20 Hours in America: Part I
episode

20 Hours in America: Part I

Director: Christopher Misiano

Year: 2002

Season: 4, Episode: 1

Episodes: 155

Plot: After Bartlet gives a campaign speech at an Indiana farm, Josh, Toby and Donna are left behind by the presidential motorcade and must work their way across the state with the help of the farmer's daughter and, later, a teenage campaign volunteer, enduring many setbacks along the way. Josh and Toby obsess and bicker over how best to play the president's intellectualism, viewed by many as snobbery, against Republican opponent Robert Ritchie's "regular guy" persona, while Donna must keep them on track and communicate with the real Americans they encounter along the way. Back at the W.H., the president deals with a terrorist attack at an Iowa college swim meet, meets with Leo, Nancy and Fitzwallace to discuss how to handle the prospect of the U.S. and/or Israel being accused of a conspiracy in the assassination of Qumari defense minister Abdul Shareef, and interviews secretarial candidates, including a second round with Debbie Fiderer; the wandering party finally arrive at a city with an airport (presumably South Bend) and stop briefly at a nearby hotel, where they learn about the Iowa attack and Donna chastises the two men for caring only about the campaign and not the people it affects; later in the hotel bar, Josh and Toby meet a man trying to figure out how to pay his daughter's tuition to Notre Dame, and he inspires them to initiate new tax policy.—meebly
Original Title: 20 Hours in America: Part I
Director: Christopher Misiano
Writer: Debora Cahn , David Handelman , David Gerken , Paula Yoo , Michael Oates Palmer , Aaron Sorkin , Mark Goffman , William Sind
Producer: Mindy Kanaskie , Patrick Ward , Neal Ahern Jr. , Kevin Falls , Alex Graves , Kristin Harms , Christopher Misiano , Paul Redford , Thomas Schlamme , Aaron Sorkin , John Wells , Llewellyn Wells
Type: episode
Year: 2002
Genres: Drama
Cast: Victor McCay , John Yost , Jerry Buys , Amy K. Harmon , Jennifer Armour , John W. Iwanonkiw , Jim Kuhn , Rob Lowe , Dulé Hill , Allison Janney , Janel Moloney , Richard Schiff , John Spencer , Bradley Whitford , Martin Sheen , Ron Silver , John Amos , Amy Adams , NiCole Robinson , Renée Estevez , Joan MacIntosh , Valorie Armstrong , Art Chudabala , Alan Dale , Danielle Harris , John Gallagher Jr. , Ernestine Jackson , Joel Marsh Garland , Marina Palmier , Dan Gerrity , Jack Tate , Kim Webster , Peter James Smith , William Duffy , Kris Murphy , Timothy Davis-Reed , Tori Reid , S.E. Perry , Larry Cox , Melissa Fitzgerald , Constance Pfeifer , Ron Newell , Rohn Thomas , Tommy Lafitte , Danielle Jones , Harry O'Toole , Robert Noble
Runtimes: 90
Countries: United States
Languages: English
Color Info: Color
Aspect Ratio: 1.78 : 1
Sound Mix: Stereo
Original Air Date: 25 Sep 2002
Rating: 8.6
Votes: 1035
Year: 2002
Akas: 20 Hours in America: Part I (United States)
Production Companies: John Wells Productions , Warner Bros. Television
Distributors: Fox , National Broadcasting Company (NBC) , Warner Home Video , Warner Home Video
Cinematographer: Thomas Del Ruth
Producer: Mindy Kanaskie , Patrick Ward , Neal Ahern Jr. , Kevin Falls , Alex Graves , Kristin Harms , Christopher Misiano , Paul Redford , Thomas Schlamme , Aaron Sorkin , John Wells , Llewellyn Wells
Production Manager: Blake McCormick , Dylan K. Massin , Rebecca Moline
Certificates: Germany:12 , United States:TV-14
Composer: W.G. Snuffy Walden
Editor: Russell Denove
Editorial Department: Greg Werner , Ian Sullivan
Sound Crew: Yervant Hagopian , Catherine Flynn , Eric Gotthelf , Patrick Hanson , Thomas A. Harris , Dan Hiland , Walter Newman , Gary D. Rogers , Nicholas R. Allen , Kevin B. Barron , Charles Bruce , Juan Cisneros , Casey J. Crabtree , Michael Crabtree , Al Gomez , Wayne O'Brien , Karen Spangenberg
Visual Effects: Amy D'Alessandro
Music Department: Louise Di Tullio , Andreas T. Fuchs , Ann Kline , Malcolm McNab , Matthias Weber , James Thatcher
Miscellaneous Crew: Jess Place , Eli Attie , Mike Khalil , Lauren Lohman , Lauren Schmidt Hissrich , Amy D'Alessandro , Jason Menz , Nicole Koop , Dennis DeFrehn , Ned Haspel , Dee Dee Myers , Gene Sperling , George Camarda , Dominic Mecchia
Costume Designer: Lyn Paolo
Make Up: John Damiani , Jeffrey Sacino , Patty Bell , Sherri Bramlett , Rachel Kick , Greg LaCava , Lisa Nash-Jones
Assistant Director: Catherine Bond , Douglas S. Ornstein
Art Department: Lauri Mancuso , Jeff Halvorsen , Michael Sunga , Blanche Sindelar , Scott De Shields , Eileen Garrigan , Thomas J. Garrigan , Kenneth J. Kellers , Christopher S. Nushawg , Mary O'Brien , Michael Parent
Camera and Electrical Department: Stephen Pazanti , Gábor Kövér , Jeff Mathews , Dominic Mecchia , Chad Persons , Russell G. Senato , Daniel Casey , David Conelli , Peter Fernberger , Ron P. Jaffe , Eric Liebowitz , Steve Randolph , Calmar Roberts , William D. Wynn
Set Decoration: Ellen Totleben
Costume Department: Alyssa Kim , Robert Cron , Diane Collins , Alexander AD , Debra Beebe , Francesca Bruno , Philip Hayman
Production Design: Kenneth Hardy
Script Department: Bill Rinier , Melisa Sanchez , Ingrid Urich-Sass
Location Management: Christopher Roe , Lee Wall , Jeff Crandell , Stephen Hough , James A. Mahathey
Number of Seasons: Marc Scott , Hobart Lundt , Bart Johnson
Seasons: Anthony Sepulveda
Casting Department: Betsy Royall , Rachel Finley , Scott Goodhue , Barbara Miller
Season: 4
Episode: 1
Number of Episodes: 155
Episode of: 20 Hours in America: Part I