The congenial leading man type (whose series as an actor included "The Sixth Sense") was probably better known for hosting the long-running "Hour Magazine," a program that in an 80s landscape of daytime talk dominated by Phil Donahue and Oprah Winfrey's brand of issue-oriented programs (soon to descend into the tabloid muck of Geraldo and Sally Jessy and all of those shows to follow in the 90s) remained a steadfastly blander mix of household hints, cooking and parenting segments--Mr. Collins parlayed "Hour Magazine" into hosting the Miss America pageant for several years:
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