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The PTL Club (PTL stands for "Praise The Lord" or "People That Love"), later called The Jim and Tammy Show, and in its last days PTL Today and Heritage Today, was a Christian television program first hosted by evangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, which ran from 1974 to 1989. The PTL Club, which adopted a talk-show format, was the flagship television program of the Bakkers' PTL Satellite Network.
Jim Bakker and his wife Tammy had been in the ministry with the Assemblies of God since the early 1960s and went on board at Pat Robertson's then television station WYAH 27 in the Virginia Beach area. He helped host his then-new show the 700 Club and beginning in 1965 he and his wife launched a children's show called Come On Over. In the early 1970s, The Christian Broadcasting Network owned three stations in Atlanta, Virginia Beach, and Dallas/Ft. Worth. The Virginia Beach station evolved from a few-hour-a-day Christian themed station in 1970 to a conventional 20-hour-a-day commercial independent station by the fall of 1973. His Dallas station merged with a commercial station making a full-time commercial independent there. Beginning in 1972, the 700 Club was launched in a dozen test markets including then-independent station 36 WRET owned by Ted Turner in Charlotte, NC at the time.
James Orsen "Jim" Bakker (pronounced "Baker"; born January 2, 1940) is an American televangelist, a former Assemblies of God minister and a former host (with his then-wife Tammy Faye Bakker) of The PTL Club, a popular evangelical Christian television program.
A sex scandal led to his resignation from the ministry. Subsequent revelations of accounting fraud brought about his imprisonment and divorce. He later remarried and returned to televangelism.
Bakker was born in Muskegon, Michigan, the son of Raleigh Bakker and Furnia Lynette "Furn" Irwin. Bakker attended North Central University, a Bible college affiliated with the Assemblies of God, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where in 1960 he met fellow student Tammy Faye LaValley. He worked in a restaurant inside a department store in Minneapolis, and she had a job in a boutique for a time.
On April 1, 1961, Bakker and Tammy Faye married. They left the Bible college to become evangelists. They had two children, Tammy Sue "Sissy" Bakker Chapman (born March 2, 1970) and Jamie Charles "Jay" Bakker (born December 18, 1975).
Tamara Faye LaValley Bakker Messner (March 7, 1942 – July 20, 2007) was an American Christian singer, evangelist, entrepreneur, author, talk show host, and television personality. She was married from 1961 to 1992 to televangelist, and later convicted felon, Jim Bakker. She co-hosted with him on The PTL Club (1976–1987). She was a participant in the 2004 season of the reality show The Surreal Life.
The eldest of eight children, Tammy Faye was born Tamara Faye LaValley in International Falls, Minnesota, to Pentecostal preachers Rachel Minnie (née Fairchild) and Carl Oliver LaValley. Her parents were married in 1941, one year before Tammy Faye was born. Shortly after she was born, a painful divorce soured her mother against other ministers, alienating her from the church.
In 1960, she met Jim Bakker when they were students at North Central Bible College in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Tammy Faye worked in a boutique for a time while Jim found work in a restaurant inside a department store in Minneapolis. They were married on April 1, 1961. The following year, they moved to South Carolina, where they began their ministry.
PTL may refer to: "Praise the Lord"
Tammy may refer to:
Jim and Tammy PTL Club Oct. 1986 Opening
Jim Bakker PTL Club with Colonel Sanders 1979
Heritage USA - Inside the remnants of the fallen PTL CLUB theme park
PTL Club: Jim and Tammy on Location from Heritage Island
PTL Jim Bakker Story Pt 1
PTL CLUB 1987 - Jim & Tammy's Goodbye
PTL Club: Jim and Tammy Faye with Gavin and Patty MacLeod
PTL Club: Jim Surprises Tammy Faye on her 40th Birthday
The PTL Club, Christian televangelists, 1986
MTV Network and PTL Club 1980s TV
Join Jim Bakker and Uncle Henry with their special guest Colonel Sanders in this PTL Club episode from December 3rd, 1979! I apologize in advance for the audio on this video. I'm not quite sure why it uploaded to Youtube like that.
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Jim and Tammy broadcast the show from Heritage Island at Heritage USA. Their guests are Danuta and Kai Soderman. At the time of recording, Danuta was the co-hostess of "The 700 Club". Music by Doug Oldham, Tammy Faye (Don't Give Up On the Brink of a Miracle), Howard and Vestal Goodman (He Keeps Lifting), and the PTL Singers (The Army of the Lord).
The first minute of the video gets repeated.
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Join Jim and Tammy Bakker as they welcome their special guests Gavin and Patty MacLeod on this PTL Club / Jim Bakker Show program from 1985! Gavin MacLeod the beloved actor from "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and "The Love Boat" shares his testimony of how God got a hold of his life and dramatically charted a new course for him. Enjoy!
What a fun episode! Jim surprises Tammy on her 40th birthday, and does a little "This is Your Life" type show! There's so much in this episode. You'll see the PTL singers wishing Tammy a happy birthday, a clip from the early days at CBN, Uncle Henry, Ma and Pa Bakker, Tammy's parents, Tammy Sue and Jamie Charles, Tammy's childhood friends, Tammy singing a medley with her childhood friends, Tammy's cousin, Dale & Brenda Hill, Judy Bycura, Rex & Maude Aimee Humbard, Tammy's famous Aunt Gin, and Tammy sings for the very first time "Mercy Rewrote My Life", and MORE. The first few minutes are missing, but please enjoy the rest!
The PTL Club, Christian televangelists, 1986
Wednesday, day number one has arrived
The club opens up at 9
Big Klaus is bouncing all around
An extreme fight crowns the night
Thursday night the second day of action
The happy hour is a must
While Friday night comes psycho crazy
Maniacs to turn your face around
All shrinks are insane
The club is in my veins
Morals and values of the crazy minds
The outsider is the society
We tear it off the ground
Hey, hey, join the club of monstrous action
Hey, hey, you may talk to special people
Hey, hey, have some vodka lemon there
Hey, hey, relax in the living room with K2
Saturday, Dr. Oetker's pack attacks
And is rioting for free speech
Hassan, the Morroccan warrior
Goes off to battle with his club
The final day of ravage which lead to total chaos
Is Sunday's holy jazz hour
The holy man Ulf sends his blessings for the world
Peace, hand in hand we dance and shout
We are the anarchist