Designing Women

E01

Episode 1

Designing Women

1986-09-29 · 30m

Suzanne visits a new gynecologist, Mary Jo's ex-husband Ted, and a maelstrom of emotions is unleashed when she announces she is dating him.

Current episode

E02

Episode 2

★ 7.5

The Beauty Contest

1986-10-06 · 30m

Charlene sponsors Mary Jo's daughter in the Miss Pre-Teen Atlanta contest, and despite her depression over her own upcoming 30th birthday, Suzanne coaches Claudia on how to walk and smile.

Watch progress · Not tracked

E03

Episode 3

A Big Affair

1986-10-20 · 30m

Suzanne's intimate dinner party, planned to impress an important client, goes awry before it begins when she arranges a date between a more-than-hefty man and a reluctant Charlene.

Watch progress · Not tracked

E04

Episode 4

★ 8.0

Julia's Son

1986-10-27 · 30m

Julia's nineteen-year-old son, Payne, is bringing his girlfriend home from college for a visit, and Julia wants everything to be perfect for her ""baby."" Payne then presents his girl, Primmie, who is tall, attractive...and forty years old!

Watch progress · Not tracked

E05

Episode 5

★ 7.0

Mary Jo's First Date

1986-11-03 · 30m

Concerned that Mary Jo hasn't dated since she and Ted broke up, Suzanne arranges a bind date for her with an old acquaintance, J.D. Shackelford, head scout for the Atlanta Braves baseball team, while Julia struggles through an I.R.S. audit conducted by the same Ray Don Simpson who tried to pick up the women at a restaurant and suffered a tonguelashing from Julia.

Watch progress · Not tracked

E06

Episode 6

★ 8.0

Design House

1986-11-17 · 30m

Since Suzanne has money invested in Sugarbaker's and is tired of her image as a front bimbo for the firm, Julia assigns her to do the decorating of their next project. Unfortunately, the house burns to the ground while Suzanne is working on it.

Watch progress · Not tracked

E07

Episode 7

Perky's Visit

1986-11-24 · 30m

Perky Sugarbaker, Julia and Suzanne's mother, and her friend Bernice hope to escape the dull routine of their lives in the retirement home by joining the girls and their ex-con handyman Anthony for the festive occasion, considering it an exhilarating change.

Watch progress · Not tracked

E08

Episode 8

★ 8.0

I Do, I Don't

1986-12-04 · 30m

The dinner is perfect, the champagne flows, Julia is presented with a single rose, and on a lark she and her current beau Reese get married. The next morning both parties regret their hastiness, and Reese appears with annulment papers. An argument ensues, and Julia finally agrees to sign the papers, thereby annuling their marriage and their entire relationship.

Watch progress · Not tracked

E09

Episode 9

★ 7.0

The IT Men

1986-12-04 · 30m

When her boyfriend Mason takes a job in Japan, Charlene finds she has chemistry with another man, a man who happens to be married to one of the Sugarbaker clients.

Watch progress · Not tracked

E10

Episode 10

The Slumber Party

1986-12-18 · 30m

Arriving at work one morning, Suzanne tells Julia, Mary Jo, and Charlene that when she tried to fire her maid, she put a voodoo death curse on her and proclaimed that Suzanne would be gone by midnight. Mary Jo invites Charlene, Julia and Suzanne to help her with Claudia's slumber party.

Watch progress · Not tracked

E11

Episode 11

New Year's Daze

1987-01-01 · 30m

It is New Year's Eve, and everyone is dressed in their finery, anticipating a fun-filled night on the town. The identity of Charlene's date is kept secret until a news flash reports that the infamous ""Shadow"" is the subject of a massive manhunt.

Watch progress · Not tracked

E12

Episode 12

★ 8.0

Old Spouses Never Die (1)

1987-02-01 · 30m

Mary Jo is brooding about her ex-husband's interference in her life, while Charlene distrusts her doctor's cavalier attitude toward the lump he found in her breast.

Watch progress · Not tracked

E13

Episode 13

Old Spouses Never Die (2)

1987-02-01 · 30m

Mary Jo is brooding about her ex-husband's interference in her life, while Charlene distrusts her doctor's cavalier attitude toward the lump he found in her breast.

Watch progress · Not tracked

E14

Episode 14

Monette

1987-02-08 · 30m

When an old school chum of Charlene's, Monette, buys the old Chadwick mansion and asks Sugarbaker's to redecorate, the women are excited at the prospect of a most lucrative assignment--until they find out what the assignment REALLY is...

Watch progress · Not tracked

E15

Episode 15

And Justice For Paul

1987-02-15 · 30m

Suzanne picks up a client who wants period furniture on a shoestring budget, and the Sugarbaker women find that antique furniture at bargain prices is no bargain.

Watch progress · Not tracked

E16

Episode 16

Reese's Friend

1987-02-22 · 30m

A disagreement over the theme for the annual country club fund-raiser has Julia and Suzanne at odds, but the quibbling is forgotten when Reese appears with a gorgeous young women on his arm, explaining that she is a new attorney in his law firm.

Watch progress · Not tracked

E17

Episode 17

Nashville Bound

1987-03-16 · 30m

The news that Charlene's family--all ten brothers and sisters--will be in town at the same time is overshadowed by the news that she is going to become a recording star!

Watch progress · Not tracked

E18

Episode 18

Oh, Suzannah

1987-03-23 · 30m

While in Reese's office to sign legal papers, Suzanne off-handedly volunteers to keep a Vietnamese boat child, Li Sing, who is being adopted but needs an interim home for the next four weeks while final papers are being completed. Suzanne becomes attached to Li Sing quickly and doesn't want to give her over to her new family.

Watch progress · Not tracked

E19

Episode 19

Mary Jo's Dad Dates Charlene

1987-04-06 · 30m

When Mary Jo's divorced father arrives in Atlanta for a four-day visit and dances cheek to cheek with Charlene, Mary Jo becomes very protective.

Watch progress · Not tracked

E20

Episode 20

Seams From a Marriage

1987-04-13 · 30m

When Anthony saunters into the shop wearing an enormous cowboy hat, followed by a breathless Mary Jo who has obviously been out all night as she is wearing the same clothes ahe had on when she left the day before, the others clamor for an explanation. It seems their appointment with Sugarbaker's newest client turned into an all-night bash, complete with Cajun buffet and country-western band.

Watch progress · Not tracked

E21

Episode 21

Grand Slam, Thank You Ma'am

1987-05-04 · 30m

Suzanne's baseball player ex-husband, Jack Dent, writes in his autobiography that he had more groupie action than all the rock ""n"" roll bands in North America, and Suzanne vows revenge.

Watch progress · Not tracked

E22

Episode 22

★ 8.0

Bachelor Suite

1987-05-11 · 30m

When Mary Jo undertakes the decoration of Hence Winchester's new home, she finds herself the object of sexual harassment by her wealthy client.

Watch progress · Not tracked