CELEBRATING 70 YEARS! : STAR TREK .. CITY ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER .. PARAMOUNT TELEVISION .. USA 1969 ..

 Paramount Television

Presents
A Desilu Production

Starring

WILLIAM SHATNER     LEONARD NIMOY
   DE FOREST KELLEY  GEORGE TAKEI       
     NICHELLE NICHOLLS   JAMES DOOHAN    
           WALTER KOENIG

"THE CITY ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER''

                                                                                              (Series 1 - Episode 28 )

                                                                                                      Guest Starring

                                                                                             JOAN COLLINS as Edith Keeler    

                                                                                                Directed by Joseph Pevney 

This episode from the classic series "Star Trek", proved to me one of the most memorable episodes ever and a continued fan favourite. Joan plays the role of Edith Keeler, a social worker in the 1930's, who runs the 21st Street Mission, where she dishes up free dinners for the unemployed and the down and outs. But as they say there is no such thing as a free meal!  Edith preaches to the hungry masses about hope and optimism and how she wants them all to hang in there and survive to reach a better future! She eventually comes across Captain Kirk and Mr Spock, who entered a time portal to find a crazed Dr McCoy, who accidently overdosed on cordrazine and then went beserk in a delirious state jumping through the time portal into 30's New York! Now Spock and Kirk must find him and on the way come across Edith after they hide in the basement of the mission.. Captain Kirk eventually falls in love with Edith, but the course of love never runs smooth...    It turns out because of McCoy's invasion of the portal and the fact they had to follow him, has changed the timeline and the course of history. Edith was due to die in a traffic accident, but now she will live in this timeline to preach her message which in turn will delay America's entry into world war two and thus Germany will have time to build the atom bomb first and win the war!  In the end the only way to keep the timeline on course is to let Edith die and Kirk must let her cross the road to her death.!!

Joan at the Pasadena show with an Edith doll..

Joan's character of Edith Keeler has become a cult icon with Star Trek fans and she has been asked to attend many conventions and has signed thousands of items associated with the show.. The episodes have been released many times on dvd and now blu-ray.. 'The City On The Edge of Forever' was
released in a 2 episode dvd in 2000, but this release is no longer available, you can see the sleeve below..

A special 50th Anniversary box set from 2016 is a worthwhile purchase and you can buy at the following link!

BUY STAR TREK 50TH ANNIVERSARY BLU-RAY HERE!