故事讲述了一群白宫幕僚们的工作与爱情生活。通过起伏跌宕的剧情，揭示白宫政治内幕，以及幕僚们在权力、良知、爱情面前的选择。但是不管这些人平日里如何明争暗斗，在关键时刻，他们仍是总统的得力助手，团结的群体，是一切问题迎刃而解的英雄人物。而白宫西翼是美国总统及其幕僚工作的地方。虚构的总统杰克是来自新罕布什尔州的民主党员，他的祖先曾参与签署美国独立宣言，其身上散发出领袖魅力。从早到晚，杰克的幕僚为他在大众及传媒面前应付各种场合。麦利奥为白宫的幕僚长，同时也是杰克的心腹；他的机智和缜密思维让他对国家的动脉随时保持高度警觉。副幕僚长黎祖殊则是个长袖善舞的策略家，不过有时候又太过执己见。新闻秘书祈思静大部分时间要巧妙应付传媒各种尖锐问题。政治顾问甘文迪、总统私人助理杨查理、白宫内阁成员史森美及辛杜比等也是这个来自各种领域的精英分子班子的成员。
播出日期: 1999-09-22
运行时间: 41 min
概述: The senior members of the White House staff are summoned to the office early in the morning to handle difficult situations: Hundreds of Cubans are on their way across the Atlantic Ocean in search of freedom; and klutzy President of the United States Josiah Bartlet accidentally sprained his ankle riding a bicycle into a tree.
播出日期: 1999-09-29
运行时间: 38 min
概述: The Vice President refuses to fall in line with Bartlet. Sam discusses the problem of Laurie with Josh and Toby. Bartlet hires Mandy as his consultant.
播出日期: 1999-10-06
运行时间: 41 min
概述: Still enraged at Morris's death, Bartlet makes a show of deadly force. C.J. is upset about being kept out of the loop about Laurie. Josh hires Bartlet's new personal assistant.
播出日期: 1999-10-13
运行时间: 41 min
概述: Five votes keep a very important gun-control bill from being passed and the staff has 72 hours to track down the errant congressmen. Toby is accused of manipulating the stock market by having a friend testify to Commerce on internet stocks. Leo's wife gets fed up with his long hours.
播出日期: 1999-10-20
运行时间: 41 min
概述: The staffers spend the day ("Big Block of Cheese day") dealing with private organizations, aka the crackpots. Throughout the day, Sam deals with a UFO nut, CJ gets a proposal to build a wolves-only road, Toby and Bartlet clash over everything, and Josh is overwhelmed by guilt regarding his sister's death.
播出日期: 1999-11-03
运行时间: 41 min
概述: Toby and Mandy push for a commerce bill with a census-counting provision, with three votes as the deciding factor. Sam tutors CJ on the finer points of the census. Josh & Sam take Charlie out for a beer and are joined by Zoey and Mallory.
播出日期: 1999-11-10
运行时间: 41 min
概述: The president of Indonesia is honored at a state dinner. The staff deals with Hurricane Sarah, a potential teamster strike, and a raid involving children in Idaho while a reporter flirts with CJ.
播出日期: 1999-11-17
运行时间: 41 min
概述: Bartlet and Hoynes argue in front of the Cabinet. CJ fends off Danny's advances when she suspects he's after a big story. Mallory asks Sam out. The staff leaps hurdles to pass a banking bill.
播出日期: 1999-11-24
运行时间: 41 min
概述: Bartlet struggles to name a nominee to the Supreme Court when the perfect nominee turns out to be not so perfect. A congressman attacks the staff, claiming that 1 in 3 use drugs.
播出日期: 1999-12-15
运行时间: 41 min
概述: Toby tries to arrange a proper funeral for a homeless veteran. Josh and Sam try to set up a preemptive strike against Lillienfield, who is attacking Leo because of his prior drug and alcohol problem. CJ tries to get the staff to revisit the hate crimes issue. Bartlet sneaks out to do some last minute shopping.
播出日期: 2000-01-05
运行时间: 41 min
概述: War breaks out between India and Pakistan and Bartlet consults with Lord John Marbury. Toby accuses CJ of being too friendly with the press when she objects to being kept in the dark. The staff realizes that Lillienfield's efforts to bring down Leo are going to get ugly when Josh gets a subpoena.
播出日期: 2000-01-12
运行时间: 41 min
概述: Bartlet collapses before his first State of the Union address. Leo publicly admits to his former alcoholism and drug abuse. Things get interesting romantically for both Sam and CJ. Lord John Marbury helps the staff negotiate an agreement between India and Pakistan.
播出日期: 2000-01-26
运行时间: 41 min
概述: Josh and Sam are able to make a bargain to keep Leo from going through a hearing, at the expense of a new sex education report. Mandy doesn't think a couple should be present at the signing of a new hate crimes bill instigated by the death of their son. Toby contends with some of PBS's detractors.
播出日期: 2000-02-09
运行时间: 41 min
概述: After the Supreme Court refuses to stay the execution of a convicted murderer, Bartlet has forty-eight hours to decide whether or not to commute the sentence. Josh faces off with Joey Lucas about his staff's not backing her candidate as vigorously as she'd like.
播出日期: 2000-02-16
运行时间: 41 min
概述: Toby and Sam travel to Connecticut to get Roberto Mendoza released from jail; Josh must run a press briefing when CJ has an emergency root canal.
播出日期: 2000-02-23
运行时间: 41 min
概述: Bartlet and the senior staff fly to California to attend an important fundraiser. Hoynes must decide whether he will support Bartlet's stance or go with his convictions when the Senate is deadlocked on an ethanol tax bill.
播出日期: 2000-03-22
运行时间: 41 min
概述: Abbey keeps the staff busy with the fallout when she leaks her personal preference for a Federal Reserve Board appointment and discusses child labor on a talk show, prompting a Congresswoman to offer an amendment which could shoot down the entire international tariff bill. Charlie's date with Zoey is cancelled because of threats by a white supremacist group.
播出日期: 2000-04-05
运行时间: 41 min
概述: Mendoza is confirmed by the Senate; Mandy needs Toby's help to replace a dead panda bear; Sam angers Mallory when she reads a position paper that he wrote supporting school vouchers; Josh meets with Jeff Breckenridge, who is irritating certain Congressmen with his stance on slavery reparations.
播出日期: 2000-04-26
运行时间: 40 min
概述: Mandy's old memo about Bartlet administration weaknesses surfaces; Josh tries to get administration nominees appointed to the Federal Elections Committee; Sam works to get a better policy on gays in the military.
播出日期: 2000-05-03
运行时间: 41 min
概述: Andrea Wyatt insists that mandatory minimums be added to a new drug policy the staff is developing; C.J. makes a mistake and sets them back.
播出日期: 2000-05-10
运行时间: 41 min
概述: Bartlet gets closer to making the FEC campaign finance reform-friendly, but his opponents strike back by making Sam's former dalliance with the call girl public knowledge; CJ waits anxiously for the administration's approval rating.
播出日期: 2000-05-17
运行时间: 41 min
概述: The staff deals with the crisis of an American pilot who was shot down in Iraq; Toby's brother is in danger on a space shuttle whose doors won't close; Bartlet and the senior staff walk into trouble as they leave a town meeting.
