Blind Ambition (1979)
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.
- First aired
- 1979-05-20
- Genres
- War & Politics, Drama
- Seasons
- 1 (4 episodes)
- Status
- Ended
- Directed / written by
- George Schaefer
- TMDB rating
- 6.3/10 from 3 votes
Cast
- Martin Sheen as John Dean
- Theresa Russell as Maureeen Dean
- Michael Callan as Charles Colson
- Lonny Chapman as L. Patrick Gray
- William Daniels as G. Gordon Liddy
- Clifford David as Fred Fielding
- Ed Flanders as Charles Shaffer
- Fred Grandy as Donald Segretti
- Christopher Guest as Jeb Stuart Magruder
- Graham Jarvis as John Ehrlichman
- Edward Mallory as Henry Petersen
- Gerald S. O'Loughlin as John J. 'Jack' Caufield