TV series · 1979
Blind Ambition
“HE WANTED OFFICE, THEY WANTED MORE...”
First aired 20 May 1979 War & Politics / Drama TMDB ↗
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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Lonny Chapman
as L. Patrick Gray
Gerald S. O'Loughlin
as John J. 'Jack' Caufield
Alan Oppenheimer
as George Simonson
Graham Jarvis
as John Ehrlichman
Ed Flanders
as Charles Shaffer
Lawrence Pressman
as H.R. Haldeman
Martin Sheen
as John Dean
Fred Grandy
as Donald Segretti
Theresa Russell
as Maureeen Dean
Edward Mallory
as Henry Petersen
Everyone else (9) ↓
Rosemary DeCamp
as Maureen Dean's Mother
John Randolph
as John Mitchell
Logan Ramsey
as J. Edgar Hoover
William Daniels
as G. Gordon Liddy
David Sheiner
as Sam Dash
Clifford David
as Fred Fielding
Michael Callan
as Charles Colson
Christopher Guest
as Jeb Stuart Magruder
Stuart Gillard
as Larry Higby