← Mad Men Mad Men: The account man Roger Sterling is the name on the door and the one man in the building who has never had to try. This is what the next seven seasons do about that. A thread through an ensemble show, not a way to watch Mad Men - the series cross-cuts less than most, which is why this works at all, but you will be missing everything happening in the other offices. If this is your first time, take The Essentials instead.
For following Roger Sterling, or rewatching the show for him.
Open episode checklist ↓ The Essentials · 92 The speed run · 19 Out of the typing pool · 23 The account man · 21 Running the floor · 19 The house in Ossining · 19 The climb · 21 Path details & story map Episode lengths vary. Plan viewing days at your own pace →
Updated September 1, 2026
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🔒 S01E01 Smoke Gets in Your Eyes Reveal S01E01 details Introduced as the man who does not have to try. The account side of the business, personified, and completely at ease.
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🔒 S01E07 Red in the Face Reveal S01E07 details A boys' night out, a plate of oysters and a flight of stairs. The first crack in the performance.
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🔒 S01E10 Long Weekend Reveal S01E10 details The heart attack. The character's whole second half proceeds from this afternoon.
🔒 S01E11 Indian Summer Reveal S01E11 details Recovery, and the discovery that the agency has been perfectly fine without him.
Season 3 2 in the path
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🔒 S03E02 Love Among the Ruins Reveal S03E02 details His daughter's wedding, arranged the way he arranges everything, over the objections of everyone paying for it.
🔒 S03E03 My Old Kentucky Home Reveal S03E03 details A garden party at his own house, and a performance in front of his guests that the show never lets him live down.
Season 4 2 in the path
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🔒 S04E01 Public Relations Reveal S04E01 details The new agency, and Roger reduced to the one account that carries it - a dependence he jokes about because he cannot fix it.
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🔒 S04E05 The Chrysanthemum and the Sword Reveal S04E05 details A Japanese client, and a war Roger has not stopped fighting. The episode where his charm stops working entirely.
Season 5 5 in the path
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🔒 S05E01 A Little Kiss (1) Reveal S05E01 details A surprise party he did not want, thrown by a wife half his age, in an apartment paid for by an account he no longer wins.
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🔒 S05E04 Mystery Date Reveal S05E04 details Buying his way out of work, and dumping it on the copywriter least able to refuse.
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🔒 S05E06 Far Away Places Reveal S05E06 details LSD at a dinner party. Funny for twenty minutes, and then the clearest thing the show ever says about his marriage.
🔒 S05E07 At the Codfish Ball Reveal S05E07 details Back on the road hunting clients, and briefly the best in the room again.
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🔒 S05E09 Dark Shadows Reveal S05E09 details Chasing an account behind his colleagues' backs, and the beginning of the year's worst behaviour.
Season 6 3 in the path
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🔒 S06E02 The Doorway (2) Reveal S06E02 details His mother's funeral, a eulogy hijacked, and a therapist's office where he says more than he means to.
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🔒 S06E06 For Immediate Release Reveal S06E06 details Chevy. The one late-career coup, landed the way he used to land everything.
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🔒 S06E09 The Better Half Reveal S06E09 details A recurring dream and an old relationship revisited, in the show's most sentimental hour about him.
Season 7 5 in the path
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🔒 S07E04 The Monolith Reveal S07E04 details His daughter has left her family for a commune upstate, and he goes to get her back.
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🔒 S07E07 Waterloo Reveal S07E07 details A death in the office and a phone call to an old rival. Roger's one genuine act of leadership saves everybody.
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🔒 S07E11 Time & Life Reveal S07E11 details The plan to save the agency, and Roger's part in discovering there is no agency left to save.
🔒 S07E12 Lost Horizon Reveal S07E12 details McCann, an organ, and a decision he keeps not making.
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🔒 S07E14 Person to Person Reveal S07E14 details The finale. Where he ends up is the least likely and most fitting answer the show could have given him.
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