Coney-catching Robert Greene in a series of 1592 pamphlets, the titles of which included "The Defence of Conny-catching," in which he argued there were worse crimes to be found among "reputable" people, and "A Disputation betweene a Hee Conny-catcher and a Shee Conny-catcher." Kirby Farrell wrote a book called "Cony-catching" in 1971. Virginia Woolf mentions "cony catchers" in her book "Orlando". Coney-catching Coney-catching is Elizabethan slang for theft through trickery. It comes from the word "coney" (sometimes spelled "conny"), meaning a rabbit raised for the table and thus tame. A coney-catcher was a thief or con man. It was a practice
Coney Reyes was given another series — "Coney Reyes Mumar on Set" (1981), but like "Coney Reyes-Mumar Studio", it only lasted one year before ending. In 1984, Reyes starred in "Lovingly Yours: The Movie" (1984) in the segment "Akin Ang Walang Diyos", a horror drama starring Julie Vega. Vega and Reyes starred in the segment one year before Vega's death in 1985. After the cancellations of "Coney Reyes-Mumar Studio" and "Coney Reyes Mumar on Set", Reyes was given her own anthology series called "Coney Reyes on Camera", rival to "Lovingly Yours, Helen", hosted by long time good friend, Helen Vela on GMA