Blind Ambition

Blind Ambition (1979)

HE WANTED OFFICE, THEY WANTED MORE...

  • Genre: War & Politics, Drama
  • First Air Date: 1979-05-20
  • Last Air Date: 1979-05-23
  • Total Seasons: 1
  • Total Episodes: 4
  • Status: Ended
  • Episode Runtime: 120 min.
  • Production Company: Time-Life Television Productions
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Network: CBS
  • Director:
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Summary

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.

  • Keywords: watergate scandal

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    Blind Ambition Seasons

    Season 1

    First Air Date: 1979-05-20
    4 Episodes

    Blind Ambition Episodes

    Title Air Date Duration
    Season 1Episode 1Part I120 min
    Season 1Episode 2Part II120 min
    Season 1Episode 3Part III120 min
    Season 1Episode 4Part IV120 min

    • 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

    • Alan Oppenheimer

      as George Simonson

    • Lawrence Pressman

      as H.R. Haldeman

    • John Randolph

      as John Mitchell

    • Peter Mark Richman

      as Robert Mardian

    • William Schallert

      as Herbert Kalmbach

    • James Sloyan

      as Ronald Ziegler

    • Rip Torn

      as Richard M. Nixon

    • William Windom

      as Richard Kleindienst

    • Ralph Byers

      as Hugh Sloan

    • Patrick Collins

      as Gordon Strachan

    • Kip Niven

      as Egil Krogh

    • Garn Stephens

      as Carol Thompson

    • Logan Ramsey

      as J. Edgar Hoover

    • James Greene

      as E. Howard Hunt

    • Mitzi Hoag

      as May-Chapin's Secretary

    • Lee Kessler

      as Jane Thomas

    • Dawson Mays

      as Dwight Chapin

    • Darrell Zwerling

      as Frederick LaRue

    • Cathleen Cordell

      as Pat Nixon

    • Terence McGovern

      as Jack Garfield

    • Jenny O'Hara

      as Liz Garfield

    • Al Checco

      as Judge John Sirica

    • Rosemary DeCamp

      as Maureen Dean's Mother

    • David Sheiner

      as Sam Dash

    • Ross Bickell

      as Tom Huston

    • Stuart Gillard

      as Larry Higby

    • Harry Basch

      as Gen. Walters

    • Brian Farrell

      as Bruce Kehrli
    Directing George Schaefer Director
    Writing Stanley R. Greenberg Writer
    Sound Fred Karlin Music
    Writing Taylor Branch Book
    Production George Schaefer Producer
    Art Michael Baugh Art Direction
    Art Robert Checchi Set Decoration
    Art Arthur Jeph Parker Set Decoration
    Writing John Dean Book
    Writing Maureen Dean Book
    Production Ronald H. Gilbert Producer
    Camera Edward R. Brown Director of Photography
    Editing Arthur Hilton Editor
    Sound Walter Scharf Music
    Production Renée Valente Producer
    Production David Susskind Executive Producer
    Editing Peter Parasheles Editor
    Editing John Wright Editor

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