BREAKING: TV Host Gary Collins DEAD at 74!

Allegedly from natural causes - but wasn't he a heavy drinker?

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• RIP Why is The Sixth Sense never re-run?

• RIP, drunken rightwing douche.

• I heard Mary Ann Mobley obtained diving certification just to survive his DUI tours.

• Shimply trag-hic.

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• Please people. Have some respect. It is always sad when someone once handsome dies. Why there could even be someone on this board that at one time masturbated to his image. Think of them if not poor Gary.

• He tried to kill a Charlie's Angel at least once.

• [quote]I heard Mary Ann Mobley obtained diving certification just to survive his DUI tours. Tom Daley was her diving coach.

• OP, LIVER DISEASE is classified as a "natural cause"... R1, "The Sixth Sense" only ran one season - not enough episodes to warrant a re-run or syndication In blowdry 70s, he was smoking hot in that Jameson Parker way...

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• What an asshole. I wonder if he had alzheimers and was self medicating

• Dead drunky.

• It's amazing he made it to 74.

• He was a Repug.

• The Emmy Award Winning Gary Collins.

• Sixth Sense was an hour drama hacked to pieces to accomodate Night Gallery's half hour running time in syndication. It's a legitimate question. Night Gallery also had an hour long timeslot and some of its shorter stories are heavily padded with stock footage in syndication. But Night Gallery has been released on DVD in its original form at least.

• He got a DUI 4 yrs ago at 4 times the legal limit! He would've had to down 10 to 12 drinks an hour to register .29. Imagine being as drunk as you've ever been (and it probably wasn't as drunk as he was) and then getting behind the wheel of a car. What an asshole.

• Anyone remember... da da da da da da [bold] HOUR MAGAZINE! [/bold]

• Was he separated from Mary Ann Mobley?

• R14 I would see those mutilated Sixth Sensers on Night Gallery and get so irritated!

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• R17, read the link.

• You can kind of excuse adult drunk drivers from that era since the perils of drinking and driving weren't popularized until the 1970s.

• I'll never forget when He hosted Miss America Bert Parks made an appearance and was treated very badly by Collins...

• He and Mary Ann were frequent guests on that 70s game show which featured married couples. One of the partners would wear headphones while the other one answered questions about their relationship. I can't remember the name of it. I think it was hosted by Bert Convy.

• I remember Gary Collins did a few British mystery shows which were always aired late night on ABC. I was always a bit of an insomniac, so I was always up late, even though I had to get up early for school at the time, I recall being up until 2 or 3AM watching the late night ABC line up. They also showed "The Avengers" every night! There was no late night news at that time, though I think Charlie Rose did have a late night live news show with three other anchors, Felicia Jeter, who was really good and Ii wonder what happened to her. I think the other guy's last name was Dowd and the other woman I can't remember her name. Anyway, in this ABC/British series series, Collins always played a guy scheming to marry a wealthy woman, then kill her. Wish I could could remember the name of this series, I definitely know they were filmed in Britain. IIRC, his wife also appeared in one of the shows with him.

• I was certain he was dead already. I though Todd Bridges was the only surviving Diff'rent Strokes kid.

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• I think I remember those R23. Didn't Joanna Pettet do one too?

• So handsome when he was younger

• What was legendary about him?

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• Tattletales, R22. What a silly, fun show.

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• He was in Saved by the Bell, not Different Strokes

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• I condole Mary Ann Mobley.

• Father Reginald Dempsey has requested that the candles surrounding the coffin at the funeral Mass be left unlit. Just in case.

• I am desolate. I have had a cold for three days, and this has set back my recovery by at least ten minutes.

• Dolls?

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• [quote]Anyway, in this ABC/British series series, Collins always played a guy scheming to marry a wealthy woman, then kill her. Wish I could could remember the name of this series, I definitely know they were filmed in Britain. IIRC, his wife also appeared in one of the shows with him. I saw them recently on youtube but the guy's account has been closed. The series was called 'Thriller'.

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• It seems there are still a whole bunch of them on YT...not sure if the G. Collins one is one of them though.

  http://www.youtube.com/results%3Fq%3Dthriller%20tv%20series%26rlz%3D1C1CHFX_en-gbGB477GB477%26aq%3Df%26sugexp%3Dchrome%2Cmod%3D0%26um%3D1%26ie%3DUTF-8%26sa%3DN%26tab%3Dw1

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• [quote] He and Mary Ann were frequent guests on that 70s game show which featured married couples. One of the partners would wear headphones while the other one answered questions about their relationship. I can't remember the name of it. I think it was hosted by Bert Convy. Tattletales. I remember Charlie Brill and Mitzi McCall, as well as Bobby Van and Elaine Joyce also being frequent guests on that show.