Blind Ambition (miniseries)

Blind Ambition
Format	miniseries
Directed by	George Schaefer
Starring	Martin Sheen William Daniels Ed Flanders
Country	USA
Original channel	CBS
Running time	480 minutes

Blind Ambition is a four-part American miniseries that aired on CBS from May 20, 1979 to May 23, 1979 focusing on the Watergate coverup. Based on the memoirs of former White House counsel John Dean and his wife Maureen.^[1]

Cast

Martin Sheen as John Dean
Rip Torn as Richard Nixon
Theresa Russell as Maureen Dean
William Daniels as G. Gordon Liddy
Graham Jarvis as John Ehrlichman
John Randolph as John Mitchell
Lawrence Pressman as H.R. Haldeman
Ed Flanders as Charlie Shaffer
Christopher Guest as Magruder

References

↑ TV Guide Guide to TV. Barnes and Noble. 2004. p. 75. ISBN 0-7607-5634-1.

External links

Blind Ambition at the Internet Movie Database

1970s US miniseries

Adaptations

John Jakes	The Bastard (1978) The Rebels (1979) The Seekers (1979)

Alex Haley	Roots (1977) Roots: The Next Generations (1979)

Miscellaneous	QB VII (1974) Rich Man, Poor Man (1976) Rich Man, Poor Man Book II (1976-77) NBC Best Sellers (1976-77) 79 Park Avenue (1977) Seventh Avenue (1977) Washington: Behind Closed Doors (1977) The Awakening Land (1978) The Young Pioneers (1978) The Dark Secret of Harvest Home (1978) James A. Michener's Centennial (1978-79) Backstairs at the White House (1979) Blind Ambition (1979) The Chisholms (1979) Ike (1979) Salem's Lot (1979)

Original

Benjamin Franklin (1974)
The Adams Chronicles (1976)
Dallas (1978)
Holocaust (1978)
King (1978)
Pearl (1978)
A Woman Called Moses (1978)
The Duke (1979)

1970s · 1980s · 1990s

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