1971/01 -- Vol. 18 No. 1. 284 pages.

Contents include:

  • Playbill
  • Dear Playboy
  • Playboy After Hours
  • The Playboy Advisor
  • The Playboy Forum
  • The Playboy Interview: Mae West
  • 'Terminal Misunderstanding" -- Fiction by Evan Hunter
  • Games for the Virginia Woolf Set - Humor by David Stevens
  • Airscape #1 - Ecology by Arthur Paul
  • That Was the Year That Was -- Humor by Judith Wax
  • Stalking the Wild Veruschka -- Pictorial
  • "Transit of Earth" -- Fiction by Arthur C. Clarke
  • For the Holidays: Formal Wear -- Attire by Robert L. Green

  • ...And Elegant Fare -- Food and Drink by Thomas Mario
  • The Vietnamization of America - Opinion by David Halberstam

  • "Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter" - Fiction by Alberto Moravia

  • The High Cost of Fame - Symposium featuring Michael Crichton, James Dickey, Sam Houston Johnson, Joe McInniss, Mario Puzo, Gay Talese, Studs Terkel, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Dan Wakefield
  • High Noon for Broadway Joe - Personality by Lawrence Linderman

  • What Exactly Should I Make Perfectly Clear? -- humor
  • There's a Lot to Liv - Playboy's Playmate of the Month Liv Lindeland
  • Playboy's Party Jokes

    • A New Set of National Priorities - Articles:

  • Cleansing the Environment by US Senator Gaylord Nelson

  • Saving the Cities by Mayor Carl B. Stokes
  • Eradicating Poverty by Michael Harrington
  • You Can Take It With You -- Travel by Dick Martin
  • Dealing -- Fiction by Douglas and Michael Crichton
  • The Act of Love - Pictorial
  • Major Howdy Bixby's Album of Forgotten Warbirds - Humor by Brock Yates and Burce McCall
  • Dear Women's Lib: -- Humor by Joan Roivers
  • Nick-of-Time Saint Nick - Gifts
  • Underground at the Daily Planet -- Humor by Craig Vetter
  • Playboy's Playmate Review - Pictorial
  • The Future of Ecstasy -- Article by Alan Watts
  • The Mirror Man - Humor by Tomi Ungerer
  • Vargas Girl - Pictorial by Alberto Vargas
  • Jamaica - Man at His Leisure by Leroy Neiman
  • Streeet Games - Nostalgia by Gerald Green
  • The Little Peasant - Ribald Classic by The Brothers Grimm
  • Silverstein Around the World - Humor by Shel Silverstein
  • Playboy's Annual Writing Awards
  • This One Will Kill You -- Fantasy by Bill Cosby
  • Playboy's Girl Watching Quiz - Behavior
  • On the Scene - Personalities features brief biographies with black & white photos of three personalities of the time over two pages, this issue: Shuggie Otis, Joseph Rhodes, Jr., Jack Nicholson
  • Little Annie Fanny -- Satire by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder