Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1983)
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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Episode 1 - To Catch a Mongoose
Release Date: 1984-10-01Amanda 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.
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Episode 2 - The Times They Are a Changin'
Release Date: 1984-10-08Amanda and Lee must oversee the return of a 1960s radical who is involved with Munich terrorists.
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Episode 3 - Double Agent
Release Date: 1984-10-15Lee and Amanda search for a spy-turned-writer's latest manuscript that exposes U.S. agents, which includes Lee and Amanda.
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Episode 4 - The Legend of Das Geisterschloss
Release Date: 1984-10-22British 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.
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Episode 5 - Charity Begins at Home
Release Date: 1984-10-29Amanda 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.
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Episode 6 - Brunettes Are In
Release Date: 1984-11-12A white-slavery ring kidnaps Amanda, while Lee tries to find a valuable microdot chip.
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Episode 7 - Our Man in Tegernsee
Release Date: 1984-11-19Lee 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.
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Episode 8 - An Affair at Bromfield Hall
Release Date: 1984-11-26In London to investigate a security leak, Amanda gets involved with a seedy photographer and a sex scandal.
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Episode 9 - A Class Act
Release Date: 1984-12-03Amanda finally gets to attend an Agency training class, but the curriculum contains an unexpected bonus-Eastern Bloc assassins who have infiltrated the group.
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Episode 10 - Playing Possum
Release Date: 1984-12-10Amanda cannot remember a vital clue to the whereabouts of a nuclear device planted in Washington DC by renegade Soviets.
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Episode 11 - The Three Faces of Emily
Release Date: 1984-12-31Emily Farnsworth returns to help Lee and Amanda catch a man who is selling stolen plans for a futuristic plane.
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Episode 12 - Ship of Spies
Release Date: 1985-01-07Amanda 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.
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Episode 13 - Spiderweb
Release Date: 1985-01-14A security leak within the Agency throws a secret operation into jeopardy.
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Episode 14 - A Little Sex, a Little Scandal
Release Date: 1985-02-04Amanda becomes a target after she witnesses the murder of a congressional aide.
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Episode 15 - A Relative Situation
Release Date: 1985-02-11With 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.
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Episode 16 - Life of the Party
Release Date: 1985-02-18Amanda and Francine go under cover as maids to catch the kingpin of a crime syndicate.
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Episode 17 - Odds on a Dead Pigeon
Release Date: 1985-02-25A vindictive parolee hires a look-alike to impersonate Amanda and kill off agents - and Lee is next on the list.
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Episode 18 - Car Wars
Release Date: 1985-03-11Amanda borrows a classic car from a Government lot and becomes the target of drug smugglers.
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Episode 19 - D.O.A.: Delirious on Arrival
Release Date: 1985-03-18A 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.
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Episode 20 - You Only Die Twice
Release Date: 1985-04-01Amanda 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.
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Episode 21 - Burn Out
Release Date: 1985-04-08A victim of job burnout, Lee is removed from field duty; and a former agent offers to cut him in on a deal.
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Episode 22 - Murder Between Friends
Release Date: 1985-05-06Amanda quits her job and joins a security agency; unaware it's a front for mercenaries planning to abduct an African president.
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Episode 23 - Vigilante Mothers
Release Date: 1985-05-13Lee's efforts to find out who stole some nerve gas from a Government lab get him involved in Amanda's environmental group.