Hello and welcome to a very special episode of The West Wing Weekly.

I'm Joshua Molina.

And I'm Rashique Shereway.

Today we're talking about the documentary special.

It aired between the episodes stirred and enemies foreign and domestic in the regular

West Wing time slot.

So we're going to discuss it as one of the West Wing episodes even though this is a very

special episode.

It first aired on April 24th 2002.

It was directed by William Couturier and the credits say that interview material was provided

by William Couturier, our very own Eli Addy and Felicia Wilson.

And when they say interview material, that's because this episode is really a clip show.

It's a collection of scenes from previous episodes of The West Wing, interspersed with interviews

with real life political figures, including President Spill Clinton, Jimmy Carter and Gerald

Ford.

I like this episode.

Here's one thing I was struck by.

For this episode of The West Wing Weekly, we're going to talk to Bill Couturier who kind

of conceived the style of this documentary and then went on to direct it.

There's no plot in this episode for us to recap.

So we're going to jump right into our interview.

Joining us now is Bill Couturier, the director of the documentary special episode.

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