Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-226878-20150710200046/@comment-26463535-20151113001204

Zorro with his mute helper Bernardo, The Lone Ranger and Tonto, The Rifleman and his son, Roy Rogers and his horse Trigger

All Westerns (California is part of the West so Zorro fits). Zorro and Lone Ranger are more clasic than Roy Rogers and Rifleman, but all are within the time frame Monty put for the characters to be inspired from.

Also think  dectective themed teams would be fun. One would allude to Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Father Brown, and Dupin. Then the other would allude to their sidekicks, Dr. Watson, Hastings, Flambeu, and Dupin's narrator.