Pilot
The first episode, aired 22 September 1999.
"Pilot" is the first episode of The West Wing. It aired on NBC on 22 September 1999.
The staff are called in early because President Bartlet has crashed his bicycle into a tree.
Quick Facts
- Series
- The West Wing
- Season
- 1
- Air date
- 22 September 1999
- Production
- 475151
- Writer
- Aaron Sorkin
- Director
- Thomas Schlamme
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Background
Josh Lyman has also insulted a Christian activist on live television. When the President meets her group, he tells them he crashed in anger after his daughter was sent a threatening doll by an extremist group they will not condemn.
He bars them from the White House until they do.
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