We continue our look at some notable 1980s Christmas episodes by looking at an episode of Scarecrow and Mrs. King that showed how just powerful Mrs. King’s goodness was on that show.
Scarecrow and Mrs. King was basically a star vehicle for Kate Jackson, as she stars as the titular Mrs. King, a newly-divorced mother of two who runs into Bruce Boxleitner’s secret agent, code-named “Scarecrow.”
After helping him on a mission, she gets an office job at the Agency where he works, and she begins training to be an agent herself. Over time, she and Scarecrow (Lee Stetson was his real name) start a romance, and eventually get married.
In this episode, after she is forced to go undercover playing the daughter of a Russian double agent, she and Lee are followed to the agent’s home by two KGB agents, who open fire, hitting Lee. Lee, though, hits one of the agents, and they’re both slowly dying from their wounds.
Mrs. King, though, who’s just the sweetest woman (the show perfectly used Kate Jackson’s natural charm), convinces the KGB agents to have a Christmas truce. The KGB agent gets the medical supplies from Scarecrow’s car, and Mrs. King treats the wounds of both men, and they all share Christmas together in the cabin before troops surround them.
No one dies, and Mrs. King is back at her home to have Christmas with her two sons (and her mother).
Feel free to drop me a line at brian@poprefs.com if you have a 1980s Christmas episode you’d like me to write about!
