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.

• Martin Sheen
• Theresa Russell
• Michael Callan
• Lonny Chapman
• William Daniels
• Clifford David
• Ed Flanders
• Fred Grandy