8.5/104 votes#1 - Game On
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 10/30/2002
Bartlet, Leo, Josh, Sam and C.J. pull a practical joke on Toby; Sam's mission to end the Wilde campaign leads him to make a career-altering decision; Jordan backs up Leo as he deals with the Qumari; Toby continues to press his case with a resistant Andrea; and Bartlet cleans Ritchie's clock in their debate.
Director: Alex Graves
Writer: Paul Redford
8.3/103 votes#2 - Enemies Foreign and Domestic
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 5/1/2002
The revelation that a Russian company may be building a heavy water reactor in Iran puts Jed in a difficult position as he prepares to meet with the new Russian president; Jed orders the Secret Service to protect C.J. when she receives death threats after making a comment at a press conference about the deaths of Saudi girls; Leo wants to find a way to help a major campaign contributor whose company is faced with a massive product recall; Charlie ponders the mystery of a strangely out of context letter written to the President.
Director: Alex Graves
Writer: Paul Redford
8.3/103 votes#3 - The Greater Good
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 1/17/2010
Ignoring pleas from Nicki to become Juniper Creek's next prophet, Bill contemplates running for the vacant Utah State Senate seat. Joey and Wanda return to Juniper Creek, but a suspicious J.J. is lurking. Sarah and Scott forgo a wedding in Bill's church in favor of a civil ceremony, shocking Barb. Margene confronts Nicki about her feelings for Ray Henry.
Director: David Knoller
Writer: Paul Redford
8.2/105 votes#4 - Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/28/2001
It's Big Block of Cheese Day again. Toby meets with World Trade Organization protesters, and CJ meets with a group of cartographers who want the standards for maps changed to be a more accurate reflection of geographical and political reality. Donna asks Sam to look into granting a pardon for a friend's deceased grandfather. Bartlet is having problems selecting a site for his Presidential library.
Director: Jessica Yu
Writer: Paul Redford
8.0/108 votes#5 - Take This Sabbath Day
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 2/9/2000
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.
Director: Thomas Schlamme
Writer: Paul Redford
8.0/101 votes#6 - Privateers
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 3/26/2003
Toby's old friend approaches him ready to blow the whistle on his employer's violations of environmental laws; staff pranks abound on Amy's first day at the office; Abbey charges Amy with the task of convincing the President to threaten a veto on a foreign aid bill containing an abortion gag rule provision; claiming that Abbey's ancestor was a pirate rather than a privateer, a prominent member threatens to mount a boycott of the D.A.R. dinner at which Zoey will be inducted until Will, C.J. and Amy devise a plan to defuse the situation; at the behest of Jean Paul, Zoey sends Charlie a "Dear John" email, but Charlie refuses to accept the brushoff and declares his love for Zoey; Donna is less than thrilled when Josh assigns her the job of shadowing a possible security risk at Zoey's D.A.R. induction; Will takes one for the team in putting an environmental and political face on the destruction and deaths which resulted from the melting of an Alaskan glacier.
Director: Alex Graves
Writer: Paul Redford
8.0/102 votes#7 - Small Town
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/12/1999
Dana, Gordon, Casey, and a woman from Gordon's office go on a double-date, leaving Natalie to produce the show and Dan to contend with a replacement anchor.
Director: Thomas Schlamme
Writer: Paul Redford
- 8.0/101 votes
#8 - Ordnance Tactics
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 4/6/1999
A bomb scare clears the building, Jeremy tries to break up with Natalie, and the network starts pressuring Dana.
Director: Alex Graves
Writer: Paul Redford
8.0/1023 votes#9 - She's Mine
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 8/27/2013
Harvey and Stephen clash over Ava's case; Harvey and Jessica strategize; Louis gets Rachel's help with a broken contract.
Director: Anton Cropper
Writer: Paul Redford
7.7/103 votes#10 - On the Day Before
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/31/2001
When Bartlet vetoes the "death tax", the staff must scramble to keep the veto from being overridden; Josh tries to smooth talk a promising governor who is considering running against the President; Charlie is urged to ask for immunity in his upcoming testimony.
Director: Christopher Misiano
Writer: Paul Redford
7.7/103 votes#11 - Separation of Powers
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 11/12/2003
As Chief Justice Ashland's health problems continue to mount, Joe Quincy, Ashland's former clerk, is pressed into service to persuade him to retire; as C.J. prepares Zoey for a sit-down interview about her kidnapping, Abbey reveals that her relationship with her husband is still strained; Jed refuses to be held hostage by the Republican in the budget negotiations.
Director: Alex Graves
Writer: Paul Redford
7.5/1015 votes#12 - Warriors
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 3/8/2017
The nation reels from the aftermath of the shooting on the steps of the Capitol while Emily struggles with the knowledge there may be a traitor in the White House. Agent Wells grapples with her decision to reveal what she knows about the conspiracy behind the Capitol bombing.
Director: Stephen Surjik
Writer: Paul Redford
7.2/105 votes#13 - The Portland Trip
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/15/2000
After ridiculing Notre Dame, C.J. is forced to accompany the President on a trip to Oregon; Toby and Sam struggle to write Jed's education speech for the following day; back at the White House, Josh tries to dissuade a gay Congressman who supports legislation banning same-sex marriages and Leo gets divorce papers, which causes Margaret to worry that he may fall off the wagon.
Director: Paris Barclay
Writer: Paul Redford
7.2/1015 votes#14 - The Ninth Seat
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 4/19/2017
As President Kirkman struggles to put together a new Supreme Court, FBI Agent Hannah Wells goes undercover and discovers much more than she ever could have imagined. Seth Wright has to contend with journalist Abe Leonard, who returns from the Middle East with an explosive story.
Director: Fred Toye
Writer: Paul Redford
7.0/1023 votes#15 - The Confession
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/5/2016
President Kirkman and his staff work to keep a high-level security breach of the White House a secret just as he’s about to give his first television interview. The FBI continues to investigate the Capitol bombing but Agent Hannah Wells starts to develop her own theories about who was really behind the attack.
Director: Sergio Mimica-Gezzan
Writer: Paul Redford
6.8/105 votes#16 - Blame Canada
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/19/2014
Elizabeth negotiate's with Iran over their nuclear program. Jason works with his Dad on a school report.
Director: Eriq La Salle
Writer: Paul Redford
6.8/1015 votes#17 - The Results
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/30/2016
On the eve of the country voting to elect a new House of Representatives, an unexpected development forces Kirkman to consider cancelling the elections entirely. News about Majid Nassar’s death leaks out, and Kirkman has to handle the fallout.
Director: Chris Grismer
Writer: Paul Redford
6.7/103 votes#18 - Keepers
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/29/2007
Dan goes back to help two brothers who have been abused by their father. Jack gets suspicious of Dan and thinks he might be gambling again. While in the past Dan and Livia overhear a conversation between Jack and Katie.
Director: Andrew Bernstein
Writer: Paul Redford
6.7/107 votes#19 - The State Dinner
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/10/1999
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.
Director: Thomas Schlamme
Writer: Paul Redford
6.6/107 votes#20 - The White House Pro-Am
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 3/22/2000
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.
Director: Ken Olin
Writer: Paul Redford
6.6/1015 votes#21 - Equilibrium
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/18/2017
Tensions rise between America and Mexico when a Mexican citizen is shot during a border dispute regarding Mexican trade imports. Kirkman and his staff must work quickly to resolve the situation and create a new trade deal.
Director: Joe Lazarov
Writer: Paul Redford
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"Game On" is the best rated episode written by Paul Redford. It scored 8.5/10 based on 4 votes. It was directed by Alex Graves. It aired on 10/30/2002 and is rated 0.2 points higher than their second-best episode, "Enemies Foreign and Domestic".