"The West Wing" Access (2004)

Director:

Alex Graves

Writers:

Aaron Sorkin (creator) and
Lauren Schmidt (writer)

TV Series:

"The West Wing" (1999)

Original Air Date:

31 March 2004 (Season 5, Episode 18)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

A documentary-style look at the day in the life of press secretary C.J. Cregg on a day that turns out to be anything but normal due to a FBI/terrorist standoff.

Plot Keywords:

President | Political | Secretary | White House | First Lady

Cast

Dulé Hill	...	Charlie Young
Allison Janney	...	Claudia Jean 'C.J.' Cregg
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:
Ivan Allen	...	News Anchor Roger Salier
Hira Ambrosino	...	White House Correspondent
Rebecca Avery	...	Anna
Lee Oliver Boyd	...	Cable Anchor
David Castellani	...	Reporter
Wilson Cruz	...	Jack Sosa
Timothy Davis-Reed	...	Mark O'Donnell
Melissa Fitzgerald	...	Carol Fitzpatrick
Michael Gallagher	...	Andrew Weltzman
Gene Galusha	...	Documentary Narrator
Clark Gregg	...	FBI Special Agent Mike Casper
Joyce Guy	...	Reporter Charlayne
James Ingersoll	...	Cable News Pundit
Paul Jenkins	...	Martin Sheffield
Sharon Johnston	...	Terrance Neighbor
Kellynn Jones	...	2nd Onsite Reporter
Michael Kagan	...	FBI Director George Arnold
Will Lyman	...	Narrator
Kris Murphy	...	Katie Witt
Charles Noland	...	Steve
Brian Poth	...	Eric Schaeffer
Sam Robards	...	Greg Brock
NiCole Robinson	...	Margaret Hooper
Harper Roisman	...	Herb Morris
Kenneth Schmidt	...	Craig Bloom
Mindy Seeger	...	Chris
Albie Selznick	...	Documentarian
Kevin Symons	...	FBI Press Rep
John H. Tobin	...	Eagle Rangers' Leader
Alan Toy	...	Reporter Franklin
Joseph Vassallo	...	Renato Mannari (as Joe Vassallo)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Goofs:

Continuity: This "documentary" episode takes place during the fifth year of the Bartlet presidency, but is supposedly not released until after Bartlet leaves office. At the end of the "documentary", the narrator mentions that CJ is the first woman to serve as Press Secretary through two terms. But in actuality, CJ doesn't serve two terms, instead becoming Chief of Staff in a later episode. Yet the narrator never mentions this much more striking accomplishment.