Season 5

Episode Summary: After Josh (Bradley Whitford) is hailed as the "101st Senator" in a newspaper profile, he butts heads with a conservative Idaho Democratic Senator (Tom Skerritt) who withholds his…

Episode Summary: A renowned North Korean pianist is greeted at the White House for a solo performance, but the formalities change when the musician slips a message to the President…

Episode Summary: Following a harrowing chapter in the nation's history, the White House celebrates the Fourth of July. Bartlet endures the painful process of nominating a candidate for Vice President.…

Episode Summary: The international crisis concerning the terrorist abduction of Bartlet's daughter Zoey (Elisabeth Moss) reaches a critical point as Speaker of the House Glenallen Walken (John Goodman), the acting…

Episode Summary: As the White House reels from the kidnapping of Zoey (Elisabeth Moss), the youngest daughter of Democratic U.S. President Josiah Edward Bartlet (Martin Sheen), the government is temporarily…

Episode Summary: In the season finale, Gaza slayings of key U.S. officials might drag fuming President into unending cycle of violence -- In the season finale, events in the tinderbox…

Episode Summary: A fact-finding tour to the hotly disputed Gaza Strip includes Donna (Janel Moloney), Admiral Fitzwallace (John Amos) and a few congressmen as they sort through the thicket of…

Episode Summary: After a black-tie dinner, the President (Martin Sheen) and his staff are locked down in the White House when a foreign substance is detected inside, forcing an odd…

Episode Summary: On the eve of the President's controversial trade summit meeting in Brussels, Josh is troubled when he learns that Bartlet will reverse his position about sacrificing American jobs…

Episode Summary: Producing a program on past and present White House press secretaries, a television documentary crew follows C.J. around to film a "typical" day. But the presence of outsiders…