A Tour of the Set: The West Wing

[@Wesmin]

16 years later and still incredible to see this. They did such a wonderful job with this series.

[@Jdvc-yd5tx]

No, 20 years. I was watching it in 2004 when I had just moved to Chiang Mai, used to rent it on VCD on my way home to the Montford Moo Baan. A quick Google search tells us it began in 1999, 24 years before your post. It's terrible that Google has a 'monopoly' but even terribler that no one ever uses Google. 🖋

[@dinkytankman]

One of the best written shows and best ensemble casts ever.

[@phyllispetras3821]

EVER!!!

[@nascarkraz]

TWW had the best set ever. Even POTUS Clinton visited and said TWW was better than the actual WEST WING. :)

[@AnneLiesveld]

Well no duh that is because they have infinity money and no rules how the 'west wing' is supposed to act. I bet Martin Sheen thought he was a pretty spectacular president based on the fact that he repeated lines correctly even as Bill Clinton and George Bush and JFK had to actually KNOW the lines

[@Mozart1220]

+Anne Liesveld Bush BLEW lines in more ways than one. Martin Sheen was BORN to play President Bartlett. Stop being a hater.

[@WillBravoNotEvil]

@@alfiebygraves7954 This is a virus.

[@Arjay404]

Thank you tons for this. I wish they went into a little bit more detail. Like the residence and stuff like that, but I appreciate this a lot. Loved how they made the cameraperson do a walk and talk with them.

[@laurianni]

I watch the episodes over and over again...my favorite show EVER.. I really miss it.

[@josephsnearline2022]

Having toured the real West Wing a couple times while the series was on, this was really cool to watch to get a better feel for the set design and the artistic license they took with some of the set pieces.

[@firstnamesecondname5341]

I could have watched an hour of that, great tour

[@phyllispetras3821]

LORD JOHN MARBURY!!!!! Bon Voyage, Mr. Rees. You were wonderful.

[@acedrumminman]

@John Fisher To Leo..."Oh, I thought you were the butler!"

[@WillBravoNotEvil]

That. Was. Awesome.
The Warner "back lot" tour* (iirc) shows a *tiny* bit of TWW set - nothing anywhere close to this.
* Highly recommended 😁

[@Jayla60]

Awesome production from acting to writing to production. One of the best.

[@MeBeTheDB]

WAY COOL SETS-! It's amazing how people think Films & TV is just shot as-is ...
... and there's no such things as C-Stands, High Rollers, Grip Equipment, Sound Carts, etc., etc., that must be forever jockeyed this way and that once the Director says, "OK, Got it. New Deal ... we're looking this way and we're moving on 4 sections of curved track ... and ... and ......."
Many thanks for this little slice of what it takes to make a show look interesting and still remain tru-ish to the real deal locales.
D.A.

[@babycakes1402]

SO GLAD I have this series on DVD so I can still watch it anytime I want! I know it's 'currently' on Netflix but they change their programing from time to time so you never know when they'll replace it with something else, that's why we bought the DVD set of 'The Wonder Years', it was on Netflix but they replaced it so now the only way I can see it is to pop in the DVD... Who's to say they won't decide to replace West Wing one of these fine days with something else? I hope they won't but you just never know.

[@hariommishra6754]

well i have like a normal human being have downloaded it from telegram... i almost deleted all the downloades series from my laptop, but that day would be the last day of my life when i will delete this classic!!!!

[@charlesyateschalfant]

IMHO, the greatest drama series ever. Almost every aspect of it was sublime.

[@JustSomeCanadianGuy]

Best TV main location since the USS Enterprise.

[@lindalanglois2096]

I still cannot get enough of the west wing

[@cynthiaennis3107]

What a beautiful job they did on creating & building these 2 sets! Magnificent!! JFK didn’t have that panel on, because I did a report on how he spent time w/his family & JFK, JR would play underneath that desk while his father was also sitting at his desk.

[@tadtranclere3729]

I know I’m two years late, but there’s literally a picture you can go look at with JFK sitting at the desk and the panel on the desk. The panel opens and closes which is how the kid could play down there despite the panel existing. You can see it’s open in the picture which they mention in this clip.

[@zoeyrochellezhombie829]

I want more!!!

[@richinus387]

I like the west wing lobby the movie set!

[@philipmarsh2172]

14:07 MAAARRRGRETT!

[@lindalanglois2096]

This was so much fun

[@Nairuulagch]

For world democracy spreading sakes This Show must continue!!!!!

[@egdapo]

amazing.

[@vanderlanjunior499]

I watched The West Wing full movie here twitter.com/eb745e5da5d8639da/status/824453233552748544

[@zoeyrochellezhombie829]

Not really

[@seanmcdougal2507]

I would kill to have the entire set in my house

[@drhmufti]

You also salvaged Nancy McNally. Check it out!

[@petergibbs]

What a brilliant set for a brilliant show that made everyone in the world want for a moment to have President Bartlet as their leader. They should have shown Trump how to be President, but the story lines are just to complicated for his tiny brain to understand.

[@dougle03]

Did any of the WW sets get preserved? I can really see them being built as a White house / West Wing attraction somewhere...?

[@JoelWaldbott]

This White House new how to fend off Republican pressure and got things done. I miss the whole crew. I watch episodes every chance I get, even though the stories are dated.

[@lekoman]

Argh! Point the camera at the stuff we haven't already seen before, and quit cutting to clips from the show that we *have* already seen before. I don't need you to keep pointing the camera at the people talking... show me the set! Show me what it looks like from an angle they'd never be able to use on the show. The person talking is so not the most interesting visual available to this camera-person. Let them talk narrate, but point the camera up at the ceiling that isn't there. Walk *into* the closet in Leo's office, instead of panning to it, and then cutting to some clip from the show for just long enough to miss the interesting prop storage they've got hiding in there. Show me around the room while he's talking. A static medium shot of a guy talking is so dull when there's so much enticing stuff to see just out of frame! So frustrating to watch things pitched as "tours" that don't show you anything behind-the-scenes-y.

[@seanjenkins6947]

lekoman yet it does, it's not google maps, it's an in overview of the set, but it has to be concise and it gives you what the set is in relation to the actual white house.

[@fiddleandfart]

Be thankful for this! It's pretty good, but yes, would love even more! One hell of a mega set, for a quite brilliant ensemble TV series. Watching it again in Sept/Oct '20, just weeks away from that November Election!

[@phyllispetras3821]

Sorkin wrote four seasons. You could tell when he no longer was there. I stopped watching!

[@javimiami92]

God, season 7 is Unbearable!

[@philipmarsh2172]

@@javimiami92 Season 5 and the first half of Season 6 were far from wonderful but it picked up again after that.

[@ellenw391]

Sorkin is pure genius! That said, any episode of The West Wing is far superior to anything on TV today

[@MrHarryGray]

@@philipmarsh2172 ohhhhhhhh I didn’t know he didn’t write the later seasons, I’m currently watching s5 so hoping it does pick up

[@hariommishra6754]

@@MrHarryGraywell last season is my personal favourite!!!