About this title

Storyline

Ben Vereen is E.L. "Tenspeed" Turner, an inveterate con-man and master of disguise. Jeff Goldblum is Lionel Whitney, a "brown shoe" (accountant). Through an unlikely series of circumstances, they form a detective agency. Tenspeed is the realist, while Lionel fantasizes of having adventures like the fictional private eye he idolizes, Mark Savage.

Country: United States

Type: scripted

Status: Ended

Language: English

Release Date: January 27, 1980

Also Known As: Timide et sans complexe, Centella y el burguésDie Schnüffler, Tenspeed and Brown Shoe, Premiata agenzia Whitney, Svileni i Vrdalama |  See more »

Genres

Company Credits

Production Co: Paramount Television, Stephen J. Cannell Productions

Seasons & Episodes

Season 1

1980 | 14 Episodes

Awards

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Primetime Emmy 1980

Nominee

Primetime Emmy

Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series

Edgar 1981

Nominee

Edgar

Best Television Episode

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