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- TC Stallings' testimony of faith, trust, perseverance, and spiritual transformation comes to life in 24 Counter: The Story BEHIND The Run. You will be inspired as he lays himself bare, revealing his own flaws and weaknesses that paved the way for an emphatic display of God's sovereignty. Starting from his challenging childhood days in the mean streets of Cleveland, Ohio, on up to the dramatic winning touchdown run for his beloved Louisville Cardinals-we get to experience the deeper layers of TC's walk with the Lord, as they are pulled back and exposed, revealing one of the most inspiring testimonies you will ever hear. Tested and pushed to his limits, T.C. must decide what would come first: The game he loved, or the God he served. In a down-to-earth, energetic, and engaging way, TC candidly reveals the extraordinary manner in which Jesus provided a much-needed wake-up call in his life-while capturing his heart in the process-and shaping the man he would eventually become.
- There are 600 undiscovered shipwrecks in Southern Australian waters. What secrets will the Ghost Divers reveal from their remains?
- An undercover cop visits a drug company to get information on a program that gives convicted felons superpowers. With heat on his trail, he must use his newly acquired powers to stop the program and bring its powerful convicts to justice
- Four garishly-coloured, music-loving animals - Rory the lion, Bongo the dog, Boots the tiger and Twang the monkey - visit Planet Earth in their flying saucer from the mysterious planet of 'Popland'.
- Calista is a young girl who dreams of a life as a dancer. The future looks bright and when she is 16-years old, she is admitted to a dance school in New York. But the journey and her dance career is interrupted when she finds out that she is pregnant. The father of the child is a Mormon and she is forced into a marriage. After eight years Calista is in such a deep depression that she leaves the family and ends up sleeping on a park bench. By chance she meets a girl who introduces her to the profession as a stripper. This becomes her temporary salvation.
- Is this the meanest Bridesmaid in show history? Jamie is devastated when she falls in love with an over-budget gown her bossy bridesmaid picks out. Natalie has trouble committing to a dress in the absence of her ill mother. Fitting Bride Nadia is nervous her reception gown will be the wrong color.
- Comic songwriters Belland and Somerville do an interesting routine. Vic Damone does Vic Damone and the audience appears to be falling asleep. Rich Little does a routine that more resembles a multiple personality breakdown. The Buddy Miles Band does a set in which Buddy actually gets out from behind the drum set and sings. Never saw him do that before. Great pair of numbers. Fran Jeffries sings. She would later pose in Playboy at the age of 45. While Buddy sings, Fran dances with dance supervisor Byron Gilliam who was in every show from season one through two. Byron was a look-a-like for the Reverend Jesse Jackson. Very entertaining. This show had just about run out of gas. End of the series and none too soon.
- Long forgotten musical duo Bossa Rio perform. Actor Sandy Baron, who starred in Gary Marshall's first sitcom, Hey Landlord in the mid-sixties is back doing his standup routine. Lou Rawls covers You've Made Me So Very Happy. Jazz singer Spanky Wilson, good voice, poor material. A young George Carlin, bearded in a double breasted suit trades quips with Baron. One of the weakest programs of a weak season. It was time to put this puppy to bed.
- Sid Caesar and The Grateful Dead appear. The latter perform "Mountains of the Moon" and "St. Stephen."
- The Collage sing. The Checkmates are back again, they perform. Don Rickles is the main attraction. Cosby wanders about, sitting in with the band playing the bongos. Shecky Greene does some comedy bits. Attorney Melvin Belli talks. Not the most memorable of shows.
- The first 12 minutes of the show are given over to a hypnotist. Yawn. John Hartford performs. The hippie vibe is strong in this one. Hef is trying hard to be hip. Gore Vidal joins Hugh in the library for a stimulating conversation. Well, not really. Three Dog Night does a couple tunes. Unfortunately, this is before they became a hit machine and the tunes are rather forgettable. There are a few more songs, a few more jokes and the show mercifully comes to a close.
- A rather forgettable show, the highlights being Hugh and friends briefly playing Twister, fully clothed of course. Bob Newhart does a routine and is then forced to watch a clip of himself on Hef's old Playboy's Penthouse program from the Fifties which was allegedly Newhart's first ever television performance. Bill Cosby playing stand up bass with the band.
- Excellent show starts off with Jackie DeShannon lip syncing a couple of songs from her newly released album Laurel Canyon. Live or syncing, Jackie was great and unbelievably she is backed up by a young, nerdy Barry White on vocals. Marty Engels does a comedy routine, Jim Brown pontificates quite eloquently on race relations, movies and projects for the ghetto while Bill Cosby wanders through the entire program wearing a bathrobe. Taj Mahal steals the show with a truly live set. The legendary Jessie Ed Davis backs him on lead guitar. Taj and the band play out an instrumental over the closing credits.
- Jazz and Blues performers dominate this show. James Cotton and his band reel off a pair of fine songs as does Joe Williams and Sue Raney. Buddy Rich does his usual excellent turn on the drums. Pat McCormick, who was a lead writer and sometime performer on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson from 72 to 81 does a turn on the couch telling jokes.
- Shelly Berman opens the show with Hef. David Steinberg does comedy on the couch, the same kind of stuff that helped get the Smothers Brothers cancelled, but nobody was watching this show. The Times Square Two do a comic-music set. Buddy Miles is back with his band. Joannie Sommers sings. Low Rawls closes the show with a solid set.
- Jack Carter and Soupy Sales joke around. Three Dog Night perform Celebrity Ball with an invisible band. Man, were they good. Not to be outdone, James Brown brings along his invisible band as well. Cosby sits on the edge of the couch. How exciting.
- Five years before Jesus Christ Superstar, a very young Ted Neely, billed as Teddy, sings. Comic Jack E. Leonard may have been the most obnoxious comedian of all time. Cosby sits on the couch beside him. Jefferson Airplane wannabe MC Squared plays. Pete Seeger talks ecology and sings. Carmen MacRae sings.
- Beloved children's entertainer Shari Lewis opens the festivities with an adult routine from Lamb Chop. Truly weird. Makes you hope she ran that sock puppet through the rinse cycle a few times before she let her entertain kids again. Highlight of the show is Canned Heat. Bob Hite does a song and then Al Wilson goes into On The Road Again. Academic Max Lerner actually engages Hef in an intelligent conversation about the sexual revolution. Buddy Greco closes the show.
- A strange show with a mixed bag of a cast. Bill Cosby does a routine and spends the rest of the show lurking at the edges of the action, occasionally offering comments that come off as more obnoxious than incisive. Songwriter Shel Silverstein gives a rendition on the acoustic guitar of his tune The Unicorn that was popularized by the Irish Rovers. Bill Medley of the Righteous Brothers lip syncs a couple of songs. Classic rock band Iron Butterfly sets up on the live stage and then lip syncs as well. Hef talks religion with a theologian in the library. The show closes out with Cosby leading the Butterfly in an instrumental tune he calls the Fat Albert. Silverstein leaps on Cosby's back as the credits roll. Gawd what crazy stuff. If this is how the hip people played in 1969 you start to wonder if it wasn't more fun at Bob Hope's house.
- Lenny Bruce's mother talks about her son and Hugh shows clips of the late comedian. Comic-musician Pete Barbutti plays the broom and does other bits. The magnificent Marvin Gaye shows up but appears to be only lip syncing. Classic comedy ensemble The Committee perform, but Howard Hesseman is nowhere in sight. The most recognizable member is Barbara Bosson who would star in Hill Street Blues a decade later. The highlight of the show is the Byrds. This is the lineup with Clarence White on lead guitar. The numbers include two Dylan songs, You Ain't Goin' Nowhere and Wheels On Fire. Clarence lays down some spectacular licks and Roger McGuinn is in fine voice. Barbi Benton sits in front of the band during their performance. It's early in the show and she's not yet Hef's co-host.
- The Grass Roots do Bella Linda and they're either lip syncing or they have a string section hidden out somewhere. They also mime Midnight Confessions. The great Billy Eckstine also appears to be syncing. What a shame. He does perform live at a later date with Linda Ronstadt. Director Paul Mazursky joins Hef in the library for a discussion. Rich Little does a bit. Pianist-singer Bobby Doyle actually performs live.
- Frankie Randall sings. The Chicago Second City comedy troop performs. Cast members include Valerie Harper and Paul Sand. Pat Morita, yet to graduate to full-time actor, does standup. The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band play a lively set. Shelly Berman adds more comedy and Lou Rawls sings magnificently.
- Petticoat Junction actress Meredith MacRae sings Going Out Of My Head. Her husband, Greg Mullavey talks. A young Michael Caine expounds on his latest movie. Mort Sahl does comedy. Doug Sahm and the Sir Douglas Quartet do their classic songs Mendocino and She's About A Mover. Augie Meyers is on the keys. The Clara Ward and Her Gospel Singers close out the show.
- Singers Johnny Mathis and Nadia Christian lip syncing a couple of tunes. Mort Sahl gives a short, extremely misogynistic monologue and basketball star Bill Russell pontificates on race relations. Comic Corbett Monica does a gay bashing routine to top off the festivities. My how the times have changed. The best part is the Chambers Brothers actually performing live. Their tunes that I Wish It Would Rain live. These shows are basically Hef's home movies with the clothes on. It brings back fond memories of his magazine of the era, over priced, pretentious nonsense, but makes for a wonderful time capsule.
- Skiles and Henderson do comedy. Joanne Vent does an extended set. John Kay and Steppenwolf perform. The great Joe Williams sings a duet with Joanne Vent. Joey Bishop entertains. Joe Williams closes out the show and outperforms everyone. Amazing voice, talent and presence.
- The daft Professor Irwin Corey dominates this show with his inane ramblings. I expect he was never invited back to any Playboy function after this performance. Steppenwolf and John Kay make it worth wading through the nonsense with amazing renditions of Sookie and Born To Be Wild before it became the iconic song it did. George Plimpton plays 3-D tic-tac-toe with Hugh and expounds on his strange career as a participation journalist until Corey staggers in to disrupt the conversation. Tony Bennett closes out the show with a solid set.
- This show is heavy on talk and stand up comics. Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate are the central figures as Hef talks violence in movies with Polanski and its influence on audiences, a chilling discussion in view of events that took place only a few months later. This is one of the few extended pieces with Sharon without a script in front of her. Unlike Tarantino's movie, she comes across as jaded and serious. Hef tries to cut off the interview with Polanski by getting up and walking while but Polanski follows, blithering on causing Sharon to chuckle. Comic Jackie Gayle does a routine on the couch while seated beside Sharon. Roman sticks his nose and looks rather foolish. Overall, Polanski comes across as an oddball, though part of that may be due to heavy Polish accent. Don Adams and Bill Dana battle each other in telling tales of their shared comic past, revealing Adams's overweening ego. Lounge lizard Vic Damone does a bit that could have right out of Bill Murray's act on SNL. Della Reese lip syncs to a couple of tunes. Overall, because of Sharon and Polanski, one of the more memorable episodes.
- The Pair Extraordinaire performs. Norm Crosby does a routine. Otto Preminger is on hand decked out in a Nehru Jacket and love beads to promote his bomb of a movie Skidoo. Assisting him is Harry Nilsson who did the soundtrack. At one point Otto hovers over Harry at the piano browbeating him to play a tune like a child a parent. Rich Little does impressions and The Brothers Castro close out the show with a set.
- A mustachioed Tommy Smothers talks about the censorship of his show, oh yes Tommy it was about to get much worse. Louis Nye sits on the couch and does comedy, more or less. Buddy Miles talks about his music and performs with his band. Former Kingston Trio front man John Stewart comes out with his new singer and partner Buffy Ford. They banter with Tommy Smothers and play a nice couple of tunes.
- Don Adams steps in to help Tommy Smothers for a new Smothers Brothers act. David Hemmings is somewhere in the crowd. The rather plastic group Avante-Garde lip syncs a couple of numbers. Joan Baez talks about the "resistance" and the coming revolution. Wow. cool. Having pontificated, Joan sings. Tommy Smothers rambles on next about the progressive world to come. If only they could fast forwarded fifty years, I wonder what they would have done? Tommy and Joan over the closing credits.
- The Checkmates play. Leroy Neiman draws. Sammy Davis Jr. sings with Bill Cosby on maracas. The programs is basically a showcase for Sammy - Anthony Newley joins him at one point. Jerry Lewis crashes the party and brings Peter Lawford along. Jerry and Sammy have an extended talk session on the couch as Hugh Hefner moderates. Sammy and Jerry then sing together with Cosby on electric bass.
- Harry Blackstone Jr. performs magic tricks just like at a kid's birthday party. Wow. Tony Hendra does comedy routines. The Checkmates do a lively set. Master songwriter Jimmy Webb does a tune on the piano while Lindsay Wagner looks ion n adoration. Webb was the best part of the show and surprisingly does only one number. This was at the very beginning of his performing career before his first album had been released.
- Typical mixed bag with a horribly dated, obnoxious routine by Larry Storch. Dick Shawn gives dance lessons to Hugh. All the while, Barbi Benton, now elevated to eye candy number one hanging on Hef's arm with a deer in the headlights look in her innocent eyes. The highlight of the show is Canned Heat's stunning set with Bob the Bear Hite and Al Blind Owl Wilson each taking a lead vocal. Sonny and Cher open the show doing covers of For Once In My Life and Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You. Vic Damone adds a song but sounds wildly out of place in this company, the last gasp of Hugh's Fifties obsession with Jazz and Big Band singer.
- The opening act is Hugh O'Brian, TV's Bat Masterson, performing magic tricks. Surreal. Bill Cosby does a bit, some forgettable singers sing some songs, that's about it. Bill Medley does a couple of covers. Jefferson Airplane sound-a-like band Sweetwater does a couple of songs. The closer is actor Scoey Mitchell, Nansi Nevins of Sweetwater, Bill Medley and Angeline Butler doing a chorus of The Beatles I Get By With A Little Help From My Friends. A real blah show.
- Mort Sahl and Sid Caesar ramble through forgettable comic pieces but the music shines. Joe Cocker staggers drunkenly through a few, oddly forgettable numbers, but Jazz singer Billy Eckstine lends his golden voice to the show and Linda Ronstadt does a set. On lead guitar in Linda's band is future Eagle Bernie Leadon. This is pre-superstar Linda, still the barefoot, shy hippie girl from Tucson. The centerpiece of the show is Linda and Billy dueting on Billie Holidyay's God Bless The Child.
- The opening scene shows Lindsay Wagner coming into the party wearing a black mini-dress. Barbi Benton sits by the fireplace with a ludicrous wig propped on her head like a little girl playing dress up. Jo Anne Worley does her Laugh-In act. Oh what fun. Dancer Barrie Chase, who had previously performed on the Hollywood Palace with Fred Astaire does a routine that reminds you of Elaine on Seinfeld. Not good. Jo Anne sings, yes she really could. Uncle Miltie Berle does some card tricks. Considering it was Playboy, let's thank god he didn't decide to show us what he was really famous for. Tony Joe White with only his guitar does a nice turn on Anna Lee and Groupie Girl. In the course of the show we also learn that Berle was a songwriters. Strange program.
- Welcome to Hugh and Barbi's Hawaiian Luau complete with a fire dance. Kind of like a Merv Griffin theme show. At least it's an excuse for the girls to dress in skimpy outfits. Smokey Robinson and the Miracles do a pair of songs including The Tracks of my Tears. Though in fine voice, the performance is not dynamic. Noel Harrison, Vic Damone and Evie Sands sing, actor Lloyd Haynes drops by and Marty Engels gives an alleged standup routine. A very forgettable show.
- Another odd night at Hef's place. George Carlin does an astoundingly sexist birth control routine, but it's still a hoot to see a young Carlin. Psychic Kenny Kingston does his routine which includes giving Tommy Smothers career advice channeled from his dead grandmother. The Modern Jazz Quartet lends a couple of nice tunes and seminal Country-Rocker-Folkie John Stewart does a set. Stewart's shaky falsetto tells you it's all live-live-live. Johnny Mathis tries to get hip by singing Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head and Aquarius. Great voice, but still not hip.
- Shari Lewis is back for another round of adult oriented humor with Lamb Chop. This time she's aided by a Hugh Hefner doll to spar with. Lambie does a routine about the word sex and sex ed for kindergartners. Was Shari thinking she was going to flip to an adult audience? Very strange. They close out with a song, Shari actually had a good voice. No rock bands in this show. Robert Goulet sings and introduces some of his favorite songwriters. Lindsay Wagner is prominent in the background as Goulet closes out the show. Hugh and Barbi waltz around with the Hugh doll as the credits roll. Far out man.
- Bill Cosby does his usual, super cool, detached routine, all of which seems rather creepy odd in light of what we know about him now. Robert Clary of Hogan's Heroes sings Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head as well as a French number. Writer Tony Hendra lurks in the background of several scenes. Edie Adams sings Everybody's Talkin' At Me giving it the full Vegas lounge lizard arrangement. Don Adams drop by for a moment. It's obvious that he and Cosby did not like each other. The Grass Roots sing a forgettable pair of numbers, Walking Through The Country and Dancing In The Streets. It occurs to me that this show was basically American Bandstand for grownups.
- Singer R.B. Greaves performs, though not his signature hit song. Trini Lopez, replete with thick sideburns and long hair, looking very hip, does Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head. So let's see, he's at least the third singer to butcher this song in the last year on Hef's experiment in mediocrity. Jazz singer Sarah Vaughn closes out the show. Hughes sits on the couch with a model of his newly purchased Playboy jet and like a kid with a new toy, expounds endlessly about how wonderful it is. About as exciting as your Uncle Fred's home movies.
- A rather nondescript show except for the major musical guest, The Dillards. Rodney Dillard, Mitch Jayne, Dean Webb and Herb Pederson headline the band. Rodney sings lead on Nobody Knows and Herb sings Hey Boys. A beautiful, classic, actual live performance on a show that offered far too much lip syncing nonsense. Hugh asks the group some inane questions about their music sounding more like a hopeless square rather than the hipster he pretended to. Wonderful segment. The band plays out over the credit with an instrumental piece to which the female dancers gyrate insanely.
- Former Smothers Brothers star and perennial presidential candidate Pat Paulsen plays bartender and mixes drinks for the crew. A young Lola Falana demonstrates an excellent voice with a pop arrangement of Stand By Your Man and talks about her budding film career. Comic actor Sandy Baron does a routine. Singer Sonny Charles does an energetic set. Lola joins him in a dance. They duet on Walk A Mile In My Shoes. Legendary lounge lizard Don Ho tops off the show with a set fit for a second rate Vegas venue.
- Perhaps the best show of the series but let's start with the worst first. Comic Louie Nye, most famous for his Beverly Hillbillies turn, does a rather lame routine and movie critic Rex Reed blathers on endlessly about his role in the movie Myra Breckinridge. Patty Duke sits on the couch beside Hef. She, Reed and Louie engage in a parlor game that resembles charades. Fit for home movies only. The power of the show is Ike and Tine Turner's performances of I Wanna Take You Higher, John Lennon's Come Together and Proud Mary. Doug Kershaw performs his two most famous songs Diggy Liggy Lo and Louisiana Man. Doug joins the Turners for a jam on Honky Tonk Women to close out the show. Amazing music.
- Instead of slides from his summer vacation, Hef shows clips from Woodstock. David Steinberg entertains, sort of. Linda Ronstadt does a revved up version of Hank Williams' Lovesick Blues. What a voice. Bernie Leadon, future Eagle, backs her on a nice acoustic version of Long Long Time. The ultimate hippie band, Country Joe McDonald and the Fish do their signature song Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die rag, proving once again that they were a garage band in the right place at the right time. Though the song was a satire, it feels a bit obscene to see everyone having such a hoot singing along considering the reality of what was going on in Vietnam.
- Barbara McNair sings. Comic Offbeat comic-musician Pete Barbutti does a piece. B.B. King blows the lid off with a set that includes The Thrill Is Gone. Charlie Brill and Mitzi McCall do a routine. Funny then, not so much now. Mel Torme, the golden throat closes out the show with Midnight Swinger and Spinning Wheel. Amazing voice. He played it as subtly as B.B. did Lucille. Among the many alleged hipster, jazz singers Hef presented during the two year run of this show, the one who ages best is undoubtedly Torme. Mel and Barbara close out the show with a duet of Put A Little Love In Your Heart.
- Billy Preston opens the show with Sammi Davis Jr. on the drum set. Sammi sings BST's Very Happy. The long forgotten rock band Muscatell and a singer named Blinky perform. The legendary Moms Mabley sings Abraham, Martin and John. Bill Medley sings Hold On I'm Comin'. Bill and Sammi duet on the Righteous Brothers' You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling. Sammi does an extended set including For Once In My Life. The various musicians get together for a jam on It's Your Thing to close out the show.
- The show starts with Hugh playing a 78 record of one his favorite old time singers. Next up is Tony Bennett. Real gone man. By then half the program was over. Comic George Kirby performs. Tony is joined by singer Joe Williams. A great show if you love Tony Bennett, but it feels like something more out of the 1950s than swingin' 1969.
- Arte Johnson does comedy and makes you wonder what made him funny. We do learn that Hef and Arte were college classmates. Lindsay Wagner is a prominent extra in this show as she is in several other season two shows, though it isn't listed in her film credits. The original Fleetwood Mac with Peter Green does Rattlesnake Shake. Don Adams is his usual pompous self. Maxwell Smart was not acting, it was Don Adams. Lesley Gore, well past her It's My Party fame, tries out a lounge act. Fleetwood Mac plays out over the closing credits.
- A really dismal show. Tony Randall and Art Metrano contribute obnoxious comedy routines and Grand Funk lip syncs their way through two song. At one point the hipsters line dance their way down the stair while Grand Funk plays. All I can is, get the funk out. Cannonball Adderley's group performs some instrumentals. Lew Rawls is the best of the lot. In fine voice as ever.