1983 Television Advert

This is an advert which featured in the July 31, 1983 issue of US TV Guide, for a programme showing that week called Personal & Confidential. As you can see this episode of Best Kept Secrets Exposed featured both Joan and Linda Evans.

JContheCover: Home & Life (1999)

Today's magazine is a recent addition to my collection, dated July 1999 and only available from The Milkman. Yes you read it right this publication was published by Dairy Crest the UK milk people.
Inside is a great interview by Richard Barber who has interviewed Joan before in print and also on television. 4 pages entitled, "The Unstoppable Joan Collins".

DYNASTY - SEASON 6

I was thrilled to receive news from Amazon.co.uk that Season 6 would be released on 24 January 2011. Just over 6 months since the release of Season 5 (21/6/2010) we can only hope that the last 3 seasons will follow within the next 18 months.

This season picks up on the Royal Wedding Cliffhanger from the last series, where we learn which members of the cast did not get their contracts renewed.

It also introduces new characters in the English form of Christopher Cazenove as Blake's brother, Ben and Kate O'Mara as Caress, Alexis' sister, and features the great storyline of Rita & Krystle, and guest stars George Hamilton, Charlton Heston and Barbara Stanwyck

30 episodes in total, Dynasty fans are treated to another scrap between Alexis and Krystle, this time involving mud, a swimming pool brawl between Amanda and Sammy Jo and a cliff hanger - Blake attempting to kill Alexis.

Incidentally, the first episode of Season 6 was the only one which Joan did not appear in since she joined the cast. Apparently stories in the press at the time said that Aaron Spelling had suspended her for demanding a pay rise in line with Colby's star Charlton Heston.

I understand that Season 5 is still not released in the US, and that volume 2 of Season 4 only came out February 2010.

Empire Of The Ants (1977)

Today I am featuring 2 B&W pictures from the 1977 film Empire of the Ants.

Directed by Bert I. Gordon, based on the short story by H.G. Wells, Joan plays a real estate agent, Marilyn Fryser who wants to sell property to some prospective buyers unaware that some ants have been feeding from steel drums containing Radioactive waste washed up on the beach, causing them to grow to enormous size and end up brainwashing their victims at a sugar refinery.

Made before the days of Dynasty and obviously on a low budget, Joan wears the same outfit (striped shirt, beige sweater and off white gaucho skirt) for the whole 90 minute movie.

Compare that to the mini-series Sins in which she had 85 costume changes - I think we're talking "low budget", Joan mentions in interviews that they even did their own stunts (no doubles on the payroll) and this meant swimming in infested waters of the Florida swamps, complete with crocodiles etc.

Released on DVD in 2002. I have more stills and items from the film for future posts.

JContheCover: Le Lundi (1990)

This Canadian Magazine dated 7 September 1990 featured Joan on the cover and inside a 6 page article about her latest man friend being 27 years her junior.
Joan appeared on this magazine a number of times, which I will cover in future posts

Joan in Game For Vultures

This picture shows Joan as Nicolle, the fiancee of Richard Harris in Game For Vultures.
The film which was made on location in Africa also starred Richard Roundtree, Ray Milland and Denholm Elliott.

STAR QUALITY PARTY

November 2002, Joan at NYC's Chambers Hotel to celebrate the release of her new novel Star Quality.
Pictured from Joan's right to left the Guiding Light male cast members- David Andrew Macdonald (Edmund), Grant Aleksander (Phillip) and Ron Raines (Alan).


Ivana Trump was at the same party, pictured with Joan.