Description
Original Airdate02/15/2020
An exploration of the Watergate scandal and how it eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.
Slow Burn
Where to watch Slow Burn
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Season 1
6. Massacre
Air Date 03/22/2020
Nixon and the office of the special prosecutor face a showdown and the country is watching.
5. Smoking Gun
Air Date 03/15/2020
Republicans and Democrats struggle to work together under growing public pressure while an obscure White House bureaucrat named Alexander Butterfield drops a bombshell.
4. The Hearings
Air Date 03/07/2020
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 is the unlikely star.
3. Suspicious Minds
Air Date 02/29/2020
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.
2. Losing Ground
Air Date 02/22/2020
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.
1. Martha
Air Date 02/15/2020
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.