Season 5 – Episode 17 – “The Supremes”
Episode Summary: When a Republican Supreme Court justice suddenly dies, the Bartlet administration scrambles to find a worthy replacement, and the halls are filled with candidates. But the President senses…
Season 5 – Episode 16 – “Eppur Si Muove”
Episode Summary: Bartlet becomes furious when a rival conservative congresswoman tries to end funding for a controversial National Institute of Health medical study by exposing the fact that Bartlet's daughter…
Season 5 – Episode 15 – “Full Disclosure”
Episode Summary: The Bartlet administration reels from press leaks that former Vice President Hoynes (Tim Matheson) is preparing a tell-all book that will embarrass the President and Leo as Hoynes…
Season 5 – Episode 14 – “An Khe”
Episode Summary: When five crew members of an airborne Thunderchief are shot down by North Korean jets near the hostile country, President Bartlet dispatches a Navy SEAL team to retrieve…
Season 5 – Episode 13 – “The Warfare of Genghis Khan”
Episode Summary: When the flash of a secret nuclear detonation is detected over the Indian Ocean, Bartlet calls upon his people to investigate which nation now has the atomic bomb--and…
Season 5 – Episode 12 – “Slow News Day”
Episode Summary: Toby (Richard Schiff) convinces the President (Martin Sheen) to secretly sanction his solo effort to make history by reforming Social Security but his efforts to recruit a Republican…
Season 5 – Episode 11 – “The Benign Prerogative”
Episode Summary: Toby finishes the State of the Union Address a few weeks early, and a pregnant Joey Lucas (Marlee Matlin) polls responses to the speech from everyday people. Charlie…
Season 5 – Episode 10 – “The Stormy Present”
Episode Summary: When a former President of the United States dies, the two remaining ex-Presidents fly on Air Force One with Bartlet to attend the funeral. Onboard, Bartlet's two historic…
Season 5 – Episode 9 – “Abu El Banat”
Episode Summary: The festive Christmas spirit at the annual White House tree-lighting is dimmed when the President (Martin Sheen) learns that Christian relief workers have been jailed in Islamic northern…
Season 5 – Episode 8 – “Shutdown”
Episode Summary: A disastrous fiscal crisis looms when the Federal government is shut down after the President (Martin Sheen) engages in a war of wills between the powerful G.O.P. House…