"The West Wing" N.S.F. Thurmont (2004)

Director:

Alex Graves

Writers:

Aaron Sorkin (creator) and
Lauren Schmidt (staff writer)

TV Series:

"The West Wing" (1999)

Original Air Date:

20 October 2004 (Season 6, Episode 1)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Josh maintains a vigil beside Donna's bed in hospital, and needles Colin over his background and relationship with Donna...

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
Joshua Malina	...	Will Bailey
Mary McCormack	...	Kate Harper
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:
Tom Chick	...	Reporter Gordon
Charlotte Colavin	...	Representative Sheila Fields
Steven Culp	...	Speaker of the House Jeff Haffley
Eli Danker	...	Israeli Defense Minister Doran Mazar
Ann Ducati	...	Maya Zahavy
Melissa Fitzgerald	...	Carol Fitzpatrick
Jason Isaacs	...	Colin Ayres
Michael Kagan	...	FBI Director George Arnold
Tim Lounibos	...	Colonel Leahy
Armin Mueller-Stahl	...	Israeli Prime Minister Efraim 'Eli' Zahavy
Novella Nelson	...	Gail Fitzwallace
Natalia Nogulich	...	Israeli Ambassador Shira Galit
Terry O'Quinn	...	General Nicholas Alexander
NiCole Robinson	...	Margaret Hooper
Anneliza Scott	...	Second Nurse
Mindy Seeger	...	Chris
Leesa Severyn	...	ATF Anchor
Warren Sweeney	...	Taylor Reid (scenes deleted)
Lily Tomlin	...	Deborah Fiderer
Marcelo Tubert	...	Palestinian Prime Minister Saeb Mukarat

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Company:

thinkfilm

Trivia:

A running gag amongst The West Wing is that senior staffers fly backwards when firing a gun. This happens to Toby when trying to shoot a shotgun, and CJ with a pistol in an earlier season.

Goofs:

Continuity: As Donna is about to undergo surgery she meets with Josh and writes a humorous message on a piece of paper because she can't speak. Josh is wearing a surgical hat as a sanitary measure. The message says "nice hat" with an exclamation point. As we cut back to her a couple of seconds later, the exclamation point is gone from the message.

Quotes:

Leo McGarry: Mr President, please; Congress, the Joint Chiefs, the American Public, your own staff, everyone disagrees with your assessment of the situation.
President Josiah Bartlet: Killing Palestinians isn't going to make us feel safer. They'll kill more of us and we'll have to kill more of them. It's Russian Roulette with a fully loaded gun.
Leo McGarry: We can't allow terrorists to murder our citizens without...
President Josiah Bartlet: -Why would Palestinians murder American government officials? They never have before. They're deliberately provoking us, Leo. They know that we have to retaliate. They've studied us, they want us to overreact.
[...]

Movie Connections:

References "60 Minutes" (1968)