Meet the insiders — and outsiders — who set the White House on fire.
In this adaptation of the award-winning podcast, Slow Burn’s Leon Neyfakh excavates the strange subplots and forgotten characters of recent political history—and finds surprising parallels to the present.
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Feb 16, 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.
Feb 23, 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.
Mar 1, 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.
Mar 8, 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.
Mar 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.
Mar 22, 2020
Nixon and the office of the special prosecutor face a showdown. The country is watching.
Quick answers about this season's release timeline and episode lineup.
Slow Burn Season 1 premiered on February 16, 2020.
Slow Burn Season 1 has 6 episodes.
The season opens with Season 1 Episode 1, "Martha". It aired on February 16, 2020.
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