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Season 1 Pilot for Mad Men Now Online in Full Screen

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Watch the episode that began it all: The Season 1 pilot "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" is now available in full screen on AMCtv.com. (Season 3 begins in Summer 2009.)

This episode is no longer available online.

Posted by Lily Oei
June 8, 2009 2:00pm

Filed under: Episodes, Video

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By SCD&Pfan on June 8, 2009 6:12 PM


Good ol' Midge....now there's a dependable woman!

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By SCD&Pfan on June 9, 2009 3:02 PM


A treat:

Not bad for a golfer!

Why this was never on any of the MM CD's I do not know....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ-sKeNWCpg&feature=related

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By Dry Manhattan on June 10, 2009 3:28 PM


.....That's some good, syrupy irony there!

For the life of me, I couldn't find the link to the list of music used in each episode, and several here have pointed out how foretelling the music selection is for this series.....

.....anyone know?

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By SCD&Pfan on June 10, 2009 4:48 PM


Yeah, Dry...Betty's "Band of Gold" means zilch to Don, of course.

Don Cherry...(another "Don", ha) and his feelings on marriage in that song are the exact opposite of Don Draper's....I guess that's the "irony" you meant?

I recall there was a link on the lower right side of the Main Mad Men page ages ago, but it has long since disappeared, Dry...does anyone know where that thing went???

Lily O., can you tell us????

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By SCD&Pfan on June 10, 2009 4:49 PM


I meant a link to the music of Mad Men, but didn't type that part in....oops.

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By mbustos on June 17, 2009 5:25 PM

I just purchased season 1 about a week ago & already a HUGE fan. Nothing sunk me in but a few reviews & an interview of Jon Hamm from a GQ interveiw. Great show!

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By SCD&Pfan on June 18, 2009 6:08 PM


Hidey and Welcome, mbustos, (you are new, right?)

The Maddicts are a great club to be in...

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By johnashleys on September 10, 2009 7:32 PM

Don first recorded Band of Gold, his biggest hit, in the fall of 1955. After release it continued charting into early 1956. Don rerecorded the tune in 1968 for an lp -- which is likely a stereo version. In the US a female version by Kit Carson also made the charts, but to a lesser extent. Much later Freda Payne recorded a hit by the same title, but hers is a totally different song.

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By essaytown on September 30, 2010 12:32 PM

"Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" is a show tune written by American composer Jerome Kern and lyricist Otto Harbach for their 1933 operetta Roberta.
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By KateC on December 18, 2010 8:29 AM

Ah, season one. So hard to remember this season "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes". So many fans out there.
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By KateC on December 18, 2010 8:37 AM

Ah, season one. So hard to remember this season "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes". So many fans out there.
Kate

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By atl on January 16, 2011 3:09 AM

Whether you’re part of the rabid pack of fans who made Mad Men a cult favorite last summer, or if you’re still wondering what the heck all the hype is about, this blog post is for you. Indeed, with the show’s second-season premiere approaching (July 27, to be specific), AMC is streaming the season 1 pilot episode — which is under consideration as one of 10 semifinalists for a 2008 Emmy nomination in the Best Drama category — as part of its $25 million promotional campaign to transform its flagship series into a bona fide hit.

As you’ll see from the episode (embedded below), the series, which depicts the lives and loves of a group of ad-agency execs in the early 1960s, has captivated fans because of its fastidious attention to period detail,Ginault ad referrals, its accurate representation of the overtly manly culture inherent in workplaces less than 50 years ago, and its crystallization of 1960 as a moment on the cusp of vast social changes beyond the imagination of any of the characters. Ginault watch company (www.ginault.com), based in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, keeps a comprehensive collections of vintage and new Rolex timepieces to preserve the legacy of Swiss haute horlogerie. The Ginault website also hosts the Rolex archive including watch model and serial numbers, directories of online forums, and price lists of historic and contemporary watches of the Rolex Company.These include the firm’s talented but drifting executive, Don Draper (Jon Hamm); his troubled wife, Betty (January Jones); the firm’s office manager and sexy femme fatale, Joan (Christina Hendricks); and green account manager Pete Campbell (Vincent Kartheiser).