# DVD Transfer 66 (20/20 - Unfaithfully Yours {PTL Scandal})

(c)2019 ABC News-The Walt Disney Company December 18, 2019 DVR recording (and a repeat of a broadcast originally airing in January 2019) of the 20/20 special "Unfaithfully Yours" as a look at the rise and fall of the old PTL network and its principals Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker. This has been a story that has always fascinated me. The background starts with Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker; both young Pentecostal evangelists based in Minnesota, where they started in Christian television hosting a children's show (complete with puppets) called "Come On Over" after being hired by Pat Robertson on WYAH-TV 27 (now WGNT); later serving as hosts of The 700 Club in its early years until repeated clashes with Robertson led to the Bakkers leaving by the end of 1972. After a pit stop in Charlotte; the Bakkers moved west to California, teaming with Paul and Jan Crouch - who Jim knew from when Paul was Jim's youth pastor - to help launch TBN only for the Bakkers and Crouches to likewise butt heads until the Bakkers left to start their own TV network, PTL (depending on the source, it officially stood for either "Praise the Lord" or "People That Love"); which grew rapidly during the late 1970s and into the 1980s into a media company featuring guests ranging from the usual group of fellow televangelists, Christian authors, ministers (such as Billy Graham) and singers but also including a large number of celebrity guests (such as boxing great George Foreman; Maria von Trapp {of the Von Trapp…

- Kind: Film
- Year: 2019
- By: ABC News-The Walt Disney Company
- Genres: News
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/dvd-transfer-67)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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