Breaking Bad but due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike only seven episodes were filmed. It ran from January 20 to March 9, 2008. A struggling high school chemistry teacher, Walter White (Bryan Cranston), is diagnosed with inoperable, advanced lung cancer. On a ride-along with his DEA agent brother-in-law Hank Schrader (Dean Norris), Walter sees a former student of his, Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), fleeing the scene of a meth lab. He later contacts Jesse and devises a scheme to become partners in an attempt to combine their skills to manufacture and distribute methamphetamine, with Walter cooking the product and
Aaron Paul castmate Bryan Cranston both got "Breaking Bad" tattoos on the last day of filming; Paul had 'no half measures' tattooed onto his bicep, while Cranston got the show's logo tattooed on one of his fingers. In 2013, Paul and his wife helped raise $1.8 million for the Kind Campaign, a non-profit anti-bullying organization. The winners of the contest won a trip to the Hollywood Forever Cemetery screening of the final episode of "Breaking Bad". During a ceremony at the Egyptian Theatre in Boise, Idaho, Idaho governor Butch Otter declared October 1 "Aaron Paul Sturtevant Day". Aaron Paul Aaron Paul Sturtevant