"The West Wing" 20 Hours in America: Part 2 (2002)

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Director:

Chris Misiano

Writers:

Aaron Sorkin (creator)
Aaron Sorkin (writer) ...

TV Series:

"The West Wing" (1999)

Original Air Date:

25 September 2002 (Season 4, Episode 2)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

After Bartlet gives a campaign speech at an Indiana farm, Josh, Toby and Donna are left behind by the...

Plot Keywords:

President | Political | Secretary | White House | First Lady

Cast

Stockard Channing	...	Abbey Bartlet
Dulé Hill	...	Charlie Young
Allison Janney	...	Claudia Jean 'C.J.' Cregg
Rob Lowe	...	Sam Seaborn
Janel Moloney	...	Donna Moss
Richard Schiff	...	Toby Ziegler
John Spencer	...	Leo McGarry
Bradley Whitford	...	Josh Lyman
Martin Sheen	...	President Josiah 'Jed' Bartlet
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Susan Allenback	...	Van Driver
John Amos	...	Percy Fitzwallace
Randy Brooks	...	Arthur Leeds (as Randolph Brooks)
John P. Connolly	...	Matt Kelley
Timothy Davis-Reed	...	Mark O'Donnell
William Duffy	...	Larry
Renée Estevez	...	Nancy
Jeff Gage	...	Train Conductor
Victor McCay	...	Peter
Andrew McFarlane	...	Anthony Marcus
Kris Murphy	...	Katie Witt
Don Perry	...	Muriel Keith
NiCole Robinson	...	Margaret Hooper
Ron Silver	...	Bruno Gianelli
Allison Smith	...	Mallory O'Brien
Anna Deavere Smith	...	Nancy McNally
Peter James Smith	...	Ed
Lily Tomlin	...	Deborah Fiderer
Allan Wasserman	...	Donald McKittridge

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

Harmar, Pennsylvania, USA

Trivia:

Sam tells Mallory, "Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal outright." This is a variation on a quotation by Pablo Picasso: "Good artists copy. Great artists steal." (Ironically, one of Sorkin's lines from this episode ("Every time we think we've measured our capacity to meet a challenge, we look up and we are reminded that that capacity may well be limitless") was plagiarized during an NBC sports feature airing directly before the 2006 Kentucky Derby. The freelance writer who wrote the line was fired.

Quotes:

Bruno Gianelli: [after hearing the President give a inspiring speech] When did you write that last part?
Sam Seaborn: In the car.
Bruno Gianelli: [pause] Freak.

Soundtrack:

I Don't Like Mondays