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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Season 1 | January 1980 | June 1980 | 14 |
Unassigned Episodes | 0 |
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Name | Number of Episodes | Dates | |
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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 | |
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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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