Playboy Playmates of the Year: The 80's

Are you ready to meet the first Playmate of the Year for the new millennium? We hope so because Jodi Ann Paterson is abut to explode on the scene with an abundance of talent and sensuality. We knew she was something special when we discovered her on our countrywide Playmate Search 2000. As pure as the snowy mountain peaks that surround the small North-western community where she spent her childhood, this Oregon State University grad toned her sultry figure as an avid snowboarder and exercised her intellect at Eugene's CBS affiliate KVAL-TV. No stranger to the limelight, Miss October 1999 is a veteran of the Miss Teen Circuit, where she won the hearts of the judges with her Indonesian-born exotic beauty. Now she has arrived in Hollywood, where we expect her impressive combination of beauty and brains will surely pave the way for a fantastic future. We're just happy to be along as Jodi begins her rise to the top!

Every year, the editors at Playboy must make an incredibly difficult decision: of all the beautiful women who have passed through their doors and into Playboy history, who most aptly represents the Playboy ideal for that year? This collection includes footage of all the competing candidates, as well as a full-length feature dedicated to the winner herself, Brande Roderick.

How would it feel to be in the company of Marilyn Monroe, Pamela Anderson and all of the beautiful centerfolds who have graced the pages of Playboy over the past 50 years? Just ask Colleen Shannon, Playboy's 50th Anniversary Playmate! We went to 20 cities and met 10,000 women, and now meet the girl who stood out from all the rest. As Playboy's 50th Anniversary Playmate, Coleen personifies today's girl-next-door. Beautiful, adventurous and athletic, she's the girl behind the turntable in the club and atop the snowboard barreling down the slopes. Glimpse every fun, spontaneous and irresistible moment in this sizzling addition to your collection.

A sexy Italian/Puerto Rican model and college senior from Cleveland, Carmella first caught Playboy's eye as one of 12 finalists for the FOX-TV reality show Girl Next Door: The Search for a Playboy Centerfold. Although she dropped out of the competition early, Hugh Hefner recognized her potential and invited her to the Playboy Mansion. With the support of her mom, who auditioned for Playboy 20 years earlier. Carmella seized the opportunity to do a test shoot and her Playboy career skyrocketed from there - first as Playboy.com's February 2003 Cyber Girl of the Month, then PLAYBOY magazine's Miss April 2003, and ultimately our Playmate of the Year 2004! Carmella's natural radiance lights up the screen in this sensual look at our girl-next-door beauty. Discover Carmella's true charms as she shares a cab or the ride of a lifetime, then visits an Italian villa for a voyeuristic fantasy, and unleashes her most secret desires in a steamy dream sequence... and much, much more!

In 2004 Playboy traveled across the USA to find the hot, hotter and hottest Bartender Babes from your favorite hangouts. Lucky Orland, Florida, was where we found Kara Monaco and soon after that she became not only our DVD cover Model, but a featured cocktail shaker in Playboy’s pictorial ‘Women Behind Bars.’ 2005 was also a very good year for Kara when she was chosen Playboy’s Miss June – becoming a Centerfold darling and candidate for a certain other honor. No in 2006, we’d like to raise our glasses in a tantalizing toast to Miss Kara Monaco – Playmate of the Year. Wonder what 2007 will bring this breath taker?

Directed by Kevin Burns, this documentary from Playboy Home Video examines the oftentimes tense relationship between sex, women, and popular Hollywood culture. With a particular focus given to Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, Jean Harlow, and Sharon Stone, Sex at 24 Frames Per Second studies the role of female sexuality in film throughout the years. ~ Tracie Cooper, Rovi

Profiles of Playboy Playmates. Features: Kathy Shower (Playmate of the Month, May 1985/Playmate of the Year), Cynthia Brimhall (POTM, October 1985), Barbara Edwards (POTM, September 1983/POTY), Rebekka Armstrong (POTM, September 1986), Dona Speir (POTM, March 1984), Carol Ficatier, (POTM, December 1985), Roberta Vasquez (POTM, November 1984), Donna Smith (POTM, March 1985), Sherry Arnett (POTM, January 1986), Pamela Saunders (POTM, November 1985), Julie McCullough (POTM, February 1986), & Cherie Witter (POTM, February 1985).

Jamie Johnson takes the exploration of wealth that he began in Born Rich one step further. The One Percent, refers to the tiny percentage of Americans who control nearly half the wealth of the U.S. Johnson's thesis is that this wealth in the hands of so few people is a danger to our very way of life.

A documentary about British model Precious Muir as she moves to new York to become a fashion model, and undergoes breast enhancement surgery to make it in the industry.

Bunny Yeager, once heralded as the world's prettiest photographer, had a huge influence in 20th-century pop culture though few people know her name. Whether by popularizing the bikini, helping discover Bettie Page, shaping the image of Playboy or inventing the selfie, Bunny was a trailblazer whose work bucked against conservative 1950s America and helped pave the way for the feminist movement and the sexual revolution. Yet the very changes she helped usher in would soon render her a forgotten relic...till now.

Profiles of Playboy Playmates. Features: Tina Bockrath (Playmate of the Month, May '90), Peggy McIntaggart (POTM, January '90), Karen Foster (POTM, October '89), Helle Michaelsen (POTM, August '88), Erika Eleniak (POTM, July '89), Bonnie Marino (POTM, June '90), Pamela Anderson, (POTM, February '90), Renee Tenison (POTM, November '89/Playmate of the Year), Lisa Matthews (POTM, April '90/POTY), Deborah Driggs (POTM, March '90), Petra Verkaik (POTM, December '89), & Jacqueline Sheen (POTM, July '90).

Meet the gorgeous girls who bring you service with a smile and a whole lot more at the hottest neighborhood restaurant in America. In their trademark orange and white uniforms, the Hooters honeys have become a national phenomenon for sending crowds into feeding frenzies. But outside of work, the world’s most alluring waitresses have aspirations of their own, from climbing the corporate ladder to becoming a supermodel. Fresh from their best-selling Playboy pictorial, the Girls of Hooters are on the move and ready for action in this DVD spectacular

A fictionalized day in the life of Anna Nicole Smith, revealing her innermost thoughts on the people (friends, servants, lawyers, photographers) and events (photoshoots, bathing, sexual exploits) that make up her life.

Profiles of Playboy Playmates. Features: Fawna MacLaren (Playmate of the Month, January '89), Laura Richmond (POTM, September 1988), Tawnni Cable (POTM, June '89), Laurie Wood (POTM, March '89), Emily Arth (POTM, June 1988), Pia Reyes (POTM, November 1988), Ava Fabian (POTM, August 1986), Simone Eden (POTM, February '89), Jennifer Jackson (POTM, April '89), Karin van Breeschooten & Mirjam van Breeschooten (POTM, September '89), Shannon Long (POTM, October 1988), Kimberley Conrad (POTM, January 1988/Playmate of the Year).

Video pictorials of Playboy's past Playmates, compiled for 1992.

Couples learn how to reawaken their sexual desires.

Paul Snider is a narcissistic, small time hustler who fancies himself a ladies man. His life changes when he meets Dorothy Stratten working behind the counter of a Dairy Queen. Under his guidance Dorothy grows to fame as a Playboy Playmate. But when Dorothy begins pursuing an acting career, the jealous Paul finds himself elbowed out of the picture by more famous men.

Teenager Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sister Judge Margaret Turner. Threatened with jail, Nugent agrees to date Susan until the crush abates.

A pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their arrest, they tag along with a playboy on a boat trip that finds them on a tropical island, where a jewel thief has sinister plans for them.

A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last moments happy. However, the old man's health takes a turn for the better and now his son doesn't know how to break the news that he's engaged to someone else, especially since his father is so taken with the impostor.