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'Mad Men' Season 4: A Refresher Crash Course Before Season 5 Premiere (PHOTOS)

Wait, What Happened On 'Mad Men' Last Season?
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It's been a long time since the Season 4 finale of "Mad Men." When Season 5 premieres on Sunday night, the gap between episodes will have reached a staggering 525 days, thanks to a contract dispute between Lionsgate and AMC that delayed the start of production on the new season.

After such a long hiatus, it's understandable if you're having trouble recalling all the details about where exactly "Mad Men" left off last season. The media landscape is so much more cluttered than it was back the '60s, when executives sipped Scotch at meetings and a provocative ad campaign could capture the public's imagination. These days, it's tough to remember things that happened last week, much less a year and a half ago -- even on your favorite TV show.

To help refresh your "Mad Men" memory, HuffPost TV put together a slideshow that answers some of the big questions about what exactly happened last season. Consider it a Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce study guide ... now, get cracking!

How is Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce doing financially?(01 of07)
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When we last left them in Season 4, Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce was struggling to stave off bankruptcy. After Sterling lost the Lucky Strike account, the firm was forced to initiate layoffs and to take out an emergency line of credit to stay afloat. Don was able to put a shine on SCDP's image by penning an editorial titled "Why I'm Quitting Tabacco," but it didn't do much to help the firm's bottom line. (credit:AMC)
Wait ... who did Don get engaged to?(02 of07)
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Don proposed to his secretary Megan Calvet, formerly the firm's front desk receptionist, in last season's finale. It was an impulsive move that shocked audiences and pretty much every character on the show, too. He had been dating the more confident and empowered Faye Miller before he slept with Megan on his office couch and decided to take her on a trip to California with his kids. She's great with Sally and Bobby, speaks fluent French and is strikingly beautiful ... but they don't exactly know each other very well. (credit:AMC)
What happened to Miss Blankenship?(03 of07)
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Sadly, Don's endearingly ornery secretary Miss Blankenship passed away while sitting at her desk outside his office. "Mad Men" will miss her comic relief, and we'll miss her updates about who called Don while he was in the bathroom. (credit:AMC)
Is Lane Pryce still married?(04 of07)
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Yes, he is, although he spent most of Season 4 living an ocean away from his wife Rebecca and son Nigel. She struggled to get comfortable living in New York and eventually moved back to England, at which point Pryce started dating a black Playboy Bunny named Toni. His elderly father quickly put a stop to that interracial relationship, beating Pryce with his cane and ordering him to come back to England to get his family situation in order. At the end of the season, he went back to England and convinced his wife to give New York another shot. (credit:AMC)
What about Faye?!(05 of07)
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Faye Miller was a freelance consultant who was conducting focus-group testing for SCDP. She was a smart, independent career woman who spent a significant part of Season 4 secretly dating Don. They grew close, and she was every bit his intellectual equal; he trusted her enough to tell her the truth about his secret identity, and that he was being investigated by the FBI.

Faye was hit with a double dose of insult and injury at the end of Season 4. She was forced to resign from her job in the wake of Don's anti-tobacco editorial, and then a few days later, Don told her he was engaged to Megan and broke up with her over the phone. (credit:AMC)
What's going on with Joan's marriage?(06 of07)
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Joan's fairytale marriage is crumbling. After her husband Greg couldn't handle Joan getting on top in bed, he came to her office and raped her on the floor.

Later in the season, Greg enlisted in the Army after his stateside surgical career fizzled.

When he was away at Basic Training, Joan reconnected with Roger Sterling in an alleyway rendezvous that got her pregnant. (credit:AMC)
Does Roger know he got Joan pregnant?(07 of07)
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Yes, he does, although it's unclear whether she told him about her decision to go through with the pregnancy. After Joan told him she was pregnant with his child, Roger took her to a doctor, who suggested an out-of-town abortion clinic she could go to. But when she got there, she decided to go through with the pregnancy and told her husband Greg he was the father. (credit:AMC)

The two-hour "Mad Men" Season 5 premiere airs Sun., Mar. 25 at 9 p.m. ET on AMC.

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