10 Mind-Blowing Facts You Didn't Know About Mad Men

10. The Pilot Episode Was The Only One Actually Filmed In New York

Mad Men is famous for many things, one of them being its setting and how it gave us an unflinching view into 1960s New York. Usually when a TV series is set in New York, we watch as the characters galavant around the city like its the set for a whimsical fairy-tale. But ever the realistic show, through the eyes of Don Draper we got to see some of the real, dark and dirty sides to the city that never sleeps. We watched as the toxic smog of 1966 forced the Drapers to lock themselves in their apartment, and we saw Don and the kids drive through the city as the riots after Martin Luther King Jr's assassination wrecked the country. A stand out scene that really emphasised this would have to be when politician's wife Betty, in her best outfit, searched for her daughter's friend in the slums of New York.

For all of its poignant realism, the show was actually pulling the wool over our eyes the whole time! As we watched our favourite characters navigate the unyielding city, we truly believed the cobbled streets they walked belonged to Manhattan. That was not the case, in fact the only episode that truly was filmed in New York was the pilot. The rest of the episodes were filmed in Los Angeles.

Can you believe when the actors were wrapped up in layers to fight the hard winters of New York, they must have been sweating head to toe from the suffering LA heat.