Season 6
🎬 22 Episodes 📅 2004 ⏱ 40 min
Behind the mahogany doors of power, a seasoned team in The West Wing races against time to prevent an international conflict from spiraling into war. As negotiations crumble and allies falter, the weight of responsibility crashes down on those who must decide the fates of nations. What emerges isn't just a political thriller, but a touching portrait of ordinary people carrying extraordinary burdens with unwavering dedication to something larger than themselves.
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22
Episodes
2004
Year
40
min / ep
14.7
Watch Hours
6/7
Season No.
⭐ 8.3
Best Episode
Ep. 2 · The Birnam Wood
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🎬 Episodes 22 episodes
1
⭐ 7.7
NSF Thurmont
As they remain at Donna's bedside while she recuperates from surgery to remove a pulmonary embolism, Colin questions Josh about his personal relationship with Donna. When Bartlet and Leo clash over the appropriate response to the Gaza attack, Kate makes the case for a summit meeting, and provides B…
🎬 Alex Graves ✍️ John Wells
2
⭐ 8.3
The Birnam Wood
Bartlet orders a strike on the terrorist training camp as he and his staff broker a peace settlement between the Israelis and the Palestinians, but Bartlet and Leo realize that their differences over the peace settlement are irreconcilable, warranting a change in Leo's responsibilities. Having retur…
🎬 Alex Graves ✍️ John Wells
3
⭐ 7.3
Third-Day Story
Leo is rushed into bypass surgery after suffering a massive heart attack; as Toby and Josh scramble chaotically to get votes after Haffley demands Democratic support for a tax cut in exchange for ratification of the peace plan, it becomes quickly apparent that Jed must overcome his reluctance to nam…
🎬 Christopher Misiano ✍️ Eli Attie
4
Liftoff
Margaret and Charlie prove to be invaluable allies as C.J. has a rough first day in her new position, made even more difficult by a Russian bearing radioactive gifts and a Defense Secretary's attempts to undermine her; Toby's less than stellar performance in the briefing room makes the search for a …
🎬 Alex Graves ✍️ Debora Cahn
5
⭐ 7.0
The Hubbert Peak
Hours before the CAFE standards amendment is defeated, Josh succumbs to the lure of test driving a monster SUV while shopping for a Prius and gets into a fender-bender that proves embarrassing to the administration, so he's saddled with heading up a task force on alternative energy sources; after ho…
🎬 Julie Hébert ✍️ Peter Noah
6
⭐ 7.0
The Dover Test
The peace mission suffers its first American casualty, whose father is sharply critical of the administration; Santos breaks ranks with the party by signing onto Republican legislation for a patient bill of rights when his own bill dies in committee; Margaret searches for a new office for Charlie; L…
🎬 Laura Innes ✍️ Carol Flint
7
⭐ 7.0
A Change Is Gonna Come
Hoynes throws his hat in the presidential ring, and asks Josh to join his campaign; Jed's health begins to deteriorate; Toby and Kate head the protocol negotiations with the Chinese over the arrangements for the upcoming summit, which is jeopardized when Jed mistakenly accepts a Taiwanese flag at th…
🎬 Vincent Misiano ✍️ John Sacret Young
8
In the Room
Penn and Teller roll a lesson about the First Amendment into their entertainment at Zoey's White House birthday party, setting off a media frenzy and public relations nightmare; Baker drops out of the race, leaving the field free for Russell, who asks Josh to run his campaign; Jed takes a hard line …
🎬 Alex Graves ✍️ Lawrence O'Donnell
9
⭐ 8.0
Impact Winter
As acting chief of staff, Josh calls Leo in for backup when the news about Jed's health hits; the staff follows the progress of an asteroid headed for earth; Jed struggles with his relapse as C.J., Kate, and Toby handle the repercussions of his illness on the progress of the China summit; Josh is ou…
🎬 Lesli Linka Glatter ✍️ Debora Cahn
10
⭐ 7.3
Faith Based Initiative
A senator attaches a rider to the federal budget bill that would ban gay marriage, almost daring the President to veto it, as the physical infirmities of Bartlet's MS become more pronounced. The Internet is rampant with a story that questions CJ's sexual orientation, and it is only fueled further wh…
🎬 Christopher Misiano ✍️ Bradley Whitford
11
⭐ 7.7
Opposition Research
Santos starts up his presidential campaign in New Hampshire, where he immediately disagrees with Josh on campaign philosophy: "No opposition research, no dirt on our opponents." Josh has an uncomfortable reunion with Russell campaign staffer Donna.
🎬 Christopher Misiano ✍️ Eli Attie
12
⭐ 7.3
365 Days
On the day after Bartlet gives his last State of the Union address, Leo returns to the West Wing but has difficulty getting the attention of the rest of the staff for a meeting about what to do during the remaining 365 days of Barlet's term. Kate and C.J. have to deal with emergencies in Bolivia and…
🎬 Andrew Bernstein ✍️ Mark Goffman
13
⭐ 7.7
King Corn
The presidential candidates journey to Iowa, where democrats Russell and Santos, and republican Vinick, are all told by their handlers that when they appear before before the corn growers association they must support subsidies for the use of corn-derived ethanol as fuel, regardless of their true fe…
🎬 Alex Graves ✍️ John Wells
14
⭐ 7.3
The Wake Up Call
Valentine's Day starts badly when the Iranian air force shoots down a British airliner, killing 100 passengers. The U.K. Prime Minister threatens to retaliate by bombing nuclear reactor sites, which could doom future support for political reformers in Iran. But C.J. has made an agreement with Abbey …
🎬 Laura Innes ✍️ Josh Singer
15
⭐ 8.0
Freedonia
It's five days before the New Hampshire primary, and Josh is desperately trying to find a "silver bullet" that will get his candidate into the local debate between the two front-runners, Vice President Russell and former Vice President Hoynes. Then, Josh and Santos's disagreements over how to run th…
🎬 Christopher Misiano ✍️ Eli Attie
16
Drought Conditions
A new candidate for president, Senator Rafferty, has garnered much media attention with a ground-breaking speech about health care. But her words contain interesting echoes of President Bartlet's original health plan, which is known only to White House insiders, and reporter Greg Brock suspects that…
🎬 Alex Graves ✍️ Debora Cahn
17
A Good Day
Santos engineers a plot to get a stalled stem-cell bill scheduled for a vote in the House. President Bartlet has an uncomfortable reunion with a rival economist with whom he split the Nobel Prize. A group of underage kids tries to convince Toby they deserve the right to vote. Kate tries to resolve a…
🎬 Richard Schiff ✍️ Carol Flint
18
⭐ 7.7
La Palabra
Santos is campaigning in California during the last few days before the all-important "Super Tuesday" primary elections, but he is out of money and he trails both Russell and Hoynes in the polls. When even "La Palabra", a Latino voters group, is all set to endorse Hoynes instead of Santos, Josh urge…
🎬 Jason Ensler ✍️ Eli Attie
19
⭐ 7.0
Ninety Miles Away
New rumors about Fidel Castro's health cause the President to re-examine the economic sanctions against Cuba that haven't worked for 40 years, and he sends Leo McGarry to meet secretly with the Cuban dictator. The occasion causes C.J. to check into Kate Harper's past with the C.I.A., but she is unaw…
🎬 Rod Holcomb ✍️ John Sacret Young
20
⭐ 7.3
In God We Trust
Senator Vinick, now the Republican Presidential nominee, receives advice from former Bartlet political consultant Bruno Gianelli on how to win all 50 states in the general election, and more specifically in the near term how to present his religious views to the public and pick a running mate. Meanw…
🎬 Christopher Misiano ✍️ Lawrence O'Donnell
21
⭐ 7.3
Things Fall Apart
Faced with a Democratic party in disarray in the face of the strongest Republican challenger they have ever had, Bartlet asks Leo to take charge of the potentially chaotic Democratic National Convention, while Santos considers a party-unifying vice-presidential offer from front-runner Russell. Meanw…
🎬 Nelson McCormick ✍️ Peter Noah
22
⭐ 8.0
2162 Votes
At the Democratic National Convention, Russell, Santos and Baker jockey for the 2162 votes that will give one of them the nomination for President, and the opportunity to lose to the apparently unstoppable Vinick in November. Meanwhile, the President must make a decision before it's too late on whet…
🎬 Alex Graves ✍️ John Wells