In 1985, Michael Nesmith (of Monkees fame) put together a comedy series for NBC that came and went in a flash. It was a kind of rambling, free form show called Television Parts and I suspect that the problem it had was that America then had a pretty rigid idea of what a network show should be and Mr. Nesmith's show didn't fit that idea. He was, as too many people are, ahead of his time.
Whatever was taped was burned off quickly and some of it later had an afterlife in the home video market. Here's a sketch starring one of my favorite stand-up comics of that era, A. Whitney Brown…