The West Wing

The legacy continues in more recent series such as The West Wing and Friends.

Ask MetaFilter cgc373 2009

We're so used to seeing Jimmy Smits as the good guy, in shows such as The West Wing, where his role as presidential aspirant Matthew Santos endeared him further to viewers (and inadvertently predicted what will happen two years later).

BuddyTV 2008

They ran down every point, talking about upcoming events, issues that needed coverage, political situations -- it was like an episode of The West Wing, except it was real and I was in it.

Zoe P. Strassfield: Stendhal Syndrome Zoe P. Strassfield 2011

During the final season of The West Wing, a significantly less dangerous crisis occurred at a nuclear power plant in California, and it turned out the Republican candidate for president, Arnold Vinick played by Alan Alda, had pushed through the licensing for the facility.

Bob Cesca: The Obama Administration Must Abandon its Nuclear Energy Policy Bob Cesca 2011

They ran down every point, talking about upcoming events, issues that needed coverage, political situations -- it was like an episode of The West Wing, except it was real and I was in it.

Zoe P. Strassfield: Stendhal Syndrome Zoe P. Strassfield 2011

Her best-known role was a regular part in The West Wing, where she played an assistant to President Jed Bartlet played by her father.

Charlie Sheen, a star on the verge of a nervous breakdown, grips and revulses America 2011

The pre-credits sequence of the first-ever episode of The West Wing, for example, gives a brief establishing scene to all the White House staffers – Sam, Josh, Leo, CJ, Toby – that turns on the mysterious identity of someone called Potus.

Television re-runs: only 235 episodes to go | Mark Lawson 2011

During the final season of The West Wing, a significantly less dangerous crisis occurred at a nuclear power plant in California, and it turned out the Republican candidate for president, Arnold Vinick played by Alan Alda, had pushed through the licensing for the facility.

Bob Cesca: The Obama Administration Must Abandon its Nuclear Energy Policy Bob Cesca 2011

HIGH SCHOOL -- The West Wing: We re-discovered the snappy political savvy of The West Wing when our 12th grader devoured the first two seasons over the holidays at the suggestion of her US History teacher.

Sarah Bowman: What's Up for January From Kids Off the Couch Sarah Bowman 2011

Since then, he's appeared in The West Wing and 24.

William Devane to Guest-Star on Revenge 2011