Designing Women
Designing Women
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Designing Women

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6.8 / 10
1986
7 seasons
163 episodes
Comedy

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.

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Seasons

  • Designing Women

    1.Designing Women

    29-09-198630m

    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.

  • The Beauty Contest

    2.The Beauty Contest

    8.0
    06-10-198630m

    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 an...

  • A Big Affair

    3.A Big Affair

    20-10-198630m

    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.

  • Julia's Son

    4.Julia's Son

    8.0
    27-10-198630m

    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 g...

  • Mary Jo's First Date

    5.Mary Jo's First Date

    7.0
    03-11-198630m

    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 b...

  • Design House

    6.Design House

    8.0
    17-11-198630m

    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. Unfortunatel...

  • Perky's Visit

    7.Perky's Visit

    24-11-198630m

    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 han...

  • I Do, I Don't

    8.I Do, I Don't

    8.0
    04-12-198630m

    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 th...

  • The IT Men

    9.The IT Men

    7.0
    04-12-198630m

    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.

  • The Slumber Party

    10.The Slumber Party

    18-12-198630m

    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...

  • New Year's Daze

    11.New Year's Daze

    01-01-198730m

    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 report...

  • Old Spouses Never Die (1)

    12.Old Spouses Never Die (1)

    8.0
    01-02-198730m

    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.

  • Old Spouses Never Die (2)

    13.Old Spouses Never Die (2)

    01-02-198730m

    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.

  • Monette

    14.Monette

    08-02-198730m

    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 assignm...

  • And Justice For Paul

    15.And Justice For Paul

    15-02-198730m

    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.

  • Reese's Friend

    16.Reese's Friend

    22-02-198730m

    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 o...

  • Nashville Bound

    17.Nashville Bound

    16-03-198730m

    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!

  • Oh, Suzannah

    18.Oh, Suzannah

    23-03-198730m

    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...

  • Mary Jo's Dad Dates Charlene

    19.Mary Jo's Dad Dates Charlene

    06-04-198730m

    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.

  • Seams From a Marriage

    20.Seams From a Marriage

    13-04-198730m

    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...

  • Grand Slam, Thank You Ma'am

    21.Grand Slam, Thank You Ma'am

    04-05-198730m

    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 r...

  • Bachelor Suite

    22.Bachelor Suite

    8.0
    11-05-198730m

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

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