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Vorlage:Infobox television Washington: Behind Closed Doors is a 1977 American television miniseries produced by Paramount Television, that was broadcast in 6 parts, airing across six consecutive nights on ABC, between September 6 to September 11, 1977.^[1]

The fictional story is loosely based on John Ehrlichman's book The Company, a novel inspired by the author's tenure as a top aide in the Nixon administration.

Plot

A lavish fictionalized re-telling of the Watergate story (loosely based on ex-Nixon aide John Ehrlichman's novel The Company) mixing political intrigue and personal drama and centering on the rise of a power-hungry American president and the men with whom he surrounds himself in order to keep his grip on his office. The story builds from a soap-opera start into a trenchant study of power that corrupts.^[2]^[3]

Primary cast

Cliff Robertson as William Martin
Jason Robards as President Richard Monkton
Stefanie Powers as Sally Whalen
Robert Vaughn as Frank Flaherty
Lois Nettleton as Linda Martin
Barry Nelson as Bob Bailey
Harold Gould as Carl Tessler
Tony Bill as Adam Gardiner
Andy Griffith as Esker Scott Anderson
John Houseman as Myron Dunn
David Selby as Roger Castle
Meg Foster as Jenny Jamison
Peter Coffield as Eli McGinn
Frances Lee McCain as Paula Stoner Gardiner
Barry Primus as Joe Wisnovsky
Diana Ewing as Kathy Ferris
Lara Parker as Wanda Elliott
John Lehne as Tucker Tallford
Alan Oppenheimer as Simon Cappell
Nicholas Pryor as Hank Ferris
Frank Marth as Lawrence Allison
Thayer David as Elmer Morse
George Gaynes as Brewster Perry
Linden Chiles as Jack Atherton
Skip Homeier as Lars Haglund
John Randolph as Bennett Lowman
Bonnie Bartlett as Joan Bailey

Release

The 12 ½‐hour television miniseries was broadcast in 6 parts, airing across six consecutive nights on ABC from September 6th to September 11th, 1977.^[4] The DVD was released on June 5, 2012.^[5]

Awards and nominations

Robert Vaughn received an Emmy Award for his performance as the President's Chief of Staff, with other nominations going to the show itself as Outstanding Series, to Jason Robards for his portrayal of President Richard Monckton with its overt Nixonian images, director Gary Nelson, cinematographers Joseph Biroc and Jack Swain, art directors Jack DeShields and Jamie Claytor and set decorator Barbara Kreiger.^[6]