Life on Mars (The West Wing)

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"Life On Mars"
The West Wing episode
Episode no.	Season 4 Episode 86
Directed by	John David Coles
Written by	Aaron Sorkin (teleplay) Paul Redford & Dee Dee Myers (story)
Production code	175321
Original air date	April 30, 2003
Guest stars
Matthew Perry Tim Matheson Kiersten Warren Claire Coffee NiCole Robinson Andy Umberger
Season 4 episodes
September 25, 2002 – May 14, 2003 20 Hours in America, Part I 20 Hours in America, Part II College Kids The Red Mass Debate Camp Game On Election Night Process Stories Swiss Diplomacy Arctic Radar Holy Night Guns Not Butter The Long Goodbye Inauguration, Part I Inauguration Over There The California 47th Red Haven's on Fire Privateers Angel Maintenance Evidence of Things Not Seen Life on Mars Commencement Twenty Five
List of The West Wing episodes

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

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The episode begins and ends with the resignation of John Hoynes. A grim-faced president receives the news in the opening scene: the rest of the episode relates how this happened.

C.J. Cregg is faced with a couple of press leaks that on the surface look relatively innocuous, one of them involving the alleged discovery of "fossilized water molecules in a meteorite from Mars." But Associate White House Counsel Joe Quincy (Matthew Perry), on his first day at work, draws a connection that will have critical implications for the administration. Recorded phone calls from the White House finally reveal that Hoynes has conducted a very indiscreet affair with an author who is now poised to publish her memoirs based upon information she received from him.

Meanwhile Will Bailey, with the help of his seriously depleted writing staff, is trying to counter a Republican attack ad.

[edit] Notes

The Steam Pipe Trunk Distribution Venue that is Joe Quincy's office is meant to be the same room assigned to Ainsley Hayes. However the room appears quite different from the room of the same name in Ainsley's first episode, In this White House.

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The West Wing episode guide

v t e The West Wing

Episodes Season 1 Season 2 Season 3 Season 4 Season 5 Season 6 Season 7

Main characters	Josiah Bartlet Leo McGarry Josh Lyman Toby Ziegler Sam Seaborn C. J. Cregg Charlie Young Donna Moss Abbey Bartlet Will Bailey Matt Santos Arnold Vinick Mandy Hampton Kate Harper Annabeth Schott

Recurring characters	Oliver Babish Elizabeth Bartlet Ellie Bartlet Zoey Bartlet Danny Concannon Ed and Larry Debbie Fiderer Percy Fitzwallace Amy Gardner Bruno Gianelli Jeff Haffley Ainsley Hayes John Hoynes Dolores Landingham Joey Lucas Nancy McNally Mallory O'Brien Bob Russell Helen Santos Andrea Wyatt

Related articles	Aaron Sorkin Thomas Schlamme John Wells W. G. Snuffy Walden

v t e The West Wing episodes

Season 1	"Pilot" "Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc" "A Proportional Response" "Five Votes Down" "The Crackpots and These Women" "Mr. Willis of Ohio" "The State Dinner" "Enemies" "The Short List" "In Excelsis Deo" "Lord John Marbury" "He Shall, from Time to Time..." "Take out the Trash Day" "Take This Sabbath Day" "Celestial Navigation" "20 Hours in L.A." "The White House Pro-Am" "Six Meetings Before Lunch" "Let Bartlet Be Bartlet" "Mandatory Minimums" "Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics" "What Kind of Day Has It Been"

Season 2	"In the Shadow of Two Gunmen, Part I" "In the Shadow of Two Gunmen, Part II" "The Midterms" "In this White House" "And It's Surely to Their Credit" "The Lame Duck Congress" "The Portland Trip" "Shibboleth" "Galileo" "Noël" "The Leadership Breakfast" "The Drop-In" "Bartlet's Third State of the Union" "The War at Home" "Ellie" "Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail" "The Stackhouse Filibuster" "17 People" "Bad Moon Rising" "The Fall's Gonna Kill You" "18th and Potomac" "Two Cathedrals"

Season 3	"Isaac and Ishmael" "Manchester Part I" "Manchester Part II" "Ways and Means" "On the Day Before" "War Crimes" "Gone Quiet" "The Indians in the Lobby" "The Women of Qumar" "Bartlet for America" "H. Con-172" "100,000 Airplanes" "The Two Bartlets" "Night Five" "Hartsfield's Landing" "Dead Irish Writers" "The U.S. Poet Laureate" "Stirred" "Enemies Foreign and Domestic" "The Black Vera Wang" "We Killed Yamamoto" "Posse Comitatus"

Season 4	"20 Hours in America, Part I" "20 Hours in America, Part II" "College Kids" "The Red Mass" "Debate Camp" "Game On" "Election Night" "Process Stories" "Swiss Diplomacy" "Arctic Radar" "Holy Night" "Guns Not Butter" "The Long Goodbye" "Inauguration, Part I" "Inauguration: Over There" "The California 47th" "Red Haven's on Fire" "Privateers" "Angel Maintenance" "Evidence of Things Not Seen" "Life on Mars" "Commencement" "Twenty Five"

Season 5	"7A WF 83429" "The Dogs of War" "Jefferson Lives" "Han" "Constituency of One" "Disaster Relief" "Separation of Powers" "Shutdown" "Abu el Banat" "The Stormy Present" "The Benign Prerogative" "Slow News Day" "The Warfare of Genghis Khan" "An Khe" "Full Disclosure" "Eppur Si Muove" "The Supremes" "Access" "Talking Points" "No Exit" "Gaza" "Memorial Day"

Season 6	"NSF Thurmont" "The Birnam Wood" "Third-Day Story" "Liftoff" "The Hubbert Peak" "The Dover Test" "A Change Is Gonna Come" "In the Room" "Impact Winter" "Faith Based Initiative" "Opposition Research" "365 Days" "King Corn" "The Wake Up Call" "Freedonia" "Drought Conditions" "A Good Day" "La Palabra" "Ninety Miles Away" "In God We Trust" "Things Fall Apart" "2162 Votes"

Season 7	"The Ticket" "The Mommy Problem" "Message of the Week" "Mr. Frost" "Here Today" "The Al Smith Dinner" "The Debate" "Undecideds" "The Wedding" "Running Mates" "Internal Displacement" "Duck and Cover" "The Cold" "Two Weeks Out" "Welcome to Wherever You Are" "Election Day" "Election Day Part II" "Requiem" "Transition" "The Last Hurrah" "Institutional Memory" "Tomorrow"

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