 | 1x01 Pilot (Air Date: Sep. 22, 1999)
The White House staff springs into action when they learn that President Bartlet was injured in a bicycle accident. During the President’s absence, chief of staff Leo McGarry must handle ... |  | 1x02 Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc (Air Date: Sep. 29, 1999)
Sam, despite the rest of the staff urging him not to, decides to publicly pursue the call girl he spent the night with. C.J. tries to make the best of the ongoing clash between the Vice ... |  | 1x03 A Proportional Response (Air Date: Oct. 06, 1999)
Still angry about an American jet being shot down in the Mideast, President Bartlet overrules a plan for a “proportional” military strike put together by the joint chiefs of staff. Bartlett ... |  | 1x04 Five Votes Down (Air Date: Oct. 13, 1999)
With only five votes keeping an important bill restricting the sale of automatic weapons, the staff has only 72 hours to find a way to get the five votes. Toby has to testify when he is ... |  | 1x05 The Crackpots and These Women (Air Date: Oct. 20, 1999)
The staff must deal with several problems throughout the course of a day, including UFOs and smallpox. The senior staff meets with several interest groups referred to as "the crackpots". ... |  | 1x06 Mr. Willis of Ohio (Air Date: Nov. 03, 1999)
Toby and Mandy work together to get a commerce bill with a census counting provision approved. In order to do this, they have to convince Mr. Willis, a congressman who took over his wife’s ... |  | 1x07 The State Dinner (Air Date: Nov. 10, 1999)
With a state dinner in honor of an Indonesian president drawing closer, President Bartlet must deal with several problems including an FBI hostage standoff, a nearing category 4 hurricane, ... |  | 1x08 Enemies (Air Date: Nov. 17, 1999)
Bartlet’s political rivals attach a land-use rider is to a vital banking bill. C.J. attempts to silence rumors that Bartlet and Vice President Hoynes fought during a Cabinet meeting, despite ... |  | 1x09 The Short List (Air Date: Nov. 24, 1999)
A current Supreme Court justice retires, giving Bartlet an opportunity to nominate a justice, but his perfect nominee turns out to be less perfect than Bartlet had originally thought. Meanwhile, ... |  | 1x10 In Excelsis Deo (Air Date: Dec. 15, 1999)
As Christmas quickly approaches, President Bartlet sneaks out to finish some last minute shopping. Toby, after learning more about a forgotten Korean War veteran, arranges a funeral for ... |  | 1x11 Lord John Marbury (Air Date: Jan. 05, 2000)
When India and Pakistan go to war with each other and threaten nuclear war, Bartlet calls British diplomat Lord Marbury for advise on how to handle the crisis. Josh gets subpoenaed to testify ... |  | 1x12 He Shall, From Time to Time (Air Date: Jan. 12, 2000)
The White House staff shifts into crisis mode after Bartlet collapses prior to his first State of the Union address. The tension between India and Pakistan heightens when Pakistan gives ... |  | 1x13 Take Out the Trash Day (Air Date: Jan. 26, 2000)
Josh and Sam meet with the Senate appropriations subcommittee to try to get Leo out of having to attend a hearing over his past alcohol abuse problems. Bartlet and the staff debate what ... |  | 1x14 Take This Sabbath Day (Air Date: Feb. 09, 2000)
When the Supreme Court fails to stay the execution of a convicted murder, President Bartlet has to decide whether or not to commute his sentence within the next 48 hours. To do so, Bartlet ... |  | 1x15 Celestial Navigation (Air Date: Feb. 16, 2000)
Sam and Toby rush to Connecticut when Roberto Mendoza, Bartlet’s Supreme Court nominee, is jailed for drunk driving. There, Sam and Toby try to secure the secret release of the nominee ... |  | 1x16 20 Hours in L.A. (Air Date: Feb. 23, 2000)
President Bartlet and the staff travel to Los Angeles for a fundraiser hosted by a wealthy filmmaker. Back in Washington, Leo has to convince the Vice President to support Bartlet’s stance ... |  | 1x17 The White House Pro-Am (Air Date: Mar. 22, 2000)
The First Lady’s staff is sent into action when her statements about foreign child-labor laws motivate a Congresswoman to suggest an amendment that would end an international tariff bill. ... |  | 1x18 Six Meetings Before Lunch (Air Date: Apr. 05, 2000)
When Zoey attends a party where one of her friends is caught using illegal drugs, C.J. tries to keep the story out of the media. The staff celebrates when Supreme Court nominee Mendoza is ... |  | 1x19 Let Bartlet Be Bartlet (Air Date: Apr. 26, 2000)
Rumors fly when a memo surfaces that outline the weakness of the administration. C.J. soon finds that a reporter has the memo and she tries to persuade him not to publish it. Sam and Toby ... |  | 1x20 Mandatory Minimums (Air Date: May. 03, 2000)
President Bartlet names two Democrats to the Federal Election Commission, despite threats not to do so. However, the polls show that the public’s reaction the appointments are not good. ... |  | 1x21 Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics (Air Date: May. 10, 2000)
While the staff nervously awaits the newest poll results, Bartlet begins to reassign Federal Election Committee members in order to start campaign finance reform. But his plan is delayed ... |  | 1x22 What Kind of Day Has It Been? (Air Date: May. 17, 2000)
Bartlet and the staff prepare for a town meeting with college students while dealing with getting an American pilot, who was shot down in Iraqi territory, home before he’s captured. Toby’s ... |
 | 2x01 In the Shadow of Two Gunmen: Part 1 (Air Date: Oct. 04, 2000)
As the staff awaits the news on the condition of Bartlet and Josh after the shooting, they reflect on how Josh, Sam, and Toby became involved in the campaign years ago. Meanwhile, the media ... |  | 2x02 In the Shadow of Two Gunmen: Part 2 (Air Date: Oct. 04, 2000)
Now that the shooter has been taken into custody, the target of his shooting is revealed to be Charlie, not Bartlet as the staff assumed. Meanwhile, the staff awaits news on Josh's condition ... |  | 2x03 The Midterms (Air Date: Oct. 18, 2000)
In the aftermath of the shooting, Josh continues to recover from his bullet wounds while the staff prepares for the upcoming midterm congressional elections. C.J., knowing how the staff ... |  | 2x04 In This White House (Air Date: Oct. 25, 2000)
After outdoing Sam on a television program, Bartlet offers to hire Ainsley Hayes, a Republican adviser, as assistant White House counsel, despite being from the Republican party. However, ... |  | 2x05 And It's Surely to Their Credit (Air Date: Nov. 01, 2000)
Ainsley Hayes has a rough first day as new White House counsel after she receives her first assignment: clean up after two staffers who gave an inaccurate testimony before the House. Her ... |  | 2x06 The Lame Duck Congress (Air Date: Nov. 08, 2000)
Sam, Josh, Toby and Bartlet consider calling back Congress from their winter holiday break in order to push through a nuclear test-ban treaty. A drunken Ukrainian leader shows up at the ... |  | 2x07 The Portland Trip (Air Date: Nov. 15, 2000)
The President takes a late night flight to Portland the night before an education speech. Sam goes along with the President because Bartlet is having trouble getting the speech right, and ... |  | 2x08 Shibboleth (Air Date: Nov. 22, 2000)
As Thanksgiving rapidly approaches, Bartlet must decide what to do with 83 Chinese citizens who stowed away on a ship bound for California in order to seek asylum from religious persecution. ... |  | 2x09 Galileo (Air Date: Nov. 29, 2000)
As Bartlet prepares to speak to thousands of elementary students as the Galileo probe approaches Mars, major problems begin to pop up, including a missing F-15 fighter pilot, a fire inside ... |  | 2x10 Nol (Air Date: Dec. 20, 2000)
Christmas has arrived at The White House but Josh's lack of holiday spirit forces Leo to ask Josh to consult with a doctor who specializes in helping trauma victims. Meanwhile, President ... |  | 2x11 The Leadership Breakfast (Air Date: Jan. 10, 2001)
With Congress reconvening, the White House plans a bi-partisan "leadership breakfast". To do so, Toby has to meet with Ann Stark, the Senate Majority Leader's chief of staff, to work out ... |  | 2x12 The Drop-In (Air Date: Jan. 24, 2001)
Leo continues to try to get President Bartlet to back the expensive missile defense system while the President fulfills his Chief Diplomat duties by welcoming foreign ambassadors to the ... |  | 2x13 Bartlet's Third State of the Union (Air Date: Feb. 07, 2001)
As Bartlet delivers his third State of the Union address to the United States, which Toby helped carefully craft, Bartlet ends up upsetting Abbey with what he doesn't say. Josh's tracking ... |  | 2x14 The War at Home (Air Date: Feb. 14, 2001)
As the crisis surrounding the captured DEA agents becomes increasingly worse, Bartlet authorizes a rescue, but the rescue attempt doesn't go as planned. C.J. continues to deal with the fallout ... |  | 2x15 Ellie (Air Date: Feb. 21, 2001)
The President returns from Tokyo and is met by a wave of controversy after Surgeon General Griffith says that marijuana should be legalized. Things are made worse when the President's daughter, ... |  | 2x16 Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail (Air Date: Feb. 28, 2001)
It's once again "Big Block of Cheese" Day, and the staff is sent out to meet with organizations that aren't typically heard from at the White House. Toby is assigned to meet with World Bank ... |  | 2x17 The Stackhouse Filibuster (Air Date: Mar. 14, 2001)
The staff, eager to begin their weekend, are blindsided when a stubborn, elderly Senator takes the floor to stage a Friday-night filibuster against the Family Wellness Act bill everyone ... |  | 2x18 17 People (Air Date: Apr. 04, 2001)
Toby, thinking that there's something going on with Bartlet, connects the dots and figures out that the President has multiple sclerosis. Toby is the 17th person to find out about the President's ... |  | 2x19 Bad Moon Rising (Air Date: Apr. 25, 2001)
President Bartlet goes to Oliver Babbish for advice on the potential ramifications of hiding his MS. Meanwhile, an oil spill near the Delaware coast spikes Sam's personal interest; Josh ... |  | 2x20 The Fall's Gonna Kill You (Air Date: May. 02, 2001)
Oliver Babish questions both Abbey and C.J. about their involvement with President Bartlet's MS cover-up, and Josh secretly asks Joey Lucas to take a public opinion poll about a hypothetical ... |  | 2x21 18th and Potomac (Air Date: May. 09, 2001)
The White House staff and the President deal with the disastrous hypothetical poll results but are torn away from the national broadcast announcing his condition when the newly elected Haitian ... |  | 2x22 Two Cathedrals (Air Date: May. 16, 2001)
On the day of Mrs. Landingham's funeral after her car accident, the staff has to deal with the building Haitian President crisis. Bartlet continues to deal with the Senators who don't support ... |
 | 3x01 Manchester: Part 1 (Air Date: Oct. 10, 2001)
When Bartlet decides to officially announce his plans for re-election, the staff is thrown into a frenzy to prepare a speech. The speech hits a snag when Sam realizes that Bartlet has yet ... | | 3x02 Manchester: Part 2 (Air Date: Oct. 17, 2001)
In part two of the season premiere, the staff continues to refine Bartlet's re-election announcement to the American public and call in a political strategist to help them decide whether ... | | 3x03 Ways and Means (Air Date: Oct. 24, 2001)
Special Prosecutor Clement Rollins begins his investigation into the President's non-disclosure of his illness. The White House staff isn't happy with getting Rollins as the Special Prosecutor, ... | | 3x04 On the Day Before (Air Date: Oct. 31, 2001)
With the State Department dinner nearing, Bartlet vetoes the "death tax" bill, throwing the staff into a frenzy when they learn that the House of Representatives will have enough votes to ... | | 3x05 War Crimes (Air Date: Nov. 07, 2001)
Testimonies begin in the non-disclosure investigation and Donna is first to give her deposition to the House committee. There she is questioned by none other than Cliff, the Republican she's ... | | 3x06 Gone Quiet (Air Date: Nov. 14, 2001)
When a United States submarine "goes quiet" of the coast of North Korea, Bartlet is forced to decide between contacting the enemy or launching a risky rescue. Meanwhile, Abbey learns that ... | | 3x07 The Indians in the Lobby (Air Date: Nov. 21, 2001)
On the eve of Thanksgiving day, Bartlet stresses over all things turkey, especially how to best cook a gourmet turkey. C.J. deals with two Native Americans who set up camp in the lobby waiting ... | | 3x08 The Women of Qumar (Air Date: Nov. 28, 2001)
C.J. goes up against the rest of the staff, including the President, over whether or not to publicize a mad cow disease outbreak. Later, C.J. takes a negative stance on the administration's ... | | 3x09 Bartlet for America (Air Date: Dec. 12, 2001)
The White House is adorned with holiday decorations, but the staff is feeling anything but merry as they deal with threats to firebomb black churches in Tennessee on Christmas Eve. Leo is ... | | 3x10 H. Con-172 (Air Date: Jan. 09, 2002)
Leo rejects Congressional Oversight Committee's offer that would end the investigation into Bartlet's non-disclosure of his illness. The rest of the staff deals with a revealing book published ... | | 3x11 100,000 Airplanes (Air Date: Jan. 16, 2002)
As the staff works endlessly on Bartlet's State of the Union address, Bartlet suddenly requests that a section promising to find a cancer cure within 10 years is added. Sam is interviewed ... | | 3x12 The Two Bartlets (Air Date: Jan. 30, 2002)
While the staff debates on whether or not to counter an attack on Bartlet from a Republican presidential candidate, Josh is forced to postpone his vacation with Amy Gardner in order to deal ... | | 3x13 Night Five (Air Date: Feb. 06, 2002)
Five days after the Iowa caucuses Bartlet is still having trouble sleeping so he consults Dr. Stanley Keyworth for treatment, but it becomes more a sobering wake-up for Bartlet. C.J. lobbies ... | | 3x14 Hartsfield's Landing (Air Date: Feb. 27, 2002)
On the eve of the New Hampshire primary, Bartlet becomes involved in a game of military chess against China after the Chinese threaten to attack Taiwan. Meanwhile, Josh stresses over 42 ... | | 3x15 Dead Irish Writers (Air Date: Mar. 06, 2002)
It's Abbey's birthday, but she isn't in the mood to celebrate as the medical board is about to rule on her on involvement in the non-disclosure investigation. But despite her lack of birthday ... | | 3x16 The U.S. Poet Laureate (Air Date: Mar. 27, 2002)
After Bartlet's remarks about a potential Republican presidential nominee, C.J. is dispatched to do damage control. Toby meets with the new U.S. poet laureate to try to convince her to not ... | | 3x17 Stirred (Air Date: Apr. 03, 2002)
A truck carrying uranium fuel crashes in an Idaho tunnel, leaving the staff to prepare for an environmental crisis. Bartlet continues to work out campaign strategy, which may include dropping ... | | 3x18 Enemies Foreign and Domestic (Air Date: May. 01, 2002)
After making a critical public statement about Saudi Arabia, C.J. receives a serious death thread leading Bartlet to assign Secret Service protection to her. While Sam is busy working out ... | | 3x19 The Black Vera Wang (Air Date: May. 08, 2002)
While C.J., now code-named "Flamingo", adjusts to being followed by Secret Service Agent Donovan, Bartlet and the staff rush to deal with a predicted terrorist attack. Meanwhile, Toby argues ... | | 3x20 We Killed Yamamoto (Air Date: May. 15, 2002)
As Bartlet, with the help of Leo and Fitzwallace, struggles over deciding whether or not to forfeit diplomatic immunity for a Middle Eastern official known to be plotting terrorist attacks, ... | | 3x21 Posse Comitatus (Air Date: May. 22, 2002)
Bartlet has a life-or-death decision to make regarding the known foreign diplomat terrorist, and thinks on it while attending a charity event where Governor Robert Ritchie is also in attendance. ... |
| 4x01 20 Hours in America (1) (Air Date: Sep. 25, 2002)
The re-election campaign is in full swing, and moving quickly -- so rapidly, in fact, that Josh, Toby, and Donna are stranded in Indiana when they are left behind by the motorcade carrying ... | | 4x02 20 Hours in America (2) (Air Date: Sep. 25, 2002)
Bartlet interviews Debbie Fiderer for the secretarial position for the second time, and for the second time it doesn't go well. With the Dow continuing to drop and the stress over the Qumaris, ... | | 4x03 College Kids (Air Date: Oct. 02, 2002)
Bartlet, worried about his liability in the Qumari matter, has Leo hire him a lawyer. The re-election campaign deals with a setback when a judge rules that debates must be open to all third-party ... | | 4x04 The Red Mass (Air Date: Oct. 09, 2002)
Bartlet debates the consequences of ordering a strike force to breakup a barricaded group of terrorists in Iowa, one of whom needs medical attention. Governor Robert Ritchie, Bartlet's Republican ... | | 4x05 Debate Camp (Air Date: Oct. 16, 2002)
The staff goes on a weekend retreat to North Carolina to prepare for the upcoming presidential debates. While preparing, Bartlet must deal with a possible Israeli air attack on Qumar that ... | | 4x06 Game On (Air Date: Oct. 30, 2002)
On the eve of Bartlet's final debate of his career, Toby is skeptical that Bartlet is prepared to go head to head with his popular Republican rival, Robert Richie. After rehearsal, Toby ... | | 4x07 Election Night (Air Date: Nov. 06, 2002)
On Election Day, Bartlet leaves Washington to shake hands with the voters, but returns to Manchester after casting his own ballot. There, Charlie begins to notice a change in Bartlet's behavior ... | | 4x08 Process Stories (Air Date: Nov. 13, 2002)
The White House staff celebrates after Bartlet's landslide defeat of Robert Ritchie, but Bartlet wasn't the only winner -- Horton Wilde, the deceased Congressional candidate also won his ... | | 4x09 Swiss Diplomacy (Air Date: Nov. 20, 2002)
The elections have finally wrapped up, but Hoynes is already planning for the next election, as well as the Senate minority leader, which is plotting to delay the president's legislative ... | | 4x10 Arctic Radar (Air Date: Nov. 27, 2002)
Sam packs up for California to begin his campaign, leaving Toby without speechwriting help. Sam suggests that Will Bailey, a skilled campaign manager to take over his position. Meanwhile, ... |
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