan
Patrick Collins
Gordon Strachan
Kip Niven
Egil Krogh
Garn Stephens
Carol Thompson
Logan Ramsey
J. Edgar Hoover
James Greene
E. Howard Hunt
Mitzi Hoag
May-Chapin's Secretary
Lee Kessler
Jane Thomas
Dawson Mays
Dwight Chapin
Darrell Zwerling
Frederick LaRue
Cathleen Cordell
Pat Nixon
Terence McGovern
Jack Garfield
Jenny O'Hara
Liz Garfield
Al Checco
Judge John Sirica
Rosemary DeCamp
Maureen Dean's Mother
David Sheiner
Sam Dash
Ross Bickell
Tom Huston
Stuart Gillard
Larry Higby
Harry Basch
Gen. Walters
Brian Farrell
Bruce Kehrli
George Schaefer
Director / Producer
Stanley R. Greenberg
Writer
Taylor Branch
Book
John Dean
Book
Maureen Dean
Book
Ronald H. Gilbert
Producer
David Susskind
Executive Producer
Renée Valente
Producer
Media.
Details.
Release DateMay 20, 1979
StatusEnded
Seasons1
Episodes4
Running Time2h
Genres
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Wiki.
Blind Ambition is a four-part American miniseries that aired on CBS from May 20, 1979 to May 23, 1979 focusing on the 1972–74 Watergate scandal and based on the memoirs of former White House counsel John Dean and his wife Maureen.
Producer Renee Valente earned an Emmy nomination for the series.
Part I ranked as the 15th most-watched show for the week of May 14–20, 1979, and Parts IV, II, and III, respectively, ranked as the 11th-13th most watched primetime shows of the following week.
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