SCARECROW AND MRS. KING SEASON 1
A spy/humor show starring Kate Jackson(Charlie's Angels, The Rookies
& Dark Shadows) & Bruce Boxleitner(Babylon 5, Kenny Rogers As The
Gambler movies), along with Beverly Garland(My Three Sons, Lois And
Clark)!!
An interesting thing here, Lee is constantly telling Amanda to
"stay in the" whatever, just like in Castle, where Kate is doing
the same with Richard!!
EPISODE 1: THE FIRST TIME(Oct. 3, 1983):
At a costume party, Lee(Boxleitner) is given a package by a
man who promptly gets killed!! Lee is followed all night and
ends up at a train station where he runs into Amanda(Jackson)
where he promptly passes off the package to her!!
Guest starring John Saxon(Beverly Hills Cop III, The Arrival, Falcon
Crest, The Bold Ones) and Paul Wilson(Cheers)! A-
EPISODE 2: THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD(Oct. 10, 1983):
Lee shows up again asking Amanda to help with a case in
the suburbs, because he doesn't really hang out in the
suburbs and figures that she does!! More for cover than to
help do investigating!! But of course things don't go as he
plans, and soon Amanda is embroiled in a smuggling circle
based around a cosmetics scam!!! A
This actually shows the first signs of a relationship developing
between the two!!
A guest star here is Bibi Besch(Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan)!! A
EPISODE 3: IF THOUGHTS COULD KILL(Oct. 17, 1983):
An agent goes berserk in the office and starts shooting up
the place, and Lee stops him, and in the process hurts his
knee! He ends up in the hospital, and Amanda ends up there
as his assistant!! But things don't seem quite right, and Lee
is to undergo some routine tests that he's been putting off
for three years, which puts him in a very strange situation!!
Guest starring here is Henry Darrow(Star Trek: Voyager
episodes "Tattoo" & "Basics" Part 1, Babylon 5 episode
"The Illusion Of Truth", Star Trek: TNG episode "Conspiracy",
Zorro[1990], The High Chaparral)! A
EPISODE # 4: MAGIC BUS(Oct. 24, 1983):
Ok, so here's a new one: The agency has come up with a new
formidable weapon, an RV!!! Course it's not a normal, everyday
type RV, but one that's deck out with weapons and anti-attack
devices!! Oh, and someone's stolen it!!! And the theives plan
to blow up a dam!!!! A
EPISODE # 5: THE ACM KID(Oct. 31, 1983):
An agent gets killed while there's a stakeout going on, and
a boy that was part of the stakeoutees is left alone so
Lee gets to babysit him for a couple of days while they all
try to find out where his parents have been taken off to! A
EPISODE # 6: ALWAYS LOOK A GIFT HORSE IN THE MOUTH(Nov. 7, 1983):
A royal couple are being protected by Lee and company
while they're in the States to pound out some oil lease
agreements with some unsavory people!! The princess(who
used to live in the U.S.) wants to go out and see the
countryside, but wants to have a plain old housewife
show her around, and so they call on Amanda to do the
job!!
Guest starring Morgan Woodward(Star Trek: TOS episodes "The
Omega Glory" & "Dagger Of The Mind", Dallas, Gunsmoke) A
EPISODE # 7: SERVICE ABOVE AND BEYOND(Nov. 14, 1983):
An agent gets killed while working under cover, spying on a
Quickie Chickey mogul!! Lee invites Amanda to a party for the
company, where he meets up with a dude that fills him in on
the bad goings on with the company in East Germany!! She in
turns ends up as a date for one of the baddest of the bad
dudes and the fun begins!!
This guest stars Walter Gotell(The Spy Who Loved Me, From
Russia With Love, The Living Daylights, A View To A Kill, Octopussy,
For Your Eyes Only, Moonraker, The Road To Hong Kong, The
African Queen, Star Trek: TNG episode "Home Soil") & Raymond
Singer(Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Perry Mason: The Case
Of The Musical Murder)!! A
EPISODE # 8: SAVED BY THE BELLS(Nov. 28, 1983):
Lee captures a Russian spy and the bubbly flows!! And he decides
he needs a vacation, two weeks in fact! The boss finally gives in
and he asks Amanda to house sit for him! Well, the Russians aren't
too happy about their agent, and decide to kidnap Scarecrow, not
realizing that he's a he, and kidnap Amanda instead!!
Guest starring Lee Bergere(Star Trek: TOS episode "The
Savage Curtain", Dynasty, North And South)! A
EPISODE # 9: SUDDEN DEATH(Dec. 5, 1983):
There's a plot afoot in the local football team and Lee is there as a
player trying to smoke it out!! Amanda ends up as a reporter covering
the team!! The whole thing is centered around a kicker who is from
Lichtenstein and can put a monkey wrench into the whole plan, and
needs to gotten rid of!!
Guest starring Yakov Smirnoff(Comedian, The Money Pit, Moscow On
The Hudson), Jerry Hardin(Big Trouble In Little China, Star Trek: Voyager
episode "Emanations", Star Trek: TNG episodes "When The Bough Breaks"
& "Times Arrow" Pt. 1 & 2)!! A
EPISODE # 10: THE LONG CHRISTMAS EVE(Dec. 18, 1983):
A defector who's on the run from enemy agents is hiding even
from his own colleagues!! He demands that they find his daughter
and brings her to him so she can spend Christmas with him, or he will
release the names of all the agents that he knows!!
Truly an absurd ending, but fun!!! A
EPISODE # 11: REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST(Jan. 9, 1984):
Someone's going around killing secret agents, on both sides!!
And the next target is Lee!!!
Guest stars include Doug McClure(The Virginian, Checkmate,
The Gambler Returns: Luck Of The Draw, The People That Time
Forgot, The Land That Time Forgot, Gidget) & Beverly Washburn
(Star Trek: TNG episode "The Deadly Years")! And Henry Darrow
returns! A
EPISODE # 12: LOST AND FOUND(Jan. 16, 1984):
A scientist who had decided to work for the Russians decides
to switch sides after being tortured because he found out that
they were using his research for warfare purposes!! Well, he
makes it to the west via a box, and Amanda gets to babysit him,
taking him around town to acclimate him to his new life! His wife
had been killed while he was being tortured, and she turns out to
have been an old flame of Lee's!! The agents for the Russians
show up to "persuade" him to come back!! A
EPISODE # 13: I AM NOT NOW, NOR I EVER BEEN...A SPY(Jan. 30, 1984):
A group behind a rebellian goes to the US to use a very deadly
gas and blame it on the leader of their country!! In the middle
of the whole mess Amanda gets kidnapped, because they think
she's a top level agent!!!
Amanda gets loose, but also has an accident and loses her memory!! A
EPISODE 14: DEAD RINGER(Feb. 6, 1984):
A defecting Hungarian is a look-a-like for Francine and she subs
for her so that Lee can question her while those keeping track
of her go on a wild goose chase!! Lee shows up with the woman
at Amanda's house and of course this causes all kinds of troubles
for Amanda!!
Guest starring Nehemiah Persoff(Some Like It Hot, Twins, Star Trek:
TNG episode "The Most Toys")! A
EPISODE 15: THE MOLE(Feb. 13, 1984):
After several attempts to capture an enemy agent, it becomes
clear that someone is not who they appear to be!!
Guest starring here is John Anderson(Star Trek: TNG
episode "The Survivors", Psycho, Backstairs At The White
House) & Byron Morrow(Star Trek: TOS episodes "Amok
Time" & "For The World Is Hollow And I Have Seen The
Sky"!! A
EPISODE 16: SAVIOR(Feb. 27, 1984):
Lee has defected to an arms dealer!! Ok, maybe not! But that's
the story that's going around the office, and the one that Amanda
gets!! And the obvious plan is to break up the arms dealing!! And
a big mistake was not telling Amanda!!
Byron Morrow returns in this!! A
EPISODE 17: THE ARTFUL DODGER(Mar. 5, 1984):
Some top secret plans are lifted from a top secret military facility
by a cat burglar, and Lee and company are out to find him and
the plans!! Also, Amanda is seeing a new guy who just might be
able to shed some light on the whole thing!! A
EPISODE # 18: FILMING RAUL(Mar. 19, 1984):
(THE FIFTH DISC IS DAMAGED, AND THIS EPISODE SKIPS VERY BADLY!!!!)
A fairly new agent that Lee is training runs into Amanda's car
in the parking lot where the office is!! The parking attendant
happens to be a film buff, and captures the whole thing on
film!! He gives the film to Amanda who gives it to Lee and
the team, which in turn makes them realize just what's going
on!! A
EPISODE # 19: FEARLESS DOTTY(Mar. 26, 1984):
THERE'S A SMALL SKIP HERE, BUT NOT AS BAD AS THE LAST
EPISODE!!!!)
There's a mix up at the book store when Dorothy goes in to buy
a book for her grandson and the one she bought gets switched
for another, which is apparently extremely valuable to some not
so savory characters!! And there appears to be two factions out
after it, and now her!! A
EPISODE # 20: WEEKEND(Apr. 23, 1984):
Lee asks Amanda to accompany him to a posh resort for the
weekend!! Ok, so it's for work!! The whole thing is about a
kidnapping, only a couple of small problems, not the least is
that they don't know who's going to be kidnapped!!
This guest stars Jason Wingreen(Star Trek: TOS episode "The
Empath")!! A
EPISODE # 21: WAITING FOR GODORSKY(May 7, 1984):
It appears that there are some assassins in the U.S.!! The team
has picked up some chatter about it but not alot of info!! Meanwhile,
Amanda has met an older lady who's having an estate sale in a
very swanky house & neighborhood!! Turns out that the older
lady is a countess!! Also turns out that she could be the target!! A
From a reviewer at IMDb.com:
The cable network TVLand recently had a promotion weekend
that Scarecrow and Mrs. King was part of. I was so excited to
see a few episodes, but it made me wish that the series was on
DVD even more!
Scarecrow and Mrs. King was a great series about an unsuspecting
housewife who gets pulled into undercover spy work with a reluctant
and then fully accepting spy. It's a little hokey, but great overall. Kate
Jackson plays single mom, Amanda King and Bruce Boxleitner plays
spy, Lee Stetson. The show was really all-inclusive, action, romance
and comedy all in one.
The sexual tension in the 1st two seasons is a little like the dynamic
between Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepard in Moonlighting.- jedriscoll