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The West Wing [Pilot] (Original title)
Date: 22 September 1999 (Television)

Country: USA

Director: Thomas Schlamme

Production company billing: © 1999 Warner Bros Television


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TV Transmissions
Date: 22 September 1999Broadcast company: NBCCountry: USATransmission time: 21:00-22:00Slot duration: 60 minsNetwork - Language: English - Colour - Sound - Stereo
Date: 10 January 2000Broadcast company: Sky OneCountry: United KingdomTransmission time: 21:00-22:00Slot duration: 60 minsSatellite
Date: 18 January 2001Broadcast company: Channel FourCountry: United KingdomTransmission time: 22:00-22:50Slot duration: 50 minsNetwork

Credits (42)
Production Company: John Wells Productions, In association with: Warner Bros. Television, Executive Producer: John Wells, Executive Producer: Aaron Sorkin, Executive Producer: Thomas Schlamme, Creator: Aaron Sorkin, Producer: Llewellyn Wells, Producer: Kristin Harms, Co-producer: Michael Hissrich, Unit Production Manager: Jean Higgins, Assistant Director (1st): Tony Adler, Assistant Director (2nd): Brian Bettwy, Script Supervisor: Lyn Matsuda Norton, Executive in Charge of Casting: Barbara Miller, Casting: John Levey, Casting: Kevin Scott, [Casting]: Jeff Block, Written by: Aaron Sorkin, Director of Photography: Thomas Del Ruth, Camera Operator: Randy Feemster, Steadicam Operator: Gerry O'Malley, Gaffer: Jeff Butters, Key Grip: Michael Matteson, [Editor]: Blake McCormick, Editor: Christopher Nelson, [Production Designer]: Ken Hardy, Production Designer: Jon Hutman, Set Decorator: Ellen Totleben, Property Master: Mike Sweeney, Costume Designer: Lyn Elizabeth Paolo, Key Make-Up: Steve LaPorte, Key Hair: Susan Mills, [Music]: Roxanne Lippel, Music: W.G. Snuffy Walden, Music Supervisor: Anne Kline, Music Editor: Stuart Goetz, Sound Mixer: Kenneth B. Ross, Re-Recording Mixer: Dan Hiland, Gary Rogers, Supervising Sound Editor: Walter Newman, Supervising Sound Editor: Tom Harris
Cast (36)
Martin Sheen (President Josiah Bartlet), Rob Lowe (Sam Seaborn), John Spencer (Leo McGarry), Moira Kelly (Madeline Hampton), Tim Matheson (Vice President John Hoyle), Richard Schiff (Toby Ziegler), Bradley Whitford (Josh Lyman), Allison Janney (C.J.Gregg), Annie Corley (Mary Marsh), Lisa Edelstein, Suzy Nakamura, Allison Smith, Marc Grapey, Janel Moloney, F. William Parker, Kathryn Joosten (Mrs Landingham), Nicolette Robinson (Margaret), Devika Parikh (Bonnie), David Sage (John Van Dyke), Jana Lee Hamblin (1st reporter), Mindy Seeger (3rd reporter), Ossi Taylor (1st college student), Tressa di Figlia (2nd college student), Wendell Wright (1st economist), Hamilton Mitchell (2nd economist), Molly Schaffer (senior staffer), Melissa Fitzgerald (White House staffer), Wendy Blair (2nd flight attendant/voice over), Elizabeth Greer (3rd flight attendant), Peter James Smith (1st congressional liaison), Bill Duffy (2nd congressional liaison), Marlene Warfield (maid), Dean Biasucci (man), Diane Michelle (woman's voice over), Marcus Boddie (D.C. cop), Dafidd McCracken (USS officer mike)