All 91 (or 89) Episodes of Mad Men (before the finale) Ranked (and also Top 100 Characters)

Well folks, here we are again. For the fifth time in the past few years, I've ranked episodes and characters from a series I love. Mad Men follows 30 Rock, The Office, How I Met Your Mother, and Parks and Recreation, and was by far the most difficult list. First off, all the episodes ranked (I've put the two two-hour episodes each as one ranking spot, but counting as two episodes). Do you disagree with them? You're probably right. There's very few bad episodes of Mad Men:

Rank	Season/Episode	Total Episode	Title
1	s3e13	39	"Shut the Door. Have a Seat."
2	s4e9	48	"The Beautiful Girls"
3	s7Ae6	84	"The Strategy"
4	s1e13	13	"The Wheel"
5	s4e7	46	"The Suitcase"
6	s2e13	26	"Meditations in an Emergency"
7	s5e5	57	"Signal 30"
8	s4e13	52	"Tomorrowland"
9	s3e6	32	"Guy Walks Into an Advertising Agency"
10	s2e5	18	"The New Girl"
11	s1e1	1	"Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"
12	s7Ae7	85	"Waterloo"
13	s2e9	22	"Six Month Leave"
14	s1e12	12	"Nixon vs. Kennedy"
15	s2e6	19	"Maidenform"
16	s4e5	44	"The Chrysanthemum and the Sword"
17	s3e3	29	"My Old Kentucky Home"
18	s4e12	51	"Blowing Smoke"
19	s3e4	30	"The Arrangements"
20	s6e11	76	"Favors"
21	s2e11	24	"The Jet Set"
22-23	s6e1/2	66–67	"The Doorway"
24	s1e9	9	"Shoot"
25	s7Be4	89	"Time & Life"
26-27	s5e1/2	53–54	"A Little Kiss"
28	s6e6	71	"For Immediate Release"
29	s6e13	78	"In Care Of"
30	s4e1	40	"Public Relations"
31	s5e12	64	"Commissions and Fees"
32	s3e11	37	"The Gypsy and the Hobo"
33	s4e3	42	"The Good News"
34	s3e8	34	"Souvenir"
35	s5e6	58	"Far Away Places"
36	s1e8	8	"The Hobo Code"
37	s7Be6	91	"The Milk and Honey Route"
38	s5e7	59	"At the Codfish Ball"
39	s4e8	47	"The Summer Man"
40	s5e9	61	"Dark Shadows"
41	s1e2	2	"Ladies Room"
42	s3e1	27	"Out of Town"
43	s4e6	45	"Waldorf Stories"
44	s2e12	25	"The Mountain King"
45	s3e12	38	"The Grown-Ups"
46	s5e11	63	"The Other Woman"
47	s1e7	7	"Red in the Face"
48	s7Ae3	81	"Field Trip"
49	s4e11	50	"Chinese Wall"
50	s6e9	74	"The Better Half"
51	s3e9	35	"Wee Small Hours"
52	s4e4	43	"The Rejected"
53	s1e6	6	"Babylon"
54	s3e10	36	"The Color Blue"
55	s7Ae2	80	"A Day's Work"
56	s5e8	60	"Lady Lazarus"
57	s2e7	20	"The Gold Violin"
58	s3e5	31	"The Fog"
59	s6e12	77	"The Quality of Mercy"
60	s7Be5	90	"Lost Horizon"
61	s5e10	62	"Christmas Waltz"
62	s5e13	65	"The Phantom"
63	s6e5	70	"The Flood"
64	s7Ae4	82	"The Monolith"
65	s6e8	73	"The Crash"
66	s7Be3	88	"The Forecast"
67	s4e2	41	"Christmas Comes But Once a Year"
68	s7Ae1	79	"Time Zones"
69	s1e5	5	"5G"
70	s2e4	17	"Three Sundays"
71	s7Be1	86	"Severance"
72	s6e4	69	"To Have and to Hold"
73	s3e2	28	"Love Among the Ruins"
74	s1e10	10	"Long Weekend"
75	s2e10	23	"The Inheritance"
76	s4e10	49	"Hands and Knees"
77	s6e10	75	"A Tale of Two Cities"
78	s1e11	11	"Indian Summer"
79	s2e8	21	"A Night to Remember"
80	s3e7	33	"Seven Twenty Three"
81	s1e3	3	"Marriage of Figaro"
82	s1e4	4	"New Amsterdam"
83	s2e1	14	"For Those Who Think Young"
84	s2e2	15	"Flight 1"
85	s6e3	68	"Collaborators"
86	s5e3	55	"Tea Leaves"
87	s6e7	72	"Man with a Plan"
88	s7Ae5	83	"The Runaways"
89	s2e3	16	"The Benefactor"
90	s7Be2	87	"New Business"
91	s5e4	56	"Mystery Date"

And here are characters. The bottom of the list is generally characters that are the worst, so there are unranked characters, like Trudy's father or Megan's sister who might rank ahead of the bottom few who are notably bad:

Rank	Character	Actor
1	Peggy Olson	Elisabeth Moss
2	Sally Draper	Kiernan Shipka
3	Bert Cooper	Robert Morse
4	Joan Holloway/Harris	Christina Hendricks
5	Don Draper	Jon Hamm
6	Roger Sterling	John Slattery
7	Lane Pryce	Jared Harris
8	Sal Romano	Bryan Batt
9	Betty Draper/Francis	January Jones
10	Freddy Rumsen	Joel Murray
11	Stan Rizzo	Jay R. Ferguson
12	Ken Cosgrove	Aaron Staton
13	Pete Campbell	Vincent Kartheiser
14	Michael Ginsburg	Ben Feldman
15	Meredith	Stephanie Drake
16	Carla	Deborah Lacey
17	Anna Draper	Melinda Page Hamilton
18	Megan Calvet/Draper	Jessica Paré
19	Dawn Chambers	Teyonah Parris
20	Bob Benson	James Wolk
21	Rachel Menken/Katz	Maggie Siff
22	Conrad Hilton	Chelcie Ross
23	Trudy Campbell	Alison Brie
24	Joyce Ramsay	Zosia Mamet
25	Suzanne Farrell	Abigail Spencer
26	Ted Chaough	Kevin Rahm
27	Bobby Draper	Maxwell Huckabee, Aaron Hart, Jared Gilmore, Mason Vale Cotton
28	Adam Whitman	Jay Paulson
29	Jim Cutler	Harry Hamlin
30	Paul Kinsey	Michael Gladis
31	Eugene Hofstadt	Ryan Cutrona
32	Mona Sterling	Talia Balsam
33	Francine Hanson	Anne Dudek
34	Jane Siegel/Sterling	Peyton List
35	Burt Peterson	Michael Gaston
36	Gene Draper	Evan Londo
37	Smitty Smith	Patrick Cavanaugh
38	Kurt Smith	Edin Gali
39	John Hooker	Ryan Cartwright
40	Herman “Duck” Phillips	Mark Moses
41	Edna Keener	Patricia Bethune
42	Faye Miller	Cara Buono
43	Shirley	Sola Bamis
44	Allison	Alexa Alemanni
45	Bobbie Barrett	Melinda McGraw
46	Lois Sadler	Crista Flanagan
47	Guy MacKendrick	Jamie Thomas King
48	Stephanie Horton	Caity Lotz
49	Hollis	La Monde Byrd
50	Hildy	Julie McNiven
51	Midge Daniels	Rosemarie DeWitt
52	Lt. Don Draper	Troy Ruptash
53	Helen Bishop	Darby Stanchfield
54	Ida Blankenship	Randee Heller
55	Cynthia Cosgrove	Larisa Oleynik
56	Caroline	Beth Hall
57	St. John Powell	Charles Shaughnessy
58	Tammy Campbell	Aria Lyric Leabu
59	Toni Charles	Naturi Naughton
60	Kevin Harris	Caiden Milick
61	Frank Gleason	Craig Anton
62	Kitty Romano	Sarah Drew
63	Manolo Colon	Andres Faucher
64	Arnold Rosen	Brian Markinson
65	Joy	Laura Ramsey
66	Danny Siegel	Danny Strong
67	John Gill	Colin Hanks
68	John Mathis	Trevor Einhorn
69	Bethany Van Nuys	Anna Camp
70	Grandma Ida	Davenia McFadden
71	Brooks Stanford Hargrove	Derek Ray
72	Arthur Case	Gabriel Mann
73	Lou Avery	Allan Havey
74	Jimmy Barrett	Patrick Fischler
75	Glen Bishop	Marten Weiner
76	Anita Olson Respola	Audrey Wasilewski
77	Jennifer Crane	Laura Regan
78	Ed Baxter	Ray Wise
79	Beth Dawes	Alexis Bledel
80	Gail Holloway	Christine Estabrook
81	Lee Garner, Jr.	Darren Pettie
82	Rebecca Pryce	Embeth Davidtz
83	Bud Campbell	Rich Hutchman
84	William Hofstadt	Eric Ladin
85	Katherine Olson	Myra Turley
86	Jim Hobart	H. Richard Greene
87	Marie Calvet	Julia Ormond
88	Margaret Sterling/Hargrove	Elizabeth Rice
89	Sylvia Rosen	Linda Cardellini
90	Joey Baird	Matt Long
91	Arnold Wayne	Andy Umberger
92	Abigail Whitman	Brynn Horrocks
93	Abe Drexler	Charlie Hofheimer
94	Robert Pryce	W. Morgan Sheppard
95	Diana Baur	Elizabeth Reasor
96	Archie Whitman	Joseph Culp
97	Mac Johnson	Morgan Rusler
98	Herb Rennet	Gary Basaraba
99	Pauline Francis	Pamela Dunlap
100	Greg Harris	Samuel Page