The West Wing

As the White House reels from the kidnapping of Zoey, the youngest daughter of Democratic U.S. President Josiah Edward Bartlet, the government is temporarily passed to the Republican party.

The abduction of Bartlet's daughter hits a critical point.

Bartlet's first choice for vice president might not get approved.

A renowned North Korean pianist is greeted at the White House for a solo performance, but the formalities change when he slips a message to the President stating that he wants to defect.

After Josh is hailed as the "101st Senator" in a newspaper profile, he clashes with conservative Senator Carrick, a Democrat from Idaho.

Bartlet is preoccupied with a killer tornado in Oklahoma and flies there to lend his support. But his compassion overrules good judgment, and Bartlet stays longer than planned.

The President's staff wrangles with new Speaker of the House Jeff Haffley over the pending federal budget.

A disastrous fiscal crisis looms when the federal government is shut down after the President and the powerful Republican Speaker of the House disagree over an extra 2% in budget reductions.

The festive Christmas spirit at the annual White House tree-lighting celebration is dimmed when the President learns that Christian relief workers have been jailed in Islamic Northern Sudan.

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.

Toby finishes the State of the Union Address a few weeks early, and a pregnant Joey Lucas polls responses to the speech from everyday people.

Toby convinces Bartlet to secretly sanction his solo attempt to make history by reforming Social Security.

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.

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 them.

The Bartlet administration reels from press leaks that former Vice President Hoynes is preparing a tell-all book that will embarrass the President and Leo.

Bartlet is furious over a rival congresswoman's actions.

When a Republican Supreme Court justice suddenly dies, the Bartlet administration scrambles to find a worthy replacement, and the halls are filled with candidates.

Producing a program on past and present White House press secretaries, a television documentary crew follows C.J. around to film a "typical" day.

On the eve of the President's controversial trade summit meeting, Josh learns that Bartlet will reverse his position concerning the loss of American jobs to foreign nations and is troubled.

After attending a formal dinner at another location, Bartlet and his staff return to the White House and experience an emergency quarantine inside the West Wing.

Donna and Admiral Fitzwallace travel with a few Congressmen to the hotly disputed Gaza Strip on a fact-finding mission, trying to sort the rival issues between the Palestinians and Israelis.

In the season finale, after the murders of high-ranking U.S. officials in the explosive Gaza Strip, Bartlet weighs appropriate military action.