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 5 Episodes
Sugarbaker's is beset by tourists when the building's Civil War foundation puts it on the Tour of Historical Homes, Mary…
Charlene aims to make Anthony's 30th birthday a memorable one -- by hiring a private detective to find his long-lost fat…
Resentment builds between Charlene and Mary Jo when Charlene wants to take a year off to look after her baby. The decora…
Julia's dinner plans with former President Jimmy Carter and his wife are put on hold when her slow-moving jury gets sequ…
When organizational confusion leads to Suzanne winning a date with Anthony in a bachelor charity auction, the two reluct…
As the proud new owner of a grand but ghostly mansion, Charlene hires the decorators to give the place a facelift -- not…
Charlene's baby, Olivia, auditions for a modeling job, Mary Jo finds one of her former teachers in a nursing home.
Mary Jo takes up jogging, and inadvertently helps turn Julia into a fitness zealot.
Anthony buys in to become a full partner; new student Charlene fends off an amorous psychology professor.
With her husband away on a mission, Charlene guiltily draws close to a man in her support group for military spouses who…
Mary Jo forbids her nearly 18-year-old daughter to date a 34-year-old, then dates him herself, Julia is forced to crash …
After Bernice gets a local public-access cable TV show, Mary Jo has her heart broken by a client and decides that Bernic…
Mary Jo borrows and loses a string of pearls flaunted by Suzanne, subbing as a lifestyles reporter for local TV news. Me…
Anthony, concerned with his masculinity after working with the women so long, tries standing up to his bullying neighbor…
Everyone at Sugarbakers is baffled to discover that sensible Julia has covertly been singing evenings at a nightclub, An…
Bernice gets an extraordinarily bad eye tuck and rhinoplasty from a plastic surgeon whose work leaves something to be de…
Mary Jo, wanting a baby, turns to her friend and former beau; Suzanne takes up smoking as a way to diet.
Amateur painter Julia inadvertently becomes the darling of Atlanta's art scene when someone tries to buy her handbag whi…
When the gang attends a convention in intoxicating New Orleans, Mary Jo unwittingly sleeps with a married man.
Mary Jo runs across the man who mugged her the year before, but faces horrendous judicial red tape to bring him to trial…
Julia tries coping with her boyfriend Reese's death by looking after Randa Oliver, the supremely spoiled child of a clie…
Charlene, readjusting to married life upon Bill's return from the Middle East, quits her and Mary Jo's children's-book p…
Suzanne is jealous when Anthony is invited to be the first black (i.e., token) in the previously all-white Beaumont Coun…
Mary Jo and Julia demonstrate different coaching styles when their firm sponsors a Little League team.
Cast
