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Scarecrow and Mrs. King

Scarecrow and Mrs. King Dates : 1983 - 1987
88 episodes of 52 min
First broadcasting : 15 Octobre 1985
Creator(s) : Eugene Ross-Leming et Brad Buchner
Producer(s) : Juanita Bartlett
Music : Mark Hoder, Arthur B. Rubinstein
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Synopsis

He, Lee "Scarecrow" Statson (Bruce Boxleitner), is an intelligence service agent. She, Amanda King (Kate Jackson), is a divorced mother. He needs her on several occasions to resolve spy cases. As she should not talk about it, this causes very funny misunderstandings with her children and mother who must regularly come and keep them. The naivety of Mrs. King managed to bring it out of the most dangerous and unusual events, to the great amazement of Scarecrow and her boss.

The two make the pair (Scarecrow and Mrs. King) is an American television series which was broadcast between 1983 and 1987 on the CBS network. The series features Bruce Boxleitner in the role of the secret agent Lee "Scarecrow" Stetson and Kate Jackson in the role of Amanda King, a single mother who is hired by Scarecrow to help her in her missions.

The series follows the adventures of Scarecrow and Amanda as they work together for the espionage agency for which Scarecrow works. The two characters form an improbable duo, but they end up developing feelings for each other over the series.

The two make the pair was very popular during its dissemination, and was hailed by criticism for its chemistry between the main actors as well as for its captivating intrigue. The series was also nominated for several prices, including a Primetime Emmy Award for Bruce Boxleitner as a best actor in a dramatic television series.

Although the series ended in 1987, it continues to have a large fans base and remains a classic on American television.

The Actors

Kate Jackson - Amanda King

Kate Jackson


(Amanda King)

Bruce Boxleitner - Lee Stetson

Bruce Boxleitner


(Lee Stetson)

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Trivia

Thanks to Thierry it can (http://arretieseries.chez.chez.fr/) for the following information

when they create the two make the pair in 1983, Brad Buckner and Eugenie Ross-Leming are not strictly speaking stars. On the other hand, they have been working together for several years, since they have produced and wrote together two short new series with us: Forever Fernwood in 1977-1978 and Highcliffe Manor in 1979. Orson Bean, the future Loren Bray from Dr Quinn Femme doctor, was the Reverend Brim in the first and gave the reply to Dabney Coleman (Buffalo Bill), Richard Hatch (the streets of San Francisco last season and especially Galactica where he was Apollo) or Joe Penny (Nick Ryder in Riptide). The second, which has only four episodes, was an extravagant comedy where an eccentric team of scientists occupied an old manor from New England. Eccentric? Extravagant? Ross-Leming and Buckner undoubtedly pounded their weapons to produce an idea more accessible to the general public, the improbable alliance of a housewife and a spy, the pragmatic common sense and the adventure, of the most prosaic reality and the most disheveled romantic.

If the first season multiplies for one and for the other the opportunities to worry, the second sends them under other skies, adding to the romantic content a welcome change of scenery: London, Munich and the Bavarian Alps allow to give a Exceptional executive with twists and turns that continue to train the lovebirds one after the other. We also see some recurring characters appear, such as informant Augigs Swann and the British spy Emily Farnsworth, who seconds the heroes in two episodes. The stories are still so removed and entertaining, despite the departure, since the middle of the first season, of the Ross-Leming / Buckner tandem, replaced in control of the series by Juanita Bartlett, former partner of Stephen J. Cannel on two hundred dollars plus the costs or shy and without complexes. "We estimated that it was better to go as soon as it had become obvious that we wanted to take another direction than the other people in the series, in particular Kate Jackson," Eugenie Ross-Leming told Los Angeles Times In February 1984. The cause of their departure would therefore be the actress who, happy to find the front of the scene after a period of uncertainties, intended to make herself mistress of the program and orient her character according to her desires. The inventive duo will however find the occasion for a brilliant revenge by taking ten years later the orders of laws and Clark, where he can develop his conception of a incredible and apocalyptic romanticism.

The third season, which went home at a daily rate in 1988, unlike the first two broadcast (in a fairly dismaying disorder) on Sunday afternoon as part of Sunday Martin, will be that of all possibilities. After several "marriages" and around fifty adventures, the spy and the housewife now know each other very well and have exceeded the discovery stage. The public, loyal, claims something else, as he will always do, for Tony and Angela in Madame is served, for Laws and Clark in the new adventures of Superman, or for other flagship couples of the genre. If the desired marriage is not yet celebrated, however romantic lovers (the time is no longer to veil their face) multiply the missed opportunities and the growing temptation maintains increased sexual tension: the question is "when -How kissing? ", Or" when are they going to admit their love? ", In short:" When are they going to decide to take the plunge? Each week, the viewer can say that the day has arrived, finally, while expecting (because he is used to, anyway ...) to be disappointed. This will not prevent him from returning the following week or cursing programmers when they drag things to interrogate reruns between two unpublished. In order to add pepper to the hero's relationships, the writers also introduce a double diversion into a few episodes: a new girlfriend, Leslie O’Connor, and the ex-husband of Amanda, Joe King.

Outside screen, the relationships between the actors find it difficult to stay in good shape. "It is no longer a secret: the relationships between us were infinitely less cordial in reality than in the series," said Boxleitner after the series stopped. "Kate had a lot of worries: her job was everything for her, she was obsessed with the idea of ​​staying at the top, not to age. »1 Tituated, especially since her second marriage ended in a failure in 1984, Kate Jackson is more hospitalized for a malignant tumor within in 1987, which explains her absence in the last episodes. All this, added to the disagreement between the actress and the wife of Boxleitner, Kathryn Holcomb, will have a deplorable effect on the atmosphere of the shooting. The wedding season will therefore be the last and the newlyweds will end their honeymoon far from the sets, Boxleitner separating from his wife and Kate Jackson trying a new wedding in 1991, with Tom Hart, a real estate developer. Which it divorces after eighteen months.

Filming

Filming locations:

  • London, England, UK (Episode "Affair at Bromfield Hall")
  • Munich, Bavaria, Germany (Episode "The Times They Are A Changin'")
  • North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Rome, Lazio, Italy (Episode "A Lovely Little Affair")
  • Salzburg, Austria (Episode "The Legend of Das Geisterschloss")
  • Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
  • Tegernsee, Bavaria, Germany (Episode "Our Man In Tegernsee")
  • Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Authors of the card

  • Creation date: 2003/07/01 by stals
  • Last Update: 2007/05/01 by celine1972

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