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Scarecrow and Mrs. King

Mon, Oct 3, 1983
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Synopsis

Scarecrow and Mrs. King is an American television series that aired from October 3, 1983, to May 28, 1987 on CBS. The show stars Kate Jackson and Bruce Boxleitner as divorced housewife Amanda King and top-level "Agency" operative Lee Stetson who begin a strange association, and eventual romance, after encountering one another in a train station.

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Cast

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  • Kate Jackson
    Kate Jackson
    as Amanda King
  • Bruce Boxleitner
    Bruce Boxleitner
    as Lee Stetson
  • Beverly Garland
    Beverly Garland
    as Dotty West
  • Mel Stewart
    Mel Stewart
    as Billy Melrose
  • Martha Smith
    Martha Smith
    as Francine Desmond
  • P
    Paul Stout
    as Philip King
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Episodes

4 seasons · 88 episodes

Ended · 88 aired
Season 1
21 episodes · 21 aired
▾
  • E1
    The First Time
    Aired · Tue, Oct 4, 1983 · 60m

    In the series pilot, Lee enlists the aid of Amanda in a mission to plug a leak in his organization.

  • E2
    There Goes the Neighborhood
    Aired · Tue, Oct 11, 1983 · 60m

    Amanda and Lee pose as a married suburban couple in order to investigate an international arms smuggling ring.

  • E3
    If Thoughts Could Kill
    Aired · Tue, Oct 18, 1983 · 60m

    Lee's physician is a brain control researcher determined to program Lee to kill Billy.

  • E4
    Magic Bus
    Aired · Tue, Oct 25, 1983 · 60m

    As reporters, Lee and Amanda infiltrate a survivalist group that has hijacked a high-tech military vehicle.

  • E5
    The ACM Kid
    Aired · Tue, Nov 1, 1983 · 60m

    Amanda and Lee babysit the son of kidnapped Russian emigres, unaware the boy is a computer whiz being forced to supply secret codes to spies.

  • E6
    Always Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth
    Aired · Tue, Nov 8, 1983 · 60m

    Amanda accompanies an American-born Middle East princess whose husband is in mortal danger.

  • E7
    Service Above and Beyond
    Aired · Tue, Nov 15, 1983 · 60m

    Amanda poses as a socialite to get close to a jet-set businessman who wants to sell military secrets.

  • E8
    Saved by the Bells
    Aired · Tue, Nov 29, 1983 · 60m

    Enemy agents targeting Lee accidentally kidnap Amanda in his place, demanding the release of their agent in return for Amanda.

  • E9
    Sudden Death
    Aired · Tue, Dec 6, 1983 · 60m

    Lee and Amanda pose as a football player and sportswriter to foil a team owner's plot to assassinate the Prime Minister of a European tax haven.

  • E10
    The Long Christmas Eve
    Aired · Tue, Dec 20, 1983 · 60m

    Amanda poses as the long-lost daughter of a spy threatening to expose all agents in the United States.

  • E11
    Remembrance of Things Past
    Aired · Tue, Jan 10, 1984 · 60m

    After several agents are murdered and Lee is marked as the next victim, he fakes his death to track down the killer-- and only Amanda and Billy know the truth.

  • E12
    Lost and Found
    Aired · Tue, Jan 17, 1984 · 60m

    Helping a defecting ESP expert brings Lee in contact with the expert's wife, Lee's former love interest.

  • E13
    I Am Not Now, Nor Have I Ever Been... a Spy
    Aired · Tue, Jan 31, 1984 · 60m

    After being kidnapped, Amanda is left with partial amnesia and can't remember Lee, the agency or a secret message that could save the life of the assassins' target.

  • E14
    "Dead Ringer"
    Aired · Tue, Feb 7, 1984 · 60m

    Amanda helps hide a Hungarian defector who is a dark version of Francine.

  • E15
    The Mole
    Aired · Tue, Feb 14, 1984 · 60m

    After failing repeatedly to catch a Bulgarian spy, Lee and Amanda are enlisted by "Blue Leader" to rule out a possible mole inside the Agency.

  • E16
    Savior
    Aired · Tue, Feb 28, 1984 · 60m

    Lee appears to have left the Agency to work for an arms smuggler, who is trying to steal the latest top-secret US missile.

  • E17
    The Artful Dodger
    Aired · Tue, Mar 6, 1984 · 60m

    An international jewel thief is breaking into military bases and stealing plans for the missile defense system, and Amanda is his unwitting accomplice.

  • E18
    Filming Raul
    Aired · Tue, Mar 20, 1984 · 60m

    A parking lot attendant films an attempted kidnapping on an Agency courier, which makes him a target of enemy agents.

  • E19
    Fearless Dotty
    Aired · Tue, Mar 27, 1984 · 60m

    Dotty picks up the wrong parcel at a bookstore and becomes the target of two thugs searching for a code book.

  • E20
    Weekend
    Aired · Tue, Apr 24, 1984 · 60m

    Amanda and Lee check into a posh resort where kidnappers are planning to abduct a genius who has knowledge of U.S. secrets.

  • E21
    Waiting for Godorsky
    Aired · Tue, May 8, 1984 · 60m

    At an estate sale, Amanda befriends a woman who turns out to be a princess targeted for assassination by an Eastern Bloc hit squad.

Season 2
23 episodes · 23 aired
▾
  • E1
    To Catch a Mongoose
    Aired · Tue, Oct 2, 1984 · 60m

    Lee takes Amanda to London to identify an old high-school classmate, a suspected assassin.

  • E2
    The Times They Are a Changin'
    Aired · Tue, Oct 9, 1984 · 60m

    Lee and Amanda must procure the safe return of a sixties radical, now hooked up with terrorists in Munich, and stop the assassination of an unidentified top American.

  • E3
    Double Agent
    Aired · Tue, Oct 16, 1984 · 60m

    Amanda's life is in danger when an ex-spy threatens to name names in an expose on security agencies' use of amateur spies.

  • E4
    The Legend of Das Geisterschloss
    Aired · Tue, Oct 23, 1984 · 60m

    In Austria, Lee and Amanda must save the life of an important English agent and break up a top secret eavesdropping post which has been stealing secrets from Western allies.

  • E5
    Charity Begins at Home
    Aired · Tue, Oct 30, 1984 · 60m

    Lee and Amanda uncover a scheme to sell a secret formula that would control the price and supply of crops, enabling the owner of the formula to reap vast profits on speculation.

  • E6
    Brunettes Are In
    Aired · Tue, Nov 13, 1984 · 60m

    Amanda is kidnapped by a white-slavery operation while she's on a courier assignment for Lee and the agency.

  • E7
    Our Man in Tegernsee
    Aired · Tue, Nov 20, 1984 · 60m

    When Amanda is arrested in Germany for passing bogus currency, Lee pursues the counterfeiters with the help of a disgruntled local agent.

  • E8
    "Affair at Bromfield Hall"
    Aired · Tue, Nov 27, 1984 · 60m

    During a London mission to plug a security leak, Amanda is caught in a scandal with a married diplomat.

  • E9
    A Class Act
    Aired · Tue, Dec 4, 1984 · 60m

    Amanda finally gets an Agency training course, where she's pegged as a ringer by Eastern Bloc assassins who have infiltrated the class.

  • E10
    Playing Possum
    Aired · Tue, Dec 11, 1984 · 60m

    When a breach of security shuts down the Agency, Lee and Amanda pair up with a top Soviet agent to thwart a crazed Russian's attempt to set off a nuclear bomb in Washington, D.C.

  • E11
    The Three Faces of Emily
    Aired · Tue, Jan 1, 1985 · 60m

    British agent Lady Emily Farnsworth helps Lee nab a man responsible for selling stolen secret plans for a futuristic fighter plane developed by the two countries.

  • E12
    Ship of Spies
    Aired · Tue, Jan 8, 1985 · 60m

    When Lee and Amanda go on a cruise and pose as an engaged couple to investigate the disappearance of an informant, they discover a plot to smuggle gold and fund a revolution.

  • E13
    Spiderweb
    Aired · Tue, Jan 15, 1985 · 60m

    An ultra-secret operation to deliver and debrief three important Communist defectors is jeopardized by a security leak within the Agency that points squarely toward Amanda.

  • E14
    A Little Sex, A Little Scandal
    Aired · Tue, Feb 5, 1985 · 60m

    Amanda is the only witness to the murder of a Congressional aide, who was about to implicate a Senator in a sex scandal.

  • E15
    A Relative Situation
    Aired · Tue, Feb 12, 1985 · 60m

    Amanda and Lee help the uncle who raised him by uncovering an Air Force officer conspiring to sell top-secret military equipment to an enemy power.

  • E16
    Life of the Party
    Aired · Tue, Feb 19, 1985 · 60m

    Amanda and Francine pose as maids to help Lee in the daring capture of a crime syndicate kingpin and some shakedown artists.

  • E17
    Odds on a Dead Pigeon
    Aired · Tue, Feb 26, 1985 · 60m

    A vindictive parolee hires a lookalike to impersonate Amanda and kill off agents, and Lee is next on her list.

  • E18
    Car Wars
    Aired · Tue, Mar 12, 1985 · 60m

    While her car is in the shop, Amanda borrows one from the Agency impound lot and inadvertently becomes the target of a deadly international syndicate.

  • E19
    D.O.A.: Delirious on Arrival
    Aired · Tue, Mar 19, 1985 · 60m

    Amanda ingests a mysterious drug intended for Lee and undergoes a startling transformation in which her personality becomes the opposite of her normal self.

  • E20
    You Only Die Twice
    Aired · Tue, Apr 2, 1985 · 60m

    An agent in Washington mistakenly uses Amanda's identity during a sensitive investigation. When she is killed Amanda is declared dead, and proving she's alive could be fatal.

  • E21
    Burn Out
    Aired · Tue, Apr 9, 1985 · 60m

    A victim of job burnout, Lee is removed from field duty; and a former agent offers to cut him in on a deal.

  • E22
    Murder Between Friends
    Aired · Mon, May 6, 1985 · 60m

    Amanda quits her job and joins a security agency, unaware it's a front for mercenaries planning to abduct an African president.

  • E23
    Vigilante Mothers
    Aired · Tue, May 14, 1985 · 60m

    A newly formed environmental group from Amanda's neighborhood inadvertently crosses paths with a suave criminal who plans to steal a deadly bio-weapon from the chemical lab where one of Amanda's neighbors works.

Season 3
22 episodes · 22 aired
▾
  • E1
    "A Lovely Little Affair"
    Aired · Tue, Sep 24, 1985 · 60m

    Amanda is swept off her feet by a charming art restorer she's assigned to tail, who is suspected of being involved with terrorists.

  • E2
    "We're Off to See the Wizard"
    Aired · Tue, Oct 1, 1985 · 60m

    The link in the murders of six female agents seems to be Lee, but he suspects they may be tied to the burned out agent he once idolized.

  • E3
    "Over the Limit"
    Aired · Tue, Oct 8, 1985 · 60m

    A Save the Bay spokeswoman is implicated in the murder of a speaker at a rally for fishermen whose livelihood is threatened by crooked corporations.

  • E4
    "Tail of the Dancing Weasel"
    Aired · Tue, Oct 15, 1985 · 60m

    The Agency's retired founder tells Amanda he is a triple agent and that his pardon letter has been stolen.

  • E5
    "Welcome to America, Mr. Brand"
    Aired · Tue, Oct 22, 1985 · 60m

    Amanda babysits a vacationing British accountant, a clumsy James Bond wannabe who claims he has stumbled onto evidence that reveals the identity of a Soviet spy.

  • E6
    "Sour Grapes"
    Aired · Tue, Oct 29, 1985 · 60m

    The Agency gets involved in a lethal case of sour grapes after a wine connoisseur congressman imports a case of French wine laced with heroin.

  • E7
    "Utopia Now"
    Aired · Tue, Nov 5, 1985 · 60m

    In backwoods Virginia, Amanda and Lee search for a community run by an outspoken tax reformer who has more than political change on his agenda.

  • E8
    "Reach for the Sky"
    Aired · Tue, Nov 12, 1985 · 60m

    Billy risks his life to prove a banker friend was murdered in a plot involving international electronic cash transfers.

  • E9
    "J. Edgar's Ghost"
    Aired · Tue, Nov 19, 1985 · 60m

    A former agent who preys on lonely women to get access to classified government documents seems to have stumbled upon the famed secret files of the late FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.

  • E10
    "Flight to Freedom"
    Aired · Tue, Nov 26, 1985 · 60m

    Lee and Amanda must find and save a war correspondent who has evidence that could topple a Latin American dictator and ruin the career of an American ambassador.

  • E11
    "The Wrong Way Home"
    Aired · Tue, Dec 3, 1985 · 60m

    When Amanda's ex-husband comes back to DC he is accused of murdering the Estoccian Prime Minister and Lee has to investigate.

  • E12
    "Fast Food for Thought"
    Aired · Tue, Dec 17, 1985 · 60m

    Lee and Amanda pose as prospective buyers of a fast-food franchise to catch those responsible for poisoning a batch of hamburger sauce.

  • E13
    "One Bear Dances, One Bear Doesn't"
    Aired · Tue, Jan 7, 1986 · 60m

    When Dotty befriends a Russian scientist who's been placed in Amanda's neighborhood for cover, she gets involved in romance and a kidnapping plot.

  • E14
    "Playing for Keeps"
    Aired · Tue, Jan 14, 1986 · 60m

    A tennis playing rich girl with an attitude problem has to be protected from communists trying to hurt her father.

  • E15
    "The Pharoah's Engineer"
    Aired · Tue, Jan 28, 1986 · 60m

    An ex-agent is planning to destroy a Government office, but which one? The answer may lie with retirees who once worked on the same top secret project.

  • E16
    "The Triumvirate"
    Aired · Tue, Feb 11, 1986 · 60m

    An error on her paycheck leads Amanda to a computer whiz, a secret computer file and a trio of vigilante agents.

  • E17
    "The Eyes Have It"
    Aired · Tue, Feb 18, 1986 · 60m

    Lee lands in the hospital after a brawl, but he refuses to stay put because secret information listed on his missing contact lens may be in enemy hands.

  • E18
    "Wrong Number"
    Aired · Tue, Mar 4, 1986 · 60m

    In Afghanistan, the Soviets kidnap Francine, hoping to exchange her for a U.S. mathematician who Amanda believes has been set up by the KGB.

  • E19
    "The Boy Who Could Be King"
    Aired · Tue, Mar 11, 1986 · 60m

    Billy goes undercover as a jazz musician to find out the connection between a small nation's music king and a boy whose name was found in the pocket of a dead man.

  • E20
    "Dead Men Leave No Trails"
    Aired · Tue, Apr 1, 1986 · 60m

    When Amanda is involved in a fender bender she accidentally reveals a supposedly dead terrorist as living and preparing to strike at an Embassy gathering.

  • E21
    "Three Little Spies"
    Aired · Tue, Apr 8, 1986 · 60m

    Lee and Amanda join forces with Soviet and Chinese agents to track down an arms dealer who's smuggling nuclear detonators into the Middle East through a charity organization.

  • E22
    "All the World's a Stage"
    Aired · Tue, May 13, 1986 · 60m

    Amanda takes a role in a play by an American playwright to find out why the Soviets want to back the production.

Season 4
22 episodes · 22 aired
▾
  • E1
    "Stemwinder" Part I
    Aired · Sat, Sep 20, 1986 · 60m

    In the fourth-season opener, a vindictive KGB agent traps Lee and Amanda in an elaborate sting operation, which leads the Agency to suspect the two may have sold out.

  • E2
    "Stemwinder" Part II
    Aired · Sat, Sep 27, 1986 · 60m

    Conclusion. Suspected of selling out to the Soviets, Lee and Amanda go into hiding after learning Lee is the target of an Agency manhunt.

  • E3
    "Unfinished Business"
    Aired · Sat, Oct 4, 1986 · 60m

    CIA files indicate that Lee's parents were double agents, and link the past with a current plot to assassinate a dignitary.

  • E4
    "No Thanks for the Memory"
    Aired · Sat, Oct 11, 1986 · 60m

    A frightened Soviet is found hiding in Amanda's yard, claiming that the KGB smuggled him into the U.S. to help knock out America's strategic-command system.

  • E5
    "It's in the Water"
    Aired · Sat, Oct 18, 1986 · 60m

    A chemist who once worked with Amanda on ecology issues is sought by the Agency and a terrorist after he inadvertently taps into the Capital's water-purification system.

  • E6
    "Night Crawler"
    Aired · Sat, Nov 1, 1986 · 60m

    Lee's attempts to make long range plans are interrupted when Amanda is taken hostage by an Arab terrorist, who wants to trade her to the Libyans.

  • E7
    "Billy's Lost Weekend"
    Aired · Sat, Nov 8, 1986 · 60m

    Found beaten and disoriented in an alley, Billy retraces a lost weekend with Amanda and Lee's help.

  • E8
    "Photo Finish"
    Aired · Sat, Nov 15, 1986 · 60m

    A spy starts a smear campaign against Amanda, who's suspended after a background check reveals that she was once involved in anti-American demonstrations.

  • E9
    "The Man Who Died Twice"
    Aired · Sat, Nov 22, 1986 · 60m

    A Vietnamese double agent must fake his death twice, trying to rescue his son from captors; Lee and Amanda have second thoughts about how their marriage would affect her family.

  • E10
    "Need to Know"
    Aired · Sat, Dec 6, 1986 · 60m

    Amanda and Lee must stop a maniacal newspaper magnate who is using his considerable power as a ploy to destroy the nation's security.

  • E11
    "Santa's Got a Brand New Bag"
    Aired · Sat, Dec 20, 1986 · 60m

    Just before Christmas, a disgruntled ex-toy designer gives Lee a tip on a toy factory that's a front for sophisticated weapons development.

  • E12
    "Any Number Can Play"
    Aired · Sat, Jan 3, 1987 · 60m

    Amanda's mother turns out to be dating a man with a false name and a debt to the mob.

  • E13
    "Promises to Keep"
    Aired · Sat, Jan 10, 1987 · 60m

    The DEA provides evidence that the man connected to a drug kingpin is Lee's friend T.P. Aquinas.

  • E14
    "Rumors of My Death"
    Aired · Sat, Jan 24, 1987 · 60m

    A skeleton identified as Lee Stetson is discovered in a demolished building, exposing a phony passport ring.

  • E15
    "Bad Timing"
    Aired · Sat, Feb 7, 1987 · 60m

    When the Russians inject Lee with a lethal drug that leaves him with just hours to live, he and Amanda must find the antidote before time runs out.

  • E16
    "Do You Take This Spy?"
    Aired · Sat, Feb 14, 1987 · 60m

    A million dollar art heist and a murder get in the way of Amanda and Lee's wedding.

  • E17
    "Mission of Gold"
    Aired · Sat, Feb 21, 1987 · 60m

    Amanda and Lee's honeymoon is unexpectedly and tragically cut short when Amanda is shot by gold smuggling thieves.

  • E18
    "One Flew East"
    Aired · Sat, Feb 28, 1987 · 60m

    The Agency is blamed for the kidnapping of a famous poet and vocal critic of the United States. Lee and Amanda are charged to find him and exonerate the Agency.

  • E19
    "All That Glitters"
    Aired · Fri, May 8, 1987 · 60m

    Lee investigates when priceless jewels and a top-secret spy list stolen during the invasion of Grenada, are among the birthday gifts given to his former girlfriend.

  • E20
    "Suitable for Framing"
    Aired · Fri, May 15, 1987 · 60m

    Francine and Lee fall victim to a KGB plan to humiliate the Agency.

  • E21
    "A Matter of Choice"
    Aired · Fri, May 22, 1987 · 60m

    Lee links his escaped nemesis and Francine's old fiancé, who suddenly returns after five years.

  • E22
    "The Khrushchev List"
    Aired · Fri, May 29, 1987 · 60m

    Lee suspects that retired Agency founder Harry Thornton and former Soviet Embassy courier Christina Golitsyn are on an impossible mission: to obtain Khrushchev's spy list implicating American Government officials.