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Collyer and began
The same year Poyen left for Europe an Englishman, Robert Collyer, arrived in America and began a lecture tour spreading mesmerism along the Atlantic coast.
Collyer began training on August 3, 1997.
In 1999, Collyer and Shark Boy began feuding with " Bad Boy " Bobby Kane and Tarek the Great.
In late January, Collyer began feuding with the Cruiserweight Champion Shannon Moore.
In late 2004, Ricky Steamboat, an advocate of technical wrestling, began feuding with Mick Foley, a proponent of hardcore wrestling, with Collyer taking the side of Steamboat along with other mat-based wrestlers such as Nigel McGuinness.
In November 2005, Collyer began feuding with Ace Steel.
King hosted through the debut of the CBS Television network's daytime television version ( which began on November 19, 1947 and ended on November 10, 1948 ), after which he was briefly replaced by Bud Collyer with a new title of This Is the Missus on November 17.

Collyer and telling
The Clock's buzzer would sound, telling Collyer time had run out.

Collyer and contestants
Collyer would often ask the husband to take off his coat for stunts to make it less cumbersome ( there were hooks on the contestants ' podium ) or Collyer would hold the coat ).
The first seven contestants had trouble even getting the second cup stacked, but the eighth contestant to try the stunt on March 25, 1956 ( the show's sixth " birthday " show ) kept the balloon very close to the ground and at points held it on the ground ( although Collyer warned him several times not to do so ) and bounced the balloon as he grabbed the next cup.
Collyer would then ask the contestants if they could come back, which they usually could.
After the opening teaser was added, contestants who had only the Jackpot Clock left and said they could come back were suddenly absent the next week, with Collyer explaining that after the show it seemed inconvenient to come back for just the Jackpot Clock, and that the couple had played the Jackpot Clock after the show went off the air.
After the change Collyer would often rush contestants to perform the Jackpot quickly if they had just barely enough time in order to not have the Jackpot Clock at the beginning of the next episode.
Collyer did an excellent job keeping the show fast-paced ; he spoke quickly and brightly, and was often moving around the stage as much as the contestants.
Religion and charitable work were very important to Collyer, and he was always particularly pleased to hear contestants say that they considered donating portions of their winnings to the church, or that they planned to donate to charities.

Collyer and next
On September 15, 1956, Collyer announced that the next show would gain a new sponsor, and if the Super Bonus was not won Fresh and Sylvania would donate the Super Bonus Pot to charity.
One legend holds that Narz was flying to New York to host the first tapings of the show, and none other than Collyer himself sat next to Narz on the flight.
On 13 May 2005, Williams once again wrestled in ROH when he teamed with Colt Cabana to defeat the team of Nigel McGuiness and Chad Collyer, before losing to Homicide the next day.
Over the next few months, 3LK would feud directly with Jeff Jarrett and his hired guns, the Elite Guard ( Shawn Hernandez, Chad Collyer and Onyx, assembled by Jarrett specifically to foil the ethnic diversity of 3LK ).
Lethal lost to Chad Collyer at Gold on October 15, but recovered with a win over Delirious the next day at Joe vs.

Collyer and week
The Collyer family alleged their roots could be traced to a fictional ship that supposedly arrived in America from England a week after the Mayflower.
Another throwback to the Collyer era ( when the show was seen in the daytime ) was the revival of " Ladies ' Day ", where women only ( not counting the celebrity for that week ) would play the game.
Additionally, he also substituted for a week for the vacationing Bill Cullen on The Price Is Right, and also for Bud Collyer on To Tell The Truth.
Collyer wished him luck and opined that his run would be as long as the original, and before the week was done, handwritten notes for every member of the crew who had worked on the original series arrived from Collyer, wishing them all luck.

Collyer and with
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In the 1940s, this was followed by Bud Collyer warbling, " There she is, folks — that's Molly Goldberg, a woman with a place in every heart and a finger in every pie ".
The Deep Blue Sea begins with the discovery by her neighbours of Hester Collyer who has tried and failed to commit suicide.
The Collyer brothers and Sports Interactive are no longer involved with the development of Championship Manager ( see below ).
She appeared on television in 1957, on an episode of To Tell the Truth with host Bud Collyer and panelists Polly Bergen, Ralph Bellamy, Kitty Carlisle, and Carl Reiner.
Dr. Herman Collyer, with his wife and two sons, moved into the house in Harlem after April 1910 ( they are reported as living at 109 East 54th Street in the 1910 Federal Census, taken 23 April 1910 ).
No one knows why Dr. Collyer abandoned his family, or whether his wife moved with him into his new home at 153 West 77th Street when he left behind his house in Harlem.
In 1932, shortly before Homer Collyer went blind, he purchased the property across the street from their house at 2077 Fifth Avenue, with the intent of developing it by putting up an apartment building.
There is, admittedly, something unattractive about the avidity with which society now pores over every detail the Collyer brothers vigorously withheld from public scrutiny ...
Also hosted by Collyer, the daytime show featured a separate panel for its first three years, with actress Phyllis Newman as the only regular.
When the mess was not hidden from the wife, Collyer would often jokingly tell the husband ( who usually had a short haircut ) that they would put a bathing cap on his head " to keep your long hair out of your eyes " before revealing what form of mess he would be involved with.
If there was a problem with a prop breaking or running out of a supply, such as balloons, Collyer would simply give the stunt to the couple, citing it as the show's fault.
Collyer also noted on the air a number of times that he himself tested many of the stunts while they were being developed, often noting that the contestant performed the stunt with far more ease than he had.
Collyer would stand with the first couple on the show and explain the stunt they would have to perform.
The detail was not usually something easy to guess like blindfolding or whipped cream, but was usually something that would surprise everyone such as changing a factor of the stunt to make it more difficult ( for example, Collyer would demonstrate throwing a baseball into a barrel but then replace the baseballs with basketballs that would barely fit into the barrel, or moving the contestant much further away from the barrel, etc.
Collyer got his first helping of game shows when he co-hosted ABC's ( the former NBC Blue network ) Break the Bank with future Miss America Pageant mainstay Bert Parks ; and, when he was picked to host the radio original of the Mark Goodson-Bill Todman team's first game, Winner Take All — the latter also becoming, in due course, the first hosting seat for another game show titan, Bill Cullen.
Collyer went on to host the television versions of both shows, but in 1950 he got the job which genuinely made him a household name: Beat the Clock, a stunt game show which pitted couples ( usually, but not exclusively, married ) against the clock in a race to perform silly ( sometimes messy ) tasks, which were called " problems " but could with more accuracy be called " stunts.
Unlike the show's familiar parody of The $ 64, 000 Question ( The $ 99, 000 Answer ), Gleason's Beat the Clock episode used the actual show and set, complete with the familiar large minute clock emblazoned with sponsor Sylvania's logo, and ending with Collyer and his famous sign-off: " Next time may be your time to beat the clock.
The sequence provided an especially riotous moment in 1962, when Collyer purred, with a particularly pronounced twinkle, " Will the real Bob Miller ... please ... stand up?
He co-starred with his wife, actress June Collyer.

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