Network: CBS
Episodes: 120 (hour)
Seasons: Six
TV show dates: September 20, 2014 — December 8, 2019
Series status: Ended
Performers include: Tèa Leoni, Željko Ivanek, Bebe Neuwirth, Geoffrey Arend, Patina Miller, Erich Bergen, Tim Daly, Katherine Herzer, Evan Roe, Wallis Currie-Wood, and Keith Carradine.
TV show description:
This dramatic series revolves around Elizabeth McCord (Tèa Leoni), a newly appointed Secretary of State. She’s a shrewd and determined woman who drives international diplomacy, battles office politics and circumvents protocol as she negotiates global and domestic issues — both at the White House and at home.
A college professor and a brilliant former CIA analyst who left the agency for ethical reasons, Elizabeth returns to public life at the request of the President — following the suspicious death of her predecessor.
President Conrad Dalton (Keith Carradine) values her apolitical leanings, her deep knowledge of the Middle East, and her flair for languages. He also appreciates her ability to not just think outside the box, but to not even acknowledge there is a box.
McCord debates third world problems, finesses foreign dignitaries at work and does battle with the President’s combative Chief of Staff Russell Jackson (Željko Ivanek).
Elizabeth’s team includes her Chief of Staff Nadine Tolliver (Bebe Neuwirth), speechwriter Matt Mahoney (Geoffrey Arend), press coordinator Daisy Grant (Patina Miller), and her charming assistant Blake Moran (Erich Bergen).
In her personal life, she has a supportive husband, Henry (Tim Daly), and three children — Stephanie “Stevie” (Wallis Currie-Wood), Alison (Katherine Herzer), and Jason (Evan Roe).
Episode #120 — Leaving the Station
President Elizabeth McCord kicks off a new landmark political initiative with help from members of the World Cup Champion U.S. Women’s Soccer team, while Flo Avery (Cicely Tyson), who was born the day women were granted the right to vote, looks on. Opposing the initiative is Senator Amy Ross (Tyne Daley) from Ohio. Also, the McCords overcome last-minute obstacles to pull off a spectacular family celebration with a reunion of familiar faces, that includes a performance by Peter Frampton.
First aired: December 8, 2019.
What do you think? Do you like the Madam Secretary TV show? Do you think it should have ended or been renewed for a seventh season?
Like the show… Hope it is not cancelled.
Madam Secretary is a great show for season 2
on cbs for other seasons they also have a excellent cast. I would like to know what
will happen in season 3.
Best show ever. RENEW. Keep it on
This is my favorite program, I never miss it. Tea Leoni does an amazing job of acting as Madam Secretary. Tim Daly also great. Please fire Daisy (Patina Miller) and Matt (Geoffrey Arenda) — totally bad casting, can’t figure how they got hired. They just don’t fit in as professionals in the world of politics. The episodes are gripping from start to finish. Don’t cancel an excellent program, so rare today….
I don’t miss Madam Secretary. That is my Sunday night show to not miss.
You always either cancel or put the best programs on at the wrong time.
we have to always wait for football to finish to see Madam Sec. the best show on TV… Bar none.
Absolutely essential to renew this program. Relevance + entertainment/dramatic action + realistic characters and ingenious plots. And questions: which woman was stepping into the car that the sniper hit with an explosive grenade, the Russian who had murdered her husband to assume command, or Madam Secretary? If the latter, (a) how can the series continue?; (b) if Madame Petrova, justice is done for her murder of her husband. In either case, we MUST have a new season, even if Elizabeth McCord returns as a ghost.
I love this show
I seriously want to see it continue
The characters are very real and genuinely concerned for the USA
I believe it is one of the best shows on currently
Can’t wait to see the next season
Thank you to the cast!!!!
This series is the highlight of our TV week. Marvelously intricate, nuanced and insightful on issues related to policy making, workings of the executive branch, foreign service and international relations. We need the show!
It is a great show–very well written. Please renew it!
I just love the show – it is a good picture of government and the
struggle to be ethical… wish it was really like that! Please don’t
cancel it!
Do not cancel this show it is a very best on TV
Please keep this series going. I love the show and look forward to each episode.
Keep Madam Secretary – it is great SL & acting
cancel some of those trash Reality (fake) shows which are border porn like Big Brother
What great season. We are attentive with anticipation for every moment. If the real world operates even close to the presentation of this show, we have a much better understanding of how our Government works and the issues our president must deal with on a daily basis!!
I love it! Have watched every episode – with the finale last night – what a cliff hanger!! Please bring the McCords back –