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Designing Women
Julia Sugarbaker, Mary Jo Shively, Charlene Frazier-Stillfield and Suzanne Sugarbaker are associates at their design firm, Sugarbaker and Associates. Julia is the owner and is very outspoken and strong-willed. Mary Jo is a divorced single-parent whom is just as strong-willed as Julia, but isn't as self-confident. Charlene is the naive and trusting farm girl from Poplar Bluff, Missouri. Suzanne is the self-centered ex-beauty queen whom has a number of wealthy ex-husbands.
- Created by:
- Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
- Cast:
- Dixie Carter, Annie Potts, Jan Hooks, Judith Ivey
- Language:
- English
- Country:
- United States of America
- Network:
- CBS
Episode guide
Seasons
Season 5
Episodes
Episode 1
A Blast From the Past
1990-09-17 · 30mSugarbaker's is beset by tourists when the building's Civil War foundation puts it on the Tour of Historical Homes, Mary Jo opens her heart to an old friend eager to make good on a marriage pact they once entered into.
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Papa Was a Rolling Stone
1990-09-24 · 30mCharlene aims to make Anthony's 30th birthday a memorable one -- by hiring a private detective to find his long-lost father.
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Working Mother
1990-10-01 · 30mResentment builds between Charlene and Mary Jo when Charlene wants to take a year off to look after her baby. The decorators cater to the whims of a rich, insufferable 10-year-old client as Mary Jo and Charlene ponder the joys and pitfalls of working mothers.
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Miss Trial
1990-10-15 · 30mJulia's dinner plans with former President Jimmy Carter and his wife are put on hold when her slow-moving jury gets sequestered.
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The Bachelor Auction
1990-10-22 · 30mWhen organizational confusion leads to Suzanne winning a date with Anthony in a bachelor charity auction, the two reluctantly try to make the best of a very awkward situation.
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Charlene Buys a House
1990-10-29 · 30mAs the proud new owner of a grand but ghostly mansion, Charlene hires the decorators to give the place a facelift -- not mentioning that it's haunted.
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Old Rebels and Young Models
1990-11-05 · 30mCharlene's baby, Olivia, auditions for a modeling job, Mary Jo finds one of her former teachers in a nursing home.
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Nowhere To Run To
1990-11-12 · 30mMary Jo takes up jogging, and inadvertently helps turn Julia into a fitness zealot.
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A Class Act
1990-11-19 · 30mAnthony buys in to become a full partner; new student Charlene fends off an amorous psychology professor.
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Keep the Home Fires Burning
1990-11-26 · 30mWith her husband away on a mission, Charlene guiltily draws close to a man in her support group for military spouses who wife is also away. Meanwhile, lottery fever sweeps Sugarbakers.
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My Daughter, Myself
1990-12-10 · 30mMary Jo forbids her nearly 18-year-old daughter to date a 34-year-old, then dates him herself, Julia is forced to crash the men's room at a football stadium.
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And Now, Here's Bernice
1990-12-17 · 30mAfter Bernice gets a local public-access cable TV show, Mary Jo has her heart broken by a client and decides that Bernice's show is the ideal arena to air her views on men.
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Pearls of Wisdom
1991-01-07 · 30mMary Jo borrows and loses a string of pearls flaunted by Suzanne, subbing as a lifestyles reporter for local TV news. Meanwhile, a recurring dream about Julia upsets Anthony.
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High Noon in a Laundry Room
1991-01-14 · 30mAnthony, concerned with his masculinity after working with the women so long, tries standing up to his bullying neighbor, and is further humiliated when the women come to his rescue.
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How Long Has This Been Going On?
1991-01-28 · 30mEveryone at Sugarbakers is baffled to discover that sensible Julia has covertly been singing evenings at a nightclub, Anthony tries to muster the nerve to ask out a girl who works at the bookstore.
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The Emperor's New Nose
1991-02-04 · 30mBernice gets an extraordinarily bad eye tuck and rhinoplasty from a plastic surgeon whose work leaves something to be desired.
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Maybe, Baby
1991-02-11 · 30mMary Jo, wanting a baby, turns to her friend and former beau; Suzanne takes up smoking as a way to diet.
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This is Art?
1991-02-25 · 30mAmateur painter Julia inadvertently becomes the darling of Atlanta's art scene when someone tries to buy her handbag while she's attending a gallery opening; Suzanne inadvertently glues her lips shut.
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Blame it on New Orleans
1991-03-04 · 30mWhen the gang attends a convention in intoxicating New Orleans, Mary Jo unwittingly sleeps with a married man.
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I'll See You in Court
1991-03-18 · 30mMary Jo runs across the man who mugged her the year before, but faces horrendous judicial red tape to bring him to trial.
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The Big Circle
1991-04-08 · 30mJulia tries coping with her boyfriend Reese's death by looking after Randa Oliver, the supremely spoiled child of a client couple on an extended vacation.
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Friends and Husbands
1991-04-29 · 30mCharlene, readjusting to married life upon Bill's return from the Middle East, quits her and Mary Jo's children's-book project.
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Fore!
1991-05-06 · 30mSuzanne is jealous when Anthony is invited to be the first black (i.e., token) in the previously all-white Beaumont Country Club.
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The Pride of Sugarbakers
1991-05-13 · 30mMary Jo and Julia demonstrate different coaching styles when their firm sponsors a Little League team.
Watch progress · Not trackedCast
Dixie Carter
Julia Sugarbaker
Annie Potts
Mary Jo Shively
Jan Hooks
Carlene Frazier Dobber
Judith Ivey
Bonnie Jean "B.J." Poteet
Meshach Taylor
Anthony Bouvier
