TV SERIES: MAD MEN
PRODUCTION: USA
BROADCASTING: 2007-2015 – 7 seasons
STARRING: Jon Hamm (Don Draper), Jay R. Ferguson (Stan Rizzo), Elizabeth Moss (Peggy Olson), Ben Feldman (Michael Ginsberg)
The show's title was a reference to Madison Avenue, the Manhattan street where many advertising companies were located.
SYNOPSIS
This TV series is set in the 1960s and the main character is Don Draper, the handsome and talented creative director of New York City advertising agency Sterling Cooper.
As the series progresses, it skillfully explores the complexities of its characters and their professional and personal problems. For many viewers, however, the most compelling aspect of Mad Men was its historical setting. With each season structured around a successive time frame within the 1960s, the series provides a lens through which to observe the broad transformations that occurred within advertising and consumer culture at that time.
