Aired February 07, 1969

"Above, comic Jackie Gayle japes with Hef, Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski."

There was a report on Playboy - January 1969 issue - about Hugh Hefner's TV show:

"hef hosts a new late-night variety for the sophisticated tv viewer

PLAYBOY AFTER DARK

This month marks the debut of PLAYBOY Editor-Publisher Hugh M. Hefner's nationally syndicated television series, Playboy After Dark. Video's late-evening hours have become prime-time for sophisticated shows, and Hefner's stimulating 60-minute sessions will offer an impressive array of adult entertainment. Among P.A.D.'s show-stopping assets: humor by Bill Cosby, Tommy Smothers, Professor Irwin Corey and Bob Newhart; pop music by the Birds, Steppenwolf, Iron Butterfly, Della Reese and O. C. Smith; on-the-scene personalities such as the Reverend Malcolm Boyd, George Plimpton and Boston Celtic player-coach Bill Russel. Playboy After Dark is designed to be both informal and informed-in short, the sort of urbane evening Hefner enjoys spending with good friends at the Playboy Mansion."