Mill Creek Entertainment, who released the DVD, planned to make it a 'Complete Series' collection. CBS however, who owned the rights to the two part pilot episode, refused to come to a financial and contractual agreement with MCI and denied its use. Therefore the DVD box set released in 2010 contains every episode but the pilot.
When Bill Clinton was president he met Jeff Goldblum at a dinner function. During their conversation Clinton revealed that this was his favorite series when it was on and he was disappointed it was so short lived.
Ben Vereen would reprise his role of E.L. 'Tenspeed' Turner over eight years later on another Stephen J. Cannell production, J.J. Starbuck (1987). He was brought on in a recurring capacity to replace Country and Western singer Jimmy Dean who was stepping down, but the program was canceled shortly thereafter.
In the Leverage episode 3:15, The Big Bang Job, Nate (Timothy Hutton) uses the alias Lionel Whitney, Jeff Goldblum's character in Tenspeed and Brown Shoe.