â€˜Mad Menâ€™ cast dishes their 6 favorite on-screen moments

Sunday kicks off the first of the seven final episodes of "Mad Men," a series whose every detail has been scrupulously analyzed and sifted over as viewers found themselves drawn to the midcentury period piece. Some viewers fell in love with the glamorous costumes, the meticulous production design and the way they were reminded of their suburban childhoods. Others clearly viewed the endless cocktail hour in which the characters lived through nostalgic — or aspirational — eyes. During a recent visit to New York, the cast shared their own favorite memories of the Emmy-winning show with The Post.

Favorite costume

This look from Season 1 is January Jones' favorite. To achieve the dramatic '50s silhouette, the costume designer added the extra panels in pink.Photo: Courtesy of AMC

The costumes from "Mad Men" were rented and returned, or donated to an exhibit about the show currently on view at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens. Still, there's one dress actress January Jones wishes hadn't gotten away from her. She wore it in the show's first season, in an episode where Betty Draper is offered a job for a Coca-Cola campaign, which the character sees as a way to resume the modeling career she had before marrying Don.

"The dress from the Coca-Cola audition was my favorite. The visual of that is just so Betty to me. I thought the dress was beautiful," Jones says. "Then it went back to the rental place. Every year the rental place has a garage-sale-type sale and they accidentally sold it. It was heartbreaking for everyone."

Then something truly weird happened. Jones' co-star Aaron Staton, who plays Ken Cosgrove, learned from his chiropractor that the doctor's wife bought the dress.

"And she won't sell it to me," Jones laments. "I think because she knows that I want it. She'd be like, 'It'll be $7,000.' "

Favorite scene

Peggy (Elisabeth Moss) tells Don (Jon Hamm) she's leaving the agency.Photo: Courtesy of AMC

In Season 5, Peggy Olson's (Elisabeth Moss) rise at the agency was accompanied by her growing frustration that her hard work was not being recognized. Encouraged by ex-employee Freddy Rumsen, Peggy interviewed with a rival firm, and was offered a copywriter position by Ted Chaough. She came back to work and resigned. Don was floored and offered her money, but she shook his hand and left.

"When I tell Don I'm leaving the agency, it was an emotional scene, a very personal scene, and it was beautifully written," Moss says. "After doing so much as Peggy, it was nice to say to Don, 'Thank you. I've learned what I've learned and now I'm leaving.' "

Favorite lover

Peggy (Moss, right) has an affair with her married boss Ted (Kevin Rahm).Photo: Jamie Trueblood/AMC

Peggy had a weakness for married men — she'd get entangled with them and then find herself untying her own knots while they went back to their wives. Her affair with her boss Ted Chaough was a particularly painful life lesson, but Kevin Rahm, who plays Ted, still remembers the day he filmed his Season 6 breakup scene with Moss, who he says was his favorite scene partner.

"We had a scene where Ted tells Peggy he's going to end their affair and has decided to go to California to keep his family together," he says. "She tells him, 'Well, aren't you lucky to have decisions.'

"I could see how hurt she was, and when she was doing coverage for me [repeating the same lines while the camera filmed Ted's close-up], she was still as hurt. I don't think it's in her to be false." — Additional reporting by Barbara Hoffman

Favorite escapade

In Season 2, Roger Sterling (John Slattery) dresses up as Santa at a party.Photo: Michael Yarish/AMC

Roger Sterling (John Slattery) made the mistake of inviting Lee Garner Jr., one of the agency's most demanding clients, to the office Christmas party during Season 2. They had to really impress the guy, so Roger told the office manager to expand the budget "from convalescent home to Roman orgy."

Slattery loves this party scene, with the employees dancing in a conga line and getting tanked, even though Lee put Roger in a compromising position: He demanded Roger dress up in a Santa suit. A humiliated Roger had to give out presents and pose for pictures with the likes of Harry Crane on his lap — and smile his way through it.

Slattery says this scene showed an essential side of Roger's character.

"You want to stay in the business, you have to do what it takes," Slattery says. "This is in fact what keeps the lights on, so it has to be done."

Favorite relationship

In the Season 6 finale, Don (Hamm, right) shows his kids the brothel where he was raised.Photo: Jamie Trueblood/AMC

With all of Don's affairs and the two very different, beautiful wives, you might think Jon Hamm would pick one of those women when choosing his favorite on-screen relationship. You would be wrong.

"When I talk about Don and I talk about his relationships, the one thing I come back to, almost 100 percent of the time, is his kids," Hamm tells The Post.

In the Season 6 finale, Don finally shared with his kids a part of his life he'd kept hidden. He parked across the street from a rundown rooming house. It was the brothel where Don lived as a boy. "This is where I grew up," he tells Sally, Bobby and Gene.

"Don was terribly parented," Hamm explains. "He does not want to be a bad parent."

Favorite controversy

Christina Hendricks loves the scene where Joan makes partner in the ad firm.Photo: Michael Yarish/AMC

"Mad Men" has never flinched from showing how badly ad men in the '60s treated women, and nowhere in the show's seven seasons was this more luridly illustrated as when, in Season 5, smarmy Pete Campbell asked Joan Holloway (Christina Hendricks) to sleep with a client to win the Jaguar account.

Hendricks told Seth Meyers on his NBC talk show last week: "It was fun to play a character [who succeeded] and succeeded in very controversial ways. Which was also fun as an actress, to sort of stir the pot and have people talking about, should she have done it or should she not have done it?"

Joan eventually agreed to Pete's outrageous request, but she demanded a 5 percent stake in the agency and a voting partnership instead of the $50,000 lump sum she was initially offered.

"This was a story line Matt had heard many times from real women [in the advertising world]," Hendricks said. "The only difference is they never got made partner and Joan actually did."

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