Twenty years ago, the world was gripped by the most elaborate, most outrageous political scandal of the century:
Watergate. As BBC2's new
Sunday-night series recalls the facts of the case,
Jason Robards returns in a timely repeat of this fictionalised account which features his acclaimed turn as President
Richard M Monckton.
When the series was first shown in 1977, audiences still fresh from the real events delightedly put names to the TV stars. The Times critic wrote of Robards (unmistakably Nixon): "He is so unnervingly good as the President that it would not surprise me to see him running on the Republican ticket in 1980. That, of course, was left to another American actor.