Life on Mars (The West Wing)

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“Life On Mars”
The West Wing episode
Episode no. Season 4
Episode 86
Guest stars Matthew Perry
Tim Matheson
Kiersten Warren
Claire Coffee
NiCole Robinson
John Apicella
Andy Umberger
Written by Aaron Sorkin (teleplay)
Paul Redford & Dee Dee Myers (story)
Directed by John David Coles
Production no. 175321
Original airdate
Season 4 episodes
  1. 20 Hours in America, Part I
  2. 20 Hours in America, Part II
  3. College Kids
  4. The Red Mass
  5. Debate Camp
  6. Game On
  7. Election Night
  8. Process Stories
  9. Swiss Diplomacy
  10. Arctic Radar
  11. Holy Night
  12. Guns Not Butter
  13. The Long Goodbye
  14. Inauguration, Part I
  15. Inauguration Over There
  16. The California 47th
  17. Red Haven's on Fire
  18. Privateers
  19. Angel Maintenance
  20. Evidence of Things Not Seen
  21. Life On Mars
  22. Commencement
  23. Twenty Five
List of The West Wing episodes

"Life On Mars" is episode 86 of The West Wing.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

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A seemingly benign press leak begins a journey that lasts for a day and a night and ends with the discovery of a scandal affecting the uppermost levels of the administration. What the staff doesn't yet know is this is merely the beginning of a chain reaction — and things are about to get considerably worse. Matthew Perry appears as Joe Quincy, a newly-hired White House attorney who has the bad luck of finding the problem.

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