The PTL Club
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Sep 17, 2026
Jacob PraschHOST
Let's just look at the greatest shows on earth, the freak shows.
Jacob PraschHOST
Remember, the biggest ministry in the world at that time, the biggest Christian TV and radio ministry, satellite TV in its early days, the third biggest theme park, theme park in the world at that time, was the PTL Club, Jim and Tammy Baker.
Jacob PraschHOST
People went along with it.
Jacob PraschHOST
People supported it.
CherylHOST
They become very popular.
CherylHOST
So PTL was their ministry.
CherylHOST
This is 1986, this clip.
speaker_2UNKNOWN
The PTL Television Network presents Jim and Tammy! Praise the Lord! See the things that He has done! Praise the Lord! For the Lamb has been...
CherylHOST
So the other really crazy thing about Jim and Tammy Faye Baker that sort of sets them apart from the rest of the televangelists is much like Dolly Parton, they had their own theme park called Heritage USA.
Jim BakkerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Heritage USA is a 21st century Christian retreat center.
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CherylHOST
She was later known as Tammy Faye Mesner.
CherylHOST
She married someone named Roe Mesner, who was involved with Jim Baker's church.
Mike MurdockHOST
You can make it.
Mike MurdockHOST
Jim Baker from the great PTL ministry put that all over the world.
Mike MurdockHOST
My world changed.
Mike MurdockHOST
People need encouragement.
Andy JonesHOST
Anyway, he was a figure in the regional religious, uh, politics of the era.
Andy JonesHOST
During the 1987 collapse of PTL, Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's ministry in Fort Mill, an hour up the road, Reginald Wayne Miller publicly opposed Jerry Falwell's takeover, saying he would rather see PTL close down than watch it fall into fundamentalist hands.
Andy JonesHOST
He lost that fight.
Andy JonesHOST
Falwell took it, and within two years Miller was in a scandal of his own.
MJHOST
Oh, thank God.
MJHOST
Thanks, PTL.
MJHOST
Praise the Lord.
MJHOST
All right, so MJ, what are you giving me a face for?
MichelleHOST
I never even heard you say that before.
MichelleHOST
What, PTL? PTL?
MJHOST
Yeah.
MJHOST
Remember the PTL club? Oh, the PTL club.
RickHOST
And the missionaries are kind of making fun of some people that took their little girl who was having epileptic seizures and was possessed.
RickHOST
by a spirit to us they took her they didn't bring her to the church why would they the church wasn't dealing with any of that stuff so they took her to some spiritists that dealt with the demonic i don't know what the results were but i'm like whoa whoa whoa we can't i'm like i walked away i was young and just an intern you know just showing up there for a month or whatever it wasn't my place to say anything but i come home going My mother's at home watching PTL Club.
RickHOST
I'm trying to correct her.
RickHOST
Hey, get out of that stuff.