Mad Men

Season 0 · Complete

Specials

200750 episodes

Season 1 · Complete

Season 1

200713 episodes

Season one takes place between March and November 1960. It introduces the fictional advertising agency Sterling Cooper. The season begins with the new secretary, Peggy Olson, starting her first day with the firm. As the season unfolds, the mysterious backstory of enigmatic ad man Don Draper is revealed as are the growing confidence and success of Peggy Olson.

Best episode · S01E13 The Wheel

Season 2 · Complete

Season 2

200813 episodes

Season two takes place between February and October 1962, culminating with the Cuban Missile Crisis. It expands on Peggy's rise in the workplace and the marital strife between Don and Betty Draper as Don's infidelities further intrude on his family life. The second season also introduces an unknown acquaintance of Don Draper. Draper is corresponding by letter with this unseen acquaintance in secret.

Best episode · S02E13 Meditations in an Emergency

Season 3 · Complete

Season 3

200913 episodes

Season three takes place six months after the conclusion of the second season and ends in December 1963. It chronicles the end of the "Camelot era" as the characters go through immense change in their professional and personal lives.

Best episode · S03E13 Shut the Door. Have a Seat

Season 4 · Complete

Season 4

201013 episodes

Season four takes place between November 1964 and October 1965. It is set at the new and considerably more modern advertising agency, Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. The main narrative of the fourth season is driven by Don Draper's identity crisis. As Don falls deeper into existential despair, he begins regularly meeting with women of loose moral character and faces debilitating alcoholism.

Best episode · S04E07 The Suitcase

Season 5 · Complete

Season 5

201213 episodes

Season 5 takes place between Memorial Day 1966 and spring 1967. The season explores Don Draper's new marriage to Megan, which leads him to ignore his work at the Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce advertising agency. Meanwhile, Lane, Pete, Roger, Joan, and Peggy learn that it is "every man for himself" in their personal and professional lives, as they each face painful new beginnings.

Best episode · S05E11 The Other Woman

Season 6 · Complete

Season 6

201313 episodes

Season 6 takes place between December 1967 and November 1968.

Best episode · S06E13 In Care Of

Season 7 · Complete

Season 7

201414 episodes

The first part of season 7 begins in January 1969, several weeks after the Thanksgiving 1968 ending of season 6, and ends in July 1969, with characters dealing with the dynamics of lives and offices being split between New York and Los Angeles.

Best episode · S07E07 Waterloo