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?
Madam Secretary should never be cancelled. This show takes current situations and thoughtfully exposes the issues surrounding them.
When this show first came on, it was GREAT, Having said that it has gotten so liberal and left wing, I have watched my last show. Faye Wons
This is only one I watch. It represent politics in the present time and it touches
Difficult questions in immigration, foreign
Dignitaries, human rights, terrorism and asking former secretaries of states to appear, how to balance family life, and many more. They should renew Madam Secretary for Season 6.
Two shows with questionable time slots demand me never to miss an episode. Madam Secretary and Blue Bloods. Both have many of the same qualities of excellence. Consistency of quality is one I applaud.
Love this show! Intelligent, warm, principled.
We love it it should be renewed
Excellent Show!!!! Illustrates all the virtues we wish more people had of serving, patience, caring, wisdom, honesty, sharing, all the virtues that can make us a better people, neighbor, and country. Huge KUDDOS to the writers!!! The writers are excellent !!!
LOVE this show.
Do you think the peeking out black bra is appropriate?
Starting to get wonky bringing in the former political hacks for a BS round of advice. Keep this up and your viewers will leave for game shows…..
Madam Secretary, you just loss a dedicated viewer. I have deleted all my saved recordings from my Hopper. I have also removed you from DVR auto recordings. You really took a chance bringing Hillary Clinton on the set. I am sure your ratings will plunge.
Diddo on great comments that this show should never be cancelled. It is one of the few series on television that teaches the honorable characteristics we should be striving for, such as serving, patience, caring, wisdom, honesty, sharing, all the virtues that can make us a better people, neighbor, and country. Huge KUDDOS to the writers!!!
I appreciate that Tia Leoni plays a strong, intelligent, beautiful and smart woman with a solid marriage that is more an active verb as in ‘marriaging’… with an equal. They lovingly work through their personal and political difference by listening and supporting each other, their family life and their growing children who are fully self-expressed AND polite. . . Politics and our political systems are a mystery to most; this show has helped me learn, as in everyday life, how it may be possible to find solutions through careful and original negotiations’, and more about our government and how the… Read more »
Best show on TV!!!! Teaches wisdom, peacemaking, ethics. Please don’t take it off!! I know this is an old posting but I saw the question and wanted to put in my two cents. Sunday night has been a MUST for me for a few years now!!!
we really enjoy Madam Secretary and have purchased the previous three season with season four on order. It is one of the few good programs remaining that are left on TV. We only watch the DVD that we can borrow as all the programs are so silly or far out. It is disappointing that CBS cannot find interesting programs for viewers.