Scarecrow and Mrs. King
One everyday housewife who put some spies in her life!
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.
Seasons
1. The First Time
Air Date: 1983-10-03
Special Agent "Scarecrow" enlists the aide of Amanda King, a divorced mother of two, for assistance in finding a leak in a D.C. organization. Mrs. King is then offered a job with IFF and continues to assist Lee Stetson.
2. There Goes the Neighborhood
Air Date: 1983-10-10
Lee and Amanda pose as a married couple living in the Betsy Ross Estates as they investigate the supply of weapons to Central America by the areas unsuspecting Connie Beth Girls.
3. If Thoughts Could Kill
Air Date: 1983-10-17
A mind control expert messes with Scarecrow, because of he and Billy's routine physical.
4. Magic Bus
Air Date: 1983-10-24
Lee and Amanda pursue a survivalist group who intend to use a stolen top-secret assault weapon against an unknown target.
5. The A.C.M. Kid
Air Date: 1983-10-31
A young Russian boy, whom is under Lee and Amanda's guard, is stealing computer codes from the government to pay for the freedom of his parents.
6. Always Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth
Air Date: 1983-11-07
Lee Stetson and Amanda King are assigned to protect a prince and princess from would-be assassins.
7. Service Above and Beyond
Air Date: 1983-11-14
Amanda poses as a wealthy jet setter to attract the attention of a businessman suspected of selling military secrets.
8. Saved by the Bells
Air Date: 1983-11-28
The agency refuses a deal when enemy agents kidnap Amanda in hopes for trading her for another agent. Lee takes matters into his own hands and rescues Amanda, however there is hell to pay with IFF, when he rescues her illegally.
9. Sudden Death
Air Date: 1983-12-05
Lee and Amanda pose as a football player and a writer to stop the owner of a football team from assassinating the leader of a foreign country.
10. The Long Christmas Eve
Air Date: 1983-12-19
On Christmas Eve, Lee and Amanda must find a former Agent, who is threatening to expose the current IFF Agents.
11. Remembrance of Things Past
Air Date: 1984-01-09
Lee is passed a note, just like other agents received before their murder.
12. Lost and Found
Air Date: 1984-01-16
Amanda and Lee are asked to arrange a new identity for an old flame of Lee's and her husband, making a very uncomfortable situation for Scarecrow and Mrs. King.
13. I Am Not Now, Nor Have I Ever Been... a Spy
Air Date: 1984-01-30
Amanda has amnesia after being kidnapped by assasins, and she no longer remembers Lee or the Agency. This only makes matters worse when she is unable to remember the next victim.
14. Dead Ringer
Air Date: 1984-02-06
The Agency decides to use Amanda King's home for the defection of a Hungarian Official, who resembles Francine Desmond (Martha Smith in a dual role).
15. The Mole
Air Date: 1984-02-13
Someone in the Agency is passing government secrets to Moscow. Lee and Amanda are assigned to plug the leak, or "The Mole."
16. Savior
Air Date: 1984-02-27
Amanda is shocked when she learns that Lee Stetson has left IFF, to work a weapon dealer.
17. The Artful Dodger
Air Date: 1984-03-05
Amanda develops a new found friend when Amanda and Lee began investigating the theft of military secrets.
18. Filming Raul
Air Date: 1984-03-19
Agency Parking Attendant/Part time film maker, Raul hold the main clue in finding an Agency courier who disappeared when Mrs. King wrecked her station wagon.
19. Fearless Dotty
Air Date: 1984-03-26
Spies stalk Amanda's mother after a bookstore mix-up puts her in possession of a book containing vital information.
20. Weekend
Air Date: 1984-04-23
Amanda and Lee pose as newlyweds at a resort to prevent a kidnapping, and actually enjoy each others company.
21. Waiting for Godorsky
Air Date: 1984-05-07
While visiting an estate style yard sale with her mother, Amanda meets a woman targeted by Eastern Bloc assasins. She is later invited to have to with her majesty, while unknowingly getting involved with an Agency assignment.
1. To Catch a Mongoose
Air Date: 1984-10-01
Amanda is sent to London when an old high-school friend, Conrad "Connie" Barnhill, is suspected of being a murderer labeled as the "Mongoose." This homicidal killer leaves a calling card at the scene of his crimes with the Mongoose written on it. Amanda tries throughout the entire episode to convince Lee that Mr. Barnhill is not the killer. Near the very end of the show, Amanda is kidnapped by the real Mongoose, forcing Lee on a chase through a foreign country.
2. The Times They Are a Changin'
Air Date: 1984-10-08
Amanda and Lee must oversee the return of a 1960s radical who is involved with Munich terrorists.
3. Double Agent
Air Date: 1984-10-15
Lee and Amanda search for a spy-turned-writer's latest manuscript that exposes U.S. agents, which includes Lee and Amanda.
4. The Legend of Das Geisterschloss
Air Date: 1984-10-22
British Agent, Emily Farnsworth, is captured in Austria, leaving behind a sketchpad filled with drawings of nearby landmarks as clues, which Amanda and Lee must use to figure out her whereabouts.
5. Charity Begins at Home
Air Date: 1984-10-29
Amanda is the Agency's only ticket to a private fund-raiser where a wealthy auto collector plans to hold a meeting with several high-powered men regarding a secret formula to control the supply and price crops.
6. Brunettes Are In
Air Date: 1984-11-12
A white-slavery ring kidnaps Amanda, while Lee tries to find a valuable microdot chip.
7. Our Man in Tegernsee
Air Date: 1984-11-19
Lee searches for an Agency operative in the Bavarian Alps who may be able to clear Amanda after she's arrested in Munich on counterfeiting charges.
8. An Affair at Bromfield Hall
Air Date: 1984-11-26
In London to investigate a security leak, Amanda gets involved with a seedy photographer and a sex scandal.
9. A Class Act
Air Date: 1984-12-03
Amanda finally gets to attend an Agency training class, but the curriculum contains an unexpected bonus-Eastern Bloc assassins who have infiltrated the group.
10. Playing Possum
Air Date: 1984-12-10
Amanda cannot remember a vital clue to the whereabouts of a nuclear device planted in Washington DC by renegade Soviets.
11. The Three Faces of Emily
Air Date: 1984-12-31
Emily Farnsworth returns to help Lee and Amanda catch a man who is selling stolen plans for a futuristic plane.
12. Ship of Spies
Air Date: 1985-01-07
Amanda and Lee must pose as a couple on a cruise line, to find a missing informant of Lee's who was apparently uncovering something. However the catch is that once they dock on a small island, Lee and Amanda must marry. Aboard the ship of spies, Lee finds. After docking on the island and being married, Lee and Amanda find that silver is being smuggled aboard ship. The smugglers will do anything to save there fortune, include killing husband and wife, Amanda and Lee.
13. Spiderweb
Air Date: 1985-01-14
A security leak within the Agency throws a secret operation into jeopardy.
14. A Little Sex, a Little Scandal
Air Date: 1985-02-04
Amanda becomes a target after she witnesses the murder of a congressional aide.
15. A Relative Situation
Air Date: 1985-02-11
With the help of Lee's Uncle, Lee and Amanda attempt to thwart an Air Force officer's plans to sell military equipment to an enemy power.
16. Life of the Party
Air Date: 1985-02-18
Amanda and Francine go under cover as maids to catch the kingpin of a crime syndicate.
17. Odds on a Dead Pigeon
Air Date: 1985-02-25
A vindictive parolee hires a look-alike to impersonate Amanda and kill off agents - and Lee is next on the list.
18. Car Wars
Air Date: 1985-03-11
Amanda borrows a classic car from a Government lot and becomes the target of drug smugglers.
19. D.O.A.: Delirious on Arrival
Air Date: 1985-03-18
A ruthless weapons dealer holds the antidote to the drug he added for mind-bending zest to a sandwich, meant for Lee, but eaten by Amanda.
20. You Only Die Twice
Air Date: 1985-04-01
Amanda reads her own obituary in the newspaper after an agent mistakenly uses Amanda's bio as a cover and then dies in the line of duty.
21. Burn Out
Air Date: 1985-04-08
A victim of job burnout, Lee is removed from field duty; and a former agent offers to cut him in on a deal.
22. Murder Between Friends
Air Date: 1985-05-06
Amanda quits her job and joins a security agency; unaware it's a front for mercenaries planning to abduct an African president.
23. Vigilante Mothers
Air Date: 1985-05-13
Lee's efforts to find out who stole some nerve gas from a Government lab get him involved in Amanda's environmental group.
1. A Lovely Little Affair
Air Date: 1985-09-23
Amanda is swept off her feet by a charming art restorer she's assigned to tail---a man Lee suspects may be involved with terrorists.
2. We're Off to See the Wizard
Air Date: 1985-09-30
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.
3. Over the Limit
Air Date: 1985-10-07
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.
4. Tail of the Dancing Weasel
Air Date: 1985-10-14
The Agency's founder needs Amanda's help to retrieve a purloined letter---proof he's not a turncoat.
5. Welcome to America, Mr. Brand
Air Date: 1985-10-21
Amanda rolls out the red carpet for a British accountant who fancies himself a spy and who has evidence of a Soviet plot to destroy the U.S. economy.
6. Sour Grapes
Air Date: 1985-10-28
Lee and Amanda investigate the fatal heroin overdoses of three top-ranking officials.
7. Utopia Now
Air Date: 1985-11-04
In the backwoods of Virgina, Amanda draws on her scoutting expertise to help her and Lee find utoptan communtty run by an outspoken tax reformer who may have more political change on his agenda.
8. Reach for the Sky
Air Date: 1985-11-11
Billy, against the advice of Lee, tries to prove a friend was murdered in connection with international electronic cash transfers.
9. J. Edgar's Ghost
Air Date: 1985-11-18
An ex-agent victimizes an Agency Librarian who has unearthed J. Edgar Hoover's secret files.
10. Flight to Freedom
Air Date: 1985-11-25
A foreign correspondent believes her fiancé is still alive after an ambush in Latin America and may be in Washington to testify against a diplomat in a Senate subcommittee hearing.
11. The Wrong Way Home
Air Date: 1985-12-02
Amanda tries to locate her ex-husband, Joe, after receiving a call from him - then learns that he's the prime suspect in the murder of an African Prime Minister.
12. Fast Food for Thought
Air Date: 1985-12-16
Lee and Amanda pose as prospective buyers of a fast-food franchise to catch those responsible for poisoning a batch of hamburger sauce.
13. One Bear Dances, One Bear Doesn't
Air Date: 1986-01-06
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.
14. Playing for Keeps
Air Date: 1986-01-13
Lee and Francine protect a tennis player who's the daughter of an international bigwig threatened by Communists.
15. The Pharoah's Engineer
Air Date: 1986-01-27
IFF discovers that a government building is being threatened by terrorists. They race against time and "night pirates" to discover who is threatened. This episode is dedicated to the memory of Mr. Jackson, Kate Jackson's real father.
16. The Truimvirate
Air Date: 1986-02-10
An error on her paycheck leads Amanda to a computer whiz, a secret computer file and a trio of vigilante agents.
17. The Eyes Have It
Air Date: 1986-02-17
Lee lands in the hospital after a brawl, but he refuses to stay put because secret information listed on his missing contact lenses may be in enemy hands.
18. Wrong Number
Air Date: 1986-03-03
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.
19. The Boy Who Could Be King
Air Date: 1986-03-10
Billy goes undercover as a jazz musician to find out the connection between a small nation's music king and a boy whose was found in the pocket of a dead man.
20. Dead Men Leave No Trails
Air Date: 1986-03-31
Amanda uses the diary of a violin player to find a man she hit in a car accident, who turns out to be a terrorist.
21. Three Little Spies
Air Date: 1986-04-07
Lee and Amanda are assigned to work with rival spies from China and the Soviet Union, as the spies work their way across the nation, to see who's using an international star's non-profit organization for illegal activities.
22. All the World's a Stage
Air Date: 1986-05-12
Amanda uses her community theater and college experience, taking a role in a play by an American playwright, to find out why the Soviets want to back the production. Lee poses as a journalist as they try to find investigative leads.
1. Stemwinder (1)
Air Date: 1986-09-19
The Agency suspects Lee and Amanda of selling out after a vindictive KGB agent traps them in a sting operation.
2. Stemwinder (2)
Air Date: 1986-09-26
Suspected of selling out to the Soviets, Lee and Amanda go into hiding after learning Lee is the target of an Agency D-1 manhunt.
3. Unfinished Business
Air Date: 1986-10-03
CIA files indicate that Lee's parents were double agents and link the past with a current plot to assassinate a dignitary.
4. No Thanks for the Memory
Air Date: 1986-10-10
A frightened Soviet Agent 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.
5. It's in the Water
Air Date: 1986-10-17
The Agency and a terrorist seek a chemist, who once worked with Amanda on ecology issues.
6. Night Crawler
Air Date: 1986-10-31
Lee's attempt to make long-range plans with Amanda is interrupted when she is taken hostage by an Arab terrorist, who wants to trade her to the Libyans.
7. Billy's Lost Weekend
Air Date: 1986-11-07
Lee and Amanda help Billy retrace his steps to remember details of a lost weekend during which he may have compromised agents working in Africa.
8. Photo Finish
Air Date: 1986-11-14
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.
9. The Man Who Died Twice
Air Date: 1986-11-21
Lee's top Vietnamese contact fakes his own death to protect his family and prevent a terrorist bloodbath. Lee and Amanda have second thoughts about how their marriage would affect her family.
10. Need to Know
Air Date: 1986-12-05
Lee investigates corruption at a newspaper whose publisher has apparent ties to a Romanian agent and apparent interest in U.S. strategic materials.
11. Santa's Got a Brand New Bag
Air Date: 1986-12-19
Just before Christmas, a distinguished ex-toy designer gives Lee a tip on a toy factory that's a front for sophisticated weapons development.
12. Any Number Can Play
Air Date: 1987-01-02
Evidence turns up that Dotty's new sweetheart is posing as a CIA agent caught in a blackmail scheme.
13. Promises to Keep
Air Date: 1987-01-09
The DEA provides evidence that the man connected to a drug kingpin is Lee's friend T.P. Aquinas.
14. Rumors of My Death
Air Date: 1987-01-23
A skeleton with Lee's identification is found in a construction site, grounding the Agent when a copy of his high security passport goes up on the black market.
15. Bad Timing
Air Date: 1987-02-06
The Soviets inject Lee with a virus that leaves him only 72 hours to live.
16. Do You Take This Spy?
Air Date: 1987-02-13
Before departing for their secret wedding ceremony, Lee and Amanda have to wrap up a case that involved an art theft and murder. They race to wrap up the case in order to be on time for the wedding ceremony.
17. Mission of Gold
Air Date: 1987-02-20
Amanda is shot while on her honeymoon. Lee tracks down the shooter as he helps a retired marine archaeologist prove that doubloons salvaged from an 18th century Spanish ship are counterfeit.
18. One Flew East
Air Date: 1987-02-27
Lee and Amanda trail a retired right-wing agent connected to the kidnapping of an outspoken poet and antinuclear activist.
19. All That Glitters
Air Date: 1987-05-07
A security breach may be tied to a jewel collection, so Lee is assigned to "get next to" the jewels' current owner---an old flame.
20. Suitable for Framing
Air Date: 1987-05-14
Lee and Francine are stripped of their Agency credentials after passing top-secret documents to a youth, who turns out to be a Soviet spy
21. A Matter of Choice
Air Date: 1987-05-21
Lee is consumed with capturing an old nemesis who killed two of Lee's top contacts and now plots to sell Stealth radar plans to Tehran.
22. The Khrushchev List
Air Date: 1987-05-28
Lee suspects that retired Agency founder Harry Thornton (Howard Duff) and former Soviet Embassy courier Christina Golitsyn (Barbara Bain) are on an impossible mission: to obtain Khrushchev's spy list implicating American Government officials.
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Rating
6.4/10
Release Date
1983-10-03
Episodes
88 (4 seasons)
Status
Ended
Cast
Production Companies
Warner Bros. Television
Shoot the Moon Enterprises