Playboy videos

Playboy Videos are a series of videos released by Playboy Enterprises, the publishers of Playboy magazine. They are largely made up of music-video-style vignettes featuring Playboy Playmates and other models in various stages of nudity and, on occasion, softcore sex scenes.

The last "Playboy" home video to be released was the "2009 Playmate Video Calendar" DVD in 2008.

The first videos released under the Playboy banner were issues of Playboy Video Magazine (also known as Playboy Video and Playboy Video Collectors Edition). Twelve issues were released in this series, from January 1983 to 1987. Early volumes appeared on CED, laserdisc, and Japanese VHD, while all volumes appeared on Betamax and VHS. Issues contained content similar to the magazine; in addition to video pictorials of the Playmates, celebrities, and other models, segments on music, interviews with celebrities, comedy sketches, and other material was included (the format being similar to Electric Blue, a video magazine out of the UK that aired on the Playboy Channel). Total running time of an issue is longer than other Playboy videos (80 to 90 minutes versus 35 to 60 minutes), but with a similar total amount of running time devoted to model pictorials.

Issue #1 is the first Playboy video to feature a Playmate of the Year (1982's Shannon Tweed), and the first Video Centerfold (Lonny Chin, Playboy's January 1983 playmate). Other segments in the first issue are an interview with John and Bo Derek, an erotic fiction short, a documentary look at historic moments in Playboy, a pictorial of actress Barbara Carrera, a look at the Playboy Jazz Festival, comedy shorts from Michael Nesmith, and a pictorial of the Crazy Horse Saloon dancers.

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