Tenspeed and Brown Shoe

Tenspeed and Brown Shoe is a short-lived 1980 detective series starring Ben Vereen and Jeff Goldblum in the title roles, as contrasting partners in a detective agency (one an ex-con hustler, the other an accountant who loves old-fashioned detective stories). 
==Muppet Mentions==
*Tenspeed walks into a store to buy model plains in the eleventh episode "This One's Gonna Kill Ya," and a Big Bird plush sits on the cash register. 
*In the next episode, "Untitled," a sleazy Hollywood type dismissively says of the tall and gangly Lionel, "You wanna show Big Bird where the water fountain is?"
==Connections==
*Reza Badiyi directed the pilot movie
*Bill Capizzi played Tedesco's henchman in the pilot and "Savage Says, 'The Most Dangerous Bird Is Jailbird'"
*Jeff Goldblum played Lionel Whitney ("Brown Shoe")
*Ben Vereen played E. L. Turner ("Tenspeed")
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