Blind Ambition

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 Air Date: 1979-05-20

Rating: 6.333/10

Cast

Martin Sheen

Theresa Russell

Michael Callan

Lonny Chapman

William Daniels

Clifford David

Ed Flanders

Fred Grandy

Christopher Guest

Graham Jarvis