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Tenspeed and Brown Shoe was a 1980 ABC detective-comedy series, created by Stephen J. Cannell as the first show from Stephen J. Cannell Productions.In the two-part Pilot Movie, the paths of clever hustler E.L. "Tenspeed" Turner (Ben Vereen) and timid stockbroker Lionel Whitney (Jeff Goldblum; his brown shoes provide the one-off nickname of the title's second half) unexpectedly cross. The very weekend Lionel's due to be married to his boss's daughter, a case of stolen mob money that E.L. intends to use to pay a relative's medical bills (since he'd been roughed up by said mob) ends up in Lionel's possession by mistake. Forced to team up to sort things out, they end up exposing and capturing a Nazi war criminal. With the reward money Lionel receives — and having learned his fiance was untrue — he decides to leave high finance behind and live out his dream, fed by his love of mystery novels, of becoming a private detective. Since E.L. needs a job to fulfill parole requirements, Lionel decides to make him his partner in the Lionel Whitney Detective Agency.Lionel is ridiculously idealistic, easily flustered, thinks in detective fiction tropes, and unsuited to the mean streets even with his black belt karate skills, while E.L. is overconfident and finds it hard to resist at least bending the law — particularly to counteract their Perpetual Poverty. But both men are fundamentally goodhearted and Lionel's courage and E.L.'s cleverness, exemplified by his Master of Disguise skills, are more than sufficient to get them out of scrapes, if often very narrowly.While the show had a strong start in the ratings as a mid-season replacement, ABC only kept it for one season of 14 episodes. However, in that time it gained a cult following and was a major stepping stone for Goldblum, providing as it did his first starring role in any medium. The entire series was released on DVD in The New '10s, though rights issues involving the Pilot Movie mean it and the rest of the show were released by different distributors. Shout! Factory now owns the rights to this series aside from the Pilot Movie, and in August 2020 it was added to the free-with-ads streaming service Tubi.Compare with two subsequent Cannell productions: | |
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