"This Aug. 1982 file photo shows Gary Collins. Gary Collins, an actor, television show host and former master of ceremonies for the Miss America Pageant, died Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012 in Biloxi, Miss. He was 74. During the 1980s, Collins hosted the Miss America pageant and the television shows ""Hour Magazine"" — for which he won a Daytime Emmy in 1983 — and ""The Home Show."""