The Jim Bakker Show
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Search complete. 21 mentions across 10 episodes found for "The Jim Bakker Show".
Oct 9, 2026
Grace BarterHOST
The cause of death was not provided.
Grace BarterHOST
The pair lived near Branson, an entertainment destination in Missouri where they had filmed their TV show, The Jim Bakker Show, since its launch in 2003.
Grace BarterHOST
Bakker suffered a stroke in 2020.
Grace BarterHOST
But it was The PTL Club, which at its peak in the mid-1980s drew 13 million nightly TV viewers that made Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker cultural icons, so much so that they were often skewered in the 1980s and '90s by late-night comedians and parodied on Saturday Night Live.
Adam BanksHOST
He was released, and as soon as he got released, my man was back at it again, started his own television show, not on a Christian network.
Adam BanksHOST
It was called The Jim Bakker Show, and he was up to his old tricks again, asking for money.
Jim BakkerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
If they foreclose on this ministry, they will take my house too, so- Mm-hmm ...
Jim BakkerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I will be in the street.
Mike HempenCORRESPONDENT
After Baker remarried, he returned to TV for the first time in 15 years.
Mike HempenCORRESPONDENT
launching the Jim Bakker Show in 2003, telling the AP about it the year before.
Jim BakkerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
One of my co-hosts is from the 18th Street Gang in Los Angeles.
Jim BakkerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And young people, we have children.
James CrosslandHOST
He gets himself a new sidekick in 1998, lady by the name of Lori Graham, who he marries.
James CrosslandHOST
This is a quote about Lori from The Jim Bakker Show website.
James CrosslandHOST
"Lori was raised in a middle class church-attending, uh, family in Phoenix, Arizona.
James CrosslandHOST
A life of partying and drugs that had begun before her early teens has culminated in five abortions by the age of 22." That's on their website.
James CrosslandHOST
It has shops.
James CrosslandHOST
It has hotels.
James CrosslandHOST
People who are attending the church can stay, and then they can go to a, a taping of what is gonna become The Jim Bakker Show at Morningside Church.
James CrosslandHOST
And that show s- uh, launches via the Christian Television Network in 2003.
Jack ArmstrongHOST
He thought that was all bad, the whole b- b- being prosperous by, through God thing.
Jack ArmstrongHOST
And then launched The Jim Bakker Show in 2003 in Branson, Missouri, in the Ozarks, and the show focused on end times prophecy-
Joe GettyHOST
Oh, cool
Jack ArmstrongHOST
... and its main, and its main business was selling doomsday supplies, including freeze-dried food with a 30-year shelf life.
Joe GettyHOST
Um, they married that same, same year.
Joe GettyHOST
A few years later, they adopted five children, all siblings from inner-city Phoenix, where his new wife, Lori, had ministered before meeting Bakker, and they ro- raised those five children together.
Joe GettyHOST
And then in '03 launched their new television ministry, which you just mentioned, The Jim Bakker Show, which was all about end times and selling you freeze-dried meat.
Jack ArmstrongHOST
[laughs] But so the, uh, the original thing, and I remember s- flipping by that as a kid, looking for something to watch on a Sunday, 'cause the cartoons were on Saturday, and on Sunday all you had was Jim Bakker and some other dude on a different channel.
Jack ArmstrongHOST
He thought that was all bad, the whole b- b- being prosperous by, through God thing.
Jack ArmstrongHOST
And then launched The Jim Bakker Show in 2003 in Branson, Missouri, in the Ozarks, and the show focused on end times prophecy.
Joe GettyHOST
Oh, cool.
Jack ArmstrongHOST
And its main, and its main business was selling doomsday supplies, including freeze-dried food with a 30-year shelf life.
Joe GettyHOST
Um, they married that same, same year.
Joe GettyHOST
A few years later, they adopted five children, all siblings from inner-city Phoenix, where his new wife, Lori, had ministered before meeting Bakker, and they ro- raised those five children together.
Joe GettyHOST
And then in '03, launched their new television ministry, which you just mentioned, The Jim Bakker Show, which was all about end times and selling you freeze-dried meat.
Jack ArmstrongHOST
[laughs] But so the, uh, the original thing, and I remember s- flipping by that as a kid, looking for something to watch on a Sunday.
Mike HempenHOST
But Bakker lost it all over a sex scandal and financial crimes.
Mike HempenHOST
After Bakker remarried, he returned to TV for the first time in 15 years, launching The Jim Bakker Show in 2003, telling the AP about it the year before.
Donald TrumpSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
One of my co-hosts is from the 18th Street Gang in Los Angeles, and young people.
Donald TrumpSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We have children.
Mike HempenCORRESPONDENT
After Baker remarried, he returned to TV for the first time in 15 years.
Mike HempenCORRESPONDENT
launching the Jim Bakker Show in 2003, telling the AP about it the year before.
Jim BakkerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
One of my co-hosts is from the 18th Street Gang in Los Angeles.
Jim BakkerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And young people, we have children.
Amy KingPANELIST
His second wife, Lori, announced it in a statement.
Amy KingPANELIST
Uh, the pair lived near, uh, Branson, Missouri, and that's where they filmed their TV show, The Jim Bakker Show, since it launched in 2003.
Amy KingPANELIST
Uh, he suffered a stroke in 2020.
Amy KingPANELIST
Jim Bakker was 86.
Jim BakkerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I made a lot of mistakes, but I never intentionally defrauded anyone.
Stephanie GoskCORRESPONDENT
In 2003, he returned to TV on The Jim Bakker Show.
Jim BakkerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
If you don't forgive, you'll not be forgiven.
Stephanie GoskCORRESPONDENT
Years later, Baker and his church pleaded guilty to false COVID cure claims.