Blind Ambition (miniseries)

{{Short description|1979 American TV miniseries}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}

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| based_on = Blind Ambition

| writer = John Dean
Maureen Dean
Taylor Branch

| screenplay = Stanley R. Greenberg

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| director = George Schaefer

| starring = Martin Sheen
William Daniels
Ed Flanders

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| theme_music_composer = Walter Scharf

| country = United States

| language = English

| num_episodes = 4

| producer = Renee Valente

| editor = Arthur Hilton
Peter Parasheles
John Wright

| cinematography = Edward R. Brown

| runtime = 480 minutes

| company = Talent Associates

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| network = CBS

| first_aired = {{start date|1979|5|20}}

| last_aired = {{end date|1979|5|23}}

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Blind Ambition is a four-part American miniseries that aired on CBS from May 20, 1979 to May 23, 1979 focusing on the 1972–74 Watergate scandal and based on the memoirs of former White House counsel John Dean and his wife Maureen.{{cite book |title=TV Guide Guide to TV |year=2004 |publisher=Barnes & Noble Books |location=New York |isbn=0-7607-5634-1 |page=75 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780760756348/page/75}}

Producer Renee Valente earned an Emmy nomination for the series.{{cite magazine |first=Mike |last=Barnes |title=Renee Valente, Casting Executive and Pioneering Producer, Dies at 88 |url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/renee-valente-dead-first-producers-872395 |magazine=The Hollywood Reporter |date=2016-02-22 |access-date=2016-03-10}}

Part I ranked as the 15th most-watched show for the week of May 14–20, 1979,{{cite news |date=23 May 1979 |url=https://mobile.nytimes.com/1979/05/23/archives/tv-ratings.html |title=TV Ratings |newspaper=The New York Times |page=C-28 |url-access=subscription}} and Parts IV, II, and III, respectively, ranked as the 11th-13th most watched primetime shows of the following week.{{cite news |date=31 May 1979 |url=https://mobile.nytimes.com/1979/05/31/archives/tv-ratings.html?mcubz=0 |title=TV Ratings |newspaper=The New York Times |page=C-18 |url-access=subscription}}