• Mad Men is a dramatic television series set in the 1960s at the fictional Sterling Cooper Advertising Agency on New York City's Madison Avenue. The show's first season won the Best Dramatic Series award at the 2008 Emmy Awards. It also won the Golden Globe for Best Drama Television Series in 2008 and 2009.

  The show depicts the changing social mores of the early 1960s and has been praised for its high production values and attention to period detail. The show was created by Sopranos writer Matthew Weiner.

• Fast Facts

  1. Network: AMC
  2. Run: June 19, 2007 - Present
  3. Episodes: Thursdays at 10PM
  4. Creator: Matthew Weiner
  5. Won Golden Globe Awards in 2008 and 2009
  6. Canadian network: CTV

• Themes

  The show highlights such social issues as cigarette smoking, drinking, sexism, and racial bias as examples of how society, not so long ago, was radically different from the present. The series also observes advertising as a corporate outlet for creativity for mainstream, middle-class, young, white men.

• Cast

  • Jon Hamm as Don Draper
  • Elisabeth Moss as Peggy Olsen
  • Vincent Kartheiser as Pete Campbell
  • January Jones as Betty Draper
  • Christina Hendricks as Joan Holloway

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