Episode
Scarecrow and Mrs. King: Charity Begins at Home
Overview
Amanda is the Agency's only ticket to a private fund-raiser where a wealthy auto collector plans to hold a meeting with several high-powered men regarding a secret formula to control the supply and price crops.
Details
- Series
- Scarecrow and Mrs. King
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 5
- Air date
- 1984-10-29
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
Charity Begins at Home is Episode 5 in Season 2 of Scarecrow and Mrs. King. It aired on 1984-10-29. The runtime is 45 min.
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Episode 4: The Legend of Das Geisterschloss
British Agent, Emily Farnsworth, is captured in Austria, leaving behind a sketchpad filled with drawings of nearby landmarks as clues, which Amanda and Lee must use to figure out her whereabouts.
Episode 6: Brunettes Are In
A white-slavery ring kidnaps Amanda, while Lee tries to find a valuable microdot chip.
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Episode 3: Double Agent
Lee and Amanda search for a spy-turned-writer's latest manuscript that exposes U.S. agents, which includes Lee and Amanda.
Episode 7: Our Man in Tegernsee
Lee searches for an Agency operative in the Bavarian Alps who may be able to clear Amanda after she's arrested in Munich on counterfeiting charges.
Episode 2: The Times They Are a Changin'
Amanda and Lee must oversee the return of a 1960s radical who is involved with Munich terrorists.
Episode 8: An Affair at Bromfield Hall
In London to investigate a security leak, Amanda gets involved with a seedy photographer and a sex scandal.
Episode 1: To Catch a Mongoose
Amanda is sent to London when an old high-school friend, Conrad "Connie" Barnhill, is suspected of being a murderer labeled as the "Mongoose." This homicidal killer leaves a calling card at the scene of his crimes with the Mongoose written on it. Amanda tries throughout the entire episode to convince Lee that Mr. Barnhill is not the killer. Near the very end of the show, Amanda is kidnapped by the real Mongoose, forcing Lee on a chase through a foreign country.
Episode 9: A Class Act
Amanda finally gets to attend an Agency training class, but the curriculum contains an unexpected bonus-Eastern Bloc assassins who have infiltrated the group.
Episode 10: Playing Possum
Amanda cannot remember a vital clue to the whereabouts of a nuclear device planted in Washington DC by renegade Soviets.
Episode 11: The Three Faces of Emily
Emily Farnsworth returns to help Lee and Amanda catch a man who is selling stolen plans for a futuristic plane.
Episode 12: Ship of Spies
Amanda and Lee must pose as a couple on a cruise line, to find a missing informant of Lee's who was apparently uncovering something. However the catch is that once they dock on a small island, Lee and Amanda must marry. Aboard the ship of spies, Lee finds. After docking on the island and being married, Lee and Amanda find that silver is being smuggled aboard ship. The smugglers will do anything to save there fortune, include killing husband and wife, Amanda and Lee.
Episode 13: Spiderweb
A security leak within the Agency throws a secret operation into jeopardy.