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 2 Episodes
E1
A scruffy gas-station owner wins free interior decoration from Sugarbakers, Charlene consults a psychic about her future…
E2
Mary Jo can't face her children being with her ex-husband's new wife, who is spoiling them.
E3
Anthony goes to extremes to impress his girlfriends' wealthy parents, inventing a pedigreed family -- then an uninvited …
E4
"Killing All the Right People" is the 26th episode of the sitcom Designing Women. Originally airing on October 5, 1987, …
E5
When an eccentric client harasses the women with bizarre decorating requests, they decide to matchmake him with Bernice.
E6
Suzanne's visiting ex, a novelist who loves flowery Southern words and women, is in a writer's slump and contemplating s…
E7
Reese's fitness demonstration - arm wrestling an old buddy and sometime-rival -- causes a heart attack, and subsequent d…
E8
Suzanne and Mary Jo become romantic rivals while doing a job aboard a cruise ship.
E9
Charlene dreams the Sugarbakers back to WWII and the USO.
E10
While Charlene, Julia and Mary Jo get the flu on a trip to St. Louis, a snowstorm forces Suzanne and Anthony to share a …
E11
It's the mercy date from Hell when the female Sugarbakers staff accompany dateless Howard the nerd to his high-school re…
E12
Charlene and Anthony scheme to outsmart Mary Jo's disbelieving son on Christmas Eve -- until their hired Santa beats the…
E13
Anthony is dismayed when an old prison cellmate arrives at Sugarbaker's with a business proposition -- he wants Anthony …
E14
Charlene withdraws after being dumped by her boyfriend Bill, who is still grieving the loss of his first wife.
E15
Julia and Suzanne disagree on how to handle the arrival of their half-brother, a recently discharged mental patient with…
E16
Mary Jo gives Claudia permission to go to a school dance with a black youth, contrary to his father's wishes.
E17
A penniless Suzanne faces stiff fines for back taxes, so after trying to charm Ray Don at the IRS, she sells off her pos…
E18
After Charlene unwittingly puts a bug in Suzanne's ear by relating the success story of Fred Smith, founder of Federal E…
E19
Suzanne and Julia clash over a posh club's offer of membership when Suzanne discovers discrimination in the club's by la…
E20
Scruples cause Charlene to resign from her church after she loses faith in her minister when he votes against allowing w…
E21
On the brink of marrying a young woman, Ted begins to appreciate ex-wife Mary Jo's maturity, but his sudden attentivenes…
E22
A romantic ski weekend becomes a battle of the sexes when an avalanche sidelines the Sugarbakers ladies and their boyfri…
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