Playmate of the Month
Gig Gangel photographed by Ken Marcus.

Interview
Steve Martin (cover) by Lawrence Grobel, cover photographed by Tom Staebler.

Features
"The San Francisco Experience" by Nora Gallagher
""Star Trek's" Enterprising Return" by Gretchen McNeese
"The Third Wave" by Alvin Toffler
"80 Ways the Eighties Will Change Your Life" by Richard Rhodes
"Shero's System" by Larry Sloman.

Playboy's Pajama Parties
Hugh M. Hefner, Caren Stevens, Berry Gordy, Patti McGuire, Meredith, Sondra Theodore, Edy Williams, John Dean, Windy Carlson, Dean-Paul Martin, Wilt Chamberlain, Kurt Frings, Janis Schmitt, Robert Culp, Carol Connors, Rosanne Katon, Sonny Bono, Susie Coelho, Misty Rowe, Candy Clark, James Franciscus, Terri Welles, Liz Glazowski, Victoria Cooke, Sondra Theodore, Hugh O'Brian, Pamela Jean Bryant, Burt Young, Jeana Tomasino, Ron Prather, Candy Loving, Roger Camras, Debra Jo Fondren, Harry Reems, Marcy Hanson, Lisa Sohm Daina House, Lisa Holder, Tony Curtis, Richard Brooks, John Derek, Bo Derek, Shel Silverstein, Michelle Karlin, Dennis Klier, Hope Olson (men not nude, not all women nude).

Success and the Sis-Boom-Bah (NFL Cheerleaders)
Penney Miller, Ita Siders, Jackie Rohrs, Vicki Clark, Wendy Len, Lynda Hatfield, Kimberly Smith, Deborah Kepley, Susan Grissaffi, Deborah Wagener, Linda Kellum, Sherie O'Brien, Susan Shauna Sullivan, Julie Jourdan, Irma Rahwyler and Linni Wood.

Playboy's Playmate Review
Missy Cleveland Candy Loving, Louann Fernald, Michele Drake, Dorothy Stratten, Dorothy Mays, Candace Collins, Sylvie Garant, Lee Ann Michelle, Denise McConnell, Vicki McCarty and Ursula Buchfellner.