Blind Ambition
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Josette Banzet
John Randolph
Harry Basch
Dawson Mays
Lee Kessler
Clifford David
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
The Watergate crisis as viewed by John Dean and his wife Maureen, based on their respective personal accounts, and distilled into an eight-hour drama with all of the political figures of the day parading by. Sheen, whose gamut of political portrayals has run from Robert Kennedy (in "The Missiles of October") to to John F. Kennedy several years later, is Dean during his years as counsel to President Nixon. Theresa Russell made her TV acting debut as Maureen Dean. Rip Torn's offbeat Nixon seems to have been based on personal feeling rather than on research and occasionally threatened to derail the entire concept of the drama. "Blind Ambition" was nominated for an Emmy as the Outstanding Limited Series of the 1978-79 season. A second nomination went to the film for Art Direction/Set Decoration (Part 3).
Cast
Josette Banzet
John Randolph
Harry Basch
Dawson Mays
Lee Kessler
Clifford David
Alan Mandell
William Schallert
James Greene
Chris Gugas
Gerald S. O'loughlin
Dan Priest
Alan Oppenheimer
Graham Jarvis
Ron Recasner
Darrell Zwerling
Paul Lukather
Kip Niven
Jenny O'hara
James J. Sloyan
Jack Collins
Ray Briehm
Mitzi Hoag
Hal Fishman
Fred Grandy
Peter Mark Richman
Janice Kent
Jack Kosslyn
Alan Haufrect
Brian Farrell
Lawrence Pressman
Larry Carroll
Patrick Collins
David Sheiner
Jo Dewinter
William Windom
Martin Sheen
Janet Langhart
Logan Ramsey
Al Checco
Ed Flanders
Don Herbert
William Daniels
Hettie Lynne Hurtes
Ralph Byers
Garn Stephens
Jack Rader
Mario Machado
Patricia Stich
James Karen
Ross Bickell
Rip Torn
Anne Ramsey
Joe Mantell
Christopher Guest
Lonny Chapman
Stuart Gillard
Cathleen Cordell
Francis X Mccarthy
Rosemary Decamp
Edward Mallory
Larry Mccormick
Earl Montgomery
Edwin C. Owens
Theresa Russell
Michael Callan
John Bernabei
K Callan
Terrence Mcgovern
Crew
Pamela Alch
Glenn E. Anderson
Michael Baugh
Janis Benjamin
Jacqueline E Brady
June Braswell
Edward R Brown
Don Cahn
Mary Carey
Jeff Carson
Robert Checchi
John Dean
Maureen Dean
Michelle Deslauriers
Ben Edwards
Linda Francis
Carl Gibson
Allan Gordon
Stanley R Greenberg
Tim Griffith
Laura Lee Grubich
Arthur David Hilton
James L Honre
Fred Karlin
Michael Karr
Errma Levin
Adrienne Luraschi
Dennis Mcgallion
Richard Mercer
Ernie Misko
Kathleen Misko
Mike Moder
Jane E Morrison
Andi Nachman
Kathy O'rear
Michael O'shea
Peter Parasheles
Arthur Jeph Parker
John M Poer
Sandi Sable
George Schaefer
Walter Scharf
Billy Ray Smith
David Susskind
Edward Ternes
Kate Tilley
Rente Valente
Lark Wiltshire
John Wright
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Aired in United States May 20, 1979
Aired in United States May 21, 1979
Aired in United States May 22, 1979
Aired in United States May 23, 1979
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