Season 2, Episode 10: Noel
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Aired: Wednesday, December 20, 2000
This episode was originally supposed to air on December 13th, but was pre-empted by breaking election news.
Rating: 12.1/19
Quotes
Review by Rachel
Review by Toniann
Credits
Teleplay by Aaron Sorkin
Story by Peter Parnell
Directed by Thomas Schlamme
Special guest star Adam Arkin as Stanley Keyworth
Guest Starring
Paxton Whitehead
Gregalan Williams
Gary Cervantes
Daniel von Bargen as General (Jack)
Special appearance by Yo-Yo Ma
Co-starring
Melissa Fitzgerald as Carol
Kris Murphy as Katie
Purva Bedi as Kaytha Trask
Jana Lee Hamblin as reporter Bobbi
Timothy Davis-Reed as reporter Mark
Robert Noble as valet
Deborah Snipes as staffer
Eric A. Payne as secret service agent
Greg Wrangler as secret service agent
Michael Crider as David Housman
Etyl Leder as Rebecca Housman
Featured music
Bach Suite in G Major (played by Yo Yo Ma)
This episode was nominated for two Emmys, including Outstanding Art Direction for a Single-Camera Series and Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series. It won the Emmy for Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series.
Director Thomas Schlamme won a Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Series Night for 2000. Unit Production Manager Neal Ahern, Jr., First Assistant Director Andrew Bernstein, and Second Assistant Director Dylan Massin were also named in the nomination.
This is Schlamme's sixth DGA Award nomination. He won the DGA Award in Comedy Series last year for the "Small Town" episode of "Sports Night" and was also nominated last year in the Dramatic Series Night category for the pilot of "The West Wing." In 1998 he won the DGA Award in Comedy Series for the pilot of "Sports Night." He was also nominated in 1997 for the "Tracey Takes On..." episode "1976" and in 1996 for the "Tracey Takes On..." episode "Romance."
This is Thomas Schlamme's first DGA Award in this category and third DGA Award. He won the DGA Award in Comedy Series last year for the "Small Town" episode of Sports Night and in 1998 he won the DGA Award in Comedy Series for the pilot of Sports Night.
Jeffrey M. Sacino and Tony Williams have been nominated for a Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Award in the category of Best Contemporary Hair Styling, Series for this episode.
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