Madam Secretary (season 1)

The first season of Madam Secretary, an American political drama television series, originally aired in the United States on CBS from September 21, 2014, through May 3, 2015. The season was produced by CBS Television Studios, with Barbara Hall as showrunner and executive producer. The pilot was ordered in January 2014, and CBS picked up the series in May 2014. In October 2014, CBS ordered nine more episodes of Madam Secretary, bringing the total episode order to a full season of 22 episodes. In January 2015, CBS renewed the series for a second season.

Madam Secretary
Season 1
DVD cover
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	22
Release
Original network	CBS
Original release	September 21, 2014 – May 3, 2015
Season chronology

The series follows Elizabeth Adams McCord (Téa Leoni), a former CIA analyst who is appointed to the position of United States Secretary of State by incumbent Republican President of the United States Conrad Dalton (Keith Carradine). In accepting the position, McCord must negotiate not only with foreign dignitaries, but also with her husband Henry (Tim Daly), and a staff inherited from her deceased predecessor, including his mistress Nadine Tolliver (Bebe Neuwirth).

Cast and characters

Main

• Téa Leoni as Elizabeth McCord, the U.S. Secretary of State
• Tim Daly as Henry McCord, Elizabeth's husband, a religious scholar, and an NSA operative
• Erich Bergen as Blake Moran, Elizabeth's personal assistant
• Patina Miller as Daisy Grant, Elizabeth's press coordinator
• Geoffrey Arend as Matt Mahoney, Elizabeth's speechwriter
• Katherine Herzer as Alison McCord, Elizabeth and Henry's younger daughter
• Evan Roe as Jason McCord, Elizabeth and Henry's son
• Wallis Currie-Wood as Stevie McCord, Elizabeth and Henry's older daughter
• Željko Ivanek as Russell Jackson, White House Chief of Staff
• Bebe Neuwirth as Nadine Tolliver, Elizabeth's Chief of Staff

Recurring

• Keith Carradine as Conrad Dalton, the President of the United States
• Sebastian Arcelus as Jay Whitman, Elizabeth's policy advisor
• Patrick Breen as Andrew Munsey, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
• Marin Hinkle as Isabelle, a CIA analyst, friend and former colleague of Elizabeth
• Nilaja Sun as Juliet Humphrey, a CIA analyst, other friend and former colleague of Elizabeth
• Francis Jue as Chen, the Foreign Minister of China

Guests

• Louis Gossett Jr. as Laurent Vasseur, a Catholic priest and an old friend of Henry's
• Shivam Chopra as Sanjay
• Sam Daly as Win Barrington[1]
• William Allen Young as Steven Cushing, the U.S. Deputy Secretary of State.
• Tom Skerritt as Patrick McCord, Henry's father
• Bob Schieffer as himself, a former moderator of Face the Nation
• Marsha Mason as Kinsey Sherman[2]

Episodes

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	U.S. viewers (millions)
1	1	"Pilot"	David Semel	Barbara Hall	September 21, 2014	14.75[3]
Elizabeth McCord, a former CIA analyst, gets recruited and trained by the current POTUS. Due to the death of the current Secretary of State in a plane crash, the President asks her to become the new Secretary of State, because she can think outside the box. Two months later, McCord is faced by an issue of two American children held hostage in Syria. The POTUS's Chief of Staff plays a game to damage her reputation and then advises the President to not do anything about the kidnapping. But McCord convinces the President to get the boys out through back-channel sources. Meanwhile, one of her former CIA colleagues warns her that her predecessor may have been killed by the CIA. He is later found dead in a car crash, which McCord believes was not an accident.
2	2	"Another Benghazi"	David Semel	Barbara Hall	September 28, 2014	12.72[4]
When crowds surround the U.S. Embassy in Yemen, the Secretary, using her CIA analyst skills, believes it will be another Benghazi incident. She asks her ambassador to leave, but he refuses citing the political need of his presence. Her requests for additional security troops are rejected, and ultimately she uses her discretionary funds to avail of a private military security detail, of whom she was critical earlier. Ultimately, her fears are realized when the embassy is bombed. However, the PMC security detail was successfully able to get the ambassador out, losing one of their own in the process.
3	3	"The Operative"	Jeremy Webb	David Grae	October 5, 2014	12.18[5]
When a former INR agent leaks diplomatic cables to a reporter, it causes a lot of embarrassment for the Secretary. However, when he also releases details of covert operatives and it causes the arrest of a spy in Pakistan, the problem escalates. But the Secretary, using some 'unusual' and off-the-record negotiations, brokers a deal between Russia and Pakistan in return for releasing the operative.
4	4	"Just Another Normal Day"	Eric Stoltz	Joan Rater & Tony Phelan	October 12, 2014	11.45[6]
The Secretary is able to finalize a treaty between China and Japan over some disputed islands. However, within a few minutes before signing the treaty, China refuses, unless the U.S. deports a Chinese girl who had applied for asylum.
5	5	"Blame Canada"	Eriq La Salle	Paul Redford	October 19, 2014	12.28[7]
The Canadian ambassador asks the Secretary to read, approve and release an environmental report that will allow a joint Canada-U.S. pipeline to be built. She reads the report and finds out that it has been prepared by a lobby group that supports the pipeline and contains falsified data. The Canadian ambassador tries to pressure her to approve the report but she counters with her own pressure tactics. The ongoing talks with Iran over dismantling their nuclear processing plants are deadlocked. Despite the Secretary's instructions, with the President's approval, to offer some trade ban relaxations in exchange, the Chief Negotiator only threatens military action during the talks which causes Iran to back-out completely. So she goes behind his back to talk to a member of Iran's negotiation team and makes the offer which Iran accepts, resolving the crisis. And then she fires the Chief Negotiator for lying to the President and herself. She later asks Blake to conduct a confidential investigation on Nadine, her Chief of Staff.
6	6	"The Call"	Mark Piznarski	Matt Ward	October 26, 2014	11.71[8]
When a former teacher of Henry McCord reaches out and warns of a possible genocide in his home country, Elizabeth asks the President to intervene. Though he initially refuses, hearing her speech that the world should have guts to intervene in this, he relents and authorizes logistical and air support. But when it is revealed that the former teacher's charity was allowing refugees to carry drugs for the warlords, complications arise in the coalition. Meanwhile, Nadine is cleared in the investigation, and she is informed by Elizabeth.
7	7	"Passage"	Martha Coolidge	Alex Cooley	November 2, 2014	13.21[9]
The President 'suggests' that Elizabeth's first foreign trip should be to India, to help one of his biggest supporters. She brings her younger children with her. A massive earthquake hits that causes an explosion at an American-owned factory, and she is separated from Alison during the chaos. Meanwhile, Stevie sees her father with a young woman and suspects that he is having an affair, causing her to get drunk. But it turns out that he has been reactivated by the NSA and the young woman is actually Henry's handler.
8	8	"Need to Know"	Dennie Gordon	Alexander Maggio	November 9, 2014	12.54[10]
The Moldovan prime minister's airplane disappears from the radar. The Secretary is concerned for him and for a U.S. agent with the Prime Minister. She plans a rescue mission to free them from the leader of a separatist movement in Moldova. Meanwhile, Henry is asked to plant a bug at the home of a scholar who is believed by the NSA to be connected to a terrorist.
9	9	"So It Goes"	James Whitmore Jr.	David Grae	November 16, 2014	12.77[11]
Elizabeth, Henry, and Isabelle conduct their own investigation into the plane crash that killed former Secretary of State Vincent Marsh, leading to a very grave conclusion. Russell asks Matt to spy on the Secretary, and Nadine is asked out on a dinner by the NASA Administrator.
10	10	"Collateral Damage"	Eric Stoltz	Matt Ward	November 23, 2014	12.41[12]
Threat from a deranged gunman causes a lock-down at the State Department. Elizabeth talks to Stevie about her CIA past, when an Iraqi translator threatens to do so to her and others. Revealing stories of being present when tortures were carried out during questioning, Elizabeth is unable to make Stevie understand the compulsions of that time causing a rift between mother and daughter. Elizabeth manages to keep Arab leaders gathered in the building from launching verbal attacks on one another. Matt tells Daisy's fiance about their affair.
11	11	"Game On"	Randy Zisk	Paul Redford	November 30, 2014	13.24[13]
Elizabeth and Henry visit Venezuela in search for a hidden bank account that belongs to Vincent Marsh. Stevie covers for Alison. Russel Jackson confronts Elizabeth about her investigation.
12	12	"Standoff"	Gloria Muzio	Joseph C. Muscat	January 4, 2015	11.69[14]
Elizabeth and Henry travel to New York City on their anniversary for what is supposed to be a romantic reliving of their courtship. During her absence the Texas Governor causes a stand-off with Mexico over the extradition of a drug lord. The Secretary's team tries to sort out this issue without involving her, but ultimately has to call her. The Secretary does some unique arm-twisting to make the Governor stand down and resolve the issue. Meanwhile the scholar on whom Henry was spying reaches out to Henry and asks for asylum in return for revealing all that he knows.
13	13	"Chains of Command"	Michael Waxman	Alex Cooley	January 11, 2015	12.13[15]
Elizabeth pushes for the prosecution of a diplomat after he is caught holding a maid hostage in his home. Also, Henry's father comes to visit---leading to a possibly unpleasant revelation when Stevie seeks an organizing job at the union for which her grandfather supposedly sat on the board for several years.
14	14	"Whisper of the Ax"	Eric Stoltz	Barbara Hall	March 1, 2015	11.64[16]
While defending the status of a microcredit system within the State Department budget, Elizabeth is blindsided by the revelation that the manager of the program has been embezzling money for gambling, throwing the status of the jobs of everyone on her staff in question. Meanwhile, Stevie decides to volunteer with the same Microloan United only to find out that she can keep the internship only if she's enrolled in a college. The operation tracking the Iranian national who was connected to Secretary Marsh's disappearance goes horribly awry on foreign soil and Director Munsey, Elizabeth and, Russel are forced to look for a mole among themselves. Elizabeth makes the difficult decision of confronting long time friend and CIA agent Isabelle. They are eventually forced to bring in the President on their secret investigation. President Dalton shockingly reveals that during his time at the CIA he had been suspicious of the plane crash in Dubai and had it investigated by 2 agents one of whom was George Peters who is now dead. Elizabeth is shown leading an armed search party to a house and reporting over the telephone that 'she' had fled and there was no information to be found at the house.
15	15	"The Ninth Circle"	Nicole Rubio	Alexander Maggio	March 8, 2015	10.82[17]
A furious Turkey releases the footage of the assassination of the US operative and the Iranian national on Turkish soil, leading Elizabeth to scramble to defuse the situation while Daisy is uncomfortably trying to keep the media under wraps. The mystery over Juliet and her role in the operation's failure deepens with intel gathered from the Iranian's laptop.
16	16	"Tamerlane"	Jonathan Brown	David Grae	March 15, 2015	11.26[18]
Director Munsey being placed under house arrest and complete lockdown buys Elizabeth, Russell and President Dalton a few days to attempt to unravel or back the impending coup in Iran. However, with the chosen successor dying of cancer and the coup too well set up to destabilize, Elizabeth can only go to Iran personally to attempt to defuse the situation.
17	17	"Face the Nation"	Rob Greenlea	Matt Ward	March 22, 2015	10.79[19]
A traumatized Elizabeth attempts to jump back into work, starting with the three-sided bidding war between an American oil company, the Chinese government, and an underdog environmental group over the Amazonian oil supplies. However, her PTSD ripples throughout her personal and professional life, slowing attempts to reassure the American public with an interview with Bob Schieffer, growing overprotective over Jason in his new school, and losing her temper while attempting to arbitrate the bidding war.
18	18	"The Time is at Hand"	Anna Foerster	Joy Gregory	March 29, 2015	11.47[20]
An apocalyptic cult with several American members, based in Bolivia, begins their countdown to their final days. Stevie's relationship with her boss is revealed, to Henry's disapproval.
19	19	"Spartan Figures"	Tate Donovan	Lyla Oliver	April 5, 2015	9.27[21]
The economic plan to support the Greek economy is jeopardized when the former Treasurer turned investment banker effectively repossesses several priceless Greek artefacts. Meanwhile, the drug problems of President Dalton's son Harrison, Stevie's best friend from childhood, end up putting the President under unexpected stress.
20	20	"The Necessary Art"	Dennie Gordon	Paul Redford	April 12, 2015	11.39[22]
A Russian nuclear submarine boasting experimental cloaking technologies sits under the coast of Alaska, prompting escalating naval measures on both sides. Speculation on Stevie and Harrison's friendship starts hitting the airwaves.
21	21	"The Kill List"	Ed Ornelas	David Grae	April 26, 2015	10.46[23]
Juliet has been located in the mountainous area of Algeria, and Elizabeth has to come to terms on assisting on the execution of one of her friends. The peace talks with Iran have almost borne fruit, but the Iranian government intend to defy Western cultural values by setting the execution of a gay man by stoning on at the exact same time.
22	22	"There But For the Grace of God"	Eric Stoltz	Barbara Hall	May 3, 2015	9.67[24]
A grandstanding Senator opens a Congressional hearing for Elizabeth and Henry, intending to boost his own political clout and damage the current administration. Juliet confesses her role in the coup, which leads Elizabeth to reflect on her last week at the CIA in 2005 when she was offered the position of station chief in Baghdad.

Production

Development

In August 2013, it was announced Madam Secretary was in development at CBS, with the pilot written by Barbara Hall and directed by David Semel.[25][26][27] Madam Secretary was ordered to series on May 9, 2014.[28][29] On October 27, 2014, Madam Secretary received an order for nine additional episodes, bringing the total to a full season of 22 episodes.[30] On January 12, 2015, Madam Secretary was renewed for a second season.[31]

Casting

In January 2014, the pilot was cast with Téa Leoni as Elizabeth McCord,[32] Tim Daly as Henry McCord,[33] Geoffrey Arend as Matt Mahoney,[34] Patina Miller as press coordinator Daisy Grant,[35] Bebe Neuwirth as Elizabeth's chief of staff Nadine Tolliver, Erich Bergen as Blake Moran, Evan Roe as Elizabeth's son, Jason McCord,[36] Katherine Herzer as Elizabeth and Henry's daughter Alison McCord,[37] Željko Ivanek as Russell Jackson,[38] and Wallis Currie-Wood as Elizabeth and Henry's older daughter Stephanie "Stevie" McCord.[39]

Broadcast

Season one of Madam Secretary premiered on CBS in the United States on September 21, 2014, with the season forty-seven premiere of 60 Minutes as its lead-in.[40] The season finale aired on May 3, 2015.[41]

Ratings

Viewership and ratings per episode of Madam Secretary

No.	Title	Air date	Rating/share (18–49)	Viewers (millions)	DVR (18–49)	DVR viewers (millions)	Total (18–49)	Total viewers (millions)
1	"Pilot"	September 21, 2014	2.0/5	14.75[3]	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
2	"Another Benghazi"	September 28, 2014	1.4/4	12.72[4]	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
3	"The Operative"	October 5, 2014	1.6/4	12.18[5]	N/A	2.87	N/A	15.20[42]
4	"Just Another Normal Day"	October 12, 2014	1.4/4	11.45[6]	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
5	"Blame Canada"	October 19, 2014	1.5/4	12.28[7]	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
6	"The Call"	October 26, 2014	1.5/4	11.71[8]	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
7	"Passage"	November 2, 2014	1.8/5	13.21[9]	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
8	"Need to Know"	November 9, 2014	1.4/4	12.54[10]	N/A	2.26	N/A	14.80[43]
9	"So It Goes"	November 16, 2014	1.5/4	12.77[11]	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
10	"Collateral Damage"	November 23, 2014	1.6/4	12.41[12]	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
11	"Game On"	November 30, 2014	1.9/5	13.24[13]	0.5	2.39	N/A	15.63[44]
12	"Standoff"	January 4, 2015	1.5/4	11.69[14]	0.5	2.61	2.0	14.30[45]
13	"Chains of Command"	January 11, 2015	1.7/4	12.13[15]	N/A	2.63	N/A	14.75[46]
14	"Whisper of the Ax"	March 1, 2015	1.3/4	11.64[16]	N/A	2.88	N/A	14.52[47]
15	"The Ninth Circle"	March 8, 2015	1.1/4	10.82[17]	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
16	"Tamerlane"	March 15, 2015	1.2/4	11.26[18]	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
17	"Face the Nation"	March 22, 2015	1.3/4	10.79[19]	N/A	2.20	N/A	12.99[48]
18	"The Time is at Hand"	March 29, 2015	1.4/4	11.47[20]	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
19	"Spartan Figures"	April 5, 2015	1.1/4	9.27[21]	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
20	"The Necessary Art"	April 12, 2015	1.4/5	11.39[22]	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
21	"The Kill List"	April 26, 2015	1.0/3	10.46[23]	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
22	"There But For the Grace of God"	May 3, 2015	1.0/3	9.67[24]	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Home media

The DVD release of season one is set to be released in Region 1 on September 1, 2015.

The Complete First Season
Set details			Special features
22 episodes 961 minutes (Region 1) 6-disc set 1.78:1 aspect ratio Languages: English (Dolby Digital 5.1) Subtitles: English (Region 1) Portuguese (Region 1)			Extraordinary Credentials: The Making of Madam Secretary Season One Madam Secretary at the Politico Playbook Luncheon Deleted Scenes The Affair - Season 1, Episode 1
Release dates
United States	United Kingdom	Australia
September 1, 2015[49]	September 28, 2015[50]	November 12, 2015[51]

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External links

• Official website
• Madam Secretary at IMDb