# Mad Men season 7

The seventh and final season of the American television drama series Mad Men premiered on April 13, 2014, and concluded on May 17, 2015, on AMC. The season consists of 14 episodes split into two, seven-episode parts: the first half, titled "The Beginning", aired from April 13 to May 25, 2014; and the second half, titled "The End of an Era", aired from April 5 to May 17, 2015. The first part of the seventh season was released on Blu-ray/DVD on October 21, 2014, and the second half was released on October 13, 2015. Each episode in the season has a running time of approximately 48 minutes, with the exception of the final two episodes which are 54 and 57 minutes, respectively.
The first part of season 7 begins in January 1969, several weeks after the Thanksgiving 1968 ending of season 6, with characters dealing with the dynamics of lives and offices being split between New York and Los Angeles, and ends in July 1969. The second part of season 7 takes place between April and November 1970. Both halves received critical acclaim, and based on year-end lists published by television critics, Mad Men's seventh season was the seventh most acclaimed series of 2014 for its first seven episodes, and was the second most acclaimed series of 2015 for its final episodes.

## Cast
### Main cast

* Jon Hamm as Don Draper
* Elisabeth Moss as Peggy Olson
* Vincent Kartheiser as Pete Campbell
* January Jones as Betty Francis
* Christina Hendricks as Joan Harris
* Aaron Staton as Ken Cosgrove
* Rich Sommer as Harry Crane
* Kiernan Shipka as Sally Draper
* Jessica Paré as Megan Draper
* Kevin Rahm as Ted Chaough
* Christopher Stanley as Henry Francis
* Jay R. Ferguson as Stan Rizzo
* Ben Feldman as Michael Ginsberg
* Mason Vale Cotton as Bobby Draper
* Robert Morse as Bert Cooper
* John Slattery as Roger Sterling

### Recurring cast

* Harry Hamlin as Jim Cutler
* Joel Murray as Freddy Rumsen
* Stephanie Drake as Meredith
* Allan Havey as Lou Avery
* Trevor Einhorn as John Mathis
* Beth Hall as Caroline
* Teyonah Parris as Dawn Chambers
* Sola Bamis as Shirley
* Jessy Schram as Bonnie Whiteside
* Elizabeth Rice as Margaret Hargrove
* H. Richard Greene as Jim Hobart
* Talia Balsam as Mona Sterling
* Julia Ormond as Marie Calvet
* Kit Williamson as Ed Gifford
* Jill Alexander as Marsha
* Alison Brie as Trudy Campbell
* Christine Estabrook as Gail Holloway
* Elizabeth Reaser as Diana Bauer
* Juliette Angelo as Carol
* Pamela Shaddock as Loretta
* Greg Cromer as Dennis Ford
* Rachel DiPillo as Sherry
* David James Elliott as Dave Wooster
* Christine Garver as Moira
* Kiva Jump as Dee
* Johnathan McClain as Alan Silver
* Gabriella Weltman as Yolanda
* Bruce Greenwood as Richard Burghoff
* Paul Johansson as Ferg Donnelly
* Caity Lotz as Stephanie Horton

### Guest stars

* Neve Campbell as Lee Cabot
* James Wolk as Bob Benson
* Larisa Oleynik as Cynthia Cosgrove
* Ray Wise as Ed Baxter
* Anne Dudek as Francine Hanson
* Brian Markinson as Dr. Arnold Rosen
* Linda Cardellini as Sylvia Rosen
* Maggie Siff as Rachel Katz (née Menken)
* Rebecca Creskoff as Barbara Katz
* Mimi Rogers as Pima Ryan
* Marten Holden Weiner as Glen Bishop
* Rich Hutchman as Bud Campbell
* Mark Moses as Herman "Duck" Phillips
* Brett Gelman as Daniel
* Evan Arnold as Leonard

## Episodes

| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | US viewers (millions) |
| Part 1: The Beginning |||||||
| 79 | 1 | "Time Zones" | Scott Hornbacher | Matthew Weiner | April 13, 2014 (2014-4-13) | 2.27 |
| It is January 1969. On suspension after the loss of the Hershey account, Don visits the West Coast to salvage his marriage to Megan, while secretly feeding Freddy copy. Peggy is at odds with her new boss, Lou Avery, who is condescending to the creative team. Ken has taken over as Head of Accounts in Pete's absence, and has grown into a very irritable, temperamental man, far different than his more mild mannered, easy going style in the past. After a tense first meeting arranged by Ken, Joan convinces Butler Footwear's new head of marketing, a very sexist man who talks down to Joan, not to drop SC&P. While Roger is exploring the counterculture, his daughter Margaret tells him she has forgiven him for any past wrongdoing as part of her newfound enlightenment. Pete has embraced the Los Angeles lifestyle, while Ted devotes all his attention to his work. He has an awkward run-in with Peggy when he visits the New York office. Peggy now is a landlord and grows tired of dealing with the needs of her tenants. Don and Megan have a pleasant dinner with her Hollywood agent, and their reconciliation seems to be beginning well even if Don will be bicoastal for a while. Megan takes more control of her life in California, insisting on driving, setting rules for the house, and getting angry at Don for buying a color TV without asking her first. On his flight back to New York, Don's seatmate is an attractive widow who comforts him when he admits to having been a bad husband. It's not clear if the widow is a fragment of Don's imagination or someone real. The episode ends with Peggy crying on the floor of her apartment, frustrated and sad at the direction her life is going, while Don sits outside in the cold on his patio, disheveled and tearing up. |||||||
| 80 | 2 | "A Day's Work" | Michael Uppendahl | Jonathan Igla and Matthew Weiner | April 20, 2014 (2014-4-20) | 1.89 |
| It is February 1969. Conflict erupts at SC&P on Valentine's Day. Pete wins the Southern California Chevrolet dealers' association as clients, but the other partners, led by Jim, insist that they get approval from the Chevy corporate office. Pete feels lost in California, running into conflicts with SC&P, as well as in his new relationship with Bonnie, who puts her career first. Don goes to lunch with a friend from a competing agency, who tries to recruit him, but Don tells him he won't leave SC&P. Peggy wrongly assumes that her secretary Shirley's flowers are for her, from Ted, and tells Joan to get her a new secretary. Sally stops by SC&P unannounced, and Lou gets caught in an awkward position when he has to lie to her about Don while Dawn is out shopping for him for Valentine's Day. He demands a replacement secretary for Dawn, who is still helping Don outside the office and covertly passing him information. Jim recognizes that Joan is working two jobs and suggests she relinquish the post of personnel head and move upstairs to her own office in Accounts. Joan appoints Dawn as her replacement after Bert objects to having a black woman at reception. Jim cautions Roger about being an adversary. Meanwhile, Don and Sally bond when he admits to having been put on leave, and she admits to using a roommate's family funeral partly as an excuse to go shopping in Manhattan. |||||||
| 81 | 3 | "Field Trip" | Christopher Manley | Heather Jeng Bladt and Matthew Weiner | April 27, 2014 (2014-4-27) | 2.02 |
| It is April 1969. Don flies to Los Angeles, at the request of Megan's agent, and inadvertently reveals to Megan that he has been on leave from SC&P since the previous year. Megan, upset at Don's deception, reacts badly and throws him out, and he returns to New York. He secures a job offer from a rival firm, which he then takes to Roger, telling him that he wants to return to work. Roger relents, telling him to report to the office on Monday. Don arrives at the office only to learn that Roger has neglected to tell anyone about Don's return. Roger, Joan, Cutler, and Bert meet to discuss the matter, and the latter three are initially in favor of firing Don outright, but Roger points out that this would require buying back Don's shares in the agency, which they are not in a position to do. Don is ultimately allowed to return, albeit under rigid and draconian conditions which he must agree to in writing, with the threat of dismissal and forfeiture of all his shares in the company for even the slightest transgression, including being demoted from Creative Director to Copywriter, and reporting to Peggy. Peggy's negative relationship with new boss Lou Avery continues to worsen when she finds out he didn't submit any of her work for consideration for the Clios, only submitting one piece from Michael Ginsberg. Harry tells Jim the agency needs a computer to keep the media department up to date against competing agencies. Betty accompanies Bobby on a school field trip, but their day is soured after Bobby mistakenly gives away her lunch sandwich to a classmate. Betty later laments feeling unloved by her children. |||||||
| 82 | 4 | "The Monolith" | Scott Hornbacher | Erin Levy | May 4, 2014 (2014-5-4) | 2.14 |
| While having dinner with his new girlfriend Bonnie, Pete runs into a former employee at Vicks, who tells him Tom Vogel, Pete's father-in-law, had a heart attack. Pete is blindsided by the news and seems bothered by how distant he is now from Trudy. Don moves into Lane Pryce's old office and is haunted by his unresolved feelings over his death. He finds Lane's old New York Mets pennant and throws it in the trash, before deciding to put it on the wall in his memory. Roger learns that his daughter Margaret has run away to a hippie commune upstate, and travels there with Mona to retrieve her. Margaret, now calling herself "Marigold", claims to be happy there. Roger unsuccessfully attempts to get Margaret to return for her son's sake, but she feels Roger's neglectful parenting justifies her eschewing her own parental responsibilities. Cutler announces the installation of an IBM computer in the agency's creative lounge. Don befriends the owner of the tech start-up installing the computer, and pushes Bert to pursue them as a client, but Bert reminds Don that he isn't allowed to pursue new business without having the partners involved. Pete learns Burger Chef is putting McCann Erickson in review; seizing the opportunity, SC&P's partners agree to put Don on the account, against Lou's wishes. Lou places Peggy in charge of the account, giving her a $100 weekly raise as appeasement for having to include Don on her team. Peggy feels the account was given to her in hopes that either she or Don would fail. She assigns Don and Mathis 25 taglines each, but Don, resenting his loss of status at work, decides instead to get drunk and go with Freddy to a baseball game. Freddy later admonishes Don to sober up and commit to his work. Don returns to SC&P newly motivated and begins writing tags for Peggy. |||||||
| 83 | 5 | "The Runaways" | Christopher Manley | David Iserson and Matthew Weiner | May 11, 2014 (2014-5-11) | 1.86 |
| Stan finds a folder of cartoons drawn by Lou, which are roundly mocked by the creative team. Anna's niece Stephanie, who is pregnant out of wedlock and running out of money in Los Angeles, calls Don for help. Don asks Megan to let Stephanie stay with her. Megan accepts, but becomes insecure over Stephanie's youthful wanderlust and closeness with Don; she writes her a check for $1,000 and encourages her to leave. Henry and Betty fight after she voices her contrarian opinions on the Vietnam War at a dinner party. Sally breaks her nose in a golf club "fight", angering Betty. Bobby fears Betty and Henry will divorce and wants to run away with Sally. Don visits Megan in California and attends her party for her acting friends. Harry is present and goes to a bar with Don, where he informs him that Lou and Cutler are pursuing Philip Morris' Commander cigarettes and plan to fire Don. Afterwards, Megan initiates a threesome with Don and her friend Amy in a desperate attempt to rekindle passion into her marriage with Don. Don returns to New York and interrupts Lou and Cutler's meeting with Philip Morris executives, advocating for himself in light of his anti-tobacco letter. Ginsberg's paranoia about the new office computer culminates in a psychotic break, leading him to sever his own nipple and gift it to Peggy in a box; a horrified Peggy calls the authorities, who wheel Ginsberg out on a stretcher. |||||||
| 84 | 6 | "The Strategy" | Phil Abraham | Semi Chellas | May 18, 2014 (2014-5-18) | 1.93 |
| It is June 1969. Bob Benson learns Chevy is dispensing with SC&P's services, but that he will soon be offered a job at Buick as a show of appreciation. Bob tells Joan about the offer and proposes marriage to provide him a respectable profile as a family man, but she turns him down. In light of Chevy's departure, Cutler proposes publicizing the agency's computer and naming Harry as a partner. An executive from McCann Erickson runs into Roger at a health spa and hints that he's interested in acquiring SC&P. Pete takes Bonnie to New York but leaves her in the city while visiting his daughter in Connecticut, becoming annoyed when Trudy is absent and fighting with her upon her return. Bonnie chastises Pete for abandoning her and leaves for California without him. Megan visits New York and while she and Don seem to have a pleasant visit, she packs up many of her items in their apartment and takes them back with her to California, a sign that there are still problems with their marriage. Peggy visits several Burger Chef locations and proposes an impressive media campaign, but Pete insists that Don present to Burger Chef to secure their success. Peggy asks Don for feedback on her pitch, and both end up agreeing it could use improvement; Peggy decides to rework the entire strategy over the weekend. Don visits, and the two share a tender embrace after confiding their anxieties to one another. |||||||
| 85 | 7 | "Waterloo" | Matthew Weiner | Carly Wray and Matthew Weiner | May 25, 2014 (2014-5-25) | 1.94 |
| Cutler attempts to have Don fired for breach of contract; Don calls Megan and proposes moving to California should he lose his job at SC&P, but she declines, effectively declaring their marriage over. Betty's friend from college visits with her family, during which Sally kisses one of her sons while outside looking at stars through a telescope. Ted takes Sunkist out for a flight, and is so depressed, he shuts off the engine of the plane, frightening the customers and almost losing the business. Peggy's neighbor Julio tells her his family is moving and that he doesn't want to leave. Don ultimately thwarts Cutler's ploy with Roger, Pete and Bert's support. Live broadcast of the first Moon landing captures the nation's attention; Bert passes away in his sleep shortly after watching the broadcast. Consequently, Don's status in the company is uncertain, and he decides Peggy should lead the presentation to Burger Chef. Peggy nails the pitch, winning the account. As a counter to Cutler's plans to out-vote Don from the company, Roger holds a secret meeting with McCann Erickson, negotiating a deal to sell 51% of SC&P and make it an independent subsidiary of McCann, with Roger as its president. The remaining partners, all offered five-year contracts by McCann, agree to the deal, with Don persuading Ted that he will be happier under the new arrangement and Cutler eventually relenting. Harry, meanwhile, misses out on his partnership. After learning from Peggy that they have won the Burger Chef account, Don has a vision of Bert performing "The Best Things in Life Are Free" with a chorus of secretaries. |||||||
| Part 2: The End of an Era |||||||
| 86 | 8 | "Severance" | Scott Hornbacher | Matthew Weiner | April 5, 2015 (2015-4-5) | 2.27 |
| Picking up in April 1970, Don, who is once again Creative Director and has moved back into his old office, has resumed his womanizing ways as a bachelor. He has a cryptic dream about Rachel Menken and attempts to reconnect with her, only to learn she recently died of leukemia. He also encounters a waitress named Diana at a diner, convinced they have met before, but she insists they are strangers—before having sex with him. Peggy and Joan attend a business meeting at McCann Erickson, during which Joan is sexually harassed; this results in an argument between Peggy and Joan after the meeting. Roger and Ferg Donnelly fire Ken Cosgrove, as McCann Erickson still has lingering resentment towards him for taking Birds Eye away and for bad mouthing the agency. Cynthia wants Ken to quit advertising and pursue writing full-time, saying he's miserable and hates his job, and that they have money, so he can do what he wants. Ken, who initially resists Cynthia's request, eventually agrees with her, but subsequently takes over his father-in-law's position at Dow Chemical and informs Roger and Pete that he will actively make Dow a difficult client to them, out of spite. Peggy goes on a date with Johnny Mathis' brother-in-law. The date goes well, and the two make impromptu plans to travel to Paris, but these plans are put on hold as Peggy cannot find her passport. The next morning she dismisses the experience as drunken foolishness. Don and Diana finally seem to pursue a relationship. |||||||
| 87 | 9 | "New Business" | Michael Uppendahl | Tom Smuts and Matthew Weiner | April 12, 2015 (2015-4-12) | 1.97 |
| Betty reveals to Don that she is pursuing a degree in psychology. Pima Ryan, a famous commercial artist collaborating with SC&P, seduces Stan and unsuccessfully attempts to seduce Peggy. Megan, who is struggling to find work, rejects a sexual proposition from Harry, then accepts a million dollar check from Don, as a divorce settlement. Marie helps Megan move her belongings out of Don's apartment and, ignoring Megan's instructions about the few items to take, removes all of Don's furniture, summons Roger to pay the movers, and then has sex with Roger in the apartment. Don continues pursuing a relationship with Diana and learns more about her: she abandoned one daughter after the other died. They run into Arnold and Sylvia Rosen on the elevator. Arnold tells Don that Mitchell received an honor from the New York Air National Guard, but then proceeds to say cutting and sarcastic remarks, subtly suggesting that Sylvia told him about the affair. Diana ultimately rejects Don because he makes her forget about her daughters. After leaving Diana's apartment, he comes home to find his own apartment emptied. |||||||
| 88 | 10 | "The Forecast" | Jennifer Getzinger | Jonathan Igla and Matthew Weiner | April 19, 2015 (2015-4-19) | 1.87 |
| It is May 1970. Don sells his apartment. At work, Johnny Mathis fumbles a pitch and seeks Don's advice. When Don advises him to make a joke, Mathis' attempt goes over horribly, and he blames Don for it, lashing out at him, saying he's an empty suit who only gets away with things because he is good looking. Don fires Mathis. Lou Avery, who has moved to Los Angeles to take over for Ted as Creative Director for the West Coast office, is pretty checked out, spending most of his time visiting studios and pitching his cartoon. Joan goes on a trip to California to help Lou interview replacements for Pete's role of Head of West Coast Accounts and begins an affair with a retiree named Richard (Bruce Greenwood). Richard initially rejects her when he learns Joan has a child, but later makes amends. As Sally prepares to go on a 12-day school trip, she is unexpectedly visited by Glen Bishop, who reveals that he is shipping out to Vietnam. At first he claims he is doing so for ideological reasons, but later he reveals to Betty that he flunked out of college. Though he and Betty embrace and kiss each other platonically, after Betty admits she's alarmed for his safety, Sally mistakes it for inappropriate flirtation. When Sally later sees what she thinks is Don flirting with one of her friends, she is further disillusioned with both parents. |||||||
| 89 | 11 | "Time & Life" | Jared Harris | Erin Levy and Matthew Weiner | April 26, 2015 (2015-4-26) | 1.77 |
| It is June 1970. SC&P learns McCann plans to close their office and move everyone into the parent company's headquarters. Lou Avery calls Don and gives him his notice that he sold his cartoon to a Tokyo animation studio and is leaving the agency to move to Japan. Despite Lou rubbing it in his face, Don wishes him well. Don devises a plan to move to California as "Sterling Cooper West" and manage the lucrative contracts that conflict with McCann's portfolio. Ken declines signing Dow, out of spite for being fired by SC&P. Don goes with Roger, Joan, Pete and Ted to present his idea to McCann CEO Jim Hobart, but Hobart tells them the absorption is already underway. Roger tells Don he's in a relationship with Marie Calvet, Megan's mother. Ted tells Don he divorced his wife, who stayed in California, and started dating an old college girlfriend. He admits he used poor judgement with Peggy, and that he's happy to be in a healthy relationship with a woman closer to his age. Pete joins Trudy to address a crisis involving Tammy's preschool application, and ends up punching the headmaster for insulting them over his family's multigenerational feud with the Campbells. Trudy later confides her loneliness to Pete. Peggy and Stan are stuck with a child actress, who auditioned for a commercial, and Peggy has an argument with the mother when she returns to pick up the child. Peggy later admits to Stan she had a child that she gave up. She also tells him that she will join McCann. Don unsuccessfully searches for Diana. Wealthy retired real estate developer Richard Burghoff courts Joan. Don announces McCann's absorption of SC&P to the staff, upsetting the employees. |||||||
| 90 | 12 | "Lost Horizon" | Phil Abraham | Semi Chellas and Matthew Weiner | May 3, 2015 (2015-5-3) | 1.79 |
| At McCann Erickson, Joan is mistreated by McCann's chauvinist executives and finds that her accounts are being jeopardized by the carelessness of a McCann colleague. First she tells Ferg, who sexually harasses her and implies that he will phase her off of the accounts and take them over himself. She then takes her complaint to Jim Hobart, who offers to buy out her $500,000 stake in the company for 50 cents on the dollar. Joan threatens legal action and bad publicity, but eventually capitulates after Roger tells her it's not worth the fight. Peggy, meanwhile, refuses to leave the SC&P offices until McCann formally gives her a new office, and bonds with Roger during the interim, including Roger playing the organ while Peggy skates around the empty SC&P floor. She eventually heads to McCann, hungover late in the afternoon, arriving wearing sunglasses and a cigarette in her mouth to move into her cobbled together small office. Don, meanwhile, stops by Betty's to pick up Sally, only to realize she's not home. Betty, who has officially returned to school and is studying, tells him Sally's independent and does what she wants to do. He walks out of McCann's kickoff meeting for Miller Beer, disillusioned with the agency. He starts driving west, briefly having an imaginary conversation with Bert Cooper, till he reaches Diana's hometown of Racine, Wisconsin, and poses as a debt collector in order to get into her home. However, her ex-husband, who has since remarried, sees through the ruse and forces Don to leave, telling him he is not the first broken heart Diana has left behind. Don continues driving west and picks up a hitchhiker on his way to St. Paul, Minnesota. Meredith covers for Don's absence, while Roger tells Jim Hobart that this is how Don works and he's going to have to learn to deal with it. |||||||
| 91 | 13 | "The Milk and Honey Route" | Matthew Weiner | Carly Wray and Matthew Weiner | May 10, 2015 (2015-5-10) | 1.87 |
| Betty learns she has terminal lung cancer. She decides to forgo treatment against Henry and Sally's wishes, feeling it will only prolong the inevitable. She gives Sally a letter with instructions on how she wants to be prepared once she passes, and telling Sally how proud she is of her. Pete goes to dinner with his brother Bud and questions his family's long history of infidelity. Duck Phillips provides Pete an opportunity for a career with Learjet in Wichita, Kansas, which would represent a fresh start for him and his family. Trudy agrees, and she and Pete reconcile. McCann Erickson agrees to buying out Pete's contract in exchange for signing LearJet as a client, giving them access to all the CEOs and corporations that utilize their planes. Don continues his journey west, stopping for several days in rural Oklahoma when his car breaks down. He reluctantly attends a veterans' fundraiser to repair one of their homes; he drunkenly confesses to accidentally killing his C.O. in Korea, only to be met with acceptance. However, the veterans later break into Don's room and beat him up, believing him to have stolen their fundraiser money. Don realizes that Andy, a young man who hustled him earlier, stole the money and demands the cash back, advising him against his dishonest lifestyle. Don returns the cash for his car and gives Andy a ride to the bus stop, where he decides to give him his car. Free of all material possessions, Don smiles contently while waiting for the bus. |||||||
| 92 | 14 | "Person to Person" | Matthew Weiner | Matthew Weiner | May 17, 2015 (2015-5-17) | 3.29 |
| Don learns of Betty's diagnosis from Sally. He calls Betty and implores her to let the children stay with him, but Betty insists on leaving them with her brother and his wife. Sally cancels her Madrid trip to help out with her siblings. Meanwhile, Ken enlists Joan with producing a script for an industry film by Dow; Joan is enthusiastic about the work and decides to start her own film production company. She invites Peggy to join as a partner, but Peggy decides to stay at McCann. Feeling her professional ambition jeopardizes their relationship, Richard breaks up with her. Roger tells Joan he is marrying Marie, and wills a large sum of his estate to Kevin. He asks if that will complicate things with Greg, but Joan says Greg has remarried, has twins and has no involvement at all in Kevin's life. Peggy and Stan admit their feelings for one another. Pete departs with his family for Wichita. Don goes to California and reunites with Stephanie, who takes him upstate to an oceanside spiritual retreat, only to soon abandon him there after becoming emotionally overwhelmed during a seminar. Unable to leave the retreat for several days, Don calls Peggy to bid her farewell, but she pleads for him to return home and assures him McCann will take him back. That evening, Don attends the retreat's confessional seminar and breaks down in commiseration with a fellow attendee who feels unloved and unimportant, at home and at work. He is last seen smiling while meditating with the group. The series ends with the iconic 1971 "Hilltop" television advertisement for Coca-Cola, created by McCann Erickson. |||||||

## Reception
### Critical reception

The seventh season of Mad Men received acclaim. The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 90% of 510 critics reviewed the season favorably with an average score of 8.85/10. The site's consensus is: "Just in time to rekindle viewers' interest, Mad Men gets back on track for one last season, revisiting its steady, deliberate pace and style on its way to a sure-to-be-compelling climax." On Metacritic, the first part of the seventh season scored 85 out of 100 based on 26 reviews; the second part scored 83 out of 100, based on 19 reviews, both indicating "universal acclaim".

### Accolades

For the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards, the first half of the season was nominated for Outstanding Drama Series, Jon Hamm was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, Christina Hendricks was nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, and Robert Morse was nominated for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. For the 67th Writers Guild of America Awards, the series was nominated for Best Drama Series and Jonathan Igla and Matthew Weiner were nominated for Best Episodic Drama for "A Day's Work".
For the 31st TCA Awards, the series was nominated for Program of the Year and Outstanding Achievement in Drama, and Hamm won for Individual Achievement in Drama. For the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards, Jon Hamm won for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series after eight consecutive nominations. The series received nominations for Outstanding Drama Series, Elisabeth Moss for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, Christina Hendricks for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, Semi Chellas and Matthew Weiner for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series for "Lost Horizon", and Weiner in the same category for "Person to Person". For the 68th Writers Guild of America Awards, the series won for Best Drama and Matthew Weiner was nominated for Best Episodic Drama for "Person to Person". For the 22nd Screen Actors Guild Awards, the cast was nominated for Best Drama Ensemble and Jon Hamm was nominated for Best Drama Actor. For the 73rd Golden Globe Awards, Jon Hamm won for Best Drama Actor. For the 68th Directors Guild of America Awards, Matthew Weiner was nominated for Outstanding Directing – Drama Series for "Person to Person".