Watergate (TV series)


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 five episodes of 50 minutes each.
In the United States, the series premiered on August 7, 1994 and was narrated by Daniel Schorr in three parts, with two episodes shown back to back for the first two parts.
Episode list :
1. Break-in
2. Cover-up
3. Scapegoat
4. Massacre
5. Impeachment
Episode list :
1. A Third Rate Burglary
2. The Conspiracy Crumbles
3. The Fall of a President
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."
The series was directed by Mick Gold, and produced by Paul Mitchell and Norma Percy.

Awards

Watergate won a 1995 News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Historical Programming.