Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1983)

Action · Adventure · Comedy

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.

IMDb rating: 7.1 (4,274 votes)
Seasons: 4
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (1983)

8.05 avg 21 episodes 7.8 → 8.4 48 min avg

Season 1 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The First Time	7.8	359
2	There Goes the Neighborhood	7.9	144
3	If Thoughts Could Kill	7.9	126
4	Magic Bus	7.8	117
5	The ACM Kid	7.7	104
6	Always Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth	8.3	113
7	Service Above and Beyond	8.6	118
8	Saved by the Bells	8.5	112
9	Sudden Death	7.4	103
10	The Long Christmas Eve	8.2	112
11	Remembrance of Things Past	8.4	104
12	Lost and Found	7.7	94
13	I Am Not Now, nor Have I Ever Been... a Spy	8.1	95
14	Dead Ringer	8.0	86
15	The Mole	7.9	86
16	Savior	8.2	86
17	The Artful Dodger	7.8	86
18	Filming Raul	8.1	86
19	Fearless Dotty	8.3	90
20	Weekend	8.0	88
21	Waiting for Godorsky	8.4	100

Season 2 (1984)

8.13 avg 23 episodes 8.3 → 8.0 48 min avg

Season 2 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	To Catch a Mongoose	8.3	93
2	The Times They Are a Changin'	8.1	85
3	Double Agent	7.5	83
4	The Legend of Das Geisterschloss	8.3	90
5	Charity Begins at Home	7.6	81
6	Brunettes Are In	8.2	84
7	Our Man in Tegernsee	8.3	84
8	Affair at Bromfield Hall	8.2	88
9	A Class Act	8.2	85
10	Playing Possum	8.1	81
11	The Three Faces of Emily	8.2	92
12	Ship of Spies	8.3	95
13	Spiderweb	8.3	83
14	A Little Sex, a Little Scandal	7.8	82
15	A Relative Situation	8.3	83
16	Life of the Party	8.1	78
17	Odds on a Dead Pigeon	8.2	76
18	Car Wars	7.9	80
19	DOA: Delirious on Arrival	8.2	77
20	You Only Die Twice	8.1	77
21	Burn Out	8.7	86
22	Murder Between Friends	8.0	70
23	Vigilante Mothers	8.0	70

Season 3 (1985)

8.19 avg 22 episodes 8.4 → 8.6 48 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 3 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	A Lovely Little Affair	8.4	70
2	We're Off to See the Wizard	8.2	80
3	Over the Limit	8.2	75
4	Tail of the Dancing Weasel	7.8	79
5	Welcome to America, Mr. Brand	7.7	78
6	Sour Grapes	7.9	68
7	Utopia Now	8.5	84
8	Reach for the Sky	8.1	71
9	J. Edgar's Ghost	7.9	69
10	Flight to Freedom	8.1	72
11	The Wrong Way Home	8.6	74
12	Fast Food for Thought	8.3	74
13	One Bear Dances, One Bear Doesn't	8.3	72
14	Playing for Keeps	7.5	76
15	The Pharoah's Engineer	8.7	82
16	The Triumvirate	8.7	81
17	The Eyes Have It	8.8	73
18	Wrong Number	7.0	75
19	The Boy Who Could Be King	8.2	77
20	Dead Men Leave No Trails	8.5	79
21	Three Little Spies	8.1	73
22	All the World's a Stage	8.6	74

Season 4 (1986)

8.21 avg 22 episodes 9.1 → 7.9 47 min avg

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Season 4 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Stemwinder: Part 1	9.1	94
2	Stemwinder: Part 2	9.1	93
3	Unfinished Business	8.2	76
4	No Thanks for the Memory	7.9	68
5	It's in the Water	7.9	68
6	Night Crawler	8.9	85
7	Billy's Lost Weekend	8.2	71
8	Photo Finish	8.4	67
9	The Man Who Died Twice	8.0	61
10	Need to Know	7.8	66
11	Santa's Got a Brand New Bag	8.1	64
12	Any Number Can Play	8.3	63
13	Promises to Keep	8.3	60
14	Rumors of My Death	8.3	62
15	Bad Timing	9.0	72
16	Do You Take This Spy?	8.8	79
17	Mission of Gold	8.1	67
18	One Flew East	8.2	65
19	All That Glitters	7.6	61
20	Suitable for Framing	7.2	61
21	A Matter of Choice	7.3	58
22	The Khrushchev List	7.9	65

Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1983)

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