Mad Men Oprah

On Monday, September 21, 2009, actors January Jones and Jon Hamm from the AMC TV series Mad Men appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show. The segment was part of a special Oprah episode called Oprah Goes Back in Time, exploring the 1960s. Mad Men is set in the world of New York City advertising firms in the early '60s.

Mad Men follows the careers and personal lives of executives and secretaries of the fictional Sterling Cooper advertising agency. The show's first season begins in the year 1960, and the characters and their work frequently interact with the era's most significant events and pop culture artifacts.

The agency's creative director is the brilliant but mysterious and troubled Don Draper, who lives in the suburbs with his wife, Betty, and their two children. Other central characters include Peggy Olson (Elizabeth Moss), the agency's first female copywriter, senior partner Roger Sterling (John Slattery), office manager Joan Harris (Christina Hendricks) and Head of Accounts Pete Campbell (Vincent Kartheiser).