Tenspeed and Brown Shoe

One of the odder TV partnerships, the short-lived series tells the tale of Lionel Whitney, an accountant (aka a "Brownshoe" in street parlance") and detective-story afficinado who gets involved with E.L. Turner (aka "Tenspeed,", slang for a fast-talking con-man), who suckers Lionel into a series of schemes. The two end up becoming detectives since it's Lionel's dream and E.L. needs a job to stay out of prison, and use a combination of pulp-detective schtick, elaborate con games, Lionel's karate skills, and good old ole-fashioned investigative skills to solve their cases. T&B didn't last more then a half-season, but it spawned a spinoff of sorts, when Ben Vereen went on to reprise his character Tenspeed on J.J. Starbuck.

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  • TheTVDB.com Series ID 75947
  • Status Ended
  • First Aired January 27, 1980
  • Recent June 27, 1980
  • Network ABC (US)
  • Average Runtime 45 minutes
  • Genres Comedy Crime
  • Original Country United States of America
  • Original Language English
  • Geographic Location America / United States
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  • Episode Screenshot Format 4:3 Screencap
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  • Created February 4, 2008 by
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  • Modified July 21, 2024 by
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Season 1 January 1980 June 1980 14
Unassigned Episodes 0
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Unassigned Episodes 14
Absolute ordering places all episodes in a single ordered season. This is generally used for anime.
Season From To Episodes
Season 1 0
Unassigned Episodes 14
Name Number of Episodes Dates
Stephen J. Cannell 11 01/27/1980 - 06/13/1980
Arnold Laven 2 02/03/1980 - 03/09/1980
Reza Badiyi 2 03/02/1980 - 03/23/1980
Rod Holcomb 2 05/30/1980 - 06/13/1980
E.W. Swackhamer 2 01/27/1980
Ivan Dixon 1 03/30/1980
Chuck Bowman 1 06/27/1980
Georg Stanford Brown 1 03/16/1980
John Patterson 1 02/10/1980
Harry Winer 1 06/20/1980
Name Number of Episodes Dates
Juanita Bartlett 3 03/30/1980 - 06/27/1980
Shel Willens 1 03/02/1980
Gordon Dawson 1 06/20/1980
Rudolph Bongheri 1 03/09/1980

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