‘Mad Men’ Season 6 premiere

The AMC series revolves around Jon Hamm’s Don Draper, a promiscuous Madison Avenue ad exec, and is set in the 1960s. The Season 5 finale left off with Don experiencing guilt over his indirect contribution to the deaths of both his brother Adam and an ad exec named Lane.   (Chris Pizzello / Associated Press)

Elisabeth Moss plays Peggy Olsen, Don’s former secretary-turned-copywriter.  (Chris Pizzello / Associated Press)

January Jones plays Don’s ex-wife Betty Draper and Christina Hendricks plays Joan, the ad company’s former office manager and head of the secretary’s pool who’s now a partner.   (Alexandra Wyman / Invision / AMC)

Vincent Kartheiser plays ad exec Pete Campbell. His character carries out a sordid affair with a mentally unstable married woman named Beth Dawes, played by Alexis Bledel. (He’s engaged to Bledel in real life.)  (Chris Pizzello / Associated Press)

Show runner Matt Weiner poses with January Jones.  (Chris Pizzello / Associated Press)

Jessica Paré plays aspiring actress Megan Calvet, Don Draper’s second wife. In the Season 5 finale, she gets a career boost when she lands a part in Don’s shoe commercial.  (Chris Pizzello / Associated Press)

Christina Hendricks poses with her real-life husband Geoffrey Arend, who stars in ABC’s “Body of Proof.”  (Jason Merritt / Getty Images)

Alison Brie plays Pete Campbell’s wife Trudy Campbell, who allows him to get an apartment in the city despite moving to the suburbs.  (Jason Merritt / Getty Images)

Robert Morse, photographed her with his shirt unbuttoned, plays the always bow-tied Bertram “Burt” Cooper, one of the founders of the ad company Sterling Cooper.  (Chris Pizzello / Associated Press)

Jay R. Ferguson plays Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce’s art director Stan Rizzo.  (Jason Merritt / Getty Images)