Series

Blind Ambition

1979 · 1 season · War & Politics · Drama

HE WANTED OFFICE, THEY WANTED MORE...

IMDb

6.7

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.

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

• George SchaeferDirector · Producer
• Stanley R. GreenbergWriter
• Ronald H. GilbertProducer
• Renée ValenteProducer
• David SusskindExecutive Producer
• Edward R. BrownDirector of Photography
• Fred KarlinOriginal Music Composer
• Walter ScharfOriginal Music Composer
• Arthur HiltonEditor
• Peter ParashelesEditor

First aired

May 20, 1979

Last aired

May 23, 1979

Status

Ended

Original language

English

Episodes

4

Genres

War & Politics, Drama

• Miniseries4 episodes · 1979

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  2023

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  Gaslit

  2022

• 

  Watergate

  2018

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  Watergate: Blueprint for a Scandal

  2022

• The Next

  2005

• 

  Testimony of Two Men

  1977

• 

  Kate McShane

  1975

• Ted and Alice

  2002

• 

  Ef: A Tale Of Memories & Melodies

  2007

• 

  Scalp

  2008

• Passport to Danger

  1954

• 

  Unit 13

  1996