Season 3: 2001–2002
　　Cast: Rob Lowe, Stockard Channing, Dulé Hill, Allison Janney, Janel Moloney, Richard Schiff, John Spencer, Bradley Whitford and Martin Sheen
　　The third season, which covers the administration's third and fourth years in office, starts off with Bartlet announcing his intention to run for reelection and is heavily devoted to the upcoming presidential election. Other prominent plotlines include Congressional investigations into whether Bartlet committed electoral fraud by concealing his MS, a death threat against C.J. and the ensuing relationship she develops with a Secret Service agent assigned to her, the Qumari defense minister Abdul Shareef plotting terrorist attacks against the US, and a troubling meeting between Toby and the President that leaves Bartlet with a bout of insomnia in "Night Five." The season finale, "Posse Comitatus" closes several of these storylines as Bartlet meets his opponent in the elections and reaffirms his commitment to beat him. The episode ends with the president finally deciding to order Shareef's assassination (a legally questionable act) and C.J.'s agent's murder, just after the man threatening C.J. was caught.
　　From a critical perspective, series creator Aaron Sorkin acknowledged in October 2002 that the terrorism-related plots designed to keep the series relevant after the real-life 9/11 attacks were awkward at times, saying "from week to week, you felt like you were writing the show handcuffed, a little bit. I didn't know how to write it anymore. It was a constant search for what I wasn't doing that used to make the show work. [...] Maybe there was a way to make it work; there probably was. I wasn't able to find it in twenty-two episodes." [1] Nonetheless, the show went on to win its third "Outstanding Drama" Emmy in a row.

　　范统（廖启智 饰）是灶王爷门下的四大神仙弟子之一，因为犯错而被王母娘娘责罚，困于冬瓜之中闭门思过。某日，田大贵（陈锦鸿 饰）于无疑之中解开了范统身上的枷锁，在阴差阳错之下，范统附在了田大贵的哥哥田大富身上，彻底沦为凡人。
　　田大贵的妻子钟碧玉（苏玉华 饰）对近日里变得古里古怪的田大富起了疑心，千方百计想令他露出马脚，而范统则想要回归天庭，因此尝试了各种各样的方法，闹出了不少的笑话和麻烦。随着时间的推移，范统和田大贵一家人之间结下了深厚的情谊，某次意外中，田大贵不幸丧生，为了救田大贵，范统不惜再度犯下了天条。

　　本剧改编自同名漫画，讲述了《源氏物语》中的平安贵族光源氏偶然穿越到世界观完全不同的现代，降临在单身女白领藤原沙织的家中，并开始了跨越千年寄居生活的喜剧故事。

　　剧情围绕巴尔的摩警察局的一群凶杀案调查小组的侦探人员展开，深入描述了警察局探员细致入微、抽丝剥茧的探案过程。与其他同类电视剧不同的是，该剧非常强调真实性，几乎所有的细节都建立在实际探案的基础上。