两世欢

　　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.

　　Legendary film, theatre and television actress, Brenda Blethyn OBE, is to return to the iconic role of Vera for one, final series.
　　The Academy and Emmy nominated actress has confirmed she has decided to hang up DCI Vera Stanhope’s infamous trench coat and hat following the filming of series 14 this summer, which she’ll film alongside the cast, crew and production team she values as friends in her beloved Northumberland and North East.

 Season 5 finds Murder, She Wrote's intrepid Jessica Fletcher in fine sleuthing form, and venturing farther afield from Cabot Cove--a good thing, since at the rate the murders have been happening, that town would be nearly cleaned out. Some of the best episodes take place in more exotic locales like New York (dead man on the street, wearing just one shoe), Montana (a publishing convention gone horribly wrong) and West Virginia (two whistle-blowers at a coal company found gruesomely murdered). Angela Lansbury sparkles with determination and bonhomie, hitting her stride and then some. Jessica's own life backstory is even filled out tantalizingly, especially in the episode "The Last Flight of the Dixie Damsel," in which an investigation is launched into a mysterious cargo plane that is linked, she learns to her horror, to her late husband. The series' other delight is watching for cameos by stars of a certain age, and this season doesn't disappoint, with appearances by Roddy McDowall, Shelley Fabares, and Dinah Shore--but also some up-and-comers like Megan Mullally (proof positive that the Will & Grace whine was a put-on) and future satirist Bill Maher.

　　展颢——大宋朝一员功勋彪炳的边关将军，爱国爱民，从未想到有一天，自己战场杀敌的刀，必须拿来杀戮自己的百姓，只为了花尽国库银的昏君意欲抢夺一座铁矿山，好就近开采冶炼以应军需之急。
　　三道密旨的催逼下，展颢不得不奉命屠了不肯让出铁矿山的赵家村，展颢即将临盆的妻子赶去阻止却被误杀，临死前产下一子，为县令方子庵所救，取名方旭，视若己出的抚养成人。而展颢却因方子庵拿着万民陈情书上京告御状，屠村惨案在朝野中闹得沸沸扬扬，不得不做了皇帝的替罪羊，以叛国罪入狱，展氏一族满门抄斩。侥幸逃出生天的展颢闯入太子宫中，带走即将弥耳的长皇孙，取名余火莲，从此立誓必以皇室血脉之手，推翻大宋朝廷。
　　二十年后，太子仁宗即位，余火链一举夺下开状元功名，入朝为官，并与如今已贵为御史中丞的方子庵之女方离相识相恋。而方旭亦在子庵教养下，长成为坦荡磊落，嫉恶如仇之人，在帮助父亲查案过程中，与京师第一青楼“御香斋”的红姑娘李柏化敌为友，进而相亲相爱。
　　火莲与方旭武艺相当，性情相投，又因方离之故成为惺惺相惜的好友。与此同时，朝官被害的案件不断发生，在新任开封府尹包拯调查下，箭头终于指向一个神秘的民间叛乱组织“无间道”及贼道“地藏王”。方旭奉皇命假作弑父，亡命天涯被“无间道”收容。逐步打入组织核心，但也因此而受尽委屈，与李柏的恋情更是一波三折，饱受考验。
　　火莲一心抱着颠覆宋朝的使命而来，却发现仁宗、子庵、包拯等人并不是想象中的那么残暴，但父命难违，火莲时时扎于矛盾痛苦之中，幸赖方离的坚强与支持，方能度过重重心理难关。
　　方旭日渐为地藏王赏识重用，狂放的火莲亦受到仁宗的欣赏及包容，两对父子在互不知血缘之亲的情况下，走过一路相互较劲的恩怨风雨。
　　最终在包拯及方旭查证下，真相大白，地藏王即为当年的大将军展颢，亦是方旭之亲生父亲。方旭虽得认祖归宗，更名展昭，但展颢却为了让追随自己的千万手下能死心散去，解甲归田，无怨无悔的选择了自尽身亡。
　　火莲虽贵为太子，但仁宗为了朝廷国家，不能暴露当年先皇罪行，亦不能让火莲回到宫中，展氏一族横亘二十年的冤屈虽得昭雪，但许多遗憾却已无法弥补……