The West Wing is a political drama that swept audiences off their feet with its realistic depiction of life in the White ...

When it comes to peak political dramas, Aaron Sorkin’s The West Wing has long set the standard. It remains, after all these ...

Take a look at the most familiar faces from The West Wing's seven seasons on NBC. At the turn of the 21st century, TV fans got to live in the idealized world of Jed Bartlet’s White House on The West ...

"You like The West Wing? Me too! Let's watch it!" (I ended up married to one of the people I had one of those early West Wing-powered conversations with.) Now, 25 years after the first season ...

NPR’s Scott Detrow speaks with Martin Sheen and Melissa Fitzgerald about all things West Wing. Fitzgerald co-wrote a new book called What’s Next about the legacy of the show. Politics are in ...

Almost 25 years ago, way back in September of 1999, Aaron Sorkin’s political drama The West Wing aired its first episode on NBC. Over the course of the next seven years, the series aired 154 ...

THE WEST WING, from left: Martin Sheen, Richard Schiff, Bradley Whitford, John Spencer, Dule Hill, Allison Janney, (2000) 1999-2006. David Burnett / ©NBC / TV Guide / courtesy Everett Collection ...

(SOUNDBITE OF W.G. SNUFFY WALDEN'S "MAIN TITLE (THE WEST WING)") DETROW: ...A very specific political fiction of contested political conventions, of accidental arrests of Supreme Court nominees ...

‘The West Wing’ was my inspiration. 25 years on I got to meet President Bartlet. Air Force One takeoffs are often a frantic moment for the reporters who travel with the president.