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Popular culture of 1979 was post-hippie, but not quite yuppie; post-disco, but not quite New Wave; and post-Star-Wars, but not quite completely infantilized by Steven Spielberg.

At local theaters (which were not quite all multiplexes—yet), Hollywood continued to present movies for adults: mature stories for grown-up people featuring adult themes, adult story lines, and that most quintessentially adult artistic flourish—nudity.

With home video still a few years in the future, grindhouses and drive-ins surged toward a crescendo, showcasing an explosion of exploitation that was also patently adult but not, to be sure, mature.

Let’s look now at some of our favorite nude scenes from 1979—eleven, in total, in honor of the rating Dudley Moore actually awards to Bo Derek in the movie 10.

It’s the Case of the Naked Knockers.

Those who grew up in the '70s and '80s remember the never-too-shy-to-get-naked Pamela Sue Martin from her roles in The Poseidon Adventure, Dynasty, and, of course, as Nancy Drew in The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries from 1977-1978.

The younger generation may have spotted Pamela in episodes of That '70s Show and The L Word.

In 1978 she did a pictorial for Playboy called “Nancy Drew Undraped,” and the next year she undraped herself again alongside porn icon Kitten Natividad in The Lady in Red.

But just like in some spellbinding Nancy Drew mystery, a new clue has been unearthed!

Read more after the jump.

Television maven Aaron Spelling (Charlie’s Angels, Dynasty, Beverly Hills 90210) bewitched audiences in a whole new way with Charmed, the saga of three sorceress sisters that lit up the boob tube for the first date in 1998.

The show’s heroines were the magical Halliwell siblings portrayed by a trio of the sexiest stunners to ever beguile primetime: Shannen Doherty (Prudence), Alyssa Milano (Phoebe), and Holly Marie Combs (Piper). At the end of the third season, Shannen split and was replaced by Rose McGowan (as Paige Halliwell).

Charmed consistently cast its spell-binders in situations that called for skimpy clothes and sensual peril. Breast of all, each of the series’ female leads has performed nude scenes in the past. Click the pick to see the Alyssa Milano get Charmed right out of her clothes.

Counting Down the Very Breast of the Boob Tube

Join Mr. Skin as we span the decades from the most primitive days of the medium to the most cutting-edge efforts of today in order to round up and sound off on the 50 most erotic, exciting, alluring, and skin- ventive series to ever keep TV viewers glued to their seats … in every sense of the term. Number 50 through 41 follow.

Be sure to come back tomorrow and over the next five days to see the complete list!

| #50 - #41 | #40 - #31 | #30 - #21 | #20 - #11 | #10- #1 |

50. Deal or No Deal (2005 - ?)

Network: NBC

Tele-Visions: Aubrie Lemon, April Scott, Donna Feldman, Leyla Razzari, Lisa Gleave

Skinopsis: Howie Mandell guides contestants through a game of chance that involves selecting suitcases held by 26 different swimsuit models. What a deal!

What’s Hot: The game may be the thing, but it’s the two-dozen-plus sweet packages holding the suitcases that makes Deal or No Deal such a squeal.

Sexy Star Pics:

Be sure to check out #50 through #41 after the jump!

Classy London Lassie Joan Collins became America's favorite bitch as Alexis Carrington in the nighttime soap Dynasty in 1981. But before that, she was the bitch in The Bitch. On this, the occasion of Joan's 75th birthday, I think it's high time to remind everyone how spankable this cultural icon truly is. To that worthy end, here is a list of three must-see movies for fans of St. Joan.

Oh, Alfie! (1975)

In this late sequel to the 1966 comedy Alfie, Joan plays the catcher to the designated pitcher and compulsive womanizer of the title. She'll get you to third base in about half a second when she bares her forty-something funbags.

The Stud (1978)

The Stud tells the story of a young hung waiter who decides to improve his lot in life by pounding his pecker into the pudendae of wealthy married woman. One of his cock deposit/cash withdrawal ATM s is played by Joan Collins, who shows boos and butt and has an orgy scene in a pool with two guys and another girl.

The Bitch (1979)

In this sequel to The Stud Joan plays an insatiable disco-dancing cougar and gets topless in the first few minutes of the movie. A classic slice of late seventies sleaze filled with sex, showering and disco dancing.

Aside from being Earth Day, today also happens to be the birthday of some of the Earth's most notable skin-habitants. Some of them, like V.I. Lenin (father of the Soviet Union), J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atomic bomb) and Flora Disney (mother of Walt Disney) are important because of the newsworthy place they occupy in history. Other are significant for reasons that are far more nudes-worthy. Here are my six skinstant celebrity birthdays for today.

Marilyn Chambers went from being the smiling woman on the cover of the Ivory Soap box to getting a face full of soapy scum in the seminal seventies porno flick Behind the Green Door (1972). Five years later, Chambers appeared in Canadian sci-fi auteur David Cronenberg's vampire flick Rabid (1977), where she sucks down a different type of body fluid.

Baltimore's favorite son John Waters' early work, especially his undisputed masterpiece Pink Flamingos (1972), was enormously influential in the development of underground cinema, midnight movie culture, and generally bad taste in entertainment. Waters shocked the world in the 90s when he came out as a gay man and today he continues to make twisted movies. And I love him for it.

Chicago native Jack Nitzsche died in 2000, but not before filling out an incredibly impressive resume. He famously worked and had subsequent falling-outs with Phil Spector and Neil Young in the 60s and 70s, but I especially appreciate the soundtracks he produced for skinematic classics like Performance (1970), Hardcore (1979), Cruising (1980) Personal Best (1982), 9 ½ Weeks (1986) and The Hot Spot (1990). Jack, we need you back!

One of Hollywood's most enduring talents, Jack Nicholson's career is the stuff of legend. But if anyone needs a reminder why we all a debt of gratitude to the 71-year old Lakers fanatic who famously banged Lara Flynn Boyle from 1999 to 2001, here are a few: He made out with a naked Lia Beldam before she turned into a naked Billie Gibson in The Shining (1980); he plowed his face into Jessica Lange's muff in The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981); and he got into a hot tub with a bare Kathy Bates in About Schmidt (2002).

Recording and TV star Glen Campbell produced a string of hits, including "Gentle On My Mind," "Wichita Lineman," "By the Time I Get to Phoenix." But it was "Rhinestone Cowboy" that inspired Porky's director Bob Clark's 1984 flop Rhinestone starring Sylvester Stallone and country star/act-chest Dolly Parton.

50s fetish and pin-up model Bettie Page's recent resurgence in popularity has made her rack, rump and distinctive haircut nearly ubiquitous. She has even inspired a film about her life called The Notorious Bettie Page (2005). Still, despite all the imitators, there's only one fetish model that really makes the pages stick together.

Aaron Spelling is a man who built a TV production dynasty like no other. He is also the man, perhaps not coincidentally, who produced Dynasty. Spelling's many series credits include Beverly Hills, 90210, Models Inc., Melrose Place, and that "Jiggle TV" classic Charlie's Angels. We lost Spelling in 2006, but he will always have a place of honor in the hallowed halls of skinstory.