Watergate (documentary series)

Watergate
Genre Documentary
Based on Watergate: The Corruption and Fall of Richard Nixon by Fred Emery
Directed by Mick Gold
Narrated by Fred Emery
Composer(s) Tim Souster
Country of origin United Kingdom
Original language(s) English
No. of series 1
No. of episodes 5
Production
Producer(s) Norma Percy
Paul Mitchell
Production company(s) Brian Lapping Productions for BBC
Release
Original network BBC2 (UK)
Discovery (USA)
Picture format 4:3
Audio format Stereo
Original release 8 May (1994-05-08) – 5 June 1994 (1994-06-05)

Watergate is a documentary series co-produced by the BBC and Discovery, broadcast in 1994. It was based on the book Watergate: The Corruption and Fall of Richard Nixon, by Fred Emery. The British version was broadcast on BBC2 from 8 May to 5 June 1994, and narrated by Fred Emery. It was broadcast as 5 episodes of 50 minutes each.[1] In the United States, the series premiered on August 7, 1994 and was narrated by Daniel Schorr[2] in 3 parts, with two episodes shown back to back for the first two parts.

Episode list (Britain):
1. Break-in (8 May 1994)
2. Cover-up (15 May 1994)
3. Scapegoat (22 May 1994)
4. Massacre (29 May 1994)
5. Impeachment (5 June 1994)

Episode list (USA):
1. A Third Rate Burglary (7 August 1994)
2. The Conspiracy Crumbles (14 August 1994)
3. The Fall of a President (21 August 1994)

Reviewing the series, Jeff Silverman wrote in Variety: "Twenty years after Richard Nixon resigned the presidency in disgrace, this stunningly conceived and realized documentary miniseries brilliantly chronicles the events — and their inevitability — that led to the national nightmare Watergate. Funny, tragic, pathetic and probing, docu dramatically stares down Watergate’s smoking gun and makes its ultimate conclusion perfectly clear: Nixon’s the one. Still. Now more than ever."[3]

The series was directed by Mick Gold, and produced by Paul Mitchell and Norma Percy.

References

  1. Shcmidt, William E. (19 May 1994). "Resurrecting an American Tragedy, BBC Series Lays Watergate Bare". The New York Times. NYC: The New York Times Company. Retrieved 4 July 2015.
  2. Bunce, Alan (29 July 1994). "Discovery, BBC Take A Look at Watergate". The Christian Science Monitor. Boston: Christian Science Publishing Society. Retrieved 4 July 2015.
  3. Silverman, Jeff (July 31, 1994). "Review: Watergate". variety.com. Retrieved July 24, 2016.
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