Mad Men
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Genre	Drama
Created by	Matthew Weiner
Starring	Jon Hamm Elisabeth Moss Vincent Kartheiser January Jones Christina Hendricks
Opening theme	"A Beautiful Mine" by RJD2
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	13 (List of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Matthew Weiner
Location(s)	Los Angeles
Running time	approx. 47 min.
Broadcast
Original channel	AMC
Picture format	480i (SDTV) 720p (HDTV)
Original run	July 19, 2007 – present
External links
Official website
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

Mad Men is an American television drama series created by Matthew Weiner. The show is broadcast in the United States on the cable network AMC. It premiered on July 19, 2007 and ended its first season on October 18, 2007. AMC has renewed the show for a second season.^[1] For other uses, see Drama (disambiguation). ... Matthew Weiner is an American screenwriter and television producer. ... Image: [1] Jonathan Edward Hamm (born October 8, 1981 in Rapid City,South Dakota) is a musician, producer and painter. ... American actress, Elisabeth Moss, in her role as Zoey Bartlet on The West Wing. ... Vincent Paul Kartheiser (born May 5, 1979) is an American actor. ... January Jones in a screenshot from film American Wedding January Jones (born January 5, 1978 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA) is an actress. ... Christina Hendricks (born Christina Rene Hendricks on May 3, 1978 in Knoxville, Tennessee) is an American actress. ... RJD2 (born Ramble John RJ Krohn on May 27, 1976) is an American hip hop producer, singer and musician. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... This is an episode list for the television drama series Mad Men. ... Matthew Weiner is an American screenwriter and television producer. ... Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ... AMC is a cable television network that primarily airs movies. ... 480i is the shorthand name for a video mode. ... ... JOHN HERMAN SUCKS FAT DICK ... High-definition television (HDTV) means broadcast of television signals with a higher resolution than traditional formats (NTSC, SECAM, PAL) allow. ... is the 200th day of the year (201st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ... Television drama series is a genre that deals with generally non-epic situations in a serious, dramatic manner. ... Matthew Weiner is an American screenwriter and television producer. ... Cable network is the most common colloquial term for a television channel available via cable television, particularly in the United States. ... AMC is a cable television network that primarily airs movies. ... is the 200th day of the year (201st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ... is the 291st day of the year (292nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ...

Set in New York City, Mad Men takes place in 1960s at the fictional Sterling Cooper advertising agency on New York City's Madison Avenue and centers on Don Draper, a high-level advertising executive, and the people in his life in and out of the office. It also depicts the changing social mores of early 1960s America. New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Year 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Madison Avenue is a north-south avenue in the borough of Manhattan in New York City which carries northbound one-way traffic. ...

Mad Men has received considerable critical acclaim and has won two awards at the 2007 Golden Globes, for Best Television Series - Drama and Best Actor in a Television Series - Drama for Jon Hamm. The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and television programs, given out each year during a formal dinner. ...

Origin

Creator Matthew Weiner wrote the pilot of Mad Men in 2000 as a spec script when he was working as a staff writer for Becker. Television producer David Chase recruited Weiner to work as a writer on his HBO series The Sopranos after reading the pilot script.^[2] A television pilot is a test episode of an intended television series. ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... A screenplay or script is a blueprint for producing a motion picture. ... Becker is an American situation comedy that originally aired on CBS from 1998 to 2004. ... David Chase (born David DeCesare—although some sources list his birth name as David Del Cesare—August 22, 1945) is an American screenwriter, director, and producer best known as the creator and head writer of the highly acclaimed HBO series The Sopranos. ... HBO (Home Box Office) is a premium cable television network with headquarters in New York City. ... This article is about the television series. ...

Chase remarked about the script and its author:

"It was lively, and it had something new to say. Here was someone [Weiner] who had written a story about advertising in the 1960s, and was looking at recent American history through that prism."^[2]

Weiner set the pilot script aside for the next seven years, until The Sopranos was completing its final season and cable network AMC happened to be in the market for a new original series.^[2]

Characters

• Don Draper (Jon Hamm): creative director and eventually junior partner of Sterling Cooper Advertising Agency; Draper is the series' protagonist. By his own deliberate choice little of his past is generally known; he was born Richard "Dick" Whitman, the illegitimate child of a prostitute who died during childbirth. He lived with his father and his father's wife until he was 10, at which time his father, a drunk, was kicked in the face by a horse and died. His mother "took up" with a new man, referred to as "Uncle Mac", and had another son named Adam (supposedly fathered by Don/Dick's father, though Adam was born after the death of Mr. Whitman and the appearance of Uncle Mac). During the rare glimpses into Don's past provided in the show, we learn that his childhood was unhappy, and his stepmother never allowed him to forget that he was a "whore child". (see ep. "Long Weekend", and "Hobo's Code" season 1). During military service in the Korean War, an officer named Don Draper was killed while the two were posted alone at an isolated base. "Dick" then switched identification tags with Draper and assumed his name, cutting off contact with his family and creating a new life for himself. Don Draper is a brilliant ad man and the award-winning star of Sterling Cooper — attracting and retaining major clients, commanding respect from those above and below him, being courted by rival firms, and generally living the picture-perfect "good life" of a successful businessman in the early 1960s. However, Don rarely seems happy with his "perfect" life: he drinks and smokes, and is prone to spells of moodiness. While he appears to love his wife, he had a brief affair with Rachel Menken and was previously involved with beatnik Midge Daniels. He has two children with his wife and appears to be an adoring father. However, when Pete Campbell threatens to expose his past, Don at least momentarily considered fleeing to Los Angeles and abandoning his wife and children. Bertram Cooper makes him a partner after Roger Sterling's most recent heart attack.
• Peggy Olsen (Elisabeth Moss): the naïve "new girl" at Sterling Cooper; Draper's new secretary. Her retiring nature covers a talent for advertising and a quiet determination to succeed. Eventually, Peggy becomes "the first woman copywriter at this place since the War," much to Joan Holloway and Pete Campbell's annoyance. In a gruff but ultimately caring fashion, Draper mentors and supports her as she transforms from wide-eyed secretary to being one of the companies few non-secretarial female employees. Pete Campbell and others, however subject her to some emotional abuse. Due to her success on two recent copywriting assignments, Draper gives her a raise, and subsequently promotes her to junior copy writer, with her first account bringing her into more day-to-day contact with Campbell as the client's account manager. She also has an unwanted pregnancy following a brief affair with Campbell, and gives birth to a child.
• Pete Campbell (Vincent Kartheiser): young junior account manager who sexually pursues Peggy, despite his recent marriage. He is not well liked by his immediate superiors, but is retained anyway because he comes from a formerly wealthy but still socially influential long-established Manhattan family. While Pete has displayed talent at his work on several occasions, he is inordinately eager to advance and will utilize unethical tactics to do so. At one point, he attempts to blackmail Draper into promoting him, threatening to reveal his real identity to Bertram Cooper. However, the ploy fails when Cooper responds with the scornful words, "Mister Campbell, Who cares?". Pete treats most of the women he knows with veiled contempt and emotional abuse, particularly his wife and Peggy Olsen.
• Betty Draper (January Jones): Don Draper's wife, and mother of their two children, Sally and Bobby; classic '50s homemaker, with the added intrigue of a past as a professional model. Draper still cares deeply for her but has long since fallen out of love. Betty is obsessed with keeping up appearances and sees a psychiatrist. She recently lost her mother, who also valued looks and appereances highly and encouraged Betty to stay slim so that she could attract a husband. Just as Don is on the surface the picture-perfect model of a successful early 60s businessman, Betty appears to be the model wife, but like her husband she sometimes expresses feelings of unfulfillment and dissatisfaction with her "perfect life". She is often lonely as Don spends most of his days and nights in Manhattan working and (unbeknownst to her) seeing other women. Don sees her as an excellent, caring mother, something that he never had in his own life, but does not treat her like an equal adult companion, the way he treats his mistresses. She knows nothing of her husband's origins, but wishes he was less remote and more involved in life at home.
• Joan Holloway (Christina Hendricks): office manager at Sterling Cooper, who acts as a professional and social mentor, as well as a rival, to Peggy. Joan relishes playing the role of a femme fatale and was engaged in an affair with Roger Sterling before his heart attack. An intelligent and capable woman, Joan loves the glamourous, sexy life she leads, saying of Manhattan "This city is everything." Unlike Peggy, she doesn't strive to join the all-male cadre of Sterling Cooper's non-secretarial workforce, preferring to use her sex appeal to exercise control over the men around her. Joan is looking for a "more permanent arrangement", (i.e. husband, marriage, life in the suburbs), but despite her good looks and charm has yet to settle down. She is sexually active, and helps Peggy get a prescription for birth control pills. She lives with a female roommate, a friend from college, who is secretly in love with Joan and made one failed attempt to initiate a romantic relationship.
• Roger Sterling (John Slattery): one of the partners of Sterling Cooper, and a good friend of Don Draper. He is a former Navy man, whose father was also a partner at Sterling Cooper. He is cynical about the world he has helped to shape, which leads him to extensive womanizing and a degree of alcohol use that is excessive even by the standards of his co-workers. As a result of his lifestyle, Sterling suffers a heart attack in the episode "Long Weekend." He suffers a subsequent heart attack in the following episode after coming into the office to assuage the concerns of the Lucky Strike executives. For all his roguish qualities, he does command considerable affection from his co-workers and family. He has a wife named Mona, whom he cheats on regularly, and a teenage daughter named Margaret, whom he struggles to communicate with. Following his heart attack, we learn that despite his philandering and outwardly callous attitude, he does love and appreciate his family, and wishes he was a better husband and father.
• Midge Daniels (Rosemarie DeWitt): a pot-smoking art illustrator engaged in an affair with Draper. She is involved with the Beats and several proto-hippies, as well as making several references to Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. Draper evidently ends their affair after he deduces that she is in love with someone else.
• Paul Kinsey (Michael Gladis), Ken Cosgrove (Aaron Staton), and Harry Crane (Rich Sommer): a copywriter, an account executive and a media buyer, respectively. They serve as Pete's entourage, seeming to spend more office time drinking, flirting and gossiping than working. Of the trio, Harry is the only one who is married. His wife, Jennifer, works at a phone company and they seem to have one of the few really happy marriages in the show. Harry flirts with women, but he's faithful to his wife until he has too much to drink at an office party, and suffers consequences. Ken has literary aspirations and has been published in The Atlantic Monthly. Paul has been involved with Joan in the past.
• Rachel Menken (Maggie Siff): Jewish head of a department store who becomes romantically involved with Draper after she comes to Sterling Cooper in search of an advertising agency to revamp her business' image. She is one of the kinder and more thoughtful people in Draper's world; their relationship becomes physically and emotionally close for a time, as he is able to tell her things he could never share with Midge Daniels or with his wife. When Don is blackmailed by Pete Campbell, he comes to Rachel with the suggestion that they run away together to Los Angeles. She reminds him of his duty to his children, and questions whether he would want to abandon his children after having grown up without a father. When Don persists, Rachel comes to the realization that he didn't want to run away with her, he just wanted to run away. She calls him a coward. Their friendship seems to collapse from that point on.
• Salvatore Romano (Bryan Batt): the Italian-American art director at Sterling Cooper. He is a closeted homosexual who turns down a proposition from a Belle Jolie lipstick male employee midway through the season, admitting that he has thought about having relationships with men, but never acted on his impulse out of fear of discovery. He joins the other men of Sterling Cooper in their flirtations with the women in the workplace, in order to keep up the appearance that he is as interested in the opposite sex as they are. He speaks to his mother in Italian.
• Bertram Cooper (Robert Morse): The Senior Partner^[3] of Sterling Cooper, a crafty old gentleman who is treated with considerable deference by Sterling and Draper. It is suggested that he knew Roger Sterling as a child, and keeps a picture of young Roger and Roger's father in his office. Cooper lectures Sterling about being dependent on smoking, and criticizes Draper for his love life (though not for his stolen identity). He has the erotic illustration The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife hung in his office and is a devotee of Atlas Shrugged and friend of its author, Ayn Rand. His office is decorated in a Japanese motif, and he requires visitors to remove their shoes before they enter his office, and also walks around the rest of Sterling Cooper in his socks. He is a very influential member of the Republican Party, and gets Sterling Cooper involved with the Nixon campaign. Cooper is not present in the office's day-to-day wranglings, but he is devoted to the business and quietly manages various challenges from behind the scenes.
• Francine Hanson (Anne Dudek): One of Betty Draper’s closest friends and neighbors, spends most afternoons gossiping with Betty about the neighborhood's newest resident, a divorcee named Helen Bishop. Francine, married to a man named Carlton, has just had her baby. In the dead heat, she struggles to keep cool while her blouses constantly seep with breast milk. Soon, Francine confides to Betty that she thinks Carlton is having an affair. The clues -- secret phone calls to Manhattan and the fact that Carlton sleeps at the Waldorf two nights a week -- make her wish she could just poison him.

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Themes

Mad Men depicts the society and culture of the early 1960s, highlighting cigarette smoking, drinking (alcoholic beverages), sexism, and racial bias as examples of how that era, not so long ago, was so radically different from the present.^[4][5] Smoking, more common in 1960 than it is now, is featured throughout the series; almost every character can be seen smoking multiple times in the course of one episode.^[4] In the pilot, representatives of Lucky Strike cigarettes come to Sterling Cooper looking for a new advertising campaign in the wake of a Reader's Digest report that smoking will lead to various health issues including lung cancer.^[6] The show presents a culture where men who are engaged or married freely partake of sexual relationships with other women. The series also observes advertising as a corporate outlet for creativity for mainstream, middle-class, young, white men. The main character, Don Draper, observes at one point about Sterling-Cooper, "This place has more failed artists and intellectuals than the Third Reich."^[7] Along with each of these examples, however, there are hints of the future and the radical changes of the later 1960s; Betty's anxiety, the Beats Draper discovers through Midge, even talk about how smoking is bad for health (usually dismissed or ignored). Characters also see stirrings of change in the ad industry itself, with the Volkswagen Beetle's "Think Small" ad campaign mentioned and dismissed by many at Sterling Cooper. For the CSI episode of the same name, see Lucky Strike (CSI episode). ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Lung cancer is a disease of uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung. ... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ... This article is about the original Volkswagen Beetle. ...

Reception

Mad Men has received highly positive critical response since its premiere. Viewership for the premiere at 10 p.m. on July 19, 2007, was higher than any other AMC original series to date.^[8] A New York Times reviewer called the series groundbreaking for "luxuriating in the not-so-distant past."^[5] The San Francisco Chronicle called Mad Men "stylized, visually arresting […] an adult drama of introspection and the inconvenience of modernity in a man's world".^[9] A Chicago Sun-Times reviewer described the series as an "unsentimental portrayal of complicated 'whole people' who act with the more decent 1960 manners America has lost, while also playing grab-ass and crassly defaming subordinates."^[10] The reaction at Entertainment Weekly was similar, noting how in the period in which Mad Men takes place, "play is part of work, sexual banter isn't yet harassment, and America is free of self-doubt, guilt, and countercultural confusion."^[11] The Los Angeles Times said that the show had found "a strange and lovely space between nostalgia and political correctness".^[12] The show also received critical praise for its historical accuracy – mainly its depictions of gender and racial bias, sexual harassment in the workplace, and the high prevalence of smoking and drinking.^{[13][2][12][14]} The Washington Post agreed with most other reviews in regards to Mad Men's visual style, but disliked what was referred to as "lethargic" pacing of the storylines.^[15] Mad Men has received a score of 77 (generally favorable reviews) on the media review website Metacritic.^[16] is the 200th day of the year (201st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... Todays San Francisco Chronicle was founded in 1865 as The Daily Dramatic Chronicle by teenage brothers Charles de Young and Michael H. de Young. ... The Chicago Sun-Times is an American daily newspaper published in Chicago. ... Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated EW) is a magazine published by Time Inc. ... This just IN !!!:paris hiltons new dog. ... ... Metacritic is a website that collates reviews of music albums, games, movies, TV shows, DVDs and books. ...

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Among people who worked in advertising during the 1960s, opinions differ as to the show's realism. Jerry Della Femina, who worked as a copywriter in that era and later founded his own agency, said, "Picture a bunch of drunks talking to each other through a cloud of smoke — that's really what the '60s was." But Allen Rosenshine, another copywriter who went on to lead BBDO, called the show "a total fabrication."^[18] Jerry Della Femina is an American advertising executive. ... BBDO is a worldwide advertising agency network, with its headquarters in New York. ...

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Awards and nominations

The series won the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series - Drama and Jon Hamm won the Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series - Drama for his performance as Don Draper. Documentary series and mini-series are also eligible for this award, as shown by the consecutive awards to Rich Man, Poor Man, Roots, and 60 Minutes. ... Image: [1] Jonathan Edward Hamm (born October 8, 1981 in Rapid City,South Dakota) is a musician, producer and painter. ... 1968: Martin Landau, Mission: Impossible 1971: Peter Graves, Mission: Impossible 1973: Peter Falk, Columbo 1974: James Stewart, Hawkins 1975: Telly Savalas, Kojak 1976: Robert Blake, Baretta and Telly Savalas, Kojak 1977: Richard Jordan, The Captains and The Kings 1978: Ed Asner, Lou Grant 1979: Michael Moriarty, Holocaust 1980: Ed Asner...

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The Series was winner of a 2007 Peabody Award.

Production

Mad Men is shot on film and is broadcast in standard definition. It has been converted to high definition for video-on-demand availability from various cable affiliates.^[21] Though Weiner's script for the pilot of Mad Men pre-dates The Sopranos, HBO, according to Weiner, was not interested in producing his script.^[10] Alan Taylor, a director of multiple episodes of The Sopranos, directed the pilot of Mad Men and some subsequent episodes.^[4] The writers, including Weiner, amassed volumes of research on the period in which Mad Men takes place so as to make all aspects of the series – including detailed set designs, costume design, and props – historically accurate,^[2][4] producing an authentic visual style that garnered critical praise.^[9][14][22] On the copious scenes featuring smoking, Weiner stated that "Doing this show without smoking would've been a joke. It would've been sanitary and it would've been phony."^[4] Since the actors cannot, by law, smoke tobacco cigarettes in their workplace, they instead smoke herbal cigarettes.^[4] Film stock is the term for photographic film on which films are recorded. ... Standard-definition television or SDTV refers to television systems that have a lower resolution than HDTV systems. ... Generally, high-definition refers to an increase in resolution or clarity such as in: High-definition television (HDTV), television formats that have a higher resolution than their contemporary counterparts High-definition video, which is used in HDTV broadcasting, as well as digital film and computer HD video file formats HDV... Video on demand (VOD) systems allow users to select and watch video and clip content over a network as part of an interactive television system. ... Alan Taylor (born 1955) is an historian specializing in early American history. ... Herbal cigarettes are cigarettes that do not contain any tobacco or nicotine. ...

The opening title sequence features credits superimposed over a graphic animation of a business man in freefall, surrounded by skyscrapers with reflections of period advertising posters and billboards. The title sequence features the song "A Beautiful Mine" by RJD2. The titles pay homage to celebrated designer and adman Saul Bass's skyscraper filled opening titles for Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959) and falling man movie poster for Vertigo (1958). Weiner has listed Hitchcock as a major influence on the visual style of the series.^[4] Other cinematic and New York references include the casting of Robert Morse in the role of senior partner. Morse starred in the original cast production of How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying on Broadway (1961) for which he won a Tony Award and again on film (1967). This example of a title sequence, from long-running serial drama Another World, was seen from 1966 to 1981, making it one of the longest-running continuous title sequences on television. ... Superimposition is a graphics term meaning the placement of an image or video on top of an already-existing image or video, usually to add to the overall image effect, but also sometimes to conceal something (such as when a different face is superimposed over the original face in a... RJD2 (born Ramble John RJ Krohn on May 27, 1976) is an American hip hop producer, singer and musician. ... Saul Bass (May 8, 1920 - April 25, 1996) was a graphic designer and Academy Award-winning filmmaker, but he is best known for his design on animated motion picture title sequences, which is thought of as the best such work ever seen. ... Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock KBE (August 13, 1899 â€“ April 29, 1980) was an iconic and highly influential British-born film director and producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres. ... North by Northwest (1959) is a comic thriller by Alfred Hitchcock produced at MGM. It was premiered in the San Sebastian International Film Festival. ... For other uses of the word, see Vertigo. ... Robert Morse (b. ... How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is a 1961 musical, initially running for 1,417 performances. ... What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ...

In promotion for the show, AMC aired multiple commercials and a behind the scenes documentary on the making of Mad Men. The commercials, as well as the documentary, featured the song "You Know I'm No Good" by Amy Winehouse.^[4] The documentary, in addition to trailers and sneak peeks of upcoming episodes, were released on the official AMC website. Mad Men was also made available at the iTunes Store on July 20, 2007, along with the "making of" documentary.^[23] The Mad Men DVD will be available in stores on July 1st. For more infomation visit AMC Amy-Jade Winehouse (born 14 September 1983) is an English soul, jazz, R&B singer and songwriter. ... The iTunes Store is an online business run by Apple Inc. ... is the 201st day of the year (202nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ...

International Broadcasters

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References

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External links

• Official AMC website