Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
The sniffer ( Original title: Tenspeed and Brown Shoe ) was an American detective and crime series, which was produced 1979/1980 by Paramount on behalf of ABC. After the pilot episode only twelve more episodes emerged, only nine of which were broadcast in September 1980 by the ARD in Germany.
The series is about the private detectives Early LeRoy Turner ( Ben Vereen ) and Lionel Whitney ( Jeff Goldblum ), an odd couple: Turner is a former con artist on parole, the lanky Whitney draws his knowledge from trivial novels. His hero is the Cheap Detective Mark Savage from the pen of thriller author Stephen J. Cannell (a kind of cameo of series creator ). In the style of the fictional character stumble Whitney and Turner of a mishap to the next and the way to solve charmingly unconventional way their criminal cases.
A style element of the series is the background story when Whitney reads in Mark Savage books:
"Mark Savage, you are a very great man! 'She whispered. My knees were shaking me holes in my blue worsted trousers, my nerves trembled and vibrated like ten pounds of lemon jello on a cracked porcelain plate. "
" Yes, she was fragile, and she tried to kill. (...) Lilian, who had managed to get on my enclosed with high walls to slip alarm equipped personality over."
" The two cops had the door of my Hollywood office blown away, kicked off the hinges and came in fast and dangerous. The Great had a face like a blueberry pie that had exploded in the oven ... "
Occupation
- Jeff Goldblum as " Lionel Whitney " (English voice: Arne Elsholtz )
- Ben Vereen as " E.L. Turner " (English voice: Michael Nowka )