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Scarecrow and Mrs. King

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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.

Created by:
Brad Buckner, Eugenie Ross-Leming
Cast:
Kate Jackson, Bruce Boxleitner, Beverly Garland, Mel Stewart
Language:
English
Country:
United States of America
Network:
CBS

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Season 4

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Episode 1

Stemwinder (1)

1986-09-19 · 60m

The Agency suspects Lee and Amanda of selling out after a vindictive KGB agent traps them in a sting operation.

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Episode 2

Stemwinder (2)

1986-09-26 · 60m

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.

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Episode 3

Unfinished Business

1986-10-03 · 60m

CIA files indicate that Lee's parents were double agents and link the past with a current plot to assassinate a dignitary.

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Episode 4

No Thanks for the Memory

1986-10-10 · 60m

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.

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Episode 5

It's in the Water

1986-10-17 · 60m

The Agency and a terrorist seek a chemist, who once worked with Amanda on ecology issues.

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Episode 6

Night Crawler

1986-10-31 · 60m

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.

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Episode 7

Billy's Lost Weekend

1986-11-07 · 60m

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.

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Episode 8

Photo Finish

1986-11-14 · 60m

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.

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Episode 9

The Man Who Died Twice

1986-11-21 · 60m

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.

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Episode 10

Need to Know

1986-12-05 · 60m

Lee investigates corruption at a newspaper whose publisher has apparent ties to a Romanian agent and apparent interest in U.S. strategic materials.

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Episode 11

Santa's Got a Brand New Bag

1986-12-19 · 60m

Just before Christmas, a distinguished ex-toy designer gives Lee a tip on a toy factory that's a front for sophisticated weapons development.

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Episode 12

Any Number Can Play

1987-01-02 · 47m

Evidence turns up that Dotty's new sweetheart is posing as a CIA agent caught in a blackmail scheme.

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Episode 13

Promises to Keep

1987-01-09 · 47m

The DEA provides evidence that the man connected to a drug kingpin is Lee's friend T.P. Aquinas.

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Episode 14

Rumors of My Death

1987-01-23 · 60m

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.

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Episode 15

Bad Timing

1987-02-06 · 60m

The Soviets inject Lee with a virus that leaves him only 72 hours to live.

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Episode 16

Do You Take This Spy?

1987-02-13 · 60m

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.

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Episode 17

Mission of Gold

1987-02-20 · 60m

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.

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Episode 18

One Flew East

1987-02-27 · 60m

Lee and Amanda trail a retired right-wing agent connected to the kidnapping of an outspoken poet and antinuclear activist.

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Episode 19

All That Glitters

1987-05-07 · 60m

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.

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Episode 20

Suitable for Framing

1987-05-14 · 60m

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

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Episode 21

A Matter of Choice

1987-05-21 · 60m

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.

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Episode 22

The Khrushchev List

1987-05-28 · 60m

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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Cast

Kate Jackson

Kate Jackson

Amanda King

Bruce Boxleitner

Bruce Boxleitner

Lee Stetson

Beverly Garland

Beverly Garland

Dotty West

Mel Stewart

Mel Stewart

Billy Melrose

Martha Smith

Martha Smith

Francine Desmond

Paul Stout

Philip King

Greg Morton

Jamie King

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