Creator:
Stephen J. Cannell / Music: Mike
Post, Pete Carpenter /
Producers: Stephen J. Cannell,
Alex Beaton, Chuck Bowman,
Juanita Bartlett
The
odd couple of detective work.
"Tenspeed" was a
charming hustler and master of
disguise who was working to
simply meet his parole
requirements. "Brownshoe"
- an old term for bankers,
stockbrokers, and other
"straight" types—was
his well-to-do and somewhat
naive foil, a romantic whose
idea of sleuthing was rooted in
1940s novels and old Bogart
movies. This unlikely pair
joined forces in their own
agency, located two blocks off
Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles,
and with lots of undercover work
and high-speed chases they
managed to crack all sorts of
cases.
Tenspeed
and Brown Shoe
was launched with a tremendous
promotional blitz in early 1980,
and attracted a large audience
for its first couple of
episodes, It then declined
rapidly and was soon canceled.
The producer of this series was
Stephen J. Cannell, whose name
was used as "the
author" of all the
blood-and- guts detective novels
Lionel was forever reading to
help him hone his detective
skills.
Cast
BEN
VEREEN as E.L. 'Tenspeed' Turner
/ JEFF GOLDBLUM as Lionel 'Brown
Shoe' Whitney
