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the Season 1 episode "Indian Summer", when Don Draper is made partner in the wake of Roger Sterling's heart attack, Bert Cooper gives Draper the authority to appoint a new head of account services. At the end of the Season 1, Draper brings in Phillips, who is looking for a job after alcoholism and an extramarital affair ended his career at Y&R's London office. Phillips appears to be a recovering alcoholic whose ex-wife and children are moving on with their lives. Phillips immediately challenges Sterling Cooper to
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and forget his responsibilities. She leaves on a cruise to Europe and marries sometime before the beginning of Season 2. In Season 2, Draper has an affair with Bobbie Barrett, the wife of Jimmy Barrett, an insult comic who is filming a commercial for one of Sterling Cooper's clients, Utz Potato Chips. Don admires her savvy and boldness and the pair enter into a sexualized power struggle. They continue their affair, taking a trip to Bobbie's beach house in Stony Brook on Long Island, but their plans are
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3, the Drapers have another son, Gene, named after Betty's recently deceased father. Don cheats on his wife repeatedly throughout Seasons 1 and 2. In Season 1, he is involved with Midge Daniels, a pot-smoking artist and beatnik who works out of a small apartment in Greenwich Village. Her bohemian lifestyle and friends do not appeal to Don, but their relationship offers him an escape from his high-pressure job and life of responsibilities. When he receives a bonus check of $2,500 from Sterling Cooper
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omen, Sylvia ends their affair. When Don later helps Mrs. Rosen's son avoid service in Vietnam, their affair temporarily resumes until they are discovered together by Draper's daughter. After this, Sylvia Rosen is not seen again for the remainder of the season. As the series ends in season seven, Don, now divorced a second time is reminded of Rachel Menken while dealing with a conflict at work. He reaches out to her only to discover that she has died of cancer. Not long after, he runs into
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that his extramarital escapades are being gossiped about, and immediately ends the affair. Don must continue his professional relationship with the Barretts. The Drapers and the Barretts meet at the Stork Club for a night out. At the end of the evening, Jimmy Barrett reveals to Betty that their spouses have had an affair. When his wife confronts him, Draper repeatedly denies the accusations, infuriating his wife. The strain leads to Don and Betty's first separation, and he moves into a hotel room. His father-in-
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. He sleeps with her the same night then leaves Joy the next morning to visit Anna Draper, who convinces him to return home to his wife and family. Later, Draper returns to Ossining and tells his wife he "wasn't respectful" to her. Don returns home and Betty reveals she is pregnant. In episode 1 of season 3, Don and colleague Salvatore Romano go on a business trip to Baltimore. Don has a one-night-stand with stewardess Shelly. She tells Don she's engaged and that
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interrupted by a car accident. Arrested for drunk driving and unable to post bond with the cash on his person, Don reaches out to Peggy, who travels from Brooklyn to Long Island in the middle of the night to post his bail. Bobbie stays with Peggy until her injuries from the accident heal. The affair between Barrett and Draper continues until the episode "Maidenform", when Barrett lets it slip that Draper's previous mistresses have been talking about his sexual prowess. Because he highly values his privacy, Don is disgusted
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second season, set in February 1962, she had discontinued the consultations. During the second season episode "A Night to Remember", Betty and Don seem to have reached an agreement, but after a dinner party where Betty is embarrassed to be considered a "demographic" by Don and his associates, she confronts her husband for the first time about his adultery, specifically with Bobbie Barrett. Don, however, denies having an affair. The next day, with a glass of wine in hand, Betty searches through Don
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or fundamentally altering its core". Maureen Ryan said that "the season was really, in the end, all about who Don Draper was and what he felt comfortable sharing, if not in interviews, in life. And it was hard not to root for Don once he'd found happiness", yet noted that season 4 was strong because of the focus on Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. She also said that "The season began with a reporter asking, "Who is Don Draper?" He is, if nothing
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before January 1968, Draper begins an affair with his married downstairs neighbor, Sylvia Rosen. Don and Sylvia both feel discontented with their respective marriages and enjoy the thrill and convenience of their secret affair, but struggle to balance feelings of guilt; Don is friends with Sylvia's husband Arnold and Sylvia is close with Megan. In June 1968, the two of them engage in a days-long BDSM sexual role-play game in a Manhattan hotel. After having a dream about the two of them that she saw as an
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A Night to Remember (Mad Men)


"A Night to Remember" is the eighth episode of the second season of the American television drama series "Mad Men". It was written by Matthew Weiner and Robin Vieth; and was directed by Lesli Linka Glatter. The episode originally aired on September 14, 2008. Betty Draper (January Jones) is struggling on how to confront Don Draper (Jon Hamm) on his recent affair with Bobbie Barrett (Melinda McGraw). Don and Betty are planning a dinner party for Crab Colson. Don tells Betty not to
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Park Road, Ossining in Westchester County, New York. They have two children - Sally, born in 1954 or early 1955, and Bobby, born in 1957 or early 1958. The marriage is a rocky one, with Draper having numerous affairs. They file for divorce in 1964 after Betty discovers his true identity, and she later marries the Republican political operative Henry Francis. Don marries his secretary, Megan Calvet, after which they move to a stylish, Upper East Side apartment on Park Avenue. In December 1963 Draper
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is defused when a drunk Duck (still longing for Peggy) shows up and punches Don after assuming the two are lovers. That night, Don and Peggy fall asleep on the couch in Don's office, and Don has a vision of a spectral Anna Draper carrying a suitcase. Anna's ghost simply smiles and walks out of the office. Don having received an urgent message from Stephanie the day prior, returns this call after waking up, who confirms that Anna Draper has indeed died. After hanging up the phone,
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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. Don Draper has married his secretary Megan Calvet, who throws a surprise birthday party for Don and their co-workers. Don is embarrassed by the party and Megan serenading him in front of
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Betty meets Henry Francis, who is later revealed to be an advisor to then-New York governor Nelson A. Rockefeller. Henry is infatuated with Betty, and though she seems reluctant to return his feelings at first, as the season progresses, their affair intensifies. Betty eventually ends it, feeling guilty. In Episode 11, Betty corners Don, after getting into a locked drawer in the desk in his home office that contains pictures and documents of Don's past life. (Don had inadvertently left his keys in his clothes
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Diana Bauer, a waitress who bears a resemblance to Rachel. The two begin an affair, but it comes crashing down when it's revealed Diana is dealing with her past. Don encourages her to forget it and move on, but she insists that's the wrong way to deal with life and the two go their separate ways. Despite his outward disenchantment and egotism, the character of Don Draper demonstrates a strict code of personal ethics, insisting on honesty and chivalry in his subordinates, but not always in himself. He
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returns Stephanie's call and learns that Anna had died the night before, and breaks down in front Peggy Olson. Don later brings his children to Anna's house in the finale of Season 4, showing them the wall they had painted and introducing them to Stephanie, who gives Don Anna's engagement ring from the real Don Draper. It is Anna's death that then inspires Don to start a new life. Eugene Scott "Gene" Draper (Evan Londo) is Don and Betty Draper's youngest child. He was
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"Advertising Age" reporter's question, "Who is Don Draper?" begins the season as it picks up in November 1964, and Don avoids the question. The article is to promote the new Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce advertising agency which, despite its status as the scrappy newcomer, is struggling. The article's finished product does not go over well, making Don look like a cipher. Don comes back from this public relations disaster by cavalierly throwing a client out of his office after they show concern about his supposedly
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. During and after his affair with Daniels, Don pursues Rachel Menken, the daughter of Abraham Menken, the elderly Jewish founder of the upscale Menken's Department Store. Rachel Menken is educated, sophisticated, and a savvy businesswoman, assisting her father in running the family business. Despite bickering with her during their initial business meetings, Don and she become intimate, and they eventually begin an affair. Their relationship collapses after he professes a desire to run away with her, prompting Menken to realize Draper simply wants to run away
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"Bobby" Draper (Maxwell Huckabee in season 1; Aaron Hart in seasons 1 and 2; Jared S. Gilmore in seasons 3 and 4; and Mason Vale Cotton in seasons 5, 6 and 7) is Don and Betty Draper's middle child. His mother referred to him as a "little liar." Bobby was mentioned as being 5 years old in the Season 2 episode "The Mountain King," and 7 years old in the Season 4 episode "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword", making his birthday
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this may be the only chance she has left to dally. He responds: "I've been married a long time; you get plenty of chances." In Season 3, Don has an affair lasting several months with his daughter's schoolteacher, Suzanne Farrell. Their relationship builds slowly over several accidental meetings and conversations laden with innuendo. Don becomes infatuated by Suzanne's optimism and kindness and they finally consummate their relationship in September 1963. On October 30, 1963, Don plans a weekend get-away with Suzanne,
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when he began showing signs of mental deterioration in Season 3. He moved in with the Drapers during season 3 and later died in that season, set in 1963. Betty has a brother, William, who is married to Judy and whose daughters Don and Betty consider to be "rowdy." Betty's confidantes have included her neighbor Francine Hanson and Glen Bishop, the young son of divorcée Helen Bishop. Ill-suited for parenting, Betty has a strained relationship with her children, particularly with her daughter Sally. Betty
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presence in season four is diminished compared to the previous seasons. Season 4 opens with Betty, Henry, and the children still living in the former Draper residence (which Don owns) following Betty's marriage to Henry. The residence is a point of contention for Don and Betty, as Don is still paying the mortgage, and Betty is required by their divorce agreement to move out but has not. Throughout Season 4, Betty finds her marriage to Henry strained by tensions with Don and by deteriorating relations with Sally. When
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sign his old client, American Airlines, after the airline publicly announces a shift in marketing. Draper protests, as pitching for the project requires the firm to drop Mohawk Airlines, one of Draper's main clients. The American Airlines pitch fails, significantly harming Phillips' reputation at the firm and creating palpable tension with Draper. Joan, having been outed to her coworkers by Paul as being 31 years old, becomes engaged to medical resident Greg Harris, who ultimately rapes Joan inside Don's office prior to the couple's wedding
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is inexperienced around them, and does not have maternal feelings. At the end of the same episode, Sally flees from Don, runs down the hall, then trips and falls into the arms of Don's new secretary, Megan Calvet who consoles the child much more effectively than Faye did. Dr. Miller feels forced into the situation and gets angry at Don for asking her to watch his daughter, telling him, "it felt like a test, and I failed." As Season 4 progresses, Don is no longer
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implied that Draper returned to the advertising world and created the ad, while others wrote that the episode did not provide a definite ending to Draper's story. Don Draper met his future wife, Betty Hofstadt, when she was working as a model, later surprising her when he purchased a fur she wore during a photo shoot. With that gesture being the start of their relationship, Betty and Don were soon married. The couple later has their first child, Sally, soon followed by a son, Bobby. In Season
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for Outstanding Drama Series, the Golden Globe Award for Best Drama Series, and a Peabody Award. The first season opens in March 1960, as genius advertising executive Donald "Don" Draper meets Peggy Olson, his new secretary. They both work at the small but prestigious agency Sterling Cooper. Though Don is welcoming towards her, Peggy is subject to passive-aggressive hostility from office manager Joan Holloway and sexual harassment from her male colleagues. Junior accounts manager Pete Campbell, who is about to get married, takes a liking
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meanwhile, save the company by signing new work with Topaz Pantyhose. Betty and Henry move out of the Drapers' Ossining home after Betty fires their nanny/housekeeper over her refusal to help Betty break up the budding friendship between Sally and Glen, a neighborhood boy who warns Sally of the dangers of parents who remarry. Don announces the news of his engagement to Megan to the office and, later, over the phone to Faye, who is left in tears. Don returns to the Draper home one last time to say
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Roger negotiates the acquisition of SC&P by McCann-Erickson, Cutler is initially opposed, but eventually concedes, realizing the amount of money his share in the agency will bring him. In Season 7, his status is clarified by Roger, who confirms that Cutler took the cash payoff and retired from the company. Cutler is a veteran of the Army Air Force and mentions that he participated in the Bombing of Dresden in February, 1945. Midge Daniels (Rosemarie DeWitt) is an art illustrator engaged in an affair with Don Draper
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, "I see Dick on the train". A female train passenger notices Whitman's look of grief and tells him to "forget that boy in the box". Whitman then turns his back on his family and begins his new life as "Donald Draper". Pete, who has demonstrated a propensity to snoop, expresses the belief that he should be promoted to head of accounts and throws his hat in the ring. He has also revealed his jealousy about Peggy and Don's success and sits at Don's desk
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"Nixon vs. Kennedy" in first season of the AMC cable drama "Mad Men" a train supposedly carrying the unrecognizable body of Pvt. Dick Whitman, who was killed in the Korean War, arrives in Sunbury. The escort officer with the casket is said to be Lt. Don Draper, and the casket is met by Dick Whitman's adoptive mother, his half brother, Adam and his mother's second husband. In fact, the person killed in Korea was Don Draper, and Dick Whitman has switched identities with
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Sterling Cooper, who acts as a professional and social mentor, as well as an occasional rival, to Peggy Olson, much as Don Draper is to Pete Campbell. Throughout the course of the series, Joan has a long-standing affair with Roger Sterling, which results in their conceiving a son. She ascribes the boy's fatherhood to her husband, a physician serving as a military officer in Vietnam, whom she later divorces. Joan eventually rises up to the level of partner at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce and the following
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Sterling introduce Don and Betty to Henry Francis (Christopher Stanley), the man who touched Betty's stomach. After that introduction, Trudy and Pete Campbell show off the Charleston to the guests. They dance to hide their jealousy of the Draper and Crane's talk about their pregnancy process. The Derby Party seems to have a bad ending for Don and Betty as drunken Jane reminds the Drapers of their recent separation. This upsets Betty, and she leaves Don alone with Jane. Roger sees Jane grabbing at Don's waist asking
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never had a sexual relationship with either. Draper and Pete Campbell initially dislike one another, as Draper at first sees Pete as the son of a wealthy "old money" New York City family, who received his job because of his family connections rather than professional talent. Don and Pete eventually grow to respect each other and a work friendship develops. Draper watches Pete become a smart and driven advertising executive. Pete realizes that Don is an important part of the firm's success and that Don supports Pete's professional development.
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Don they should not be uprooted. The final image of Sally is of her washing dishes while Betty smokes at the kitchen table. Megan Draper (née Calvet) (Jessica Paré) (born 1940/41) begins as a member of SCDP's typing pool, makes her first appearance at the beginning of Season 4, rises from receptionist to Don Draper's secretary, and ultimately marries Draper by of the beginning of Season 5. Following Miss Blankenship's sudden death, Megan is promoted from the main reception desk to take over as
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law has another stroke, necessitating a visit from Don at the Hofstadt home to keep up the appearance of a happy marriage. The Drapers pretend to be a happily married couple while visiting there. In his post-stroke confusion, Hofstadt openly expresses his disdain for his son-in-law, saying, "He's got no people. You can't trust a man like that." Don comforts Betty, who is distraught at her father’s decline, and they have sex, leading him to believe that she
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Donald Francis "Don" Draper is a fictional character and protagonist on the AMC television series "Mad Men" (2007–2015), portrayed by Jon Hamm. Up to the Season 3 finale, Draper was creative director of Manhattan advertising firm Sterling Cooper. He then became a founding partner at a new firm, Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, after he and his superiors left their previous agency in advance of an unwanted acquisition. The agency later merged with a rival firm, Cutler Gleason & Chaough, to become Sterling Cooper & Partners
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is ambivalent at first but Megan assuredly tells him not to worry because she only wants to have sex with him and she won't make a scene about it. With Dr. Miller's consulting firm no longer working with SCDP, she is pleased because she and Draper can now be "out in the open" with their relationship. During the Season 4 finale, "Tomorrowland," Dr. Miller believes their relationship is stronger than ever. However, when Betty suddenly fires her children's long-time nanny, Don scrambles to
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Draper's personal secretary. In the Season 4 episode "Chinese Wall", she indicates to Don an interest in advertising, and one night, while discussing work, Megan initiates a sexual encounter with Don on his office couch. She comments that she would not run out crying the next day if they slept together, presumably a reference to Don's previous secretary, Allison, who left SCDP in tears following Don's cold treatment of her after their one-night stand. In the Season 4 finale, Don hires Megan
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eventually setting Lane Pryce up with the prostitute one night in his apartment. While on a trip to California he visits Anna Draper in San Pedro, and attempts to seduce her 18-year-old niece Stephanie. Because she has known Draper since she was a child, she declines and tells him that her aunt has cancer. Later in the season, as Anna is on her deathbed, Don repeatedly contemplates calling her, but can't bring himself to say goodbye until it's too late. When Don goes home drunk after an
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Volkswagen advertising


The term itself is not standard German but a neologism (compound noun) created especially for this advertising campaign. One of the tag lines incorporating the word was: "Fahrvergnügen: It's what makes a car a Volkswagen". In episode 3, Season 1 of "Mad Men", "Marriage of Figaro", Don Draper and his associates discuss the "Lemon" advertisement at the beginning of the day. Draper is not amused at the ad but nevertheless concedes that it has retained their attention despite appearing in a
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An embarrassed Peggy admits to Don that she had an affair with Duck because "it was a confusing time" for her. Don is avoiding returning a call to the niece of his friend Anna Draper (Melinda Page Hamilton), who is dying from cancer. Before he can make the call, however, he falls asleep on Peggy's lap. In a dream he sees a vision of Anna with a suitcase, and when he finds out she is dead the next morning, he is not surprised. After a phone
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Men", directly or indirectly. In Season 1, Episode 3, Joan Holloway returns a borrowed copy of D. H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover"; the book's first U.S. publisher was Grove Press, who fought numerous court battles over it. Season 2, Episode 13 is titled "Meditations in an Emergency," after a book of poetry by Frank O'Hara published by Grove Press in 1957; later in the episode Don Draper is seen reading the book, after being challenged by a colleague ("You
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gets into a car accident. Having no one else to call and under arrest for drunk driving, he calls Peggy, who bails him and Bobbie Barret (with whom Don was having an affair) out of jail. Bobbie stays at Peggy's apartment for a few days and constantly asks Peggy why she is helping Don so much. It is revealed that at the end of Season 1, Peggy gave birth to a son, which she gave up for adoption. Traumatized by the experience, Peggy is forced to stay in
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's secretary, first at Sterling Cooper and later at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. Allison was first seen as Sterling Cooper's receptionist. By Season 3, she had become Don Draper's secretary. Though her character was little developed during the first three seasons, she was depicted as being competent and friendly. In Season 2, after Don asked that Jane Siegel be removed as his secretary, Allison was installed as her replacement. In Season 3, she occasionally flirted with Ken, and during Joan's going-away party she
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endangers his job. In Season 4, following his divorce from Betty, his drinking reaches a point that he begins experiencing alcoholic blackouts, resulting in his keeping a journal as means of coming to terms with his situation and cutting down on his consumption. By the end of season 6, having battled constantly with his crisis of identity, Draper is forced to take a leave of absence after revealing the truth about his upbringing to the would-be lucrative and prestigious client, Hershey's. His confession is brought on by a
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while pursuing a contract from Chevrolet. The character of Don Draper is partially inspired by Draper Daniels, a creative director at Leo Burnett advertising agency in Chicago in the 1950s, who worked on the Marlboro Man campaign. Donald Francis Draper is revealed through flashbacks to be the assumed identity of Richard "Dick" Whitman, born in Illinois to a prostitute and an abusive, alcoholic farmer, Archibald "Archie" Whitman. His mother died in labor, and his father was killed from a kick by a spooked horse, an accident
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let go as she claims "there are better places than (McCann-Erickson)." Dr. Faye Miller (Cara Buono) is a psychologist and freelance consultant who provides market research for Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. She meets Don the day of the 1964 office Christmas party in the Season 4 episode "Christmas Comes But Once a Year", and seems to immediately have multiple insights into Don's true character. She is a tough and independent "modern woman" whom Peggy admires. Although she wears a wedding ring,
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life anew as Don Draper, working as a used-car salesman. Anna M. Draper, widow of the real Don Draper, tracks him down. He informs her of Don's death and confesses to his masquerade. The two form a close bond that continues for many years. Anna remains a close friend and confidante until her death from bone cancer in 1965. The new Don Draper relocates to New York City, where he works as a fur salesman and attends City College at night. It is at this job that
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Chaough (Kevin Rahm) (pronounced ), is a self-proclaimed rival of Don Draper's in the advertising world. His agency, Cutler, Gleason, and Chaough (CGC), picks up Don's resigned accounts Clearasil and Belle Jolie, and is competing with Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce (SCDP) for an account with Honda in Season 4. Don tricks Ted into making an expensive presentation to Honda executives, which backfires on Ted as he violates Honda's presentation rules of no finished work or commercials. Though the
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they are staying. After spending a couple of days with a group of European tax exiles in Palm Springs, one of whom he beds, he ends up meeting with Anna Draper, the wife of the original Don Draper, whom he has set up in a bungalow in San Pedro. Anna comforts Don about his current marital troubles and identity crisis. Don returns home as the Cuban missile crisis begins. While Don is away, Roger bluntly informs Duck that a partnership is not forthcoming. Duck then meets with executives from his
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the battlefield is about a girl getting pregnant. So all of a sudden that entire issue [of pregnancy] has been removed from society. That was what I was interested in in 1960." Television commentators have noted the series' study of identity. This theme is explored most candidly through Don Draper's identity fraud during the Korean War, in which he takes on another soldier's name to leave the war. Tim Goodman considers identity to be the show's leitmotiv, calling Don Draper "a man who's been
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meetings before Henry proposes marriage in the wake of the Kennedy assassination. Season 3 ends with the two of them on a plane with baby Gene, flying to Reno so Betty can obtain a quick divorce from Don. At the start of Season 4, we see that Henry and Betty have married and Henry has rather uncomfortably taken up residence in the Drapers' house, living with Betty and her three children and initially paying no rent to Don. He tries to soothe Betty as she continues to react angrily to Don and his
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Draper Pryce. During Season 4, Don Draper finds a taped recording of Roger's memoirs "Sterling's Gold" in a drawer by accident, from which it is revealed that a younger Cooper was given an unnecessary orchiectomy during the "height of his sexual prime". Don and Peggy also learn that when Roger was a young man, he was sexually involved with Cooper's much older, very eccentric, long-time secretary, Ida Blankenship. Later in the Season 4 episode "Blowing Smoke", when the agency
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Sommersby


his commanding officer, Lt. Donald "Don" Draper, is killed in an artillery barrage. With his body charred beyond recognition, Whitman switches dog tags with Draper and assumes his identity. The widow of the real Don Draper, Anna Draper, hunts him down, believing Don has run out on her. Instead, she discovers the switch, becoming a very close friend of the fake Don Draper. In the final minutes of the "Family Guy" episode "Thanksgiving", another man claiming to be the real
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Draper (Jon Hamm) cooks breakfast for Sally (Kiernan Shipka), Bobby (Mason Vale Cotton) and Gene. He only gets to see them for a short time before he returns them to Betty and Henry’s impressive (but quite old) home. Don is now married to Megan, and turning forty (Dick Whitman's birthday having been several months earlier and Don Draper's about to occur). Megan, who now works under Peggy Olson (Elisabeth Moss) in creative, is planning a big surprise party
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has since achieved sobriety, receives a call from Draper and takes him out of the office under the pretense of seeing a New York Mets game thereby keeping him away from the office until he sobers up the next morning. By the end of Season 7, Draper has succeeded in curbing his drinking, and has secured his position at the new Sterling Cooper with the help of Roger. However, since his divorce from Betty he has consistently fluctuated between problem drinking and moderation depending on his personal circumstances. Hamm's portrayal of Don
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Betty and Faye, Don's secret was for the first time not confided under duress, as well as that Megan was sympathetic, accepting and loving in her reaction. It is also revealed that Don and Megan married sometime between seasons four and five (between October 1965 and May 1966) and have moved into a penthouse apartment on Park Avenue and 73rd. Over the course of the first year of his marriage to Megan, Don is besotted with Megan and her natural skill at her work. When Megan decides she wants to
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Garner has him fired. Romano goes to Draper for help, but when he explains what happened, Draper tells him he supports his dismissal, since Lucky Strike is too big a client to lose, and implies that Romano should have given Garner what he wanted. In contrast to the tolerant attitude he had earlier shown his colleague, he regards Romano now with homophobic disdain. While the Don Draper character is not color-blind in matters of race, he recognizes the changes sweeping the country and acknowledges the advertising potential of "
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California (with Megan in tow) and stops by Anna Draper's home, now occupied by Stephanie. Sally notices a message painted on the wall ("Dick + Anna 64") and asks Don who Dick is. Don responds: "That's me", and brushes the question off by claiming it's his nickname. Over the course of the weekend, Don decides that he is in love with Megan and after a night of lovemaking, proposes to her in a state of whimsy. Peggy and Ken,
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to Peggy and the two have sex the night of his bachelor party. Don, meanwhile, has trouble balancing his life as he cheats on his wife, Betty Draper, with a beatnik artist named Midge Daniels. Roger Sterling, the acerbic son of one of Sterling Cooper's founding partners, cheats on his wife, Mona, with Joan, with whom he is enamored. Sterling Cooper begins working for the 1960 Nixon presidential campaign, gratis and unbidden, as they believe Nixon's success will benefit their business. They are
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end of the episode she asks Don to return home, and tells him she is pregnant. Season 3 begins with Betty in her third trimester, seemingly reconciled with Don. In Episode 5, she gives birth to Eugene Scott Draper, whom she names after her father. After giving birth, Betty comes to the quick realization that her dream of everything being perfect will never come true. During Episode 3, Betty and Don attend a country club party hosted by Roger Sterling and his new wife, Jane Siegel Sterling, where
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other couple has left the Drapers. The Rosens and Drapers had such a good time they missed midnight. But then Dr. Rosen gets a call for emergency surgery. There is a snowstorm outside, so Don and Arnold Rosen head down to the building's storage room to get Rosen's skis. Don asks what it's like to have a life in his hands. Arnold replies it's a privilege and an honor to have the responsibility. He says Don gets paid to think about things people don't want to think about
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the advertising for Clearasil, a Sterling Cooper account. Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, he becomes more competitive with Don as the series progresses, and ultimately becomes a partner of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. Elizabeth "Betty" Francis (née Hofstadt, formerly Draper; January Jones) is the ex-wife of Don Draper (who affectionately called her "Betts," or on occasion "Birdy") and mother of their three children, Sally, Bobby, and Gene. Her family home was in Elkins
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mother of Megan Draper, Marie Calvet, at an awards dinner in Season 5 and the two have a brief but intense affair. When Marie returns late in Season 7 to help Megan move out of the Draper apartment, she calls Roger for help on settling the bill with the movers. At Marie's urging the two resume their relationship. They marry shortly thereafter and are last seen together in a café in Paris at the end of the series. Slattery has received four consecutive Primetime Emmy Award nominations and two Critics' Choice
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1963 and his coming to live with the Drapers, at Don's urging, in the Season 3 episode "Love Among the Ruins". He becomes especially close with his granddaughter, Sally Draper, before dying of a final stroke in June 1963 in the Season 3 episode "The Arrangements", shortly before his youngest grandchild is born. Betty names her new son "Gene" in honor of her late father. William Hofstadt (Eric Ladin) is Betty Draper's younger brother. He and his wife Judy (Megan
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is protective of his subordinates, admonishing Pete Campbell in the pilot about his rude remarks to and about Peggy Olson. Draper is also protective of his colleagues; for example, he berates several subordinates for mocking Freddy Rumsen's episode of urinary incontinence, a symptom of Rumsen's alcoholism. Draper adheres to a stricter code of business ethics than many of his colleagues. A Season 2 arc has him upset about being told to drop the smaller local Mohawk Airlines as a client in hopes of picking up American Airlines. In Season 3
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Peggy Olson


Margaret "Peggy" Olson is a fictional character in the AMC television series "Mad Men", and is portrayed by Elisabeth Moss. Initially, Peggy is secretary to Don Draper (Jon Hamm), creative director of the advertising agency Sterling Cooper. Later, she is promoted to copywriter, the first female writer at the firm since World War II. She later joins Draper when he leaves Sterling Cooper to become a founding member of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. By the end of Season 4, Peggy is effectively Draper's
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Mad Men (season 2)


. It will shock you how much it never happened." After a short affair, Roger proposes to Jane Siegel, Draper's secretary, and ends his marriage with Mona, causing personal and (with a looming divorce) financial pressures in the partnership. Don takes a business trip to California during his exile from home. During this trip, he disappears, his whereabouts unknown both to his wife and children and his business associates, including Pete Campbell, whom he accompanied to California and whom he leaves at the hotel where
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we are all Don Drapers, obsessed with selling an image rather than tending to what lies underneath. Draper's fatal flaw is his lack of psychological awareness: He is at once perfectly tuned into the desires of America and entirely out of touch with his own character". One reviewer said that "Identity is a key theme in "Mad Men", and nobody is ever quite who they appear to be. Each one is filled with thwarted ambitions and frustrated dreams, none more so than Don Draper himself, whose closet
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The Suitcase


about it together, this is the place that they can talk about it. I also think that Don’s interest in it is really a big part of it." Weiner elaborated on Draper's dislike for Duck, attributing it to Duck's "lack of understanding of creative" and "his alcoholism", while citing Duck's sexual relationship with Peggy, who Weiner said could be Don's daughter figure in that moment. On the subject of Don's vision of the deceased Anna Draper, Weiner said, "Once
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Mad Men (season 1)


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 is the growing confidence and success of Peggy Olson. The first season was highly praised for its excellence in writing, acting, and art design, as well as for its faithfulness to the era it depicted. It was acknowledged with numerous honors from industry awards, including the Primetime Emmy Award
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Pete Campbell


that Don stole another man’s identity; in later seasons, however, Pete saves Don from being exposed as an imposter. Pete is said to have attended The Buckley School (New York City), Deerfield Academy, and Dartmouth College, and it is implied that he was in the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity at the latter. Unlike many other characters, he is a nonsmoker. Pete is an account executive at Sterling Cooper until December 1963, when he leaves to join Don Draper's new firm. His position at Sterling
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Flight 1 (Mad Men)


and phony about her age. Joan asks Peggy who did it, and gets no real answer. In the evening, Draper meets with the Mohawk Airlines CEO and tells them that their business is over. The CEO is unhappy and tells Don that he fooled them into thinking they would grow together. Draper is disappointed with the whole situation since it wasn't his choice and yet the CEO thinks it was all up to him. Meanwhile, Duck is meeting with the American Airlines representative and Pete unexpectedly walks in and tries to
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ghost appears to Don in his car, chatting and giving him a bit of insight during a late-night drive. Lane Pryce (Jared Harris), previously employed at Puttnam, Powell and Lowe, becomes a junior partner at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce at the end of Season 3. Despite being a junior partner, his name is on the company's masthead. In the fifth season, after embezzling funds from the company, he forges a check and gets caught by Don, who tells him to resign. After typing
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Don Draper


pre-presentation round of drinks, and is the concluding incident in a long line of other drinking-related incidents that lead the partners of SC&P to finally take action; they put him on indefinite leave. Draper is hired back during Season 7, with a sobriety clause in his new contract. He violates these terms when he realizes during a conversation regarding new business with Bert Cooper that he is no longer valued as an active player in the agency. The other partners however do not realize this because Freddy Rumsen, who
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Peggy Olson


the hospital for a long time, and Don was the only one who cared enough to investigate her whereabouts and is also the only one who visits her in the hospital, besides her mother. Peggy and Don have an intense conversation in the hospital, and he encourages her to do what the doctors are telling her to do. At the end of the episode, "The New Girl", Peggy calls him "Don" instead of "Mr. Draper", which she has been doing since the beginning of the series
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List of Mad Men characters


gets Sterling Cooper involved with the 1960 Nixon campaign, providing advertising services to the campaign "gratis". Cooper is the second character at Sterling Cooper to learn that Don Draper is actually Dick Whitman, after Pete Campbell informs him of the truth, but he reacts with nonchalance, remarking, "Mr. Campbell, "who cares?"" and urging him to forget about it. He keeps silent about Don's identity but uses this knowledge two years later in the Season 3 episode "Seven Twenty Three" to pressure Don
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Betty Draper


Betty meets with Henry, who confesses his desire to marry her. They passionately kiss, and after the encounter, Betty returns home to tell Don she no longer loves him, leaving him stunned. This culminates in her seeing a divorce lawyer in the season 3 finale. During the same episode, Roger, whose daughter is friends with Henry's daughter, unintentionally reveals to Don that Betty and Francis are involved. An incensed Don confronts Betty. After calling her a whore, he assures her that she "won't get
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Don turns to Peggy and breaks down in tears. Peggy comforts Don, and the two hold hands in an act of friendship. After Anna's death, Don cuts down on his drinking and is shown to be increasingly introspective; he begins to keep a journal and exercise regularly. He asks Faye Miller, a consultant at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, out on a formal date. The two become involved in a relationship. Around the same time, Roger and Joan have sex after getting mugged in a poor neighborhood. Joan
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Betty Draper


a nickel" in the ensuing divorce, and he intends to seek sole custody of the children. The next morning, Don and Betty inform the children they are separating, and both older children react badly. After moving into Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce's new office, Don calls Betty and tells her he will not fight her, and he wishes her the best. She tells him he'll always be their children's father. The season ends with Betty taking a plane to Reno with baby Gene and Henry. Betty's
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Tomorrowland (Mad Men)


and that "there's no such thing as a fresh start". Later, we see Betty sleeping alone in Sally's bedroom. In California, Don discovers that Megan is great with his kids, having had experience with her nephews and nieces. Don takes the kids to visit Anna Draper's home. The children see "Dick & Anna '64" painted on the wall from Don's earlier visit. Sally asks who Dick is, and after hesitating, Don tells her that "Dick" is a nickname he
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Dark Shadows (Mad Men)


Anna Draper, in an attempt to cause turmoil amongst Sally, Don, and Megan. Don and Peggy are both irritated by Michael Ginsberg's rising star, and Don takes a devious approach to clip the wings of the cheeky young copywriter. Roger gets handed a new client (Manischewitz) by Bert Cooper, but Roger's decision that he needs more Jewish input to help him prompts him to involve his estranged wife Jane Siegel, with unfortunate results. Pete continues to resent the ending of his brief affair with Beth, the
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Don and Betty Draper as Don's infidelities further intrude on his family life. The second season also introduces an unknown acquaintance, with whom Don is corresponding by letter in secret. The second season of "Mad Men" was met with critical acclaim: it was honored with the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series, the Golden Globe Award for Best Drama Series, and recognition by the American Film Institute, all for the second year in a row. Season two opens on Valentine's Day, 1962, fifteen months after
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A Little Kiss


Megan Draper, captured America's attention…seducing the audience - if not her new husband Don Draper." She also noted the performance's "…unyielding coyness and high voltage sexuality." Alexandra Kaptik of "The Wall Street Journal" said "One of the most talked-about scenes…was Megan Draper’s sultry performance…" "Slate" Haglund described the song as "The centerpiece of the Mad Men season 5 premiere". Matthew Perpetua of "Rolling Stone" described the scene as "a highlight of
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to either have Draper follow his lead or be sent out the door, using the non-compete clause in Don's contract as leverage. In Don's absence, Peggy successfully brings in the Popsicle account and uses this as leverage to acquire Freddy Rumsen's old office. Pete is impressed by this maneuver and his romantic interests in Peggy are rekindled. Although married to Trudy, Pete professes his love for Peggy and tells her that he wishes he had married her instead. Peggy explains to Pete that she could have shamed him
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Commissions and Fees


the season finale, stating: "After dallying with melodrama (Pete and Beth Dawes, Harry and Hari Kinsey), the show has moved back towards the darker, more sophisticated narratives of cause and unexpected consequence. This week Lane may have taken his own life, but Don also got his mojo back and the two were directly related." Verne Gay of "Newsday" compared the characters of Lane Pryce and Don Draper, stating: "Both have secret lives protected by carefully constructed façades. For both, the façade
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and Don Draper live in a large house in suburban Ossining, New York, with their children Sally (played by Kiernan Shipka) and Bobby. In the second episode, set in the spring of 1960, Betty starts to see a psychiatrist to address repeated spells of numbness in her hands, which medical doctors have indicated are psychosomatic. It was during these meetings that, after having discovered the psychiatrist was giving reports of her sessions to Don, she voiced her suspicion that her husband was unfaithful. By the start of the
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Ossining (village), New York


of the Crotonville Institute, the famous General Electric leadership training facility, founded in 1956. In seasons 1–3 of AMC's TV series "Mad Men", Ossining is home to lead character Don Draper and his family. It remains the home of his ex-wife, Betty, and their children through much of season 4, until they move to Rye. In FX's "The Shield", transfer to Ossining is offered to an inmate in exchange for testimony, stated as "Safe and sound in Ossining, New
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Mad Men (season 4)


The fourth season of the American television drama series "Mad Men" premiered on July 25, 2010 and concluded on October 17, 2010. It consisted of thirteen episodes, each running approximately 48 minutes in length. AMC broadcast the fourth season on Sundays at 10:00 pm in the United States. 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
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a resignation letter, Lane commits suicide by hanging himself in his office. Sally Beth Draper (Kiernan Shipka) is Don and Betty Draper's oldest child. The series' third episode, "Marriage of Figaro," depicts a party for her 6th birthday in late March or early April 1960. She becomes a more central character in the Seasons 3 and 4 (according to the time line of the series, she would turn nine years old in season 3 and 11 in season 4); from Season 4, she
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her paintings. Anna M. Draper (Melinda Page Hamilton) is the widow of the real Don Draper, the man whose identity Dick Whitman stole after Don's death during the Korean War. She has a noticeable limp as a result of polio and a sister named Patty (Susan Leslie), in whom the real Don Draper was interested before he married Anna. Anna tracks down Dick/Don while he is working as a used car salesman and confronts him about her husband. Dick/Don tells her he died, and
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Draper also has a close relationship with Roger Sterling. They are generally depicted as overlooking each other's personal failings and supporting one another at work. Roger saves a drunken Don from drowning after Don falls into a swimming pool while they are attending a party in Hollywood. Don inspires Roger to refocus his efforts at SCDP causing Roger to engineer the firm's acquisition of the Chevrolet account. Roger fights to get Don reinstated at SCDP after his forced leave of absence. Draper is occasionally shown to regret how he treats his family.
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Alexa Alemanni


La Milonga" and "Sanctuary", neither of which received a theatrical release. Her first appearance on "Mad Men" was in the third episode of the first season, "The Marriage of Figaro". Alemanni appeared in three other episodes in the first season, but appeared only once in the second season. With her character having been installed as Don Draper's secretary, she appeared in 11 of the 13 episodes of season 3. Alemanni was included among the cast of "Mad Men" as a winner at
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Mad Men (season 1)


command of a Lieutenant Donald Draper, who is soon to be sent home. After an attack, an accidental explosion kills Draper and injures Whitman. Whitman switches dog tags with his lieutenant and assumes Draper's identity as a way to escape the war. The Army has "Draper" take Whitman's body back to Whitman's family. The coffin is dropped off by train, and Whitman does not exit to greet his family, but a young Adam sees Whitman standing inside the train. Adam's parents dismiss his entreaties that
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The Other Woman (Mad Men)


in season one. I fought against it, to play it as she was living it, feeling it, and not be in my head. Not knowing Peggy would quit allowed me to find it for myself, to really feel Peggy's growing frustration with Don all season." According to Moss, Peggy "has the capability of being a Don Draper, and there can't be two of them in the office." The goodbye scene between Don and Peggy was a difficult one to shoot. Moss said, "
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Mad Men (season 2)


. In spite of this, Joan remains with her fiancé. As fellow creative Freddy Rumsen devolves into alcoholism, Don has to step in to handle the obnoxious antics of his talent, comedian Jimmy Barrett, and ends up having an extramarital affair with Barrett's wife, Bobbie. Don's relationship with Bobbie is significantly more volatile than his past affairs. After Don discovers that Bobbie and other women around town have been discussing Don's sexual prowess, Don leaves her tied to a hotel bed in her lingerie. Later, a
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Harry Draper


Harry Draper (1887 – after 1910) was an English professional footballer who played in the Football League for Birmingham. Draper was born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. He played local football in Rotherham and spent a season in the Midland League with Rotherham County before joining Birmingham of the Football League Second Division in April 1910. Draper, a playmaker, made three first-team appearances in a struggling side; his debut came on 8 October 1910 in a 3–1 home defeat to Stockport County. He failed to settle, and returned nearer
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Maidenform (Mad Men)


"Maidenform" is the sixth episode in the second season of the American television drama series Mad Men. It was written by Matthew Weiner and directed by Phil Abraham. The episode originally aired on the AMC channel in the United States on August 31, 2008. The episode begins with a montage of the female leads getting dressed before cutting to a Maidenform ad thrown onto Don Draper's (Jon Hamm) desk. The camera cuts to show Herman “Duck” Phillips (Mark Moses), who informs Don that Sterling-
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put a positive spin on being dropped from Lucky Strike (and perhaps partly motivated by Midge's desperation and inner destruction), Don writes an Op Ed in "The New York Times" proclaiming to the nation that Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce is taking a healthful stand and, from here on out, will no longer be doing business with Big Tobacco. The sensational move does not go over well with the other SCDP employees, except Megan, who admires it. In October 1965, Don takes his kids on a trip to
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