SCARECROW AND MRS. KING SEASON 3
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: A LOVELY LITTLE AFFAIR(Sept. 23, 1985):
A girl is kidnapped in Rome, and the kidnappers are using her to
pressure her brother into stealing some important American
documents!!
Guest starring Ben Murphy(Alias Smith And Jones, Star Trek:
DS9 episodes "Emissary" and "Hippocratic Oath")!! A
EPISODE 2: WE'RE OFF TO SEE THE WIZARD(Sept. 30, 1985):
Friends of Scarecrow are getting knocked off at an alarming rate!!
The worst part is, they're all women!! And Lee keeps having hallucinations
of a woman from his past!!
Guest stars include Stephen Macht(Babylon 5 episode "A Day In
The Strife", Star Trek: DS9 episodes "The Siege" & "The Circle"),
Robert Sampson(Star Trek: TOS episode "A Taste Of Armageddon"),
Henry B. Sanders(Perry Mason Movie The Case Of The Musical
Murder), Elyssa Davalos(Perry Mason Movie The Case Of The
Grimacing Governor, McGyver, Herbie Goes Bannanas, The
Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again), Michael Pataki(Star Trek:
TNG episode "Too Short A Season", Rocky IV, Star Trek: TOS
episode "The Trouble With Tribbles")!! A
EPISODE 3: OVER THE LIMIT(Oct. 7, 1985):
Amanda goes to bat for a peaceful demonstrator accused of
murdering a congressman!! This one is so obvious from the get-
go that it almost doesn't need to be watched!!! LOL!! But it's
always great to see Kim Darby!!
Guest starring here is Kim Darby(Star Trek: TOS episode"Miri", True
Grit), Elyssa Davalos returns & Kevin McCarthy(Invasion Of The Body
Snatchers[1956] - he also returns for the remake in 1978, The
Distinguished Gentleman)!!! A
EPISODE # 4: TAIL OF THE DANCING WEASEL(Oct. 14, 1985):
There's a man who's stolen a document at a high security level
office, and then he starts a fire in the same drawer that the document
was in!! This starts the whole mess of miss direction and a case of
who's who!! And it all revolves around the founder of the agency!!
Guest starring Howard Duff(Knots Landing, The Felony Squad, Mr.
Adams & Eve, Kramer Vs. Kramer), James Cromwell(Star Trek: Star
Trek: TNG episodes "The Hunter" & "Birthright" Part I & II, Star Trek:
DS9 episode "Starship Down", Star Trek VII - First Contact, Star Trek:
Enterprise episode "Broken Bow" Part I) & Frank Bonner(WKRP In
Cincinnati)! A
EPISODE # 5: WELCOME TO AMERICA, MR. BRAND(Oct. 21, 1985):
Our good Mr. Brand, James Brand, is an agent from MI6, only more
like Smart, Max Smart!!! Anyway, he's into the financial things of
the agency there! He's come to the US undercover, watching a particular
person he says is out to bring ruin to the US economy!!
Guest starring Keone Young(Star Trek: ENT episode "Vanishing
Point", Star Trek: DS9 episode "If Wishes Were Horses"), Joel
Polis(Star Trek: Voyager episode "Time And Again") & Harvey
Jason(Star Trek: TNG episode "The Big Goodbye")!! A
EPISODE # 6: SOUR GRAPES(Oct. 28, 1985):
Drug smuggling is the name of the game here!! Some very
creative wine makers in Paris are shipping wine spiked
with heron!!! Went to a charity event where there will
be a lot of "movers and shakers"!!
Guest starring James Lashly(Star Trek: DS9 episodes "The
Passenger" & "Move Along Home", Star Trek: TNG episode
"Brothers", The Wild Wild West movie), Ken Foree(Babylon 5
episode "Gropos"), Molly Haan(Star Trek: DS9 episode "The
Jem'Hadar", Perry Mason Movie The Case Of The Lethal Lifestyle)
& Stuart Pankin(Babylon 5 movie River Of Souls)! A
EPISODE # 7: UTOPIA NOW(Nov. 4, 1985):
One of the agency's agents has gone missing, and Lee and Amanda
go out to the boondocks to try to locate him!! Turns out that he's
undercover with a group of radicals that want to over throw the
government!!
This guest stars Geoffrey Lewis(Maverick[movie], Double Impact,
Gambler V: Playing For Keeps, Return Of The Man From U.N.C.L.E.:
The Fifteen Years Later Affair, Flo,) & William Allen Young(Babylon 5
episodes "Mind War" & "A Race Through Dark Place")!! A
EPISODE # 8: REACH FOR THE SKY(Nov. 11, 1985):
A friend of Billy's gets killed over something called Cyclops and he
goes out to find out what happened! That leaves Francine in charge,
which doesn't really set well with her!! This leaves Lee and Amanda
to go out and do a little investigation on their own!!
Guest starring here is Liam Sullivan(Star Trek: TOS episode "Plato's
Stepchildren", That Darn Cat)! A
EPISODE # 9: J. EDGAR'S GHOST(Nov. 18, 1985):
A dude is using his charms to get some not so flattering information
about people in high places!! All this information is coming from old
files that could be what's called the "J. Edgar" files!! Ones that the old
man held onto for leverage when he needed it!! This puts Lee and
Amanda on the case!!
And the dude is Bo Hopkins(American Graffiti, More American
Graffiti, Dynasty, The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing)! A
THIS STARTS DISC 3, WHICH HAS SOME VERY BAD SCRATCHES ON IT!!
EPISODE # 10: FLIGHT TO FREEDOM(Nov. 25, 1985):
In a war torn country in Central America(which doesn't really exist!!)
a couple of reporters get killed!! Turns out that the female didn't get
killed, but she's blind!!! Lee and Amanda get involved when she thinks
that the other reporter is still alive! And there's an ambassador that
doesn't want either of them to show up at a Senate hearing!!
For a reporter this woman is really stupid!!
Guest starring here is Nancy Staffor(Babylon 5 episode "Messages
From Earth", Matlock, St. Elsewhere), Rick Jason(Combat) & David
Orange(Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country)!! A
EPISODE # 11: THE WRONG WAY HOME(Dec. 2, 1985):
Amanda's ex-husband gets into a world of trouble when he's
implicated in the assassination of a local leader!! He's not only
being looked for by Lee, Amanda and an agent from the country
where the leader was killed, but also by the people that were
really responsible for the murder!!
Robert Lipton(Die Hard 2) & Garrett Morris(Ant Man, Two Broke Girls,
Saturday Night Live) guest star! A
EPISODE # 12: FAST FOOD FOR THOUGHT(Dec. 16, 1985):
A fast food restaurant is facing a poisoning threat, and Lee and
Amanda go undercover as brother and sister working there to
get the low down!!
Guest starring Barney Martin(Seinfeld)! A
EPISODE # 13: ONE BEAR DANCES, ONE BEAR DOESN'T(Jan. 6, 1986):
The agency is having trouble with the defector progam
where information they've been getting is getting into
the wrong hands! This makes them feel that there's a
mole in the agency! So when the newest defector comes along
they decide to hide him in plain sight, in Amanda's
neighborhood! He's being watched by Scarecrow, Francine,
Amanda - - and Dotty!!!! She's there because she's been
reading a mystery book about Russian spies, and she wants
to know all about her new neighbor! Of course things don't
go so well, but Dotty starts falling for the guy!!
Guest starring the great Harold Gould(The Sting, The Golden
Girls, Kenny Rogers As The Gambler, Kenny Rogers As The Gambler
Part 2: The Adventure Continues) & J. Michael Flynn(Star
Trek: TNG episode "The Hunted", 4 episodes of Star Trek:
Enterprise)!! A
EPISODE 14: PLAYING FOR KEEPS(Jan. 13, 1986):
The Russians are out after a dude and find the easiest way is through
his spoiled, tennis playing daughter!! With Amanda sick, this leaves
Lee stuck with Francine!!
Guest starring Tracy Austin(famous tennis player)!!! A
EPISODE 15: THE PHAROAH'S ENGINEER(Jan. 27, 1986):
People are disappearing from a retirement home that specializes in
former agents! This all revolves around something called "Code
Pyramid"!!
This episode was dedicated to Hogan Jackson III, Kate's father!!
Guest starring Ian Wolfe(Star Trek: TOS episodes "Bread And Circus"
& "All Our Yesterdays", Sherlock Holmes In Washington, Polyanna,
Dick Tracy, The Frisco Kid), Ray Wise(Star Trek: Captain Pike[in production]
Star Trek: Voyager episode "Hope And Fear", Star Trek: TNG episode
"Who Watches The Watchers", X-Men: First Class), George Murdock
(Star Trek: TNG episodes "The Best Of Both Worlds" Parts I & II, Star
Trek V: The Final Frontier, Battlestar Galactica[1978])! A
EPISODE 16: THE TRIUMVIRATE(Feb. 10, 1986):
Amanda finally gets paid what she's worth, but the agency thinks it's
just a little too much!!! And apparently this has a lot to do with former
prisoners[spies] being released[traded] back to their country of origin
only to promptly get killed in strange ways!!
Guest starring Beau Billingslea(Final Fantasy VII: The Spirits
Within, Final Fantasy VII: Dirge Of Cerebus, Star Trek XII:
Into Darkness, Star Trek: Continues episode Embracing The
Winds), Michael Cavanaugh(Star Trek TNG episode "Tin Man")!! A
EPISODE 17: THE EYES HAVE IT(Feb. 17, 1986):
While on a top secret assignment, Lee picks up a couple of contact
lenses that have some important information! He gets back to the
US but there are people waiting for him to intercept the contacts
with Amanda breaking up the guys as they're trying to get them
back!! They take off in her car, with the guys chasing them, get into
a pretty bad accident, and Lee ends up in the hospital!!
Guest starring here is Gary Lockwood(Star Trek: TOS episode "Where
No Man Has Gone Before", 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Trek: Equinox
[which has unfortunately ceased production], The Lieutenant)!! A
EPISODE # 18: WRONG NUMBER(Mar. 3, 1986):
Returning from the episode "Tail Of The Dancing Weasel" is an old
enemy of Lee's, Gregory, who specializes in getting arms for, well,
anyone who'll give him lots of money!! While trying to catch him and
the rest of the arms dealers, Francine gets caught!! Side story is about
Amanda is running routine security checks on people, and one of them
is being watched by Gregory!!
Guest starring James Cromwell(Star Trek: TNG episodes "The Hunted",
"Birthright" Parts I & II, Star Trek: DS9 episode "Starship Down", Star
Trek VII: First Contact, Star Trek: ENT episode "Broken Bow"), Peter
Jurasik(Babylon 5, Tron, Hill Street Blues, Perry Mason movie "The Case
Of The Ruthless Reporter"), Charlie Brill(Star Trek: TOS episode "The Trouble
With Tribbles", Star Trek: DS9 episode "Trials and Tribble-ations")!! A
EPISODE # 19: THE BOY WHO COULD BE KING(Mar. 10, 1986):
A king who's dying from an incurable brain tumor is in the states looking
for his estranged son!! He is quite eccentric!!
Guest starring William Schallert(Star Trek: TOS episode "The Trouble With
Tribbles", The Patty Duke Show, Star Trek: DS9 episode "Sanctuary", Hardy
Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries[as Nancy's Dad], The Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis),
Michael Bell(Star Trek: DS9 episodes "Homecoming" & "The Maquis"), Tony
Abatemarco(Babylon 5 episode "The Paragon Of Animals")!! A
EPISODE # 20: DEAD MEN LEAVE NO TRAILS(Mar. 31, 1986):
Amanda's in a hurry to get her kids and mom off on a trip and hits a car
while backing out(really it was his fault)! Anyway, he gives her money to
fix her car which ends up costing much less than he gave her! So she goes
on a crusade to give back the extra money and runs into more trouble than
she expected!! Turns out the dude is suppose to be dead!!!
This has Lee's and Amanda's first kiss!!
This guest stars Nancy Boxleitner(Bruce's sister) & Phil Rubenstein
(Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)!! A
EPISODE # 21: THREE LITTLE SPIES(Apr. 7, 1986):
Neuclear detonators have been stolen, and one was found in Pakistan!!
This brings Lee and Amanda face to face with their counterparts from
China and Russia, and the whole group are out to find out how the things
got to Pakistan, and where the rest of the detonators are!!
Guest starring Robert Picardo(Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek VII: First
Contact, Star Trek: Renegades episode "Pilot", Stargate Universe episode
"Seizure", Stargate: Atlantis, Stargate: SG1[7 episodes], Star Trek: The Experience,
Star Trek: DS9 episode "Doctor Bashir, I Presume, Star Trek VII: First Contact,
Total Recall) in an almost unrecognizable role along with Ed O'Ross(Star
Trek: Enterprise episode "Bounty", Red Heat, Lethal Weapon, Universal
Soldier)!!! A
EPISODE # 22: ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE(May 12, 1986):
Last episode of the season! And it's pretty hard to follow just what the
basic story is about!! A man on the skids professionally is being blackmailed
to find out information from a woman who's also an agent!! All this is in
the setting of a new play being produced and Amanda as an understudy!!
Guest starring Daniel Davis(Star Trek: TNG episodes "Elementary, Dear
Data" & "Ship In A Bottle", The Hunt For Red October), Allan Miller(Star Trek III:
The Search For Spock, Galactica 1980), Bruce Wright(Star Trek: Enterprise
episode "The Expanse", Star Trek: DS9 episode "Crossfire", 5 episodes of
Battlestar Galactica, Galactica 1980), Ben Slack(Star Trek: TNG episodes
"Redemption" Part I & II, Perry Mason movie The Case Of The Scandalous
Scoundral & Star Trek: TNG episode "When The Bough Breaks")! 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