Series regulars or semi-regulars in 'Tenspeed & Brownshoe' from 1970-1982:
- Ben Vereen as E.L. 'Tenspeed' Turner (1980)
- Jeff Goldblum as Lionel Whitney (1980)
1970-1982 Episode Guide for 'Tenspeed & Brownshoe':
(Episodes with dates prior to 1970 aired as reruns.)
Season 1, episode 1
W: Stephen J. Cannell D: E.W. Swackhamer
With John Harkins (Col. Beuler), Robyn Douglass (Martha Gribb), Luke Andreas (Little Mo), A.C. Weary (Fred Platt), Simone Griffeth (Bunny LaCrosse), Peter Brocco (Dr. Brandt), Robert Webber (Herman LaCrosse), Jayne Meadows (Ruth LaCrosse), Nicholas Worth (Dick Hemmet), Larry Manetti (Chip Vincent), Richard Romanus (Crazy Tommy Tedesco).
Fast talking con man "Tenspeed" Turner hooks up with straight arrow suburban professional Lionel Whitney to form a mismatched private detective team.
Season 1, episode 2
W: Stephen J. Cannell D: Arnold Laven
With Elayne Heilveil (Susan Lardner), John Pleshette (Bill Kingman), Leo Gordon (Joe Kingman), Lee Paul (Stubby), Mark Giardino (Split), Bruce Fisher (Mickey), Shirley Jo Finney (Susan), Eugene Peterson (Chase), David Tress (Korman), Terrence McNally (David).
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 around her.
Season 1, episode 3
W: Stephen J. Cannell D: John Patterson
With Janice Heiden (Avon Madison), Glenn Wilder (Albert), Ernie Orsatti (Mick), Denny Miller (Tony), Ed Bell (David McPherson), Tony Burton (Skeeter McClintock), Michael Fairman (Doyle), Darrell Zwerling (Lovell).
Lionel falls in love with a female client who has hired him to find who is trying to kill her. Meanwhile, E.L. tries to duck a former partner.
Season 1, episode 4
W: Shel Willens D: Reza Badiyi
With James Murtaugh (Marty Huckerman), Martin Kove (Hell Hound Leader), Sandy Ward (Lt. Blitz), Dave Shelley (Coroner), John Petlock (Streeter), John Zenda (Hoskins), Tom Stechschulte (Tully), Matthew Tobin (Vickers).
A nervous stockbroker asks Lionel to check out two clients who offer threats when asked to clarify tax information.
Season 1, episode 5
W: Rudolph Borchert D: Arnold Laven
With Lynne Moody (Lola Marshall), Laurence Haddon (Walter Burton), Dennis Burkley (Cletus), Stanley Brock (Guard), Tommy Reamon (Jim), Edmund Stoiber (Simon), Harry Basch (Molina), Richard Dix (Dutton), Lewis Arquette (Lieber).
E.L. is smitten with Lola Marshall, a beautiful dancer who hires the partners to find her missing brother, a computer programmer who was used in a scheme to liquidate a tax evader's company against his will.
Season 1, episode 6
W: Stephen J. Cannell D: Georg Stanford Brown
With James Sloyan (Scoop McGill), Meeno Peluce (Joey), Ben Hammer (Chase), Floyd Levine (Mark Trousdale), Sheldon Feldner (Carlo), Ray Singer (Herman), Deborah Adair (Sally), Kenneth Kimmins (Milt), Alan Braunstein (Tim), James Beach (Sam Antha), Herb Downer (Bob).
E.L. thinks the addition of a businessman might help the agency -- but ends up selecting a man with mob ties.
Season 1, episode 7
W: Stephen J. Cannell D: Reza Badiyi
With Shelley Smith (Phyllis Lassiter), Richard Romanus (Tommy Tedesco), Larry Manetti (Chip Vincent), Richard Dimitri (Johnny McClain), Bill Capizzi, Luke Andreas (Truck), Woody Eney (Larry Craig).
A mobster is furious when his girl tries to dump him for a singer -- with the help of E.L. and Lionel.
Season 1, episode 8
W: Juanita Bartlett D: Ivan Dixon
With James Bond III (B.L. Turner), Dick Anthony Williams (Lester Rollins), Renny Roker (Candy), Robert Alda (Rogers Dillingham), Alexander Zale (Sheik), Henry G. Sanders (Clancy), Rockne Tarkington (Mucker).
E.L. is busy running a real estate scam on an Arab sheik when his nephew B.L. arrives in town. The boy has stolen a numbers runner's book and has convinced the crook that E.L. has it.
Season 1, episode 9
W: Stephen J. Cannell D: Rod Holcomb
With Nicolas Coster (John Dalem), Candy Azzara (Bernice Courtney), Kenneth O'Brien (Racetrack Rollins), Larry Margo (Sgt. Macy), Robert Hirschfeld (Spradlyn), Joe Clarke (Cop).
Lionel receives a hot birthday present from E.L., who's being hounded by a parole officer determined to send him back to prison.
Season 1, episode 10
W: Stephen J. Cannell D: Stephen J. Cannell
With John Anderson (Vernon Laws), James Whitmore Jr. (Sgt. Bogart), James Parkes (Jergens), Fred Stuthman (Jigs Duran), Patricia Gaul (Capt. Matthews), Stephen J. Cannell (Himself), Bruce Tuthill (Desk Sergeant).
Someone tries to kill Lionel and E.L. after Lionel decides to solve a forty-year-old murder case involving a celebrated beauty queen.
Season 1, episode 11
W: Stephen J. Cannell, Juanita Bartlett D: Rod Holcomb
With Lesley Woods (Katie), Rene Auberjonois (Marty Boxx), Mario Roccuzzo (Gardenia), Claude Earl Jones (Prof. Davidson), Jim Goza (Clyde French), Harvey Gold (Howard Ray), Derek Murcott (Peter James).
E.L. hopes to capitalize on the fact that their cleaning woman is a bona fide Russian princess.
Season 1, episode 12
W: Gordon T. Dawson D: Harry Winer
With Lynn Carlin (Alice Rynkoff), Michael C. Gwynne (Dean Culpits), Timothy Carey (Obituary Bob), Don Pedro Colley (Tech), Red West, Anthony James (Kamecki), Bart Burns (Sartain), David Chow (Chester), Bert Conway (Eisenstadt), Mady Maguire (Dorothy), Pamela Brull (Michelle), John Voldstad (Young Man).
A judge hires the agency to do a background check on a criminal feigning insanity, but the partners soon discover that she's not what she seems.
Season 1, episode 13
W: Juanita Bartlett D: Chuck Bowman
With John Hillerman (William Whitney), Dana Wynter (Harriet Whitney), Camilla Sparv (Camilla Caras), Thaao Penghlis (Van Cott), Kurt Grayson (Schmidt), Simone Griffith (Bunny), Joe Spano (Duff McCoy), Dick Yarmy (Brandowyn), Jack Garner (Gabor), Jason Corbett (Officer Farrell), Dennis Spiegel (Officer Blake), Dino Shorte (Officer).
Stolen diamonds may be hidden in the posh office E.L. secures to impress Lionel's visiting parents. (Last show of the series.)