List of Designing Women episodes
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The following is an episode list for the CBS
sitcom Designing Women
. The series began airing on September 29, 1986 and the final episode aired on May 24, 1993. During its seven-year run, 163 Designing Women episodes were produced. In addition, a Designing Women reunion show featuring the cast members aired in 2003.
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
sitcom Designing Women
Designing Women
Designing Women is an American television sitcom that centered on the working and personal lives of four Southern women and one man in an interior design firm in Atlanta, Georgia. It aired on the CBS television network from September 29, 1986 until May 24, 1993. The show was created by head writer...
. The series began airing on September 29, 1986 and the final episode aired on May 24, 1993. During its seven-year run, 163 Designing Women episodes were produced. In addition, a Designing Women reunion show featuring the cast members aired in 2003.
Season 1 (1986–1987)
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| 1 | September 29, 1986 | "Designing Women (Pilot)" | Suzanne visits a new gynecologist who is Mary Jo's ex-husband Ted; and an uproar is created when she announces she is dating him.
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| 2 | October 6, 1986 | "The Beauty Contest" | Charlene sponsors Mary Jo's daughter, Claudia, 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.
Jack Shea (director) Jack Shea is an American film and television director. He was the president of the Directors Guild of America from 1997 to 2002.-External links:*... |
| 3 | October 20, 1986 | "A Big Affair" | Suzanne's small dinner party, planned to impress an important client, goes awry before it begins when she arranges a date between a very large man and a reluctant Charlene.
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| 4 | October 27, 1986 | "Julia's Son" | Julia's nineteen-year-old son, Payne, is bringing his girlfriend home from college for a visit, and Julia wants everything to be perfect. Payne then presents his girl, Primmy, who is tall, attractive, and forty-one years old.
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| 5 | November 3, 1986 | "Mary Jo's First Date" | Julia hopes an IRS auditor doesn't remember where he met her before, while Mary Jo reluctantly re-enters the dating circuit for the first time since breaking up with Ted.
Richard Gilliland Richard Gilliland is an American television and movie actor.Gilliland was born in Fort Worth, Texas. He appeared onscreen in the 1970s. Notable appearances include Thirtysomething, Party of Five, Little Women, and a recurring role on Designing Women... makes his first appearance in his recurring role as J.D. Shackelford; he would continue to appear sporadically through season four. |
| 6 | November 17, 1986 | "Design House" | Suzanne is tired of her image as a bimbo at Sugarbaker's, so Julia assigns her to do the decorating of their next project. Unfortunately, the house burns to the ground while Suzanne is working on it.
Meshach Taylor Meshach Taylor is an American actor.He is perhaps best known for his role as Anthony Bouvier on the sitcom Designing Women. He also had a major role on the sitcom Dave's World, playing Sheldon Baylor, and appeared in Buffalo Bill.-Personal life:Taylor was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of... makes his first appearance as Anthony Bouvier |
| 7 | November 24, 1986 | "Perky's Visit" | Perky Sugarbaker, Julia and Suzanne's mother, in her only appearance on Designing Women, brings her friend Bernice to have Thanksgiving dinner with the women of Sugarbaker's and their ex-con handyman, Anthony.
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| 8 | December 4, 1986 | "I Do, I Don't" | After a perfect evening (and some champagne), Julia and her beau, Reese, decide to get married on a lark. The next morning, they both regret the decision.
Hal Holbrook Harold Rowe "Hal" Holbrook, Jr. is an American actor. His television roles include Abraham Lincoln in the 1976 TV series Lincoln, Hays Stowe on The Bold Ones: The Senator and Capt. Lloyd Bucher on Pueblo. He is also known for his role in the 2007 film Into the Wild, for which he was nominated for... makes his first appearance as Reece. He would continue to appear in a recurring role through 1991. |
| 9 | December 4, 1986 | "The IT Men" | When Charlene's boyfriend, Mason, takes a job in Japan, she finds herself attracted to another man, who happens to be married to a Sugarbaker & Associates client.
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| 10 | December 18, 1986 | "The Slumber Party" | Suzanne tells Charlene, Julia, and Mary Jo that when she tried to fire her maid, the maid put a voodoo death curse on her. Meanwhile, Mary Jo asks the women to help with her daughter Claudia's slumber party.
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| 11 | January 1, 1987 | "New Year's Daze" | On New Year's Eve, the women of Sugarbaker's are ready to have a fun night on the town. Charlene keeps the identity of her date a secret until a news flash reports that he is the subject of a massive manhunt.
David Steinberg David Steinberg is a Canadian comedian, actor, writer, director, and author. At the height of his popularity, during the late 1960s and early 1970s, he was one of the best-known stand-up comics in the United States... |
| 12 | February 1, 1987 | "Old Spouses Never Die: Part 1" | Mary Jo is ruminating about her ex-husband's interference in her life. The women distrust Charlene's doctor's cavalier attitude toward the lump he found in her breast.
Scott Bakula Scott Stewart Bakula is an American actor, known for his role as Sam Beckett in the television series Quantum Leap, for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama in 1991 and was nominated for four Emmy Awards. He also had a prominent role as Captain Jonathan... |
| 13 | February 1, 1987 | "Old Spouses Never Die: Part 2" | See summary of previous episode.
Scott Bakula Scott Stewart Bakula is an American actor, known for his role as Sam Beckett in the television series Quantum Leap, for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama in 1991 and was nominated for four Emmy Awards. He also had a prominent role as Captain Jonathan... |
| 14 | February 8, 1987 | "Monette" | Monette, an old schoolmate of Charlene's, buys Chadwick mansion and asks Sugarbaker's to redecorate. At first, the women are excited about the lucrative job, but the assignment is not what they expected.
Barnet Kellman Barnet Kellman is a television and film director, television producer and film actor.- Director:* Samantha Who?* Notes from the Underbelly* Four Kings* Living with Fran* George Lopez* Alias* Mary and Rhoda* Felicity... |
| 15 | February 15, 1987 | "And Justice for Paul" | Suzanne has a client who wants period furniture on a very tight budget. The women of Sugarbaker's, with the help of Charlene's new boyfriend, find antique furniture at bargain prices but later discover that it was stolen furniture.
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| 16 | February 22, 1987 | "Reese's Friend" | Julia and Suzanne are preoccupied with a disagreement over the theme for the annual country club fund-raiser until Reese appears with a gorgeous young woman on his arm, explaining that she is a new attorney in his law firm.
Lisa Peluso Lisa Peluso is an American soap opera actress.-Biography:Peluso was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Mary Peluso. Her first big break came at the age of nine, when she starred in the Broadway production of Gypsy with Angela Lansbury... |
| 17 | March 16, 1987 | "Nashville Bound" | Charlene gets exciting news that her entire family, including all ten of her brothers and sisters, will be visiting her at the same time, but it is overshadowed when a Nashville producer discovers her.
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| 18 | March 23, 1987 | "Oh, Suzannah" | While in Reese's office to sign legal papers, Suzanne suddenly volunteers to foster a Vietnamese boat child, Li Sing, for four weeks, at which point she'll go to her adoptive home. Suzanne becomes attached to Li Sing quickly and has a hard time letting go.
Matthew Diamond Matthew Diamond is an American film and television director, producer and choreographer.He was nominated for an Academy Award in 1999 for directing the documentary film The Dancemaker... |
| 19 | April 6, 1987 | "Mary Jo's Dad Dates Charlene" | Mary Jo becomes protective when her divorced father comes to Atlanta for a visit and dances cheek-to-cheek with Charlene.
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| 20 | April 13, 1987 | "Seams from a Marriage" | Anthony enters the shop wearing a huge cowboy hat, and is proceeded by Mary Jo, who is wearing the same clothes she had on the day before, leaving everyone clamoring for an explanation.
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| 21 | May 4, 1987 | "Grand Slam, Thank You Ma'am" | Suzanne is desperate for revenge after her baseball player ex-husband, Jack Dent, writes in his autobiography that he had a lot of groupie Groupie A groupie is a person who seeks emotional and sexual intimacy with a musician or other celebrity. "Groupie" is derived from group in reference to a musical group, but the word is also used in a more general sense, especially in casual conversation.... action during his career. |
| 22 | May 11, 1987 | "Bachelor Suite" | Mary Jo finds herself the target of sexual harassment when she takes a decorating job with a wealthy client, Hence Winchester.
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Season 2 (1987–1988)
22 episodes| Episode # | Airdate | Title | Overview |
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| 23 | September 14, 1987 | "101 Ways to Decorate a Gas Station" | A grungy gas-station owner wins free interior decoration from Sugarbaker & Associates. Charlene consults a psychic about her future.
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| 24 | September 21, 1987 | "Ted Remarries" | Mary Jo has a hard time handling her children being spoiled by her ex-husband's new wife.
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| 25 | September 28, 1987 | "Anthony Jr." | Anthony goes overboard trying to impress his girlfriend's wealthy parents until an uninvited dinner guest informs him he is the father of her child.
David Trainer David Trainer is an American television director, perhaps best known for directing every episode of the FOX sitcom That '70s Show except the pilot "That '70s Pilot" . He also directed the first two seasons of the television show Boy Meets World and over 60 episodes of Designing Women... |
| 26 | October 5, 1987 | "Killing All the Right People" | Kendall Dobbs, a friend of the women of Sugarbaker's and fellow decorator, announces to the women that he is dying of AIDS and wants them to design his funeral. The news gets Mary Jo fired up at a PTA debate on birth control.
Tony Goldwyn Anthony Howard "Tony" Goldwyn is an American actor and director. He portrayed the villain Carl Bruner in Ghost, Colonel Bagley in The Last Samurai, and the voice of the title character of the Disney animated Tarzan.-Early life:... |
| 27 | October 19, 1987 | "Half an Air Bubble Off" | When Sugarbaker's acquires an eccentric client with bizarre decorating requests, the women play matchmakers by pairing him with their off-beat friend, Bernice Clifton.
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| 28 | October 26, 1987 | "Dash Goff, the Writer" | Suzanne's novelist husband visits, and she discovers he has writer's block Writer's block Writer's block is a condition, primarily associated with writing as a profession, in which an author loses the ability to produce new work. The condition varies widely in intensity. It can be trivial, a temporary difficulty in dealing with the task at hand. At the other extreme, some "blocked"... and is contemplating suicide. |
| 29 | November 9, 1987 | "Heart Attacks" | Julia's boyfriend, Reese, suffers a heart attack while arm-wrestling a law-school classmate.
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| 30 | November 16, 1987 | "Cruising" | When the Sugarbaker ladies go on a cruise, Mary Jo and Suzanne are pursued by the same man.
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| 31 | November 23, 1987 | "I'll Be Seeing You" | Charlene dreams the ladies are back in WWII and the USO. Soon, a handsome Army colonel appears at the Sugarbaker's shop, and Charlene is sure her friends have arranged his appearance as a surprise answer to her birthday wish for a soldier.
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| 32 | December 7, 1987 | "Stranded" | While Charlene, Julia, and Mary Jo get the flu on a trip to St. Louis, a snowstorm forces Suzanne and Anthony to share a motel room in Tennessee.
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| 33 | December 14, 1987 | "Howard the Date" | Out of pity, the women take a nerdy acquaintance of Mary Jo's out on a group date when he proves dateless for their high school reunion. Things take a turn, however, when Howard, formerly the nerd, develops an obnoxious ego as he brags about how he handles his "four women."
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| 34 | December 21, 1987 | "I'll Be Home For Christmas" | Charlene and Anthony portray Santa and an one of his Elves, to outsmart Mary Jo's disbelieving son on Christmas Eve. Meanwhile Suzanne hires a department store Santa Santa Claus Santa Claus is a folklore figure in various cultures who distributes gifts to children, normally on Christmas Eve. Each name is a variation of Saint Nicholas, but refers to Santa Claus... to surprise them. |
| 35 | January 4, 1988 | "Great Expectations" | Anthony is dismayed when an old prison cellmate arrives at Sugarbaker's to talk with him about a business proposition.
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| 36 | January 11, 1988 | "Second Time Around" | Charlene withdraws after being dumped by her boyfriend, Bill, who is still grieving the loss of his first wife. Julia then shares with Bill her own personal experience about losing her husband and tries to convince him that being with Charlene is okay.
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| 37 | January 18, 1988 | "Oh, Brother" | Julia and Suzanne disagree on how to handle the arrival of their half-brother, Clayton (Lewis Grizzard Lewis Grizzard Lewis McDonald Grizzard, Jr. was an American writer and humorist, known for his Southern demeanor and commentary on the American South... ) a recently discharged mental patient with hopes of becoming a stand-up comedian. |
| 38 | January 25, 1988 | "There's Some Black People Coming to Dinner" | Mary Jo gives Claudia permission to go to a school dance with a black boy, contrary to his father's wishes.
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| 39 | February 1, 1988 | "The Return of Ray Don" | Suzanne is broke after her accountant, Reggie Mac Dawson absconds with her entire life savings and faces stiff fines for back taxes, so after trying to charm Ray Don at the IRS, she sells off her possessions and considers marriage to wealthy elderly man, Wilmont Oliver.
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| 40 | February 8, 1988 | "High Rollers" | After Charlene unwittingly puts a bug in Suzanne's ear by relating the success story of Fred Smith Fred Smith -In literature:*Frederick Smith, 3rd Earl of Birkenhead , British peer and author*Frederick E. Smith , British author*Frederick M. Smith , American religious leader and author-In medicine:*Frederick W... , founder of Federal Express, Suzanne flits off to Atlantic City with Charlene and Anthony in hopes of winning a bundle to pay off debts by employing Anthony's gambling expertise. |
| 41 | February 15, 1988 | "The Incredibly Elite Bona Fide Blue-Blood Beaumont Driving Club" | Suzanne and Julia clash over a posh club's offer of membership when Julia discovers discrimination in the club's bylaws.
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| 42 | February 22, 1988 | "How Great Thou Art" | Julia is chosen to sing at a Baptist convention, but she worries about a high note in the arrangement of "How Great Thou Art". Charlene is upset when she discovers her minister is against allowing women to preach.
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| 43 | March 21, 1988 | "Ted-Bare" | On the brink of marrying a young woman, Ted begins to appreciate ex-wife Mary Jo's maturity, but his sudden attentiveness makes everyone else suspicious.
Scott Bakula Scott Stewart Bakula is an American actor, known for his role as Sam Beckett in the television series Quantum Leap, for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama in 1991 and was nominated for four Emmy Awards. He also had a prominent role as Captain Jonathan... Hal Holbrook Harold Rowe "Hal" Holbrook, Jr. is an American actor. His television roles include Abraham Lincoln in the 1976 TV series Lincoln, Hays Stowe on The Bold Ones: The Senator and Capt. Lloyd Bucher on Pueblo. He is also known for his role in the 2007 film Into the Wild, for which he was nominated for... |
| 44 | March 28, 1988 | "Reservations for Eight" | A romantic ski weekend turns into a battle of the sexes when an avalanche sidelines the Sugarbaker ladies and their boyfriends.
Hal Holbrook Harold Rowe "Hal" Holbrook, Jr. is an American actor. His television roles include Abraham Lincoln in the 1976 TV series Lincoln, Hays Stowe on The Bold Ones: The Senator and Capt. Lloyd Bucher on Pueblo. He is also known for his role in the 2007 film Into the Wild, for which he was nominated for... |
Season 3 (1988–1989)
22 episodes| Episode # | Airdate | Title | Overview |
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| 45 | November 14, 1988 | "Reservations for 12, Plus Ursula" | A voluptuous maid disrupts a romantic Thanksgiving at the beach.
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| 46 | November 21, 1988 | "The Candidate" | Julia's opinionated nature seems to work against her in a run for a seat on the local board of commissioners.
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| 47 | November 28, 1988 | "E.P., Phone Home" | Charlene has VIP Very Important Person A Very Important Person, or VIP is a person who is accorded special privileges due to his or her status or importance.Examples include celebrities, heads of state/heads of government, major employers, high rollers, politicians, high-level corporate officers, wealthy individuals, or any other... tickets to Graceland Graceland Graceland is a large white-columned mansion and estate that was home to Elvis Presley in Memphis, Tennessee. It is located at 3764 Elvis Presley Boulevard in the vast Whitehaven community about 9 miles from Downtown and less than four miles north of the Mississippi border. It currently serves as... and talks the girls and Anthony into going there with her for the weekend. While there, Julia is touched by a trucker's story of how Elvis Presley Elvis Presley Elvis Aaron Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King".... influenced his life. |
| 48 | December 5, 1988 | "Getting Married and Eating Dirt" | Bernice Clifton asks the women of Sugarbaker's to be her wedding attendants when she receives a marriage proposal from a man who has an odd habit of proposing to every woman he meets.
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| 49 | December 12, 1988 | "Big Haas and Little Falsie" | Mary Jo contemplates getting breast implants after receiving an inheritance from her uncle with the stipulation she must spend the money on something frivolous.
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| 50 | December 19, 1988 | "Hard Hats and Lovers" | Suzanne convinces Charlene that Bill will have a wandering eye if he doesn't date more before they get serious. The ladies get revenge on city construction workers across the street by telling their wives and mothers about the sexist comments they've been making.
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| 51 | January 2, 1989 | "Curtains" | Striking laborers from a textile factory protest outside Sugarbaker's. The Sugarbaker women desperately need curtains finished for a hotel job, so they decide to go to the factory and finish them on their own. After working for a while, they realize what terrible conditions the laborers had.
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| 52 | January 9, 1989 | "The Wilderness Experience" | Bernice Clifton buys herself and the women a trip to a wilderness survival course where their leadership skills are tested.
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| 53 | January 16, 1989 | "Tyrone" | Anthony acts as a mentor to a troubled youth named Tyrone. The boy appears congenial and begins helping Anthony with unloading goods at Sugarbaker's, but soon betrays Anthony and the women's trust by robbing a store. Anthony visits Tyrone at Juvenile hall Youth detention center A youth detention center, also known as a juvenile detention center , juvenile hall or, more colloquially as juvie, is a secure residential facility for young people, often termed juvenile delinquents, awaiting court hearings and/or placement in long-term care facilities and programs... and shares a story about his own past. Shavar Ross Shavar Malik Ross is an American actor, film director, screenwriter, film producer, editor, photographer, author, and entrepreneur. He is known for his recurring television roles as Dudley Ramsey on the NBC sitcom Diff'rent Strokes, and as Weasel on the ABC sitcom Family Matters.-Biography:Ross... as Tyrone |
| 54 | January 23, 1989 | "Mr. Bailey" | A recently-deceased client leaves millions of dollars as well as Sugarbaker's prepaid designing services to her cat, Mr. Bailey, and the women must find a way to honor the woman's wishes. Her home is filled with odd possessions, and the ladies assume the woman was crazy, but a delivery man enlightens them about the belongings and Mr. Bailey's famous past.
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| 55 | February 13, 1989 | "The Naked Truth" | Julia sends Mary Jo, Charlene, and Anthony to visit a new client, but they are shocked to find that, unbeknown to Julia, the client lives in a nudist camp. Julia and Suzanne's two nieces visit them at work and stay over at their homes, and they discover that the nieces have nearly identically personalities to Julia and Suzanne.[Note: Guest stars Dixie Carter Dixie Carter Dixie Virginia Carter was an American film, television and stage actress, best known for her role as Julia Sugarbaker in the CBS sitcom Designing Women... 's real life daughters, Ginna and Mary Dixie.] |
| 56 | February 20, 1989 | "The Junies" | Charlene, trying to help out a friend, becomes a part-time saleswoman for "Lady June" cleaning products. Soon, she doesn't need or want the job anymore, but other workers pressure her into staying. Julia decides the job is similar to a cult and decides to rescue Charlene. Meanwhile, Anthony's junior college is trying to get students more involved with pride events like homecoming, and Anthony is strangely nominated as his school's homecoming queen.
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| 57 | February 27, 1989 | "One Sees, the Other Doesn't" | Suzanne returns from a week-long stay at a spa where she spent $2,000 and is upset when the other women say she looks the same. She proclaims that any man would appreciate her radiance. The next man who enters Sugarbaker's & Associates is a client who Suzanne doesn't know is blind, and she tries to show off for him. The other women introduce him as Danny Hedgecock, which he amusedly follows with "...Blind Guy". Suzanne is relieved to find out she's not losing her touch. She's soon surprised to discover that the man—a rich, intelligent humanitarian—is attracted to her. She and the other women have a hard time accepting that anyone is attracted to her personality. Mary Jo struggles to figure out how to design the man's house, since she can't show him samples and sketches.
Tom Sullivan (singer) Tom Sullivan is an American performer, author, and motivational speaker.-Personal life:Sullivan was born and raised in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, the son of Marie C. and Thomas J. Sullivan, who owned a saloon. His premature birth caused him to need oxygen treatment while in an incubator... |
| 58 | March 6, 1989 | "Odell" | Charlene's brother Odell visits with important news: he's marrying the daughter of a longtime rival of their family. Soon, the fathers of both teens show up at Sugarbaker's and begin fighting. Bernice asks Anthony to be her partner in a dance contest.
Dwayne Hickman Dwayne Bernard Hickman is a former American actor and television executive at CBS.He is known primarily for his "teenage" actor roles on television sitcoms. The naturally brown-headed Hickman is best known for playing Chuck MacDonald, Bob Collins's crazy teenaged nephew, on the popular 1950s... |
| 59 | March 13, 1989 | "Full Moon" | The women share their most embarrassing moments after Julia accidentally moons Mooning Mooning is the act of displaying one's bare buttocks by removing clothing, e.g., by lowering the backside of one's trousers and underpants, usually bending over, whether also exposing the genitals or not... the audience at a fashion show. Mary Jo is suddenly afraid that her 16-year-old daughter, Claudia, might have sex with her boyfriend and decides to spy on her. Suzanne asks Anthony to stay over at her house for the night because she's afraid of her neighbors who keep threatening to shoot her pet pig. |
| 60 | March 20, 1989 | "Ms. Meal Ticket" | Just as J.D. moves in with Mary Jo, he loses his job. Enjoying himself while waiting to find work, Mary Jo becomes afraid that J.D. will be dependent on her and never work again, which sparks a fight and J.D. leaves. A psychic whom Charlene consults with ends up talking to Mary Jo and helping her come to grips with her real fears about the situation.
Hal Holbrook Harold Rowe "Hal" Holbrook, Jr. is an American actor. His television roles include Abraham Lincoln in the 1976 TV series Lincoln, Hays Stowe on The Bold Ones: The Senator and Capt. Lloyd Bucher on Pueblo. He is also known for his role in the 2007 film Into the Wild, for which he was nominated for... |
| 61 | March 27, 1989 | "The Engagement" | When Charlene, now happily engaged, goes to meet her in-laws, she's terrified that she won't be good enough for Bill's mother. She regularly calls Julia on the phone to question her about etiquette. After breaking up with J.D., Mary Jo gets asked out by a younger man and ends up at a keg party.
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| 62 | April 10, 1989 | "Come on and Marry Me, Bill" | The ladies throw a party with all of Charlene's relatives to celebrate her wedding which will take place the next day. Bill heads to his stag party Bachelor party A bachelor party , also known as a stag party, stag night or stag do , a bull's party , or a buck's party or buck's night , is a party held for a man shortly before he enters marriage, to celebrate his "last night of freedom" or merely to spend... where he reluctantly watches a Latin exotic dancer Exotic dancer The terms exotic dancer and exotic dance can have different meanings in different parts of the world and depending on context. In the erotic sense, "exotic dance" is a often used to refer to practitioners of striptease... and ends up handcuffed to her. The dancer, unfortunately, has forgotten to bring the key to the handcuffs, and soon Charlene becomes worried about what is going on when Bill doesn't answer the phone. |
| 63 | May 1, 1989 | "The Women of Atlanta" | Charlene and Mary Jo meet a photographer who wants to take pictures of them, along with Julia and Suzanne, for a magazine article focusing on the women of Atlanta and their occupations. Julia distrusts him from the beginning and after he has the women change into sexier outfits and strike suggestive poses, she becomes furious and kicks him out.
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| 64 | May 8, 1989 | "Stand and Fight" | A shaken Mary Jo comes to work and recounts to Anthony and the women how she was mugged Robbery Robbery is the crime of taking or attempting to take something of value by force or threat of force or by putting the victim in fear. At common law, robbery is defined as taking the property of another, with the intent to permanently deprive the person of that property, by means of force or fear.... . After she describes how she was too frightened to fight back against her attacker, Anthony gives her the name of a self-defense Self-defense Self-defense, self-defence or private defense is a countermeasure that involves defending oneself, one's property or the well-being of another from physical harm. The use of the right of self-defense as a legal justification for the use of force in times of danger is available in many... class at the community center where he sometimes volunteers. The four women all attend the class, but Mary Jo still struggles to fight. Later, alone in a parking garage, she's confronted by a stranger who touches her shoulder and she suddenly remembers what she was taught and yells at the man to back off. She proudly tells Julia of her victory, and a few minutes later, the man she fought off enters Sugarbaker's. It turns out he's actually D.B. LeBoof, a new client, who had recognized Mary Jo from a magazine picture. |
| 65 | May 15, 1989 | "The Last Humorously-Dressed Bellboy in America" | The women discover that Reggie Mac Dawson, the account who absconded with Suzanne's life savings, is working as bellboy Bellhop A bellhop, also bellboy or bellman, is a hotel porter, who helps patrons with their luggage while checking in or out. Bellhops often wear a uniform , like certain other page boys or doormen... /pianist in a hotel. Suzanne confronts him, demanding he return her money, but Reggie Mac instead spends what's left of the money by purchasing a circus for Suzanne. |
| 66 | May 22, 1989 | "Julia Drives Over the First Amendment" | A local newsstand begins displaying a large, smutty Obscenity An obscenity is any statement or act which strongly offends the prevalent morality of the time, is a profanity, or is otherwise taboo, indecent, abhorrent, or disgusting, or is especially inauspicious... poster of a woman to advertise its pornographic magazines. Julia tires of seeing it on her way to work each morning and becomes so angry that she drives her car through it. The newsstand owner keeps putting sexy posters up, and Julia continues to drive through them. A lawsuit ensues, pitting Julia up against a very determined magazine publisher. |
Season 4 (1989–1990)
28 episodes| Episode # | Airdate | Title | Overview |
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| 67 | September 18, 1989 | "The Proxy Pig and Great Pretenders" | Suzanne, desperate to mother something or someone since her beloved pet pig, Noel, ran away, ends up nursing Anthony back to health after he injures his back carrying her marble-top table down the stairs and his health insurance lapses. Belva McPherson, a rich, snobby acquaintance of Mary Jo's comes to town and, to impress her, Mary Jo claims that a mansion she's decorating is her own home.
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| 68 | September 25, 1989 | "One Night with You" | Julia discovers that Donald Stillman, a terminally-ill man who was a classmate of hers, has a last wish: to spend one night with her. She can't find his picture in her yearbook and has no memory of him at all. She dresses up, against Suzanne's advice, and meets with him at a restaurant, with no intention of going any further than dinner. Donald turns out to be a charming—albeit geeky—astronomer, and Julia finds herself attracted to him. She admits that she's already in a relationship, and they simply spend the night dancing. Suzanne, Mary Jo, Charlene and Anthony decide to spy on Donald and Julia.
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| 69 | October 2, 1989 | "There She Is" | While preparing for Charlene's baby shower, Charlene, Mary Jo and Julia are surprised by a visit from the Director of Pageants for Miss Georgia. While putting past voting information onto computers, an error was discovered and it turns out that Suzanne actually came in second place, not first. The women try to find a delicate way to break the news to Suzanne that she must relinquish the crown she won 15 years earlier, but in the end Suzanne believes everything will work out to her advantage. Her prediction comes true when, in the ceremony where the crown is set to change hands, the true Miss Georgia reveals that she slept with one of the judges to get a better score, and Suzanne keeps her crown.
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| 70 | October 16, 1989 | "Nightmare from Hee Haw" | The Sugarbaker women and their mates take a canoe trip in the Georgia backwoods, but while unwinding in a bar/diner later that night, some large countrymen get it set in their minds that they want to dance with the women and will do whatever it takes to make that happen.
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| 71 | October 23, 1989 | "The Girlfriend" | Anthony introduces his new girlfriend, Lita, to the women and they immediately dislike her. The women are desperate to get a remodeling job done when they must fire their handyman for slacking off. Anthony offers his services, and hires some of his ex-convict friends to help him. Anthony's eager to prove himself, but his friends cut corners with much of the material and Anthony would rather tell the truth to the women than do a shoddy job.
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| 72 | October 30, 1989 | "The Rowdy Girls" | While she is helping the Sugarbaker women choreograph a Supremes lip-synch routine, Charlene's favorite cousin inadvertently reveals that she is a victim of domestic violence. Note: Kim Zimmer Kim Zimmer Kim Zimmer is an American actress. She is known for her role as Echo DiSavoy on One Life to Live and best known for her role as Reva Shayne on Guiding Light.-Career:... guest stars. |
| 73 | November 13, 1989 | "Bernice's Sanity Hearing" | Bernice's niece tries to have her declared incompetent because of her sometimes bizarre behavior. The women must testify for her.
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| 74 | November 20, 1989 | "Julia Gets Her Head Stuck in a Fence" | Sugarbaker's is hired to decorated the Governor's mansion for its annual ball. Anthony receives an invitation to the ball, but Suzanne is dismayed when she doesn't. After decorating the "Abbott banister" at the mansion, Julia is persuaded by the others to do something silly and winds up with her head stuck in the banister, which cannot be cut due to its historical significance.
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| 75 | November 27, 1989 | "Julia and Suzanne's Big Adventure" | Julia and Suzanne go to Japan to visit their mother. After learning she is visiting a sick friend in Paris, they are robbed of their money and luggage. Anthony and Mary Jo call in votes to a television poll and later realize they owe an enormous phone bill.
Dwayne Hickman Dwayne Bernard Hickman is a former American actor and television executive at CBS.He is known primarily for his "teenage" actor roles on television sitcoms. The naturally brown-headed Hickman is best known for playing Chuck MacDonald, Bob Collins's crazy teenaged nephew, on the popular 1950s... |
| 76 | December 4, 1989 | "Manhunt" | Desperately single Mary Jo, worried that her busy schedule will condemn her to a life alone, accepts coaching from Suzanne as she plans a weekend manhunt.
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| 77 | December 11, 1989 | "They Shoot Fat Women, Don't They?" | Anthony gets Julia and the others involved in a two-day world hunger event to end its starvation in Ethiopia. Meanwhile, Suzanne, in denial of her weight gain since high school, is preparing to attend her 15th class reunion.
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| 78 | December 18, 1989 | "You Got to Have Friends" | Mary Jo takes a second job at a fast food place when Ted's child support payment is late. Anthony, Bernice and Julia come face to face with her while they are in line at "Burger Guy" to get something to eat.
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| 79 | January 1, 1990 | "The First Day of the Last Decade of the Entire Twentieth Century: Part 2" |
Suzanne and Mary Jo rush Charlene to the hospital when she goes into labor on New Year's Eve and with a desire to deliver the first New Year's baby. Dolly Parton plays Charlene's "guardian movie star," who comes to her in a dream with news of her baby's birth and Bernice goes for an unexpected ambulance ride.
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| 80 | January 1, 1990 | "The First Day of the Last Decade of the Entire Twentieth Century: Part 2" | See plot summary above
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| 81 | January 8, 1990 | "The Mistress" | The ladies are hired by a wealthy stockbroker, Ancel Pollard, to decorate a house for a client's wife as well as a condo for his mistress. Suzanne is sure that straight-laced Julia and Mary Jo will never go through with the assignment.
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| 82 | January 15, 1990 | "The Fur Flies" | The fur flies at a fashion show where Suzanne's after-dinner mink causes a riot among animal-rights activists. Charlene brings Olivia to Sugarbaker's while she looks for a nanny.
Hal Holbrook Harold Rowe "Hal" Holbrook, Jr. is an American actor. His television roles include Abraham Lincoln in the 1976 TV series Lincoln, Hays Stowe on The Bold Ones: The Senator and Capt. Lloyd Bucher on Pueblo. He is also known for his role in the 2007 film Into the Wild, for which he was nominated for... |
| 83 | January 29, 1990 | "Oh, what a Feeling" | Their delivery van breaks down stranding Anthony with a nasty client in the middle of the freeway and in a rain storm. The ladies need to get a van to finish the delivery, by midnight so they decide to buy a new one. They end up dealing with a sexist used car salesman.
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| 84 | February 5, 1990 | "Anthony and Vanessa" | Hired for a temporary job at Sugarbaker's, Anthony's friend Vanessa learns the tricks of the trade from Suzanne and then goes to work reeling in Anthony. Mary Jo and Charlene try to figure out why Rusty the electrician wears his pants so low. While Suzanne is watching Unsolved Mysteries, she discovers that the baby nurse is as a con-artist and counterfeiter.
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| 85 | February 19, 1990 | "Payne Grows Up" | Julia is not pleased to learn that Payne is graduating early in order to marry his pregnant girlfriend. Upset at becoming a grandmother so soon, Julia gets tipsy at the wedding, then wakes up mortified -- and scantily clad -- the next day with Payne's frat house roommate (Young).
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| 86 | February 26, 1990 | "Tornado Watch" | Julia, Suzanne, Mary-Jo, Anthony and Charlene must endure being stranded for the duration of a tornado watch with Bernice, a hillbilly, a sexually disfunctional client and Anthony's ex-girlfriend.
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| 87 | March 12, 1990 | "Tough Enough" | A redecorating job for a sports account is right down Sugarbaker's alley especially when it pits the women against a macho, over-confident designer from an all-male firm. They are determined to steal one of their prized clients, Cherokee Lanes Bowling Alley, in retaliation for them stealing one of theirs. They discover they must pose as regular bowlers to get the account.
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| 88 | March 19, 1990 | "It's a Wonderful Life" | Charlene feels unattractive since having the baby and suspects that Bill is having an affair. When she confronts him, they have a huge argument. To bring back the romance in their relationship, Julia, Mary Jo, and Anthony decide to recreate where Bill and Charlene spent their first date.
Thom Bray Thomas Edward "Thom" Bray is an American actor perhaps best known for his role as Murray "Boz" Bozinsky in the detective TV series Riptide.... , Michael Ross |
| 89 | April 30, 1990 | "Foreign Affairs" | Suzanne's maid Consuela, is threatened with deportation. Anthony pretends to be her, even wearing a dress, to help her.
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| 90 | April 9, 1990 | "Suzanne Goes Looking For A Friend" | A former beauty queen and current television weather forecaster announces her "coming out Coming out Coming out is a figure of speech for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people's disclosure of their sexual orientation and/or gender identity.... ", causing a confused Suzanne to think she means she's the world's oldest debutante and to accept Eugenia's invitation to join her at a television industry dinner. |
| 91 | May 7, 1990 | "Have Faith" | Mary Jo attends church with Julia and Charlene and ends up dating the minister. Anthony gets his clothing stolen at a baseball game.
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| 92 | May 9, 1990 | "Their Finest Hour" | An hour-long clip show of highlights from the previous seasons including a razor-tongued Julia standing up for Suzanne against an insolent beauty pageant contestant, Julia defending Bernice's eccentricities, Mary Jo commenting on men and bra sizes, Charlene wondering about everything from killer bees to the personal habits of other women, Suzanne displaying a series of wacky dresses, and Anthony being plagued by a variety of indignities.
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| 93 | May 14, 1990 | "Anthony's Graduation" | As if Anthony weren't under enough stress over his impending graduation, and a visit from his grandmother, he is shot in the leg by Suzanne, when she mistakes him for an intruder.
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| 94 | May 21, 1990 | "La Place sans Souci" | Julia, Mary Jo, Suzanne, Charlene, and Anthony go to a posh spa. After Suzanne and Charlene are put on the weight loss program and Julia and Mary Jo are put on the weight gain program, tempers flare. They end up getting kicked out of the resort after flinging mud at each other from the thermal mud bath.
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Season 5 (1990–1991)
24 episodes| Episode # | Airdate | Title | Overview |
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| 95 | September 17, 1990 | "Blast from the Past" | Sugarbaker'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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| 96 | September 24, 1990 | "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" | During Anthony's 30th birthday, he ends up meeting the father he never knew.
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| 97 | October 1, 1990 | "Working Mother" | Resentment 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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| 98 | October 15, 1990 | "Miss Trial" | Julia may have to miss her reception with former President Carter when she is sequestered while on jury duty. Suzanne, Anthony and Charline invade at a record store.
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| 99 | October 22, 1990 | "The Bachelor Auction" | When 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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| 100 | October 29, 1990 | "Charlene Buys a House" | Charlene buys a house that is haunted by the former owner. She hires Sugarbaker's to make some decorating improvements and the ladies have to stay the night in the haunted house.
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| 101 | November 5, 1990 | "Old Rebels and Young Models" | Charlene's baby auditions for a modeling job.
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| 102 | November 12, 1990 | "Nowhere to Run" | Mary Jo takes up jogging and invites Julia to come along. Soon Julia goes overboard, only focusing on running, so she will get in shape for her annual physical.
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| 103 | November 19, 1990 | "A Class Act" | Anthony becomes a full partner in Sugarbaker's and this creates some adjustment issues for Suzanne. Charlene begins take classes part time and has to fend off an amorous psychology professor.
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| 104 | November 26, 1990 | "Keep the Homes Fires Burning" | Charlene misses her husband Bill who's been sent to the Persian Gulf Persian Gulf The Persian Gulf, in Southwest Asia, is an extension of the Indian Ocean located between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula.The Persian Gulf was the focus of the 1980–1988 Iran-Iraq War, in which each side attacked the other's oil tankers... . She dreams back in time when the United States enters the war following the attack on Pearl Harbor of December 7, 1941. |
| 105 | December 10, 1990 | "My Daughter, Myself" | Mary Jo forbids her nearly 18-year-old daughter to date a 34-year-old man. She then decides to date him herself. Julia crashes the men's restroom at a football stadium after waiting in line forever for the women's restroom.
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| 106 | December 17, 1990 | "And now, Here's Bernice" | Bernice gets a local Public-access television Public-access television Public-access television is a form of non-commercial mass media where ordinary people can create content television programming which is cablecast through cable TV specialty channels... cable TV show and discusses Sugabaker's on air. After Mary Jo has her heart broken, she decides that she needs to warn women about men like this and uses Bernice's show to out them. |
| 107 | January 7, 1991 | "Pearls of Wisdom" | Mary Jo switches her knock off pearls for Suzanne's real ones and then loses them in an all you can eat salad bar. Suzanne subs on the local news as a lifestyle reporter. A recurring dream about Julia upsets Anthony.
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| 108 | January 14, 1991 | "High Noon in the Laundry Room" | After Anthony's laundry room is taken over by a group of thugs, he's afraid that confronting by the thugs might spark a big brawl. The ladies arrive in the laundry room just in time to come to his rescue.
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| 109 | January 28, 1991 | "How Long Has This Been Going On? How Long Has This Been Going On? "How Long Has This Been Going On?" is a song composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin for the musical "Funny Face" in 1928.Replaced by "He Loves and She Loves" in Funny Face, it was eventually introduced in the musical Rosalie by Bobbe Arnst.-Notable recordings:*Audrey Hepburn in... " |
Everyone at Sugarbaker's is shocked when they discover Julia has been secretly performing at a local night club (under the name of Gizelle). Anthony wants to date a beautiful woman who works at the local bookstore, then realizes the woman is rude, loud.
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| 110 | February 4, 1991 | "The Emperor's New Nose" | Bernice gets a botched face lift, liposuction work, and a (bad) nose job that makes her look like a pig. Suzanne buys a Cadillac after driving one as a loaner while her Mercedes is in the shop. The girls can't stop complimenting her on it, while secretly laughing at it. While shopping with Charlene, Bernice actually gets mistakened for Miss Piggy by a little boy and his mother. Bernice finally decides to get reconstructive surgery.
Thom Bray Thomas Edward "Thom" Bray is an American actor perhaps best known for his role as Murray "Boz" Bozinsky in the detective TV series Riptide.... |
| 111 | February 11, 1991 | "Maybe, Baby" | Mary Jo told J.D. that she wants a baby and has to decide how to do it, while Suzanne decides she's going to smoke to lose weight.
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| 112 | February 25, 1991 | "This is Art?" | After Julia's purse accidentally gets mistaken for art and sold at a local art show, she becomes a locally famous artist. Suzanne glues her mouth shut while repairing a broken fingernail and is mistaken for a mime at the art show, and Mary Jo finds new ways to fix the ding on Charlene's car in which Mary Jo accidentally creates it.
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| 113 | March 4, 1991 | Blame It On New Orleans | The ladies attend a convention in New Orleans. Mary Jo has a fling with a man who turns out to be married.
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| 114 | March 18, 1991 | I'll See You In Court | Mary Jo runs across the man who mugged her the year before, but faces horrendous judicial red tape to bring him to trial. Suzanne takes Bernice and her friends to the mall under threat of Julia's wrath and then begins doing it on a regular basis.
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| 115 | Airdate not available | The Big Circle | After Reese dies, Suzanne helps a despondent Julia plan a getaway cruise; only to have a former client, young Randa Oliver, arrive on her doorstep needing a place to stay.
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| 116 | Airdate not available | Friends And Husbands | Charlene quits the children's-book project with Mary Jo's upon Bill's return from the Middle East. Bernice takes videos hoping to get them on television. Julia fails her driver's test.
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| 117 | May 6, 1991 | "Fore!" | Anthony is invited to be the first black in the previously all-white Beaumont Country Club, which concerns Suzanne because she is worried that it is only because they want to get on the PGA tour PGA Tour The PGA Tour is the organizer of the main men's professional golf tours in the United States and North America... . |
| 118 | Airdate not available | "Pride of the Sugarbakers" | Mary Jo and Julia demonstrate different coaching styles when Sugarbaker's sponsors a Little League team on which Quint and Randa both play. Suzanne's new car seems to be a magnet for foul balls. [Note: this is to be Delta Burke's final appearance on the series.]
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Season 6 (1991–1992)
23 episodes| Episode # | Airdate | Title | Overview |
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| 119 | September 16, 1991 | "The Big Desk: Part 1" | Plot summary not available [Note: Julia Duffy Julia Duffy Julia Duffy is an American actress from Minneapolis, Minnesota, specializing in character roles, best known as the spoiled rich girl and Dick Loudon's inn maid, Stephanie Vanderkellen, on the 1980s sitcom, Newhart.-Career:Duffy's early caeer included parts in soap operas such as One Life to Live,... and Jan Hooks Jan Hooks Janet V. "Jan" Hooks is an American actress and comedienne best known for her work on NBC's Saturday Night Live , on which she appeared from 1986 to 1991... join the cast.]
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| 120 | September 16, 1991 | "The Big Desk: Part 2" | Sugarbaker cousin and the new not-so-silent partner Allison tries to take charge of Sugarbaker's and Julia is not too thrilled. Also, Charlene's younger sister Carlene arrives and reveals she's divorcing her husband. [Note: Jean Smart Jean Smart Jean E. Smart is an American film, television, and stage actress. She is known for her comedic roles, one of the best known being her role as Charlene Frazier Stillfield on the CBS sitcom Designing Women. She later gained critical acclaim for dramatic work, with her portrayal of Martha Logan on 24... 's final appearance on the series; she is credited as a "special guest star."] |
| 121 | September 23, 1991 | "A Toe in the Water" | Julia thinks she's ready to resume dating, but Alison disagrees, questioning the manliness of Julia's new beau. Meanwhile, Allison and Anthony continue to bicker about who owns Suzanne's house, until Anthony obtains an affidavit asserting his right to occupy the house -- and allows Allison to stay on only as her personal servant.
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| 122 | September 30, 1991 | "Dwayne's World" | Mary Jo protectively takes divorcee Carlene under her wing -- going overboard with a lie about Carlene's latest flame -- when ex-hubby Dwayne shows up to sweep Carlene off her feet again.
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| 123 | October 7, 1991 | "Most Marriage Foul" | When Allison's ex-convict former flame (whom she turned in for insider trading) is released, she fears he is plotting revenge, instead, he proposes to her.
David Steinberg David Steinberg is a Canadian comedian, actor, writer, director, and author. At the height of his popularity, during the late 1960s and early 1970s, he was one of the best-known stand-up comics in the United States... |
| 124 | October 14, 1991 | "Picking A Winner" | Mary Jo turns to a sperm bank to get pregnant, prompting mixed reactions at work. Meanwhile, Julia threatens to rip the draperies from the windows of the home of a wealthy client whose payment is overdue.
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| 125 | October 21, 1991 | "Last Tango Tango Tango in its most general sense refers to:*Tango , a social dance form including Argentine, Uruguayan, and international ballroom tango*Tango music, a genre of music that originated in Argentina and Uruguay... in Atlanta" |
Allison gets a bad hairdo from a ponytailed stylist. The women help out at an outreach program at Anthony's old prison and are stuck in a room with T-Tommy Reed during a prison riot Prison riot A prison riot is an act of concerted defiance or disorder by a group of prisoners against the prison administrators, prison officers, or other groups of prisoners in attempt to force change or express a grievance.... . He takes a liking to Allison and makes her feel better about her hairdo. After the women leave the jail Allison receives a package from T-Tommy with the stylist's ponytail in it. Thom Bray Thomas Edward "Thom" Bray is an American actor perhaps best known for his role as Murray "Boz" Bozinsky in the detective TV series Riptide.... , Michael Ross |
| 126 | November 4, 1991 | "The Strange Case of Clarence and Anita" | The Sugarbaker women take sides on the controversial confirmation hearings of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas Clarence Thomas Clarence Thomas is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Succeeding Thurgood Marshall, Thomas is the second African American to serve on the Court.... and Anita Hill's accusation of sexual harassment: Mary Jo and Julia side with Hill and Allison with Thomas. Conflict spills over into Allison's birthday party, where Mary Jo and Julia turn up in costume just in time to hear a television interview about the hearings with Allison. |
| 127 | November 11, 1991 | "Just Say Doe | When Mary Jo's womanizing brother visits, falls for Allison, and takes her and Quinton on a deer-hunting trip, the women secretly tag along.
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| 128 | November 18, 1991 | "Julia And Rusty, Sittin In A Tree" | Julia is pressured into a second date with Rusty and ends up setting up Mary Jo with one of Rusty's friends. Carlene and Allison go out with some junior-college guys. Anthony tags along to the drive-in with Bernice to keep an eye on things.
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| 129 | December 1, 1991 | "Julia And Mary Jo Get Stuck Under A Bed" | Sugarbaker's enters a Christmas design contest, but are worried about their ideas being copied. While checking one of the competitor's designs out, Julia and Mary Jo have to hide under a promiscuous anchorman's bed to avoid being caught in his house.
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| 130 | December 9, 1991 | "Real, Scary Men" | When their van breaks down the women become unwelcome guests at a men's club retreat Wildman Sanctuary, where Anthony is trying to land a new account.
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| 131 | December 16, 1991 | "Tales Out Of School" | Anthony sees opportunity when his normally unfriendly law professor is attracted to Carlene and invites the two of them to his annual Christmas party.
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| 132 | January 6, 1992 | "Driving My Mama Back Home" | Julia and Mary Jo take Mary Jo's mother home on an overnight bus trip. Allison, Carlene and Anthony get locked in the storeroom while taking inventory.
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| 133 | January 13, 1992 | "Payne Comes Home" | Following marital problems, Payne returns home.
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| 134 | January 20, 1992 | "Carlene's New Apartment" | Carlene invites Julia, Mary Jo, Allison, Anthony and Bernice to a sleepover to celebrate her finding her own apartment. They end up fleeing in the middle of the night.
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| 135 | February 3, 1992 | "Mamed" | A tough-talking, hard-drinking, temperamental Broadway has-been promises to make Julia rue the day that she stole the role of Mame from her in Anthony's community-theater production. But on opening night she is too drunk to perform and Anthony is pressed into taking on the role.
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| 136 | February 10, 1992 | "A Scene From A Mall" | Mall security guards accuse Anthony of criminal activities when he is standing outside a jewelry store. Julia stages a sit-in at the mall to protest his unfair treatment.
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| 137 | March 2, 1992 | "All About Odes To Atlanta" | Carlene enters an Atlanta theme-song contest and convinces Mary Jo and Julia to perform her jingle with her at the contest finals. Shortly after entering Carlene gets a groupie who wants to be as helpful as she can with the contest. She turns out to be a competitor in the jingle contest who is trying to sabotage Carlene's chance at winning.
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| 138 | March 9, 1992 | "I Enjoy Being A Girl" | On an overnight Girl Scout outing, Carlene's leadership abilities take a beating, while Allison's methods seem to charm the spoiled troopers, and Mary Jo and Julia advocate roughing it.
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| 139 | March 23, 1992 | "L.A. Story" | Allison invests in a Hollywood film, then brings everyone to director Charles Nelson Reilly Charles Nelson Reilly Charles Nelson Reilly was an American actor, comedian, director and drama teacher known for his comedic roles in theater, movies, children's television, animated cartoons, and as a panelist on the game show Match Game.... 's home. He has no idea who they are and Allison learns she has basically been conned out of her $25,000 investment. |
| 140 | April 27, 1992 | "A Little Night Music" | Julia strolls down memory lane while awaiting the results of hysterectomy tests at a hospital whose workers are on strike, and a surgeon turns out to be her prescription for romance.
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| 141 | May ?, 1992 | "Shades of Vanessa" | The Sugarbaker women use Anthony as "date bait" to reel in a big account involving a hotelier's flamboyant debutante daughter who's angling for a whopper of a deal, then Anthony announces he is marrying Vanessa who intends to become a partner in Sugarbaker's. (Guest starring Jackee)
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Season 7 (1992–1993)
22 episodes| Episode # | Airdate | Title | Overview |
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| 142 | September 25, 1992 | "Of Human Bondage" | After cousin Allison leaves Sugarbaker's, Julia needs cash but is refused a bank loan. To cheer themselves up, the women play poker with a wealthy client who wins the business from them. Sugarbaker's could use an infusion of cash, and at a rowdy party given by potential new client B.J., the gals kick up their heels in wild abandon. [Note: Judith Ivey Judith Ivey Judith Lee Ivey is an American actress and director.-Personal life:Ivey was born in El Paso, Texas, the daughter of Dorothy Lee , a teacher, and Nathan Aldean Ivey, a college instructor and dean. She spent 1965-1968 in Dowagiac, Michigan, where she attended Union High School through tenth grade... joins the cast as B.J.; for the final season the show no longer has an opening theme song, instead displaying the actors' names over the beginning of the actual episode.]
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| 143 | October 2, 1992 | "Sex and the Single Woman" | Carlene spends the night with her visiting ex-husband, then admits she was just using him for sex.
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| 144 | October 16, 1992 | "Mary Jo vs. the Terminator" | After Mary Jo asks Julia to proofread a letter for her, Julia completely rewrites it, annoying Mary Jo. Mary Jo ends up telling off bossy Julia at a fashion runway show. B.J. angers vegetarians.
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| 145 | October 23, 1992 | "On the Road Again" | In an attempt at spontaneity, a carefree Mary Jo takes off for Nashville for "a hen party on wheels" with Julia and Bernice, but they become terrified when a trucker that Bernice flirted with at a diner pursues them. Meanwhile, back at the office, Carlene and Anthony put their noses to the grindstone studying for midterms.
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| 146 | October 30, 1991 | "Screaming Passages" | Julia fears the emotional roller coaster of menopause.
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| 147 | November 6, 1992 | "Viva Las Vegas" (1) | After Vanessa calls off their wedding, Anthony joins the gang on a getaway to Las Vegas, where he nurses his broken heart in the company of a show stopping showgirl he impulsively weds.
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| 148 | November 13, 1992 | "Fools Rush In" (2) | BJ offers to help a desperate Anthony, who invents various schemes to extricate himself from his hasty marriage to a Las Vegas showgirl.
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| 149 | November 20, 1992 | "Love Letters" | A steamy love letter from another woman is found in James' safe-deposit box and shatters B.J.'s image of her late husband as a faithful companion worthy of her trust, but the letter that her late husband's faithful companion was 36 years old. Meanwhile, reveling in the destruction of her old car, a symbol of her days as a suburban housewife, Mary Jo goes wild in a new red convertible.
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| 150 | December 4, 1992 | "The Vision Thing" | Etienne drives Anthony crazy trying to be the perfect wife.
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| 151 | December 11, 1992 | "Trial and Error" | Law student Anthony helps Mary Jo in court in a case involving her defective freezer.
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| 152 | January 8, 1993 | "Too Dumb to Date" | Mary Jo dates a handsome idiot, who she has little in common with.
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| 153 | January 15, 1993 | "The Odyssey" | B.J.'s contribution to the Democratic Party gets the Sugarbaker crew invited to the Inaugural Ball, but the trip proves to be a party for no one, even Julia, who struggles to maintain a cheery disposition in the face of disaster as bad weather forces a change in plans.
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| 154 | January 22, 1993 | "Oh Dog, Poor Dog" | After eye surgery, Bernice overhears the gals talk of putting Mary Jo's dog out of its misery and figures they're planning her own mercy killing, so she barricades herself inside the storeroom. Meanwhile, Julia gets caught listening to a London phone line which plays tapes of Princess Diana's private conversations with her boyfriend.
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| 155 | February 5, 1993 | "Wedding Redux" | Anthony and Etienne renew their vows for Etienne's visiting parents and Anthony's grandmother at a ceremony at B.J.'s, where anything that could go wrong does.
Mimi Pond Mimi Pond is a cartoonist and a writer.Her highest profile work was for The Simpsons, writing the first full-length broadcast episode, "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" in 1989. However, she is primarily a cartoonist and illustrator, beginning in the early 1980s for publications such as the... |
| 156 | February 12, 1993 | "Nude Julia, New York Morning" | While attending a gallery art show of a former teacher of Julia's, Mary Jo, Anthony, Carlene, B.J. and Julia discover a nude painting on display that he painted of Julia.
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| 157 | March 5, 1993 | "Sex, Lies and Bad Hair Days" | B.J.'s dating adventures take a turn for the worse on her birthday, when a bad-hair day and two miserable blind dates have her vowing to give up men, so Julia tries to cheer her up by getting her a date with a really nice fellow.
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| 158 | March 12, 1993 | "Shovel Off to Buffalo" | When the face of Elvis appears on her snow shovel, Mary Jo wants to get rid of it. Her neighbor sees it and when she tries to convince him its just a coincidence, he regains his hearing and believes she is a miracle worker. At the end of the episode the face on the shovel mysteriously disappears.
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| 159 | April 2, 1993 | "It's Not So Easy Being Green" | When Etienne's successful writer friend visits Anthony is jealous of the vivid past he shares with her. He tries to be gracious by throwing a signing party for him.
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| 160 | April 30, 1993 | "The Woman Who Came to Sugarbakers" | Julia's overbearing former school mistress visits and annoys everyone at Sugarbaker's. After Julia tells them she is only there because of ghostly instructions from her dead husband telling her to "Go to Julia", they decide to have a seance to try to force her to leave.
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| 161 | May 7, 1993 | "The Lying Game" | Carlene is confused by her new beau Eric's unusual habit of cross-dressing. To try to understand him, she begins cross-dressing.
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| 162 | May 24, 1993 | "Gone With a Whim" (1) | With Sugarbaker's in such bad financial shape, the ladies are grateful when B.J. gets them a job redecorating a house that resembles the great home from Gone With The Wind Gone with the Wind The slaves depicted in Gone with the Wind are primarily loyal house servants, such as Mammy, Pork and Uncle Peter, and these slaves stay on with their masters even after the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 sets them free... - until they find out that the new lady of the house plans to rip out the grand staircase and replace it with an elevator. To make matters worse, B.J. finds out that their client is trying to take over Poteet Industries and plans to give Sugarbaker's to his young bride Kiki - renaming it "Kikibaker's". |
| 163 | May 24, 1993 | "Gone With a Whim" (2) | With Julia continuing to fight to save the antebellum Kearney mansion, B.J. struggles to save Sugarbaker's and Poteet Industries from a takeover from the Kearneys. However, despite their efforts, Kiki Kearney announces her new plans for "Kikibaker's", Lester Kearney announces that the purchase of Poteet Industries is complete, and the modernizing of the mansion gets underway. Anthony and the women are fired for insubordination, but when Craig, a friend of Mary Jo's, stumbles on some embarrassing news about the Kearneys' illegal financial activities, Poteet Industries and Sugarbaker's are saved from the takeover. [Note: the series was canceled after this episode was filmed, making it the de facto series finale.]
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Reunion shows
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| N/A | July 28, 2003 | "The Designing Women Reunion" | Delta Burke Delta Burke Delta Ramona Leah Burke is an American television and film actress. Her television work includes a leading role as Suzanne Sugarbaker in the CBS sitcom Designing Women... , Dixie Carter Dixie Carter Dixie Virginia Carter was an American film, television and stage actress, best known for her role as Julia Sugarbaker in the CBS sitcom Designing Women... , Annie Potts Annie Potts Anne Hampton "Annie" Potts is an American film and television actress. She is known for her roles in the 1980s popular films such as Ghostbusters , Pretty in Pink , Jumpin' Jack Flash , Who's Harry Crumb? and Ghostbusters II . Potts is also known as a voice-actress... , Jean Smart Jean Smart Jean E. Smart is an American film, television, and stage actress. She is known for her comedic roles, one of the best known being her role as Charlene Frazier Stillfield on the CBS sitcom Designing Women. She later gained critical acclaim for dramatic work, with her portrayal of Martha Logan on 24... and Meshach Taylor Meshach Taylor Meshach Taylor is an American actor.He is perhaps best known for his role as Anthony Bouvier on the sitcom Designing Women. He also had a major role on the sitcom Dave's World, playing Sheldon Baylor, and appeared in Buffalo Bill.-Personal life:Taylor was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of... reunited to share behind-the-scenes memories from their time on the series. Topics included initial casting and favorite episodes. Clips from many episodes are played, as well as new interviews with additional cast members, crew members and others associated with the world of television.
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