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E.L. "Tenspeed" Turner
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Tenspeed and Brown Shoe: Created by Stephen J. Cannell. With Ben Vereen, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Romanus, Larry Manetti. A con-man and an accountant-wanna-be private eye team up to fight crime.
- (549)
- 1980-01-27
- Crime, Drama
- Ben Vereen, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Romanus
With Tenspeed out on parole and needing a job, Lionel decides to finance a new detective agency with the reward money to fulfil his lifelong dream of being a hard-boiled detective. Also starring: Larry Manetti , Robyn Douglass , Richard Romanus , Robert Webber , Jayne Meadows and Peter Brocco .
With Ben Vereen, Jeff Goldblum, Robert Webber, Jayne Meadows. Fast talking conman EL Early Leroy "Tenspeed" Turner hooks up with straight arrow suburban professional Lionel Whitney (who just happens to have a black-belt in Karate and was an Olympic Games pistol shooting competitor) to form a mismatched buddy private detective team.
- (132)
- Crime, Drama
- E.W. Swackhamer
- 1980-01-27
A con-man and an accountant-wanna-be private eye team up to fight crime. Lionel takes on his first case, tracking down a missing girl on behalf of a millionaire. But he soon discovers that the millionaire wants her dead, and others start dropping dead round her.
- 49 min
1980. TV-14. Crime · Comedy · Mystery. A charming con-man and a straightlaced accountant, who longs to be a Bogart-style private eye, start their own detective agency in LA and fight crime. Starring: Ben Vereen Jeff Goldblum. Directed by: Reza Badiyi Rod Holcomb Arnold Laven E.W. Swackhamer Ivan Dixon George Stanford Brown Stephen J. Cannell.
- Reza Badiyi
- 1
- Ben Vereen, Jeff Goldblum
- January 1, 1980
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Oct 9, 2015 · Jeff Goldblum (The Grand Budapest Hotel, Jurassic Park), in his first starring television role, plays Lionel, a "brown shoe" accountant, who through an unlikely set of circumstances forms a private detective agency with Tenspeed, a masterful con-man, played by Ben Vereen (Roots, All That Jazz).
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E.L. "Tenspeed" Turner, a con man out on parole, forms a crime-solving partnership with Lionel "Brown Shoe" Whitney, an accountant who has dreams of becoming a hard-boiled detective.
