- Title: Scarecrow & Mrs. King – There Goes the Neighborhood
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Throwback Tuesday takes us to 80s Washington, D.C. and the unusual partnership between a housewife and a spy. After the agency ties the smuggling of weapons to a Washington suburb, Scarecrow (Bruce Boxleitner) and Amanda (Kate Jackson) are sent in undercover to play husband and wife. While the episode starts with the spy turning Amanda away from agency work, hoping to be rid of her, he quicky has to turn on a dime when he’s ordered into the suburbs with the only person who can show him the ropes. And once again, Amanda will prove her worth in helping uncover the truth of another fine mess Scarecrow has gotten them into.
“There Goes the Neighborhood” offers you typical suburbs clichés before the reveal of the women of the neighborhood are unwittingly helping the weapons smuggler, a discovery that nearly costs both Lee and Amanda their lives. The staples set up in the show’s pilot, including Amanda awkwardly hiding her new job from her mother (Beverly Garland) while secretly relishing the new world opening up to her (when it isn’t trying to kill her) are present here along with Francine (Martha Smith) turning her nose at both Amanda and the suburbs and a grudging respect our spy is slowly developing for his new partner.
