Blind Ambition
“HE WANTED OFFICE, THEY WANTED MORE...”
1979•1 Seasons•4 Episodes•6.3•Ended
War & PoliticsDrama
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.
Network
CBS
Origin
US
Cast
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
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