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Well I finally finished watching "Washington Behind Closed Doors" (1977), a thinly veiled re-telling of the Nixon administration. I'll make no secret of the fact I began watching it for Robert Vaughn, who won a well-deserved Emmy for playing political fixer and all-round Bad Guy, Frank Flaherty. (Jason Robards, who played Nixon analogue President Monckton, was also nominated, but alas! he didn't win.) However, much as I enjoyed these two every time they appeared in a scene, I had problems with the series as a whole.
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Well, "Washington Behind Closed Doors" was made in 1977, when the events it fictionalised were more current events than history. And on a positive note: as a "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." fan I got to see Robert Vaughn doing a star turn as a villain, and as a "Dark Shadows" fan I got to see Thayer David, David Selby and Lara Parker in supporting roles. Really at times it felt as if the monsters of Collinwood and the agents of U.N.C.L.E. had taken over Washington... but that would be an entirely different crossover!
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Well, "Washington Behind Closed Doors" was made in 1977, when the events it fictionalised were more current events than history. And on a positive note: as a "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." fan I got to see Robert Vaughn doing a star turn as a villain, and as a "Dark Shadows" fan I got to see Thayer David, David Selby and Lara Parker in supporting roles. Really at times it felt as if the monsters of Collinwood and the agents of U.N.C.L.E. had taken over Washington... but that would be an entirely different crossover!
