"Madam Secretary" Night Watch (TV Episode 2018)

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Téa Leoni

Elizabeth McCord

Tim Daly

Henry McCord

Keith Carradine

President Conrad Dalton

Patina Miller

Daisy Grant

Geoffrey Arend

Matt Mahoney

Erich Bergen

Blake Moran

Sebastian Arcelus

Jay Whitman

Kathrine Herzer

Alison McCord

Evan Roe

Jason McCord

Wallis Currie-Wood

Stephanie 'Stevie' McCord

Zeljko Ivanek

Russell Jackson

Sara Ramirez

Kat Sandoval

Johanna Day

Admiral Ellen Hill

Yasen Peyankov

Russian Foreign Minister Konstantin Avdonin

Mike Pniewski

Gordon Becker

John Dossett

General David Nelson

Mark Tallman

Captain Barnes

Murphy Guyer

General Paul Bradley

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Trivia
The official name of the "Nuclear Football" is the "President's Emergency Satchel".

Goofs
U.S Strategic Command, Sarpy County, Nebraska is Offutt, AFB in Bellevue Nebraska. The AFB shown is actually Altus AFB, in Altus, Oklahoma.

Quotes
Jay Whitman: [at happy hour after a close call with the nuclear defense system] Let me just tell you what that particular privilege buys you.
Kat Sandoval: Mm hmm, tell him.
Jay Whitman: You get whisked away, without saying goodbye to your friends and family. And then you get to be in an underground bunker with generals and top government brass for weeks or months, eating MREs and drinking ionized water. You emerge after the radiation's reduced to livable levels. At which point you get to try to pick out your loved ones bones from the rubble and ash. And then you spend however many years running the bombed-out husk of the former United Stats government under martial law. That's not a list that you wanna be on.

Connections
References The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Television at its very best! Rivetingly engaging.

Amazingly excellent. Kudos to the creators for their creativity, commitment and courage in presenting a really big issue at a humanly engaging scale.

Note that in the 1979 incident alluded to in the show, the US came within 14 minutes of a catastrophic nuclear war due to a scenario like the one portrayed, and again in 1980 due to the failure of a 46 cent computer chip. Unfortunately, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, this sort of risk is greater today than ever. Let's hope that this programme inspires good diplomacy and political action.