Forgotten TV: Tenspeed & Brown Shoe

In this fondly remembered but criminally short-lived 1980 TV show, Tenspeed and Brown Shoe, then virtually unknown Jeff Goldblum starred as the very naive, bored, terminally-square stockbroker Lionel “Brown Shoe” Whitney — a doofus with fantasies of becoming an over-boiled private eye like his fictional hero, Mark Savage, Private Eye, the hero of a series cheesy, pulpy Spillane-like thrillers. How obsessed was Lionel? His business card for the Whitney Agency sported a Tommy gun. not that he was a totally useless dweeb, mind you — he had a black-belt in Karate and was an Olympic Games pistol shooting competitor, but still… read more >

Tenspeed and Brown Shoe 1980 Vintage Men's T-Shirt

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