Another what if...

[danderson]

If Bud Collyer doesn't die, does he host the syndicated version of TTTT, or do Goodson hire Garry Moore anyway?

[Sodboy13]

She'd be my uncle.

[TLEberle]

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.

[snowpeck]

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.

[jimlangefan]

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.

[Matt Ottinger]

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."

[The Pyramids]

End of thread.

[chrisholland03]

*waggles finger*

[aaron sica]

*waggles finger*

No no no, not today...

[Bob Zager]

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. 

[BillCullen1]

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.