Scarecrow and Mrs. King

1983 • CBS

4.8

73 reviews

TV-UNRATED

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Season 1 episodes (21)

1 The First Time

10/3/83

Amanda King (KATE JACKSON), a cute divorcee, is handed a package at a train station--and becomes involved in a situation with a handsome operative (BRUCE BOXLEITNER) of a secret U.S. agency.

2 There Goes The Neighborhood

10/10/83

Posing as a married couple, Lee (BRUCE BOXLEITNER) and Amanda (KATE JACKSON) investigate a quiet suburban community and find it's a hotbed of international intrigue -- and lethal hair dryers.

3 If Thoughts Could Kill

10/17/83

Amanda (KATE JACKSON) helps Lee (BRUCE BOXLEITNER) pursue a brain-controlled killer in the clutches of a revenging doctor (MICHAEL FAIRMAN). They discover the killer was with them every step of the way.

4 Magic Bus

10/24/83

Lee (BRUCE BOXLEITNER) and Amanda (KATE JACKSON) learn that life in a motor home can be hazardous to one's health, especially when the motor home is actually the world's most lethal mobile assault weapon.

5 The A.C.M. Kid

10/31/83

Lee (BRUCE BOXLEITNER) and Amanda (KATE JACKSON) can handle KGB spies, but what do you do with a 12-year-old computer genius (MEENO PELUCE) who wields his IQ of 185 like an undefeated street fighter?

6 Always Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth

11/7/83

Lee (BRUCE BOXLEITNER) and Amanda (KATE JACKSON) uncover an oil tycoon's plot to kill visiting royalty for his own personal gain.

7 Service Above and Beyond

11/14/83

Lee (BRUCE BOXLEITNER) and Amanda (KATE JACKSON) learn that a business deal between and American financier (PAUL SHENAR) and an East German representative (WALTER GOTELL) involves a lot more than a chain of restaurants serving instant chicken.

8 Saved by the Bells

11/28/83

In a daring "double-agent" switch, Amanda (KATE JACKSON) finds herself masquerading as the famous "Scarecrow," while Lee (BRUCE BOXLEITNER) discovers he must take a back seat to the "weaker sex."

9 Sudden Death

12/5/83

Amanda (KATE JACKSON) and Lee (BRUCE BOXLEITNER) uncover a football team owner's plot to kill his foreign-born place kicker, who stands in the way of a political assassination attempt that will be monetarily rewarding to him.

10 The Long Christmas Eve

12/19/83

In coaxing a spy to come in from the cold after 23 years, Lee (BRUCE BOXLEITNER) and Amanda (KATE JACKSON) discover that the Christmas spirit can be a formidable weapon in international espionage ... when even more than lives are at stake.

11 Remembrance of Things Past

1/9/84

Lee (BRUCE BOXLEITNER) and Amanda (KATE JACKSON) must halt a string of assassinations before the killer, who has threatened to murder Lee, claims his next victim.

12 Lost and Found

1/16/84

"Till Death Do Us Part" takes on deeper significance as Lee (BRUCE BOXLEITNER) and Amanda (KATE JACKSON) protect an ESP expert (GEORGE CHAKIRIS) from the KGB and an unexpected enemy.

13 I Am Not Now, Nor Have I Ever Been...A Spy

1/30/84

The key to an assassination plot, that threatens not only a world leader but also an entire American city, is locked in Amanda's (KATE JACKSON) mind ... but she has amnesia! Lee (BRUCE BOXLEITNER) must put the pieces together before time runs out for everyone.

14 Dead Ringer

2/6/84

Francine (MARTHA SMITH) is in "double" trouble when she's abducted and held for ransom after being mistaken for a Hungarian defector.

15 The Mole

2/13/84

Lee (BRUCE BOXLEITNER) and Amanda (KATE JACKSON) set out to uncover a traitor (a "mole") within the Agency, who has been repeatedly giving information to a Politburo operative -- which have made all attempts by the Agency to capture the operative failures.

16 Savior

2/27/84

Amanda (KATE JACKSON) sets out to save Lee (BRUCE BOXLEITNER) from an agent turned illegal arms dealer. When she unknowingly hauls a live bomb, Lee must save them both ... with humorous results.

17 The Artful Dodger

3/5/84

Amanda (KATE JACKSON) becomes the unwitting accomplice of "the artful dodger" (JARED MARTIN), a former jewel thief who now steals defense secrets. His latest heist promises to endanger national security.

18 Filming Raul

3/19/84

When a film school student photographs the kidnapping of a missing agent, Amanda King (KATE JACKSON) and Lee "Scarecrow" Stetson (BRUCE BOXLEITNER) go to work to save them both.

19 Fearless Dotty

3/26/84

Amanda's (KATE JACKSON) mother, Dotty (BEVERLY GARLAND), plunges Amanda, Lee (BRUCE BOXLEITNER) and a ring of international spies into a chase when she accidentally takes the wrong birthday present home.

20 Weekend

4/23/84

Lee (BRUCE BOXLEITNER) and Amanda (KATE JACKSON) spend a weekend at a posh resort, where they play a deadly contest against kidnappers out to grab one of the guests -- a top think-tank genius whose knowledge of U.S. secrets is wanted behind the Iron Curtain.

21 Waiting for Godorsky

5/7/84

Lee (BRUCE BOXLEITNER) and Amanda (KATE JACKSON) run up against an Iron Curtain assassination team attempting to silence an émigré speaking out for a dissident writer. But it's Amanda's mother, Dotty (BEVERLY GARLAND), who literally smashes the plot.

About this show

First premiering in 1983, the Emmy® Award-winning action series ran for four seasons on CBS. A cloak and dagger dramedy that follows the exploits of a secret agent who reluctantly teams up with a divorced mother, this popular 80s series stars television icons Bruce Boxleitner (Babylon 5) and Kate Jackson (Charlie's Angels).

Ratings and reviews

4.8

73 reviews

Malena Parmley

May 30, 2023

I loved watching scarecrow and Mrs. King as a child growing up, and I continue to watch reruns on TV. Every chance I get. I think it is a good example as a single mom, raising two boys finding true love

Jon Lawton

June 18, 2015

Love this show, under what I'd lightly joke as where MacGyver meets housewife. Cute, serious, sometimes improbable, but overall an enjoyable mystery espionage crime show for it's era. If you love MacGyver and Diagnosis: Murder, you'll hard pressed not to enjoy Scarecrow and Mrs. King too.

Kelly Siler

January 6, 2018

Love SMK. It was one of my favorite shows growing up and still is. Wish we could also download season 1.

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