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January 1980 Up Against The 1980s - Alvin Toffler's New Future Shocker
The N.F.L.'s Sexiest Cheerleaders! Playboy Scores Again
Fun And Pajama Games At Playboy Mansion West
San Francisco: Gay Power Ignites A Straight Backlash
January 1970 "The Americanization of Vietnam" by David Halberstam
"Reconciling the Generations" by U.S. Senator George McGovern
"Sharing the Wealth" by Cesar Chavez
"Uniting the Races" by Julian Bond
"Forging a Left-Right Coalition" by Tom Wicker
"Points of Rebellion" by Justice William O. Douglas
"Our Besieged Bill of Rights" by The Honourable Arthur J. Goldberg.
Febuary 1980 Suzanne Somers' Nude Playmate Test: Ten Glorious Pages Of TV's Hottest Sex Star
Romance In The Fast Lane - A Concorde Weekend In Paris
Playboy's Guide To The Winter Olympics
A Rousing Look At The Year In Sex
Febuary 1970 "Future Shock" by Alvin Toffler
"Justice, Military Style" by Robert Sherrill
"Skiing the Psychological Alps" by John Skow
"Jazz & Pop '70" by Nat Hentoff.
March 1980 John Connally: The Canny Conservative
Bo Derek: The "10" Girl In A Sensational Nude Pictorial
Pot Power: Who'll Cash In If They Legalize Grass?
Terry Bradshaw: An Irreverent Interview With The NFL's Best Quarterback
March 1970 "Coping With Future Shock" by Alvin Toffler
"Swinging on the Stars" by C. Robert Jennings
"Playboy Plays the Stock Market" by Michael Laurence
"Revolution" by Jules Siegel
"Counterrevolution" by George Fox.
April 1980 At Ease: Playboy Salutes The Women Of The Armed Forces
Playboy's Playmate Reunion: 25 Years Of gatefolds Come To Life
Mind And Body: Why Some People Get Sick And Others Don't
Linda Ronstadt: An Interview With The First Lady Of Rock
April 1970 "Our Mortgaged Future" by James Clayton
"For a Moderate Majority" by Josiah Lee Auspitz
"Furry's Blues" by Stanley Booth
"Sports Hustlers" by Barry Rosenberg
"The Great Campus Manhunt" by Max Gunther.
May 1980 Stewardesses! A Glorious Pictorial
America's Islam Connection
The Toughest Job In Sports
An Interview With Gay Talese
May 1970 "Up Against the Wall, Male Chauvinist Pig!" by Morton Hunt
"The War Machine" by Robert Sherrill
"The Peace Department" by U.S. Senator Vance Hartke
"Ghosts!" by C. Robert Jennings.
June 1980 John Anderson Interview: Is He The Best?
Winning Through Negotiation: How To Get What You Want
Le Roy Neiman Sketchbook
My Fear Of Dentists
June 1970 "The Chicago Conspiracy Circus" by Nicholas von Hoffman
"The Career Killers" by Alan Westin
"See Naples and Live" by John Clellon Holmes.
July 1980 Playboy's Fearless Guide To Sun, Sand And Surf
Dudley Moore Searches For Another "10"
Bruce Jenner Interview
Maui Wowee! Hawaii's Most Voluptuous Views
July 1970 "Project Survival" by Geoffrey Norman.
"Man and Beast" by Morton Hunt.
"A Semester at Superdriver U" by Ken W. Purdy.
"Further "Up the Organization"" by Robert Townsend.
"Anatomy of a Massacre" by Jesse Frank Frosch.
"Step Lightly" by Tim O'Brien.
"Shaping Up For "Oh! Calcutta!" pictorial essay by C. Robert Jennings.
August 1980 Bo Encore! A Second Visit With Hollywood's Hottest Number
Ronald Reagan: Who Is This Guy Anyway? By Robert Scheer
N.F.L. Preview: Playboy's Whiz Picks The Pros
Playboy Interview: Dr. Shockley On Race And Sperm Banks
August 1970 "The Last Magician" by Loren Eiseley
"Just Slip This Into Her Drink" by Fredric C. Appel
"Playboy Plays the Bond Market" by Michael Laurence.
September 1980 Roy Scheider: A "Jazzy" Interview
Bunker Hunt's Great Silver Caper: The Complete Story
Tom Robbins' Fabulous New Novel
Cheech & Chong: A Playboy Pictorial Goes Up In Smoke
September 1970 "The Abortion Revolution" by Robert Hall M.D.
"Beyond the Fringes" by Don Schanche
"The Engineering Mentality" by Gene Marine
"Playboy's Pigskin Preview" by Anson Mount.
October 1980 The Girls Of Canada: 12 Pages Of Northern Delights
A Tough, Sizzling Interview With G. Gordon Liddy
Death In The South - The FBI On Trial
Playboy's Off-Season Travel Planner
October 1970 "The Many Faces of Murder" by Bruce Porter
"Nixon's the One -- But What?" by Tom Wicker
"The Transport Revolution" by David Rorvik
"Diogenes' Search for an Honest Game" by William Barry Furlong.
November 1980 Election Special! How Washington Really Works: A Primer For Jimmy, Ron Or John
Who Cares Who shot J.R.? A Weird, Evil, Wonderful Interview With Larry Hagman
A Very Good Year For Sex In Cinema
The Women Of The U.S. Government: Ten Pages Of Unimpeachable Beauty
November 1970 "When Punishment is a Crime" by Ramsey Clark
"They Became What They Beheld" by Edmund Carpenter
"And Now -- A Word From Our Sponsor" by Michael Butler
"Shoot-Out in Johnston City" by Craig Vetter
"West of Eden" by Jules Siegel.
December 1980 Sex stars Of 1980
The Anatomy Of Desire: When You're Hot, You're Hot - And Here's Why
Contemporary Masterpieces Of Erotic Art
Dick Gregory's Exclusive Report From Inside Iran
December 1970 "Ten Sex Myths Exploded" by William Masters & Virginia Johnson
"Cosa Nostra" by Murray Kempton
"The International Comix Conspiracy" by Jacob Brackman
"The Wasteland Revisited" by Nicholas Johnson
"A Million and One Nights in Soviet Russia" by William F. Buckley Jr.
January 1981 Urban Cowgirls: A Photo Roundup Of Women To Saddle Up With
Our Cover Girl - Hollywood's Fabulous Barbara Bach In a dazzling Pictorial
An Exclusive Interview: john Lennon And Yoko Ono On Love, Sex, Money, Fame And All About The Beatles
Stephen King On Horror And Everyday Life
January 1971 "The High Cost of Fame (Symposium) with Michael Crichton, James Dickey, Sam Houston Johnson, Joe McGinniss, Mario Puzo, Gay Taliese, Studs Terkel, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Dan Wakefield
"Cleansing the Environment" by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson
"Saving the Cities" by Mayor Carl B. Stokes
"Eradicating Poverty" by Michael Harrington
"The Future of Ecstasy" by Alan Watts.
Febuary 1981 Features
Playmate Roommates: Imagine These Girls Next Door
Playboy Interview: Tom Snyder Bites The Hand That Feeds Him
The Year In Sex
Cronkite's Last Stand
Febuary 1971 "Bussman's Holiday" by William Iversen
"The Intelligent Man's Guide to Intellegence" by Morton Hunt
"Histories of the Future" by Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
"Nearer, Silent Majority, To Thee" by Saul Braun
"Jazz & Pop '71" by Nat Hentoff.
March 1981 Twins: An Irresistible Survey Of Saucy Sisters
An Interview With James Garner
The Worst Prison Riot In History
A Pool Player's Course In trick Shots
March 1971 "Shark!" by Peter Matthiessen
"The Roots of Radicalism" by Burno Bettelheim and Richard Flacks
"Executive Chess" by Hal Higdon.
April 1981 Playboy's Music Special: Poll Winners, Willie Nelson, Hits & Misses, Plus the john Lennon Songbook
The Liberation Of A Congressional Wife - Rita Jenrette's Own Story In Words And Pictures
the Girls Of Kokomo: There's More Than Meets The eye Back Home In Indiana
Lou Grant Live: Playboy Interviews Ed Asner
April 1971 "Sixth Sense" by Jules Siegel
"Zubin and the Mothers" by F.P. Tullius.
May 1981 Miss World For A Day: World-Class Photos Of the Beauty Who Walked Out On the Title
Rodney Dangerfield: Mr. Splendor Offers a Fashion Trip Fpr Spring
Is There Life After Life? Playboy Interviews Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
How To Stop Worrying And Love Your Home Computer
May 1971 "Power Play" by Robert Sherrill
"World 42: Freaks O" by Garry Willis
""Slow Down, You Move Too Fast"" by Daid Butler.
June 1981 Playboy Interviews Baseball Superstar Steve Garvey
Playmate Of The Year Terri Welles: A New Woman For the Eighties
The Road To Executive Power, A Short Course By Michael Korda
The Eye-Popping Girls Of The New James Bond Film, Plus Our Own Discovery, Gorgeous Robbin Young
June 1971 "Centre Court" by John McPhee
"The Sounds of Silence" by Edward and Mildred Hall
"Funeral in Jackson" by Craig Vetter.
July 1981 Jayne Kennedy: Sizzling Photos Of TV's Sexiest Sportscaster
Prisoner Of War Or Traitor? Playboy Interviews Robert Garwood
First Look At Mel Brook's New Comic Epic, "History Of The World - Part I"
Beyond The Pill: Are We On The Verge Of A Safe, Sure Contraceptive?
July 1971 "The Porn is Green" by John Bowers
"An End to All This" by Richard M. Koff
"Pick of the Day Sailers" by Bill Robinson.
August 1981 Valerie Perrine: Superman's Nemesis Unclothed
Playboy Interviews Reagan Guru George Gilder
Great Girls, Sexy Games, Secluded Beaches And A New Wave Movie
New Humor From Jean Shepherd
August 1971 "$8884.42 a Second" by Richard Rhodes
"Goodbye to the Blind Slash Dead Kid's Hooch" by Arthur Hadley
"The Future of Marriage" by Morton Hunt
"Champagne Country" by Joseph Wechsberg
"Net Assets" by Pancho Gonzales
"Playboy's First Pro Football Preview" by Anson Mount.
September 1981 Bo Derek Poster! Bonus Pull-Out Of The Sexiest Jane Ever, Plus Exclusive Shots From New Tarzan Film
Girls Of The Southeastern Conference (No Wonder Those Guys Play Such Good Football)
Right From The Source's Mouth: An Epic Interview With James Michener
New Fiction From John UpDike
September 1971 "Who Runs the Government? by Robert Semple
"Playboy's Pigskin Preview" by Anson Mount
"Collecting for Fun and (Maybe) Profit" by Michael Laurence.
October 1981 girls Of The SouthEastern Conference: Don't Miss Part II
Maud Adams Breaks Out In A Playboy Pictorial, With Scenes From Her Sexy Film, Tattoo
No Small Talk Here: An Intense Interview With Donald Sutherland
Playboy's New Atlantic City Hotel And Casino: A Refuge For Wildlife Beside The Ocean
October 1971 "More Futures Than One" by Poul Anderson
"A.C.L.U. -- Let There be Law" by Peter Andrews
"Twilight of the Primitive" by Lewis Cotlow
"Immortality is Fully Deductible" by Craig Karpel.
November 1981 Vikki La Motta: Raging Bull's Woman Is 51 And A Knockout
Sex In Cinema
Oriana Fallaci: We Turn The Tables On The Great Interrogator
David Halberstam: Will Big Bucks Break The N.B.A.?
November 1971 To Be Continued" by Alex Comfort
"Thanksgiving in Florence" by John Clellon Holmes
"The Tom McMillen Affair" by Lawrence Linderman
"A Revolution in the Church" by Garry Willis
"Shenandoah Breakdown" by David Standish
"The Life and Times of Henry Miller" (with photos) by Henry Miller.
December 1981 "Atlanta: The Evidence of Things Not Seen" by James Baldwin
"The Buddy System" by Geoffrey Norman
"Anatomy of a corporate Take-Over" by Richard Phalon
"Confessions of a Cocaine Cowboy" by Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson with Walter Lowe Jr.
"Playboy's College Basketball Preview" by Anson Mount
"American Beauties" by Laurence Shames.
December 1971 "New York - A Town Without Foreplay" by Bruce Jay Friedman
"Can the Real Howard Hughes" by Edwin Fadiman Jr.
"...Still Stand Up?" by James Phelan
"Shelley" by Dan Greenburg
"The Coming of the Psychopath" by Alan Harrington
"Crazy Kids Cross the Ocean" by Herbert Gold
"My Last Mugging" by Murray Kempton.
January 1982 "The Unreturning Army" by Philip Caputo
"Between Rock and a Soft Place" by Stephen King
"Lords of the Rings" by Richard Price
"Man and Woman, Part I of a Series" by Jo Durden-Smith and Diane De Simone.
January 1972  
Febuary 1982 Man And Woman Part Two: Why Is there Sex?
Playboy Interview: Lech Walesa, The Truth Behind The Drama In Poland
Championship Wrestling!
Andy (Taxi) Kaufman VS. Susan (Miss September) Smith
Febuary 1972  
March 1982 Cover Girl Barbara Carrera In A Hot Remake Of "I, The Jury"
Playboy Interviews Patty Hearst
The Wall Street Wisdom Of Louis Rukeyser
Finally, A Sensible Article About Guns
March 1972  
April 1982 Reagan's Coming War On Drugs: Civil rights Will Be The Biggest Loser
Mariel Hemingway Gets Physical! An Exclusive Photo Session Plus Scenes From Her Daring New Film
Playboy Interviews The Feisty Mayor Of New York, Ed Koch
Back By Popular Demand: The Year In Music
April 1972  
May 1982 Beauty And The Badge: In And Out Of Uniform With A Captivating (Real-Life) Cop
"Take Off, Hoser" The Comic Crazies Of SCTV Let You In On The Joke
Playboy Interview: Rock 'N' Roll's Rich-'N'-Angry Billy Joel
Man And Woman: What Shrinks Can't Tell You About Stress, Mood And Illness
May 1972  
June 1982 A Knockout Interview With Sugar Ray Leonard
"Holly Terror" How Fanatics Use That Old-Time Religion To Control Votes - And Minds
Man And Woman: Why Sex Feels The Way It Does
Dan Aykroyd: Not Just Another Pretty Conehead
June 1972  
July 1982 Hold The Phone! The Girls Of Ma Bell: A Very Person-To-Person Pictorial
Bette Davis gives Everybody Hell In A Delightful Playboy Interview
The Brawning Of America: How Sports Medicine Can Make Us All Fitter, Trimmer And Sexier
The Watergate Profiteers: Ten Years Later, They're Still Counting
July 1972  
August 1982 Alexander Haig: The Inside Story Of A Cunning Man's Rise To Power
Playboy Interviews The Man Who Put Earphones On the World - Sony's Akio Morita
Pro Football Picks - Thge Secret Of The 30-Minute (Trust Us) Orgasm
Summer Sex Issue: Gadgets, Games And Girls
August 1972  
September 1982 College Girls Have Come A Long Way, Baby!
Wait'll You See The Girls Of The Big Eight
Behind The Lines In The TV News War
The Space Odyssey Continues: Arthur C. Clarke's New Thriller "2010"
September 1972  
October 1982 Charlie's Last Angel Tanya Roberts In A Knockout Nude Pictorial
James Michener's New Novel, "Space"
The Girls Of Japan
A Playboy Special Report: Sex On Campus 1982: It's Hotter Than You Think... Than We Thought!
October 1972  
November 1982 Playboy Pictorial: the Women Of Braniff, Hard Times Can't Kill That Ol' Texas Spirit
Oh, My Stars! It Was A Kinky Year For Sex In Cinema
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.: The Democrats' Last Stand
Playboy Interviews The Tenor Of Our Time: Luciano Pavarotti
November 1972  
December 1982 The Women Of Playboy: We Turn The Tables On Us For An Irresistible 14-Page Pictorial
Julie Andrews & Blake Edwards: A Spirited Playboy Interview
Erica Jong Defines The Perfect Man
With Enough Shovels: Robert Scheer's Powerful New Book On Reagan's nuclear War Hawks
December 1972  
January 1983 "Living on the Default Line" by Paul Erdman
"Ten Things That Make Me Laugh" by G. Gordon Liddy.
January 1973  
Febuary 1983 Cover Girl Kim Basinger: She's 007's New Woman And She's A Looker! See Eight Knockout Pages Inside
Rocky Mountain Sighs... The Women Of Aspen
Playboy Interviews Nobel Prize Winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Joseph Wambaugh's Tough New Cop Story Makes "Hill Street" Look Like "Sesame Street"
Febuary 1973  
March 1983 Stockbroker Bares All! when E.F. Hutton's Sexiest Broker Agreed To Pose, We Did More Than Listen
Is There Sex After Marriage? Part Two Of The Playboy Survey
Sam Donaldson: An Interview With TV's Most Dogged Reagan Watcher
Behind Hollywood's Mirrors: Asa Baber Reports On The Coke Dealers To The Stars
March 1973  
April 1983 Dynasty Star Pamela Bellwood Goes Native In An Exotic Exclusive Pictorial
Norman Mailer's Wild New Novel Of Ancient Egypt Part One: A Soldier In The Harem
Paul Newman At His Funniest And Saddest: A Very Frank Playboy Interview
Ladies Of Spain: Ten Pages Of Spicy Senoritas
April 1973  
May 1983 The Sexiest Mothers You'll Ever See! Two Finalists From The Mrs. America Pageant
Straight, Gay Or Bisexual... Is Anybody Happy? The Playboy Sex Survey Part Three
Terrorism In America: Is Los Angeles Really Ready For The '84 Olympics?
Sensational Nastassia Kinski In A Startling Helmut Newton Pictorial
May 1973  
June 1983 Beautiful, Sexy Marianne Gravatte Is Our Playmate Of The Year
Behind The Scenes With The Pulitzers Of Palm Beach, What A Suit!
Blood! Gore! Goo! Playboy Interviews The Titan Of Terror Stephen King
George Burns Remembers Sex
June 1973  
July 1983 Playboy Interviews Baseball's Rowdy Genius Earl Weaver
Saving Bond's Women: A Loving Look At 007's Sultriest Co-Stars
Playboy Readers Vote For Experimental Sex
Hello, Mudda, Hello, Fadda, Here I Am In Camp Computa John Sack Reports On Life Among The Nerds
July 1973  
August 1983 Sultry Sybil Danning: Queen Of The Action Flicks Heats Up A Ten-Page Pictorial
TV Mogul Ted Turner Rages Out Of Control In A Violent Playboy Interview
Tim Hutton: The Trials Of A Teenage Hero
Pro Football Preview: "Bull's-Eye" Anson Mount Picks 'Em Again
August 1973  
September 1983 "Technodarlings" by Craig Vitter
"Armand in a Sea of Skin: A Sexual Memoir" by Bill Barich
"Quarterly Reports: Financial Foreplay" by Andrew Tobias
"Playboy's Pigskin Preview" by Anson Mount.
September 1973  
October 1983 "The Big O" Readers Report On timing, Touching And Female Sex
Hill Street Blues: Playboy Grills The Precinct
The Exotic, Erotic Redhead, A Pictorial Salute
High School Grad Loretta Martin Gets Her Yearbook Wish To Pose Nude In Playboy
October 1973  
November 1983 Nurses Are People, Too: Women In White, Out Of Uniform
Sex In The Age Of Negotiation
Playboy Interview: Kenny Rogers
We Asked Bubba Smith 20 Questions (And We Said Sir)
November 1973  
December 1983 Dynasty Star Joan Collins Uncovered
We Put The Sex Into FlashDancing
You Can Beat Wall Street
Special Bonus! Playboy's Guide To Electronic Entertainment
December 1973  
January 1984 The Last Nude Photo Of Marilyn Monroe
Kurt Vonnegut On Being Censored
Twilight Of Muhammad Ali
A Dazzling Review Of The Past Delightful Dozen Playmates
January 1974 Late Night TV's Undisputed King - David Letterman - In A Revealing Interview
The Challenge Of Being Hillary - Portrait Of A First Lady, by Shana Alexander
Our Review Of The Year's Delightful Dozen Playmates
What We Should Have Learned From The Cold War, By David Halberstam
Febuary 1984 A Potent Pictorial: Sexy Women Who Are Tougher Than You Are
Heeeeere's Carol! Johnny Carson's "Matinee Lady" Shows All
Paul Simon Interview: Love, Hate And Art Garfunkel
Profile Of William Hurt: Hollywood's Intense Star
Febuary 1974  
March 1984 Premed Student Porn Star: She'll Giv You Fever
Big Women (Beautiful, Too) An Abundant Pictorial
Ripping Off John Lennon: A Special Report
Sexy Cars! Hot Cycles! Playboy's Guide To Wheels
March 1974  
April 1984 Roy Scheider On Playing Big-League Ball
The Year In Music: How To Dance Like Michael Jackson
Frigid Women: The Cold Hard Facts
Playboy Guide Men's Fashion
April 1974  
May 1984 The Fall Of The Young Kennedys: Inside A Troubled American Dynasty
Older Women, Younger Men: A Real-Life Pictorial Featuring Rita Jenrette & Vikki La Motta
"Thriller" Playmate Ola Ray
Questions You Should Never Ask Your Lover
May 1974  
June 1984 Reggie Jackson: Life With The Yankees: A Grand Slam At The Bronx Zoo
Steamy Barbara Edwards: Playmate Of The Year
Critics' Choice: The 25 Best Restaurants In America
Playboy Interviews Jesse Jackson
June 1974  
July 1984 Bo Derek X-Rated: She's Hotter Than Ever
The Final Dayts Of John Belushi By Bob Woodward
Exclusive: Playboy Interviews Lebanon's War Lord Walid Jumblatt
Playboy's Choice: The Best Dating Bars In America
July 1974  
August 1984 From Fifties Pinup To Eighties Knockout: Terry Moore Hughes, Howard Hughes's Ex Shows It All
Colorado Governor Richard Lamm Gives Us A Future Shock
A Viewer's Guide To the Olympics
Money, Sex and The American Couple
August 1974  
September 1984 Girls Of The Big Ten: Let's Do It Again
Cocaine: How Dangerous Is It? A Special Report
Required Reading! Playboy's Complete Campus Guide
Interview: A Soul-Searching Shirley MacLaine
September 1974  
October 1984 Pictorials: Babes Of Broadway, Our Rave Review
Interview: TV's Zany David Letterman
Sonia Braga: Spider Woman Is Sexy!
Playboy's Fashion Guide: Looking Good This Fall
October 1974  
November 1984 The Secret Papers Of Howard Hughes: How The Phantom Billionaire Tried To Buy The U.S. Government
Christie Blinkley Dresses Up
Dazzling & Dirty: Playboy's Sex In Cinema
Interview: President José Napoleon Duarte Of El Salvador
November 1974  
December 1984 "While The Democrats Slept" by Ron Reagan
"Playboy's College Basketball Preview" by Anson Mount
"Ex-Wives" by Bruce Jay Friedman
"I'm Sick of Celebrities" by Roy Blount Jr.
"Well, Excuuuuuse Us!" by Steve Martin
"Quarterly Reports: Deal Me In" by Andrew Tobias
"Citizen (Howard) Hughes" by Michael Drosnin.
December 1974  
January 1985 A Sparkling Playboy Interview With Goldie Hawn
The Girls Of Rock 'N' Roll: You Won't See This On MTV
Playboy Bloopers
An Insider's Guide To Women's Colleges
Janury 1975  
Febuary 1985 Yaaaa-Hooooo, It's The Girls Of Texas (Eat Your Heart Out, California)
Interview: 29-Year-Old Zillionaire Steve Jobs Of Apple Computers
Jerry Kramer Looks Back At The Pack
The Art Of Being Cocksure
Febuay 1975  
March 1985 Playboy Interview: What Makes 60 Minutes Tick?
How To Save Carl Lewis From Himself
12 Dreamy Pages Of Playmates Of The Year Undressed For Bed
The Feminist Lobby: What Else Do Women Want?
March 1975  
April 1985 Are There Any More At Home Like You? Playmate Sisters: A Pictorial Of Sibling Delights
Playboy's Hot New Rock Video
Inside The Cult Sex Classic "Café Flesh"
Fashion Guide In This Issue
April 1975  
May 1985 Rock Singer Vanity Shows Her Moves
Playmate Of The Year Karen Velez: A Stunning Pictorial, Plus A Pull-Out Poster
Dwight Gooden: A Rookie's Diary
The Playboy Advisor Does It On The Road
May 1975  
June 1985 Roxanne Pulitzer, What A Prize! Foxy Roxy Bares All
Andrew Tobias On Man's Best Friend: Money
How To Live With Another Person
Golden Gatefolds: 25 Years Of Pompeo Posar
June 1975  
July 1985 Power Or Pleasure? The Give And Take Of Oral Sex
Pictorials: Grace Jones Gets It On
Rob Reiner Interview: "Meathead" Scores In Hollywood
A Loving Look At Stockings
July 1975  
August 1985 Hot Dreams: What Your Sexual Fantasies Mean
The "Waltons" Girl, Judy Norton-Taylor, In A Grown-Up Nude Pictorial
The Playboy Interview: Fidel Castro On Reagan And Revolution
Sexy Newcomer Ingrid Boulting
August 1975  
September 1985   September 1974  
October 1985 There's A Bold New Look Under Our Covers
Supermodel Jerry Hall, Photos By Annie Leibovitz
John DeLorean Finally Gets Cross-Examined
Plus Tom McGuane, Dan Jenkins, Robert Stone, Buck Henry, Rosanna Arquette and Bob Greene
October 1975  
November 1985 The Women Of Mensa: America's Smartest Females Pose Nude
Playboy Interview: Sting
"Miami Vice"
Klaus Kinski
November 1975  
December 1985 Barbi Benton Is Back! Lookin' Better Than Ever
Playboy Interview Genial Genius Bill Cosby
Special Report: Why Drug Enforcement Can't Work
Our Guide To The Best Dating Bars In America
December 1975  
January 1986 Reagan And The Revival Of Racism
Playboy's College Basketball Preview
Andy Warhol Cover Art
20 Questions: Jay Leno
January 1976  
Febuary 1986 Lips: Portals Of Desire
Michael Douglas Interview
Can Sex Survive Aids?
Scientific Principles Of The Party Tape
   
March 1986 Sally Field: An Interview From The Heart
Lady D.J.s Fast-Talking, Hot-Looking, Tuen Them In!
How To Kiss A Girl
A Valentine To Bunnies: Can Jack Kemp Outplay Bill Bradley? Men, Money And Dartmouth
   
April 1986 Victoria Sellers: Peter's Daughter Is A Photographic Chip Off The Old Block
Linda Ellerbee On Life Inside The Tube
"Fatal Vision" Revisited
Stallone VS. Springsteen! Which One's The Working-Class Hero?
   
May 1986 Steamy Interview: Kathleen Turner
Four-Alarm Pictorial! Woman Fire Fighter
Playboy's Reporter Scoops The Press! Ron Reagan At The Summit
The Year In Movies
   
June 1986 Playmate Of The Year Kathy Shower
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Interviewed
Dynasty Star Linda Evans Nude
The Secrets Of Easily Orgasmic Women
   
July 1986 Arthur C. Clarke On Sex, Sci-Fi And The Shuttle
20 Questions: Hollywood's Top Gun Tom Cruise
Carrie Leigh: The First Lady Of The Playboy Mansion
Henry Miller's Last Flame, Brenda Venus
   
August 1986 Jackie Gleason Interview
Stallone's Leading Lady, Brigitte Nielsen, Nude
The New Hype: Business Guys As Heroes
20 Questions: Sigourney Weaver
   
September 1986 The VCR Date: Why The Best Night Out Is A Night In
Farmers' Daughters: Born (And Bred) In The U.S.A.
Chicago Cubs' Ball Girl Marla Collins
Interview: Reporter Carl Bernstein From Watergate To Heartburn
   
October 1986 Women Of The Ivy League '86
Phil Collins Interview
Terrorism, By Senator Alan J. Dixon
Jim McMahon 20 Questions
   
November 1986 Star Search Winner Devin De Vasquez
Mano A Mano: The Toughest Match-Ups In The N.F.L.
Can She Talk? A Snappy Interview With Joan Rivers
Music '87: Be Sure To Vote In Playboy's Biggest Poll Ever
   
December 1986 The Women Of 7/Eleven
Bryant Gumbel Interview
Sex Stars Of 1986
The 12 Stores Of Christmas
   
January 1987 Playboy's College Basketball Preview
Graceful Lee, Playmate Of The Month
Playboy's Party Jokes
Playmate Review
January 1977  
Febuary 1987 "Colbys" Sex Star Stephanie Beacham
The Mafia Princess
Cocain And College Basketball
The Year In Sex Pictorial
   
March 1987 All-American Janet Jones
Playboy Interview: Suprising Riffs From Lionel Richie
The Panic Merchants: Why The Media Sell Hysteria
G'Day: (And Good Night) To Aussi Chic
   
April 1987 The Women Of TV's "Casanova", A Steamy Private Screening
Death At Dawn: How CBS Killed Its Morning News
Jeans Too Sexy For Ads
Rae Dawn Chong Tells What's Hot (and What's Not)
   
May 1987 Vanna: Vefore Wheel Of Fortune
The Year In Movies
Cars '87 Top Pros Pick The Best!
A Special Report, Drugs: Where We Stand
   
June 1987 Donna Edmondson: Playmate Of The Year
Power Forward: Kevin McHale
Elfin Heartthrob: Michael J. Fox
Baddest Comic: Whoopi Goldberg
   
July 1987 Beach Party! 20 Pages Of Sun, Surf & Sex
Smart Talk With Wade Boggs, Garry Shandling, Little Richard, Beastie Boys
Going For Gotti: Why The Godfather Walked
Meet Ellen Stohl
   
August 1987 Fabulous Paulina and... A Sneak Preview Of Her Hot New Calendar
An Epic Interview With Imelda And Ferdinand Marcos On Beauty, Tyranny & The Secrets Of Human Nature
The Comeback Kids: Guys Who Have Turned Failure Into Success
Mets Pitching Ace Ron Darling
   
September 1987 Spy Wars: Has The K.G.B. Cracked The CIA?
Who Are The N.F.L.'s Best? Pro Football Preview
Plus 007's Dangerous New Sensation, Maryam D'Abo
Celebrating Three Decades Of James Bond In Playboy
   
October 1987 The Women Of The Top Ten Party Schools
Patriot Or Pirate? A Fighting Interview With General Richard Secord
Donna Mills Makes A Smash Landing
Star Appeal: Who Plays The Charity Circuit
   
November 1987 Jessica Hahn Born Again In Words And Pictures
1988 Playboy Music Poll
20 Questions: Kelly McGillis
Playboy Interviews Daniel Ortega
   
December 1987 Brigitte Nielsen Stallone Warms Up Winter
the Lost Chapter Of Catch-22
Jessica Hahn Part Two: The Cover-Up
Hot Interview: Gore Vidal
   
January 1988 Playboy Interviews Arnold Schwarnegger
O Canada, Playmate Of The Month
Playboy's Playmate Review
Satire: Little Annie Fanny
January 1978  
Febuary 1987 Those Lusty, Busty (And Oh, So British) Page 3 Girls
Could You Have Asked For A Better Year In Sex?
Why We Must Spy, By William F. Buckley, Jr.
Ben Stein On Greed In Hollywood
   
March 1988 Lingerie: The Way You Love To See It
World Without Yuppies: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., On Real Politics John D. Spooner On Real Money
The Secret Ollie North Riotous Billy Crystal
Elusive Tom Waits
   
April 1988 Vanity Is Hot! A Sultry 12-Page Pictorial
Fabulous Chinese Women
Star-Studded Spring Spectacular (Jay Leno, Harrison Ford, Michael Jordan, Larry King & Many More!)
Music Poll Results
   
May 1988 Hair-Raising Interview With Don King
The Fitness Myth
Denise Crosby Out Of Uniform
Bawdy Talk With Teri Garr
   
June 1988 Playmate Of The Year: India Allen
Playboy's Build-Your-Own Candidate
Vietnam Love Story
Chevy Chase Interview
   
July 1988      
August 1988 The Great Palimony Caper
Gorbachev: The Great Red Hope? By Robert Scheer
Cover Girl Kimberley Conrad: The New Woman In Hef's Life
The Man Who Created Rambo
   
September 1988 Exclusive! Yasir Arafat Interview
The New Jessica Hahn: The Photos You've Been Waiting For
Pro Football Forecast
Barry Goldwater On J.F.K., L.B.J. And Nixon
   
October 1988 Girls, Football, Fashion, Prize Fiction, Beer
Interview: Baseball's Roger Craig
Exclusive: The First Reagan-Iran Arms Deal
TV's Hot Hellion Morton Downey, Jr.
   
November 1988 Sex In Cinema (Starring That Torrid Toon)
Election Coverage, Playboy Style: Women Of Washington
Interview: Bruce Willis, Back On Top
Why Everyone Is Acting So Weird
   
December 1988 Our Devastating Dozen - The 1988 Playmate Review
Cher's Raciest Interview Yet
College Basketball Preview
Meet The Screen's Hot New Brit Lysette Anthony
   
January 1989 Woody Allen's War With Machines
A Fidgety Interview With Robert De Niro
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., On Hope
Including: Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, Bo Derek and Dozens Of Other Great Beauties
January 1979 Marlon Brando: His Most Revealing Interview
Failures Of Television
Jules Feiffer: The Language Of Lovemaking
Gore Vidal: Why Sex Is Politics
Febuary 1989 How To Sleep With Women
Playboy Interview: Bob Woodward
Rubbing Her Right: A Perfect Foot Massage
That Cheating Heart
Febuary 1979 The Good, The Bad and The Beautiful: Sex 1978
Playboy Hits The Jackpot: The Girls Of Las Vegas
Strike Teams: Can The U.S. Handle The Terrorist Threat?
Is There A Diesel In Your Future?
March 1989 La Toya Jackson: Michael's Sister In A thriller Pictorial
An Interview With Tom Hanks
Supergroupie Pamela Des Barres
Scuba-Diving Thrills And A Drug Bust That Went Bonkers
March 1979 A First Look At Joseph Heller's Funniest Novel Since "Catch-22"
Who Are We? The Playboy Report On American Men
Alex Haley: "My Problems With 'Roots'"
Up Close And Personal: The Cheerleaders Who Were Too Hot For The N.F.L.
April 1989 Girls Of The Big East
A Chilling Interview With The Irish Republican Army
Sex In The Eighties? An Eye-Opening Report From The Field
Spring Break: Photos From The Front Lines
April 1979 The Burger Court: Are The Supremes Out Of Tune With The Times?
Malcolm Forbes: Interview With The "Happiest Millionaire"
Debra Jo Fondren: Unforgettable Photos Of A Dream Girl
Sex In Chicago: Getting It On In The Second City
May 1989 From Russia With Love: The Soviets' First Sex Star Natalya Negoda
Bold Peek At A Hot Movie Scandal
Deep Inside Geraldo . . . Yes, Geraldo
Interview With Our Kind Of Woman: Susan Sarandon
May 1979 Exclusive! The Secret Life Of Marilyn Monroe
Foreign Sex Stars
Dan Rather
Working The Vice Squad
June 1989 Kimberley Conrad: Playmate Of The Year Is The Playmate For A Lifetime
Cash And Comedy: The Laugh Biz Pays Off
Dana Plato, Diff'rent Strokes' Favorite Female Kid, Grows Up
It's Enough To Get You Airsick: The confessions Of A Deregulated Pilot
June 1979 Well, Excuuuuuuse us! Some Short And Crazy Stories by Steve Martin
At Last! The Winners Of Playboy's First Humor Contest
Playmate Of The Year: Monique St. Pierre
Immortality - Is It Just Around The Corner?
July 1989 Broadcast Nudes! TV Newscaster Shelly Jamison Bares All
Golf In All Its Glory
Interview With Barry Diller
A Vietnam Vet Gets Straight Talk From Afghan Vets
July 1979 The Girls Of James Bond: Exclusive Uncoverage From 007's Spectacular New Thriller "Moonraker"
Why Doctors Don't Know Anything About Sex
Patti McGuire (Connors) Revisited
The High-Powered Politics Of Picking The Pope
August 1989 Women Of Wall Street
Exclusive! Mike Tyson: The Inside Story Of A Raging Bully
The Geneva Sex Zoo
In Praise Of Patient Women
August 1979 Candy's Back: A Loving Encore For Our 25th Anniversary Playmate
The Rolling Stones: An Insider's Seamy Story
Irwin Shaw: First Look At His Great New Novel
Nuclear Reactions: Edward Teller Interviewed - Our Coming Atomic Wasteland
September 1989 Double Your Pleasure! Double Good! Double Delicious! Playmate Twins
Mets Star Keith Hernandez On Drugs, Darryl And The Agony Of The Aging BallPlayer
Pro Football Forecast
The Book Of Sexual Questions
September 1979 Pete Rose Slams Fans, Management, Media, Plugs Self
Non-Nuke Ways To Survive Without Oil
Playboy Finds Phi Beta Kappa Playmate
Playboy's Pigskin Preview
October 1989 "College Women Talk About Campus Sex" by Janet Lever
"The Playboy Advisor Goes (Back) to College" by James R. Petersen
"Return to Animal House" by Chris Miller
"Playboy's Pigskin Preview" by Gary Cole.
October 1979 Norman Mailer's Nonfiction Masterpiece: The Life And Death Of Gary Gilmore
No.1 Box-Office Star Burt Reynolds: His Most Revealing Interview Ever
The Miracles Of Bear Bryant
Bodacious & Beautiful: Bunnies Of '79
November 1989 Donna Mills, Then: A Classic Pictorial On Knots Landing's Bitchy Sex Star
Solved!~ The Murder Of Jimmy Hoffa
USA Today's Al Neuharth: The Confessions Of An S.O.B.
Sex In Cinema
November 1979 Masters and Johnson: The Secrets Of Incredible Sex
Condominiums: How You Are Being Sold Out In The Real Estate Market
Norman Mailer's Griping Study Of Gary Gilmore
Sex In Cinema
December 1989 Candice Bergen Interview: The Looker Speaks From The Heart About Men, Murphy Brown And Movie-Set Sex
Jack Nicholson's Sexy Ex-Lover Karen Mayo Chandler Revealed
Heavenly Hulks! The Women Of Wrestling
A New Mike Hammer: Mystery From Mickey Spillane
December 1979 Al Pacino Talks His First Ever In-Depth Interview
Norman Mailer's Stunning Account Of Gary Gilmore's Final Hours
Betting The N.F.L. - How To Beat The Point Spread
Sex In Los Angeles - The Secret Life Of Tinseltown