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Mad Men DVD Box Set, starring Jon Hamm as a talented ad exec named Don Draper, is another of those cable drama series that's found a home — Weeds Seasons 1-5 DVD Box Setand an audience — because of the trail blazed by HBO's The Sopranos.
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