Slow Burn — Season 1
Meet the insiders — and outsiders — who set the White House on fire.
About this season
In Season 1, Watergate’s story unfolds as the contemporary political landscape plays along.
Episodes (6)
1. Martha
Aired 16 February 2020
Martha Mitchell, wife of Nixon's attorney general John Mitchell, makes a discovery that changes her life and threatens to take down a sitting president. She will be the first of many to take on a White House determined to hide its secrets.
2. Losing Ground
Aired 23 February 2020
In the wake of the Watergate break-in, Texas Congressman Wright Patman follows a money trail that seems to lead to the White House. What follows is an extraordinary game of political cat and mouse.
3. Suspicious Minds
Aired 1 March 2020
A plane goes down in Chicago, intensifying suspicions of conspiracy in the Watergate case. Mainstream journalists and intrepid outsiders pursue the truth through Nixon’s bid for reelection.
4. The Hearings
Aired 8 March 2020
The first televised soap-opera debuts, but it’s Congressional hearings. As the public is on the edge of their seats, new evidence in the Watergate case emerges, and conservative North Carolina Senator Sam Ervin the unlikely star.
5. Smoking Gun
Aired 15 March 2020
Republicans and Democrats struggle to work together under growing public pressure while an obscure White House bureaucrat named Alexander Butterfield drops a bombshell.
6. Massacre
Aired 22 March 2020
Nixon and the office of the special prosecutor face a showdown. The country is watching.