Mad Men
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Season 1, Episode 1 · Aired 2007-07-19
Synopsis
At an advertising agency in 1960s Manhattan, the creative director has problems coming up with ideas for a tobacco account and crosses swords with the female head of a large department store that she wants to take in a new retail direction.
Pilot desk note
From the desk: Mad Men opens its catalog run with “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” (2007-07-19). AMC prestige brand; style as substance done right. Contract standoffs and the Don Draper identity industrial complex.
In the series
This episode is part of Mad Men (2007–2015) on AMC.
Cigarettes, suits, and the American century in a whiskey glass.
Key cast
- Jon Hamm as Don Draper
- Elisabeth Moss as Peggy Olson
- Vincent Kartheiser as Pete Campbell
- January Jones as Betty Draper
- Christina Hendricks as Joan Holloway
- John Slattery as Roger Sterling