
Series — 1979
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.
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Time-Life Television Productions
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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
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