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Secrets of Playboy Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
12 Episodes 2021 - 0
Episode 1
The Playboy Legacy
Mon, Jan 24, 2022 63 mins
Hugh Hefner sold himself as a champion of free speech who created the Playboy brand to set off a sexual revolution that would liberate men and women alike, but over the years he used Playboy to manipulate women to compete for his favor and silenced whistleblowers.
Episode 2
The Girl Next Door
Mon, Jan 24, 2022 60 mins
In the 2000s, Hugh Hefner reinvented himself and his brand through the runaway success of the reality show "Girls Next Door," starring his girlfriends Bridget Marquardt, Kendra Wilkinson, and number one girlfriend Holly Madison. The series made mansion life seem like a fairytale, but Holly and Bridget reveal that the reality was a life full of rigid rules, gaslighting, and infighting.
Episode 3
The Bunnies & the Cleanup Crew
Mon, Jan 31, 2022 61 mins
To the world, they were the queens of the mansion. But the bunnies faced harassment and abuse, all of which were covered up by the Playboy "cleanup crew."
Episode 4
The Price of Loyalty
Mon, Feb 7, 2022 60 mins
This episode explores the 1970s DEA investigation into Hefner, Playboy, and drugs through the lens of two women who lived and worked at Playboy: Hefner's right-hand woman Bobbie Arnstein, who committed suicide while being investigated for drug trafficking, and Playboy Bunny Adrienne Pollack, who died of a drug overdose in 1973.
Episode 5
The Circus
Mon, Feb 14, 2022 60 mins
After decades of silence, Hefner's former number-one girlfriend Sondra Theodore shares her story detailing how she was groomed by him to participate in his increasingly abusive sex life. Sondra's testimony shines a spotlight on Hefner's mechanisms for controlling and breaking women.
Episode 6
The Corporate Game
Mon, Feb 21, 2022 60 mins
The Playboy corporate world was billed as a welcoming place for women, but Playmate and eventual Director of Playboy Promotions Miki Garcia and Bunny Mother PJ Masten reveal the rampant sexual harassment they faced as they attempted to climb the corporate ladder.
Episode 7
The Big Playboy Lie
Mon, Feb 28, 2022 60 mins
A roundtable of Playmates recount how decades of women modeled for the magazine because they believed the Playboy promise that becoming a Playmate would lead to a lucrative career in a safe environment. Instead, many faced a hostile environment rampant with drugs, pornography, and prostitution. The circumstances led Miki Garcia to testify against Playboy before the Reagan Administration's 1980s Commission on Pornography.
Episode 8
Predators' Ball
Mon, Mar 7, 2022 61 mins
How Hugh Hefner kept some Hollywood A-listers happy at the expense of women's safety.
Episode 9
The Shadow Mansions
Mon, Mar 14, 2022 61 mins
For those not "attractive" enough for Playboy, men in Hef's inner circle set up "shadow" mansions where women were exploited.
Episode 10
Predator Number One
Mon, Mar 21, 2022 61 mins
In public, Hefner continually professed that he wanted to protect his "girls next door." But he continually failed. Never before heard stories from Playmate Susie Krabacher, mansion employees Stefan and Stella Tetanbaum, and Sondra Theodore reveal the dark truth that Hefner was the Mansion's Predator Number One.
Episode 11
Behind the Girls Next Door
Mon, Mar 28, 2022 61 mins
Former girlfriends of Hugh Hefner Karissa and Kristina Shannon, discuss their experience with Hefner and the hit television series "The Girls Next Door," which introduced a new generation to Hefner and the Playboy lifestyle. Telling their emotional story for the first time, Karissa and Kristina reveal that beneath the sugar-coated exterior was a darker world led by Hefner with increasingly stricter rules designed to control the women in order to maintain the Playboy image.
Episode 12
The Aftermath
Mon, Apr 4, 2022 61 mins
Former Playmates, girlfriends, and employees including Sondra Theodore, Susie Krabacher, Lisa Loving Barrett and Audrey Ann Huskey come together to share their experiences and struggles stemming from their time in the Playboy world. Alongside sex and trauma therapist Dr. Kate Balestrieri, the women reflect on the decades of fear and abuse they experienced and how the Playboy legacy has changed as a result of their decisions to come forward.
