Blind Ambition

May 20, 1979 (en) War & Politics, Drama [120] Min
  • First Air Date
    May 20, 1979
  • Production
    Time-Life Television Productions
  • Rotten tomato
    50%
  • Original title
    Blind Ambition
  • Release
    May 20, 1979
  • en
    -

HE WANTED OFFICE, THEY WANTED MORE...

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.

  1. Music Supervisor

  2. George Schaefer, Ronald H. Gilbert, Renée Valente

    Producer

Currently available to stream, watch for free, rent, and buy in the United States. You can makes it easy to find out where you can legally watch your favorite movies & TV shows online.

Watch Channel

Casts

  1. Martin Sheen

    John Dean

  2. Theresa Russell

    Maureeen Dean

  3. Michael Callan

    Charles Colson

  4. Lonny Chapman

    L. Patrick Gray

  5. William Daniels

    G. Gordon Liddy

  6. Clifford David

    Fred Fielding

  7. Ed Flanders

    Charles Shaffer

  8. Fred Grandy

    Donald Segretti

  9. Christopher Guest

    Jeb Stuart Magruder

  10. Graham Jarvis

    John Ehrlichman

  11. Edward Mallory

    Henry Petersen

  12. Gerald S. O'Loughlin

    John J. 'Jack' Caufield

  13. Alan Oppenheimer

    George Simonson

  14. Lawrence Pressman

    H.R. Haldeman

  15. John Randolph

    John Mitchell

  16. Peter Mark Richman

    Robert Mardian

  17. William Schallert

    Herbert Kalmbach

  18. James Sloyan

    Ronald Ziegler

  19. Rip Torn

    Richard M. Nixon

  20. William Windom

    Richard Kleindienst

  21. Ralph Byers

    Hugh Sloan

  22. Patrick Collins

    Gordon Strachan

  23. Kip Niven

    Egil Krogh

  24. Garn Stephens

    Carol Thompson

  25. Logan Ramsey

    J. Edgar Hoover

  26. James Greene

    E. Howard Hunt

  27. Mitzi Hoag

    May-Chapin's Secretary

  28. Lee Kessler

    Jane Thomas

  29. Dawson Mays

    Dwight Chapin

  30. Darrell Zwerling

    Frederick LaRue

  31. Cathleen Cordell

    Pat Nixon

  32. Terence McGovern

    Jack Garfield

  33. Jenny O'Hara

    Liz Garfield

  34. Al Checco

    Judge John Sirica

  35. Rosemary DeCamp

    Maureen Dean's Mother

  36. David Sheiner

    Sam Dash

  37. Ross Bickell

    Tom Huston

  38. Stuart Gillard

    Larry Higby

  39. Harry Basch

    Gen. Walters

  40. Brian Farrell

    Bruce Kehrli

Full Casts & Crew

Casts : 40 / Crews : 18

Miniseries ( 1979-05-20)

Episode 1

Episode: 1

Episode 2

Episode: 2

Episode 3

Episode: 3

Episode 4

Episode: 4
May 20, 1979 (en)
War & Politics, Drama
[120] Min
  • First Air Date May 20, 1979
  • Production
    Time-Life Television Productions
  • Rotten tomato 50%
Original Title Blind Ambition
en

HE WANTED OFFICE, THEY WANTED MORE...

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.

  1. Music Supervisor

  2. George Schaefer, Ronald H. Gilbert, Renée Valente

    Producer