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In 1991, NBC came up with a new show called Sunday Best, which was designed to fill a time slot on Sunday evening and be very, very cheap. Hosted by Carl Reiner, it featured clips from other NBC shows — kind of a weekly "best of…: — intermingled with sketches and new lighthearted segments filed by correspondents. Among those involved in the new material were Jeff Cesario, Linda Elerbee, Harry Shearer and Merrill Markoe.

The show immediately ran into trouble because, if we are to believe various reports, Johnny Carson was then in the midst of one of his periodic feuds with network management. One of the main components of Sunday Best, as conceived, was to show some great moments from Johnny's show as well as David Letterman's, which then followed him. Carson, it is said, withheld permission and convinced Letterman to also refuse to participate. Sunday Best went on anyway, was largely panned and was quickly placed on "hiatus" for some major retooling. It was never seen again.

In one of the few episodes that aired, Merrill Markoe interviewed Hoyt Curtin, the man responsible for the most memorable theme songs on Hanna-Barbera's early shows. Here is that segment…