3.09: Bartlet for America (with John Spencer)

The West Wing Weekly

Joshua Malina & Hrishikesh Hirway

Tv & Film

4.9 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2017

⏱️ 83 minutes

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To accompany our discussion of "Bartlet for America," we're thrilled to present an interview with John Spencer, who won an Emmy for his performance. We talk to David Daniel (@CNNLADavid), who is a senior producer at CNN Newsource. He interviewed John Spencer in 2002, just before the Emmy awards, about The West Wing pilot, "Bartlet for America," addiction, and more. We're so lucky to have gotten David's original raw tape from that day, which we used to put this segment together. For more, visit thewestwingweekly.com/309.

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0:00.0	You're listening to The West Wing Weekly.
0:08.2	I'm Joshua Molina.
0:09.8	And I'm Rishi K. Shereway.
0:11.4	Today we're talking about Bartlett for America, its episode 9 from season 3.
0:16.0	It was written by Aaron Sorkin, it was directed by Tommy Schlame, just like the pilot.
0:20.8	But unlike the pilot, it first aired on December 12, 2001.
0:25.3	This episode was submitted for several Emmy Award nominations.
0:29.1	Thomas Dalbruth was nominated for an Emmy for his cinematography.
0:32.3	Lauren Schaefer was nominated for Outstanding Picture Editing.
0:36.4	And John Spencer won Best Supporting Actor in part because of this episode.
0:41.6	This episode is also part of the Emmy submission package for The West Wing's Outstanding Drama Series win.
0:48.1	Coming up later in this episode, we have something really special.
0:51.4	We have an interview from 2002 with John Spencer, much of which has never been heard before.
0:57.4	And we're going to get to present to you for the first time later in this episode.
1:01.3	Very special.
1:02.3	It's a pretty great episode.
1:03.8	It's the Christmas episode.
1:05.0	And the Christmas episode on The West Wing is typically a standout.
1:09.4	Every season so far, the text of it is so sentimental.
1:12.7	And I don't mean that in a bad way.
1:14.6	No, it's beautifully written and acted.
1:17.2	And we stepped back from what we've had in the last couple of episodes,
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