Mad Men (season 3)
| Mad Men (season 3) | |
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Season 3 promotional poster
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| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of episodes | 13 |
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| Original network | AMC |
| Original release | August 16 – November 8, 2009 |
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The third season of the American television drama series Mad Men premiered on August 16, 2009 and concluded on November 8, 2009. It consisted of thirteen episodes, each running approximately 47 minutes in length. AMC broadcast the third season on Sundays at 10:00 pm in the United States.
Season three takes place six months after the conclusion of the second season (roughly April/May 1963) and ends in December 1963. It chronicles the end of the "Camelot era" as the characters go through immense change in their professional and personal lives.
The third season was exalted by television critics and was a major winner in many television awards. Mad Men won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series, Golden Globe Award for Best Drama Series, and acknowledgement by the American Film Institute for the third year in a row.
The season opens six months after the Cuban Missile Crisis. Don has a vision of events surrounding his own birth: he sees a midwife carry away what is apparently the latest in a series of stillbirths born to his future stepmother, Abigail; his father's encounter with a prostitute, in which she vows to "cut off [his] dick" if she becomes pregnant; her eventual death in childbirth, loudly repeating her vow all the while; and the moment he was brought to Abigail by the same woman who had carried away the dead child before. She tells Abigail Whitman the child's name is Dick, "after a wish his mother should have lived to see." Don and Sal then leave for a business trip to Baltimore, where Don cavorts with a flight attendant. Sal, meanwhile, has a homosexual encounter with their hotel's bellboy. After the fire alarm is set off, Don sees Sal with the young man. Don keeps it to himself, then pitches Sal a new advertising tagline, ostensibly for London Fog raincoats — "Limit your exposure".
Pete is offered the role of Head of Accounts by Lane Pryce, a PPL executive brought in from the London office. Pete is ecstatic until he learns that he will be sharing the title and the responsibility with Ken Cosgrove. At a country club party that Roger and Jane throw, Don and Betty both connect with strangers. Don strikes up a conversation with a man who turns out to be Conrad Hilton, founder of Hilton Hotels. Betty has a friendly conversation with an affable man named Henry Francis, who works for Governor Rockefeller. Roger, meanwhile, takes issue with his daughter, Margaret, who does not want her 20-year-old stepmother, Jane, at her wedding, scheduled for November 23, 1963.
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