It was a very different world then. By way of example, I remember Majel Barrett’s first outing in the (rerun to me) pilot episode of Star Trek (”The Cage”) when she played Captain Christopher Pike’s hard-nosed 2nd-in-command “Number One”. According to official Star Trek history, television audiences of 1964—male AND female—hated her guts and the ahead-of-her-time character was never reappeared. Barret returned as the appropriately feminine character “Nurse Chapel”.
“So, the chauvinistic, sexual degrading, womanizing infulence of the 1960’s Madison Avenue is back in vogue.”
Well, Mad Men is my favorite show (Damages second). It’s stylish, smart and witty. Makes me nostalgic for those days - in my case the 70’s - in the corporate world. I had the time of my life and, in light of subsequent days, it was an innocent time.