I bought the West Wing DVD set from Amazon last year while it was on sale.

While I love the series, the DVD set itself is a giant pain.

The DVDs themselves are printed with nothing on them except a number (1-45)

That number tells you nothing about what episodes are on that DVD, or even what season. (When you put the DVDs into their little “briefcases” it will be clear what season they are from, but that’s hardly helpful when just looking at a single DVD.)

So I made my own, and decided to post it here in the hopes that others might find it useful.

Note: After the DVD number is something like “WEST_WING_S1_D7” - that is how the DVD will appear if you load it into a computer. It should also be the folder name which would be created if you ripped the DVD to your hard drive unless you used an app which tried to give you a “pretty name” which may or may not be accurate.

Warning: if you use RipIt I suggest that you do not have it automatically fetch names for these DVDs, as it gave me some confusing names. The names below are the “canonical” names.

Help!

I realized only too late (after I had ripped them already) that this list would be greatly improved if it included the “Handbrake names”. For example, “WEST_WING_S6_D4-2.m4v” is episode s06e12: “365 Days”.

Adding that info to this list could make it easier to come up with a script which would go through all the output files, rename them, and add the necessary metadata to them. It would also make it easier to process VIDEO_TS folders using HandBrakeCLI if someone wanted to do that.

It’s too late for me to track down all that info, but if anyone else is getting ready to rip them and wants to keep a list, I’d gladly add the info here.

Or if you want to make your own list, I’d gladly link to it.

DVD #1: WEST_WING_S1_D1

• s01e01: Pilot [Commentary]
• s01e02: Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc
• s01e03: A Proportional Response
• s01e04: Five Votes Down

DVD #2: WEST_WING_S1_D2

• s01e05: The Crackpots and These Women
• s01e06: Mr. Willis of Ohio
• s01e07: The State Dinner
• s01e08: Enemies
• No Special Features

DVD #3: WEST_WING_S1_D3

• s01e09: The Short List
• s01e10: In Excelsis Deo [Commentary]
• s01e11: Lord John Marbury
• s01e12: He Shall, from Time to Time…

DVD #4: WEST_WING_S1_D4

• s01e13: Take Out the Trash Day
• s01e14: Take This Sabbath Day [Commentary]
• s01e15: Celestial Navigation [Commentary]
• s01e16: 20 Hours in L.A.

DVD #5: WEST_WING_S1_D5

• s01e17: The White House Pro-Am
• s01e18: Six Meetings Before Lunch
• s01e19: Let Bartlet Be Bartlet
• No Special Features

DVD #6: WEST_WING_S1_D6

• s01e20: Mandatory Minimums
• s01e21: Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics
• s01e22: What Kind of Day Has It Been? [Commentary]

DVD #7: WEST_WING_S1_D7

• The Primaries
• The Inauguration
• Capital Beat
• Sheet Music
• Deleted Scenes
• Gag Order
• The West Wing Suite
• Off the Record

DVD #8: WEST_WING_S2_D1

• s02e01: In the Shadow of Two Gunmen: Part 1 [Commentary]
• s02e02: In the Shadow of Two Gunmen: Part 2 [Commentary]
• s02e03: The Midterms
• s02e04: In This White House

DVD #9: WEST_WING_S2_D2

• s02e05: And It’s Surely to Their Credit
• s02e06: The Lame Duck Congress
• s02e07: The Portland Trip
• s02e08: Shibboleth
• No Special Features

DVD #10: WEST_WING_S2_D3

• s02e09: Galileo
• s02e10: Noel [Commentary]
• s02e11: The Leadership Breakfast
• s02e12: The Drop In

DVD #11: WEST_WING_S2_D4

• s02e13: Bartlet’s Third State of the Union
• s02e14: The War at Home
• s02e15: Ellie
• s02e16: Somebody’s Going to Emergency, Somebody’s Going to Jail
• No Special Features

DVD #12: WEST_WING_S2_D5

• s02e17: The Stackhouse Filibuster
• s02e18: 17 People
• s02e19: Bad Moon Rising
• No Special Features

DVD #13: WEST_WING_S2_D6

• s02e20: The Fall’s Gonna Kill You
• s02e21: 18th and Potomac [Commentary]
• s02e22: Two Cathedrals

DVD #14: WEST_WING_S2_D7

• Featurette on Constructing Two Cathedrals
• Access Granted
• Gag Order
• Deleted Scenes

DVD #15: WEST_WING_S3_D1

• s03e01: Isaac and Ishmael
• s03e02: Manchester: Part 1
• s03e03: Manchester: Part 2 [Commentary]
• s03e04: Ways and Means

DVD #16: WEST_WING_S3_D2

• s03e05: On the Day Before
• s03e06: War Crimes
• s03e07: Gone Quiet
• s03e08: The Indians in the Lobby
• No Special Features

DVD #17: WEST_WING_S3_D3

• s03e09: The Women of Qumar
• s03e10: Bartlet for America [Commentary]
• s03e11: H.Con-172
• s03e12: 100,000 Airplanes

DVD #18: WEST_WING_S3_D4

• s03e13: The Two Bartlets
• s03e14: Night Five
• s03e15: Hartsfield’s Landing
• s03e16: Dead Irish Writers
• No Special Features

DVD #19: WEST_WING_S3_D5

• s03e17: The U.S. Poet Laureate
• s03e18: Stirred
• s03e19: Enemies Foreign and Domestic
• No Special Features

DVD #20: WEST_WING_S3_D6

• s03e20: The Black Vera Wang
• s03e21: We Killed Yamamoto
• s03e22: Posse Comitatus [Commentary]

DVD #21: WEST_WING_S3_D7

• A Property Master’s Story
• The Chief of Stuff
• Documentary Special
• Deleted Scenes

DVD #22: WEST_WING_S4_D1

• s04e01: 20 Hours in America: Part 1
• s04e02: 20 Hours in America: Part 2 (**)
• s04e03: College Kids
• s04e04: The Red Mass
• No Special Features (Attractive Nuisance)

DVD #23: WESTWING_Season4_NA_D2

• s04e05: Debate Camp
• s04e06: Game On [Commentary]
• s04e07: Election Night
• s04e08: Process Stories

DVD #24: WEST_WING_S4_D3

• s04e09: Swiss Diplomacy
• s04e10: Arctic Radar
• s04e11: Holy Night
• s04e12: Guns Not Butter
• No Special Features (Attractive Nuisance)

DVD #25: WEST_WING_S4_D4

• s04e13: The Long Goodbye
• s04e14: Inauguration: Part 1
• s04e15: Inauguration Day: Part 2: Over There
• s04e16: California 47th
• No Special Features (Attractive Nuisance)

DVD #26: WEST_WING_S4_D5

• s04e17: Red Haven’s on Fire
• s04e18: Privateers
• s04e19: Angel Maintenance
• s04e20: Evidence of Things Not Seen
• No Special Features (Attractive Nuisance)

DVD #27: WEST_WING_S4_D6

• s04e21: Life on Mars
• s04e22: Commencement [Commentary]
• s04e23: Twenty Five [Commentary]

DVD #28: WEST_WING_S5_NA_D1

• s05e01: 7A WF 83429 [Commentary]
• s05e02: The Dogs of War [Commentary]
• s05e03: Jefferson Lives
• s05e04: Han

DVD #29: WEST_WING_S5_D2

• s05e05: Constituency of One
• s05e06: Disaster Relief
• s05e07: Separation of Powers
• s05e08: Shutdown
• No Special Features (Attractive Nuisance)

DVD #30: WEST_WING_S5_D3

• s05e09: Abu el Banat
• s05e10: The Stormy Present
• s05e11: The Benign Prerogative
• s05e12: Slow News Day
• Political Missteps from “Slow News Day” (s05e12) with introduction by Alex Graves

DVD #31: WEST_WING_S5_D4

• s05e13: The Warfare of Genghis Khan
• s05e14: An Khe
• s05e15: Full Disclosure
• s05e16: Eppur Si Muove
• Political Missteps from “Eppur Si Muove” (s05e16)

DVD #32: WEST_WING_S5_D5

• s05e17: The Supremes [Commentary]
• s05e18: Access
• s05e19: Talking Points
• s05e20: No Exit

DVD #33: WEST_WING_S5_D6

• s05e21: Gaza
• s05e22: Memorial Day
• In POTUS We Trust
• “Gaza” Anatomy of an Episode
• Political Missteps from “Memorial Day” (s05e22)

DVD #34: WEST_WING_S6_D1

• s06e01: N.S.F. Thurmont
• s06e02: The Birnam Wood
• s06e03: Third Day Story
• s06e04: Liftoff
• No Special Features (Attractive Nuisance)

DVD #35: WEST_WING_S6_D2

• s06e05: The Hubbert Peak
• s06e06: The Dover Test
• s06e07: A Change Is Gonna Come
• s06e08: In the Room
• No Special Features (Attractive Nuisance)

DVD #36: WEST_WING_S6_D3

• s06e09: Impact Winter
• s06e10: Faith-Based Initiative
• s06e11: Opposition Research
• No Special Features (Attractive Nuisance)

DVD #37: WEST_WING_S6_D4

• s06e12: 365 Days
• s06e13: King Corn [Commentary]
• s06e14: The Wake Up Call
• s06e15: Freedonia

DVD #38: WEST_WING_S6_D5

• s06e16: Drought Conditions
• s06e17: A Good Day
• s06e18: La Palabra
• s06e19: Ninety Miles Away
• No Special Features (Attractive Nuisance)

DVD #39: WEST_WING_S6_D6

• s06e20: In God We Trust [Commentary]
• s06e21: Things Fall Apart
• s06e22: 2162 Votes [Commentary]
• CJ Cregg: From Press Secretary to Chief of Staff

DVD #40: WEST_WING_S7_D1

• s07e01: The Ticket
• s07e02: The Mommy Problem
• s07e03: Message of the Week
• s07e04: Mr. Frost
• No Special Features (Attractive Nuisance)

DVD #41: WEST_WING_S7_D2

• s07e05: Here Today
• s07e06: The Al Smith Dinner
• s07e07: The Debate
• “The Debate” Live from the Director’s Chair

DVD #42: WEST_WING_S7_D3

• s07e08: Undecideds
• s07e09: The Wedding
• s07e10: Running Mates
• s07e11: Internal Displacement
• No Special Features (Attractive Nuisance)

DVD #43: WEST_WING_S7_D4

• s07e12: Duck and Cover
• s07e13: The Cold
• s07e14: Two Weeks Out
• s07e15: Welcome to Wherever You Are
• No Special Features (Attractive Nuisance)

DVD #44: WEST_WING_S7_D5

• s07e16: Election Day
• s07e17: Election Day: Pt. 2
• s07e18: Requiem
• s07e19: Transition
• No Special Features (Attractive Nuisance)

DVD #45: WEST_WING_S7_D6

• s07e20: The Last Hurrah
• s07e21: Institutional Memory
• s07e22: Tomorrow
• Countdown to West Wing Live

Notes:

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1. “No Special Features (Attractive Nuisance)” means that the DVD has a “Special Features” item on the root menu, but it just says “See other discs”.***

2. On the DVD, s04e01 and s04e02 have been combined into one episode.

I’ve also created this in a printable format (US-Letter, landscape, unrestricted PDF).