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''Scarecrow and Mrs. King'' (1983-1987) is a [[Cold War]]-era spy show about a divorced housewife who, through a chance meeting, ends up working for a secret government agency. The series is built around the growing romantic relationship between secret agent Lee Stetson, a.k.a. Scarecrow ([[Tron|Bruce]] [[Babylon 5|Boxleitner]]) and Amanda King ([[Charlie's Angels|Kate Jackson]]) as they fall in love and eventually get secretly married.

As of 2011, the first two seasons have been released on DVD.

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* [[Almost Kiss]]
* [[Amicable Exes]]: Amanda and Joe King, for the most part.
* [[Badass Unintentional]]: Amanda King
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Amanda is ''very'' nice. Until she is provoked into being less so.
** She can clomp people over the head with a piece of furniture and then shrug her shoulders and smile ever-so-demurely as if to say that she really wants to get back into [[Stay in the Kitchen|the kitchen]], but right now of course she has to maim enemy agents, alas. 
* [[City of Spies]]: Set in 1980s Washington, D.C., which was very much a real-life example of this.
* [[The Cuckoolander Was Right]]: Amanda has a tendency to go off on long and spectacularly irrelevant-sounding rambles which have the other characters staring bemusedly (and which usually end with her [[Eureka Moment|coming up with a clue that solves the case]]).
* [[Code Name]]: Scarecrow. The series eventually revealed that Lee's codename was part of a ''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard of Oz]]''-themed set which also included Dorothy and Tin Man.
* [[Cold War]]: Late 80's, Pilot Episode had KGB agents stealing a package.
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Amanda
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Francine
* [[Front Organisation]]
* [[Good Old Fisticuffs]]: Apparently trained agents use these.
* [[Hot Mom|Hot Mama]]: Amanda (and she has the t-shirt to prove it)
* [[I Have My Ways]]: From the episode "The First Time":
{{quote|'''Amanda''': How did you find me?
'''Lee''': We have our ways. }}
* [[Improvised Weapon]]: Amanda often comes up with one.
* [[Knight in Sour Armor]]: Scarecrow
* [[Lighter and Softer]]: You would not realize this as the same genre [[John Le Carre]] or even [[Ian Fleming]] wrote in. Heck, ''[[Touched By an Angel]]'' is often [[Darker and Edgier]] than this.
* [[Mistaken for Badass]]: Amanda is one of the best examples. While not mistaken for it as such she slips into the spy game accidentally.
** In one episode, she is even mistaken for ''Scarecrow'' by the Russians.
* [[Opposite Gender Protagonists]]: It's right there in the title.
* [[Parental Obliviousness]]: Amanda's mother Dotty takes this to new levels
* [[Ruritania]]: There are two episodes in Germany and one in Austria that play upon this.
* [[Secret Relationship]]: How the series maintains the tension after [[They Do]]
* [[Spy Couple]]: The titular couple.
* [[Spy Fiction]]
* [[Will They or Won't They?]]: Once a romantic attraction started manifesting between the two, this became an element of the plots.  Eventually they did, and even got married.

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