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Aaron Sorkin (creator)
Aaron Sorkin (teleplay)
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Original Air Date:
13 October 1999 (Season 1, Episode 4)
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When an admittedly weak gun-control bill the White House has been backing turns out to be five votes short of House passage... more | add synopsis
Cast
(Episode Cast overview, first billed only) | Rob Lowe | ... | Sam Seaborn |
 | Moira Kelly | ... | Mandy Hampton |
 | Dulé Hill | ... | Charlie Young |
 | Allison Janney | ... | Claudia Jean 'C.J.' Cregg |
 | Richard Schiff | ... | Toby Ziegler |
 | John Spencer | ... | Leo McGarry |
 | Bradley Whitford | ... | Josh Lyman |
 | Martin Sheen | ... | President Josiah 'Jed' Bartlet |
 | Michael McGuire | ... | Congressman Cal Tillinghouse |
| Thom Barry | ... | Congressman Mark Richardson |
 | Janel Moloney | ... | Donna Moss |
 | Jay Underwood | ... | Congressman Christopher Wick |
 | Mark Blum | ... | Rep. Katzenmoyer |
| Sara Botsford | ... | Jenny McGarry |
 | Jillian Armenante | ... | Leela |
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Continuity: During the cold open President Bartlet delivers a speech in which he references a civil procedure professor he had. Civil procedure is a first year course at most law schools. Bartlet received a B.A. in American studies and a minor in theology from Notre Dame and a Masters and a Ph.D. From the London School of Economics. He never attended law school and would never have had reason to have a civil procedure professor. This may be explained as rhetorical flourish but it is most likely that the biography of the President not being fully fleshed out at this point in the first season. more
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President Josiah Bartlet:
[after changing Toby's speech without telling him] I looked to the side at one point, you know, I half expected to see you coming at me with a salad fork.
Toby Ziegler:
Well, but for the Secret Service agents restraining me, sir...
President Josiah Bartlet:
Yeah. Thank God for the Secret Service.
Toby Ziegler:
[under his breath] Oh, bless their hearts.
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Happy Days Are Here Again more
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