Designing Women
"Designed to keep you laughing!"
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.
Season 1 Episodes
E1
Suzanne visits a new gynecologist, Mary Jo's ex-husband Ted, and a maelstrom of emotions is unleashed when she announces…
E2
Charlene sponsors Mary Jo's daughter in the Miss Pre-Teen Atlanta contest, and despite her depression over her own upcom…
E3
Suzanne's intimate dinner party, planned to impress an important client, goes awry before it begins when she arranges a …
E4
Julia's nineteen-year-old son, Payne, is bringing his girlfriend home from college for a visit, and Julia wants everythi…
E5
Concerned that Mary Jo hasn't dated since she and Ted broke up, Suzanne arranges a bind date for her with an old acquain…
E6
Since Suzanne has money invested in Sugarbaker's and is tired of her image as a front bimbo for the firm, Julia assigns …
E7
Perky Sugarbaker, Julia and Suzanne's mother, and her friend Bernice hope to escape the dull routine of their lives in t…
E8
The dinner is perfect, the champagne flows, Julia is presented with a single rose, and on a lark she and her current bea…
E9
When her boyfriend Mason takes a job in Japan, Charlene finds she has chemistry with another man, a man who happens to b…
E10
Arriving at work one morning, Suzanne tells Julia, Mary Jo, and Charlene that when she tried to fire her maid, she put a…
E11
It is New Year's Eve, and everyone is dressed in their finery, anticipating a fun-filled night on the town. The identity…
E12
Mary Jo is brooding about her ex-husband's interference in her life, while Charlene distrusts her doctor's cavalier atti…
E13
Mary Jo is brooding about her ex-husband's interference in her life, while Charlene distrusts her doctor's cavalier atti…
E14
When an old school chum of Charlene's, Monette, buys the old Chadwick mansion and asks Sugarbaker's to redecorate, the w…
E15
Suzanne picks up a client who wants period furniture on a shoestring budget, and the Sugarbaker women find that antique …
E16
A disagreement over the theme for the annual country club fund-raiser has Julia and Suzanne at odds, but the quibbling i…
E17
The news that Charlene's family--all ten brothers and sisters--will be in town at the same time is overshadowed by the n…
E18
While in Reese's office to sign legal papers, Suzanne off-handedly volunteers to keep a Vietnamese boat child, Li Sing, …
E19
When Mary Jo's divorced father arrives in Atlanta for a four-day visit and dances cheek to cheek with Charlene, Mary Jo …
E20
When Anthony saunters into the shop wearing an enormous cowboy hat, followed by a breathless Mary Jo who has obviously b…
E21
Suzanne's baseball player ex-husband, Jack Dent, writes in his autobiography that he had more groupie action than all th…
E22
When Mary Jo undertakes the decoration of Hence Winchester's new home, she finds herself the object of sexual harassment…
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