This is not so much a review but an answer to a question posed in a review. They wondered why Linda Evans was missing from many episodes in the 3rd season. When Evans got the role of Audra, Evans' then boyfriend John Derek, who later became her husband, did not want her to take the job. Later he wanted her out of the contract.
"He wanted me to get out of the show," Evans says of Derek, whom she later married and divorced. She tried to quit, but the producers would not agree. "As a result, I never even watched the show when it was on." Evans, who now lives in Washington state, admits that at the time "my dream was to be married, having children, not to be an actress. I would have been happy not to have done it." She completed the first two seasons but appears in very few episodes in seasons 3 and 4 and then only in a supporting role one episode she is mute.
"He wanted me to get out of the show," Evans says of Derek, whom she later married and divorced. She tried to quit, but the producers would not agree. "As a result, I never even watched the show when it was on." Evans, who now lives in Washington state, admits that at the time "my dream was to be married, having children, not to be an actress. I would have been happy not to have done it." She completed the first two seasons but appears in very few episodes in seasons 3 and 4 and then only in a supporting role one episode she is mute.