"The West Wing"
18th and Potomac (2001)

Director:

Robert Berlinger

Writers:

Aaron Sorkin (creator)
Aaron Sorkin (teleplay) ...

TV Series:

"The West Wing" (1999)

Original Air Date:

9 May 2001 (Season 2, Episode 21)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

With hypothetical polling numbers showing them its political suicide, staffers prepare to announce the President's condition...

Plot Keywords:

Number In Title | Political Drama | U.S. Capitol Building | Marriage | Interracial Romance

Cast

Dulé Hill	...	Charlie Young
Allison Janney	...	Claudia Jean 'C.J.' Cregg
Rob Lowe	...	Sam Seaborn
Janel Moloney	...	Donna Moss
Richard Schiff	...	Toby Ziegler
John Spencer	...	Leo McGarry
Bradley Whitford	...	Josh Lyman
Martin Sheen	...	President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Gary Cervantes	...	Dunn
Stockard Channing	...	Abigail 'Abbey' Bartlet
Timothy Davis-Reed	...	Mark O'Donnell
Melissa Fitzgerald	...	Carol Fitzpatrick
Peter Michael Goetz	...	Paul Hackett
Wendy Haines	...	Abbey's Agent
Bradley James	...	Secret Service Agent
Kathryn Joosten	...	Dolores Landingham
Marlee Matlin	...	Joey Lucas
Victor McCay	...	Henry
Richard McGonagle	...	Sen. Warren, D
Ana Mercedes	...	Sally, Military Aide in SitRoom
Glenn Morshower	...	Mike Chysler
Kris Murphy	...	Katie Witt
Charles Noland	...	Steve
Bill O'Brien	...	Kenny Thurman
Roger Ontiveros	...	Sidney
Devika Parikh	...	Bonnie
Eric Payne	...	Secret Service Agent at Door (as Eric A. Payne)
Oliver Platt	...	White House Counsel Oliver Babish
NiCole Robinson	...	Margaret Hooper
John Rubinstein	...	Sen. Andy Ritter, D
Mindy Seeger	...	Chris
Anna Deavere Smith	...	Nancy McNally
Thomas Spencer	...	Officer #1
Robert Walden	...	Sen. Rossiter, D
Gregory Alan Williams	...	Robbie Mosley (as Gregalan Williams)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Company:

thinkfilm

Trivia:

The screening of '18th and Potomac' was first shown in Australia on the evening of September 11 2001. A newsflash about the two aircraft hitting the World Trade Centre was broadcast in the last commercial break. The remaining ten minutes of the West Wing was then screened, which coincidentally involved the unexpected death of a major West Wing character.

Goofs:

Factual errors: The President is told that the Haitian army has "two Bradleys with 120 millimeter cannons". The Bradley infantry fighting vehicle is equipped with a 25mm auto-cannon; the 120mm gun is on the much larger Abrams main battle tank.

Quotes:

Abbey Bartlet: Oh, Oliver. Do you know what peripheral neuropathy indicates?
Oliver Babish: No, but I don't really care that much.
Abbey Bartlet: B-12 deficiency.