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danderson

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Another what if...
« on: April 10, 2017, 10:26:37 PM »
If Bud Collyer doesn't die, does he host the syndicated version of TTTT, or do Goodson hire Garry Moore anyway?

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Re: Another what if...
« Reply #1 on: April 10, 2017, 10:30:48 PM »
She'd be my uncle.
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Re: Another what if...
« Reply #2 on: April 10, 2017, 10:33:06 PM »
If Bud Collyer doesn't die he'd be 109 years old, wouldn't he?

/there's no way for most of us to know because we weren't alive or privy to those conversations.
//if Bud doesn't die he probably retires at some point.
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Re: Another what if...
« Reply #3 on: April 10, 2017, 10:42:37 PM »
Isn't it cited somewhere that Goodson asked Collyer to host the syndicated version first but he declined because of his health? If that's the case, then that should answer the question.
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Re: Another what if...
« Reply #4 on: April 10, 2017, 10:57:35 PM »
Isn't it cited somewhere that Goodson asked Collyer to host the syndicated version first but he declined because of his health? If that's the case, then that should answer the question.

Yes, according to Adam Nedeff's book on Bill Cullen, Collyer was asked but he declined because he was in poor health.
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Re: Another what if...
« Reply #5 on: April 10, 2017, 10:58:29 PM »
Isn't it cited somewhere that Goodson asked Collyer to host the syndicated version first but he declined because of his health? If that's the case, then that should answer the question.

Wikipedia cites a 1977 issue of Soap Digest (such magazines would occasionally touch on game shows) that said they did approach Bud, but that he turned them down, saying "I'm just not up to it."
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Re: Another what if...
« Reply #6 on: April 10, 2017, 10:59:41 PM »
End of thread.

chrisholland03

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Re: Another what if...
« Reply #7 on: April 11, 2017, 08:36:34 AM »
*waggles finger*


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Re: Another what if...
« Reply #8 on: April 11, 2017, 08:42:05 AM »
*waggles finger*



No no no, not today...;)

Bob Zager

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Re: Another what if...
« Reply #9 on: April 11, 2017, 07:33:35 PM »
IIRC, I'd read an archived New York Times article, that Collyer died the day that TTTT (and also Beat the Clock) were slated to premiere locally in New York. 

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« Reply #10 on: April 11, 2017, 08:49:26 PM »
IIRC, I'd read an archived New York Times article, that Collyer died the day that TTTT (and also Beat the Clock) were slated to premiere locally in New York.

This is correct.