During my almost eight-year-long project of rewatching The West Wing and blogging my thoughts about every episode, one of my go-to resources was westwingtranscripts.com. Compiled by volunteers over the years, starting in 2004 as The West Wing was still on the air, it was the place to go to get pull quotes and to verify what some of the dialogue was ... without going through the hassle of pausing and repeating the streaming episode or the DVDs.
I deeply appreciate the work done by all those volunteers over the years, and hereby give my thanks in public for all they've done. You guys saved me a lot of work over these eight years.
As with many things, however, even the West Wing Transcripts site wasn't perfect. For whatever reason, it doesn't include transcript from many episodes after Aaron Sorkin's departure following Season 4; while there's only three episodes missing from Season 5, most of Season 6 was never uploaded, as well as the final eight episodes from Season 7. So, I thought, now that my complete rewatch blog is done ... why don't I do the work and complete the transcripts for the entire series?
That's what I intend to do here. I'll go back to those missing episodes from the West Wing Transcripts site and create my own transcripts. I intend to reach out to whatever contact I can find from that website to see if they are still taking submissions to complete their collection - I really doubt it, seeing it appears the last transcript uploaded was in 2008 (almost 20 years ago, ay-yi-yi!) and the copyright on the webpage covers 2004-2017 - but I'll try.
And in any event, if that site is no longer taking additions, you can at least find the missing transcripts here. Maybe it'll take me another eight years, maybe not. But let's get started!
As I complete my transcripts, the links will appear here, as well as the individual separate entries on my blog.
SEASON FIVE
Episode 5.10, The Stormy Present
Episode 5.11, The Benign Prerogative
Episode 5.18, Access
SEASON SIX
Episode 6.4, Liftoff
Episode 6.5, The Hubbert Peak
Episode 6.6, The Dover Test
Episode 6.7, A Change Is Gonna Come
Episode 6.8, In The Room
Episode 6.9, Impact Winter
Episode 6.10, Faith Based Initiative
Episode 6.11, Opposition Research
Episode 6.12, 365 Days
Episode 6.13, King Corn
Episode 6.14, The Wake Up Call
Episode 6.15, Freedonia
Episode 6.16, Drought Conditions
Episode 6.17, A Good Day
Episode 6.18, La Palabra
Episode 6.19, Ninety Miles Away
Episode 6.20, In God We Trust
Episode 6.21, Things Fall Apart
Episode 6.22, 2162 Votes
SEASON SEVEN
Episode 7.15, Welcome To Wherever You Are
Episode 7.16, Election Day Part 1
Episode 7.17, Election Day Part II
Episode 7.18, Requiem
Episode 7.19, Transition
Episode 7.20, The Last Hurrah
Episode 7.21, Institutional Memory
Episode 7.22, Tomorrow
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