Season 5 of The West Wing aired on American television network NBC. It consisted of twenty-two episodes, the first of which aired on September 24, 2003 and the last on May 19, 2004.
Summary[]
Zoey Bartlet has been kidnapped. The President has relinquished office to a Republican Speaker of the House because the vacancy of Vice President had not been filled. After the crisis has been resolved, there is the selection of a new Vice President, the former Vice President’s tell all autobiography, the shutdown of the Federal government, the rescue of Social Security, a visit from the cast of Sesame Street, the selection of two new Supreme Court Justices and a fact finding mission to Gaza that rattles the Senior Staff to the core.
Cast[]
- Stockard Channing as Abigail Bartlet
- Dulé Hill as Charlie Young
- Allison Janney as C.J. Cregg
- Joshua Malina as Will Bailey
- Janel Moloney as Donna Moss
- Richard Schiff as Toby Ziegler
- John Spencer as Leo McGarry
- Bradley Whitford as Josh Lyman
- and Martin Sheen as President Bartlet
Guest Cast[]
- Mary-Louise Parker as Amy Gardner
- Timothy Busfield as Danny Concannon
- Matthew Perry as Joe Quincy
- Glenn Close as Evelyn Baker Lang
- John Goodman as Glen Allen Walken (uncredited)
- Jason Isaacs as Colin Ayres
- James Cromwell as D. Wire Newman
- Mary McCormack as Kate Harper
- John Amos as Admiral Percy Fitzwallace
- Lily Tomlin as Deborah Fiderer
- Marlee Matlin as Joey Lucas
- Tim Matheson as John Hoynes
- Jesse Bradford as Ryan Pierce
- William Fichtner as Christopher Mulready
- William Devane as Lewis Berryhill
- Armin Mueller-Stahl as Israeli Prime Minister Eli Zahavy
- Gary Cole as Bob Russell
- Gerald McRaney as Alan Adamley
- Jay Mohr as Taylor Reid
- Gabrielle Union as Meeshell Anders
- Tom Skerritt as Senator Chris Carrick
- Dylan Baker as Alan Fisk
- Elisabeth Moss as Zoey Bartlet
- Michael O'Neill as Ron Butterfield
- Michael Hyatt as Angela Blake
- Steven Culp as Speaker of the House Jeff Haffley
- H. Richard Greene as Sen. Robert Royce
- Mitchell Ryan as Senator Roland Pierce
- Nina Siemaszko as Ellie Bartlet
- Kathleen York as Rep. Andy Wyatt
- Stephen Tobolowsky as Dr. Max Milkman
- Terry O'Quinn as General Nicholas Alexander
- Allison Smith as Mallory O'Brien
- Anna Deavere Smith as Dr. Nancy McNally
- Clark Gregg as Special Agent Michael Casper
- Milo O'Shea as Roy Ashland
- Annabeth Gish as Elizabeth Bartlet
- Geoff Pierson as Senator Tripplehorn
- Melissa Marsala as Marina
- Zeljko Îvanek as Steve Atwood
- Steven Eckholdt as Doug Westin
- Cherry Jones as Barbara Layton
- Philip Baker Hall as Senator Matt Hunt
- Joaquim de Almeida as Carlos Carrio
- Robert Picardo as E. Bradford Shelton
- Reed Diamond as Dr. Mike Gordon
- Bill O'Brien as Kenny Thurman
- NiCole Robinson as Margaret Hooper
- Renée Estevez as Nancy
- Sam Robards as Greg Brock
- Steve Ryan as Miles Hutchinson
- Nick Searcy as Nate Singer
- Ron Canada as Ted Barrow
- Thomas Kopache as Bob Slatterly
- Ryan Cutrona as George Sliger