Pic of the Day: “The Treasure of Sierra Madre Street” revisited

Posted by Marisa on September 15, 2014

Kicking off the week is another look at the Tenspeed and Brown Shoe episode “The Treasure of Sierra Madre Street,” first airing on June 20, 1980. Sanitarium denizen Obituary Bob absorbs the details of an escape plan being hatched by his pal Dean (Michael C. Gwynne).

Tenspeed and Brown Shoe was a short-lived but enjoyable caper series that deserved a better and longer run. Timothy and Gwynne had worked together previously in Steve De Jarnatt‘s short film Tarzana (1978) and were good friends off-screen as well. How great would a TV series starring the two of them have been? Pretty darn great, methinks.

Pic of the Day: “The Treasure of Sierra Madre Street” revisited

Posted by Marisa on January 24, 2014

Our pic of the day takes another look at the Tenspeed and Brown Shoe episode “The Treasure of Sierra Madre Street”. It was first broadcast on June 20, 1980. Escaped axe murderer Obituary Bob terrorizes Lionel Whitney, aka “Brown Shoe” (Jeff Goldblum), and Judge Alice Rynkoff (Lynn Carlin) in his own inimitable fashion.

Ms. Carlin is another John Cassavetes alum, having made her film debut in his seminal work Faces (1968). At the time she was Robert Altman‘s secretary at Screen Gems. Cassavetes was working on the Faces script at the same studio, and Ms. Carlin often assisted him with line readings. He ended up casting her in the film, in the role of John Marley‘s neglected wife, for which she received a well-deserved Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nomination. Unfortunately, her subsequent career did not quite live up to this auspicious beginning, and she retired from acting in 1987.

Pic of the Day: “The Treasure of Sierra Madre Street” revisited

Posted by Marisa on April 16, 2013

Our pic today takes another look at the Tenspeed and Brown Shoe episode “The Treasure of Sierra Madre Street” (see what they did there?). It first aired on June 20, 1980. Obituary Bob and his pal Dean, aka “Tokar the Magnificent” or something like that (Michael C. Gwynne) have just busted out of the sanitarium and are in search of the titular treasure.

Pic of the Day: “The Treasure of Sierra Madre Street” revisited

Posted by Marisa on October 26, 2012

It’s way past time for another look at Obituary Bob, Timothy’s looney tunes axe murderer from “The Treasure of Sierra Madre Street,” the Tenspeed and Brown Shoe episode that first aired on June 20, 1980. OB is about to stage a diversion that involves the teddy bear.

Tenspeed and Brown Shoe was one of about eight million television projects that the legendary Stephen J. Cannell had a hand in. Creating, writing, producing, directing, even acting – you name it, he did it. There aren’t too many go-getters like him left.

Pic of the Day: “The Blackbirder” revisited

Posted by Marisa on June 11, 2012

A friend of the blog reminded me recently about this great episode of Daniel Boone, first broadcast on October 3, 1968. Timothy completely steals the show as bounty hunter Lute Purdy.

This episode was directed by William Wiard, veteran TV workhorse who directed 36 episodes of the Daniel Boone series, including the other episode Tim appears in, “Mamma Cooper” (02/05/1970). Don Pedro Colley, as former slave Gideon, also appears in Tim’s Tenspeed and Brown Shoe episode “The Treasure of Sierra Madre Street” (06/20/1980). I also remember him fondly as Baron Samedi in the blaxploitation horror classic Sugar Hill (1974).

Pic of the Day: “The Treasure of Sierra Madre Street” revisited

Posted by Marisa on December 12, 2011

We start off the week with another look at the Tenspeed and Brown Shoe episode “The Treasure of Sierra Madre Street,” first airing on June 20, 1980. Tim and his real-life pal Michael C. Gwynne are busting out of the mental hospital in pursuit of buried treasure. It’s a long story.

Tim and Gwynne first worked together in Steve De Jarnatt‘s short film Tarzana (1978), from which the famous outtake known as Cinema Justice was derived. Both of these gems are due for an official release, hopefully very soon. Keep your fingers and toes crossed, and watch this space.

Pic of the Day: “The Treasure of Sierra Madre Street”

Posted by Marisa on June 13, 2011

Our pic for Monday is from the Tenspeed and Brown Shoe episode “The Treasure of Sierra Madre Street,” first broadcast on June 20, 1980. Tim is rather hilarious as mental patient Obituary Bob, so-called according to his pal Dean (Michael C. Gwynne) because he killed seven people with an axe. Ouch.

OB is convinced that Dean is going to transport them to “his planet”: “I can already feel the celestial heavens at my fingertips!” The chemistry between Tim and Gwynne is delightful. This episode is also notable for the presence of another John Cassavetes veteran, Lynn Carlin.