Jerry Lewis Talk show

I was just searching the net and on my recent favorite site TV Guide.com I read that in 1983 Jerry did 5 pilot episodes for a nightly talk show in 1983. They didn't say if the episodes were aired. To the best of my knowledge they were not. The guest were Frank Sinatra, Carol Burnett and William Shatner. The shows had to be entertaining on some level so I wonder why it didn't work out. This was not his first attempt at a TV series. In fact I think it was his fourth attempt at a live series. He did meet with some success in 1970 when his likeness was used on a Saturday morning series that I hope one day they will release on DVD.
His first attempt was most of his attempts have been of the talk show format. In 1963 ABC aired the 2 hour long Jerry Lewis Show from Sept. 21, 1963 to December 21, 1963. His guest were people like Jack Jones, Harry James, Kay Stevens and Sammy Davis Jr. ABC gave $8,000,000 to produce the show. A huge sum even by today's cost. The show got bad reviews and low ratings. ABC president flew from New York to the West Coast and met with Mr. Lewis and his writers to talk about ways to improve the show. The next few did improve but the ratings did not. The show was canceled. Most of the shows time slot went to The Hollywood Palace and that show ran for 6 years.
He did another talk show that ran on NBC from September 1967 to May 1969. The guest was for geared more to a youthful audience by booking young singers of the day and he preformed his many character like the Poor Soul and the Nutty Professor. The first season the segments were taped seperately and edited together. The second season the show was filmed entirely in front of live audience. After this he never ventured to do TV again until his 1983 attempt. Mr. Lewis fared better with his movies, plays and Telethons. Mr. Lewis and his friends personalities are just too big to be contained on the TV screen.