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 6 Episodes
Cousin Alison Sugarbaker buys out Suzanne's share of the business and then moves in, complete with an enormous desk and …
Cousin Alison Sugarbaker buys out Suzanne's share of the business and then moves in, complete with an enormous desk and …
Julia thinks she's ready to resume dating, but Alison disagrees, questioning the manliness of Julia's new beau. Meanwhil…
Mary Jo protectively takes divorcee Carlene under her wing -- going overboard with a lie about Carlene's latest flame --…
When Allison's ex-convict former flame (whom she turned in for insider trading) is released, she fears he is plotting re…
Mary Jo turns to a sperm bank to get pregnant, prompting mixed reactions at work. Meanwhile, Julia threaten to rip the d…
When the Sugarbakers women are persuaded by Anthony to help with an outreach program at his former prison, they find the…
Perhaps the most famous episode, and a rare instance of a situation comedy making direct political comment on a current …
When Mary Jo's womanizing brother visits, falls for Allison, and takes her and Quinton on a deer-hunting trip, the women…
Julia's second date with electrician Rusty becomes a group outing with Carlene and Allison dating junior-college guys, a…
Mary Jo and Julia are trapped under anchorman Chuck Tremain's bed when a Christmas design contest inspires them to exami…
When their van breaks down the women become unwelcome guests at a men's club retreat Wildman Sanctuary, where Anthony is…
Anthony sees opportunity when his normally unfriendly law professor is attracted to Carlene and invites the two of them …
Julia accompanies Mary Jo and her mother Darla on an overnight bus trip back to South Carolina; meanwhile, the other emp…
Julia delights in the opportunity to dote on son Payne when he returns for a visit -- which Julia learns will be permane…
Carlene moves into her own apartment on the wrong side of town, where space is at a minimum and burglars roam free, so t…
A tough-talking, hard-drinking, temperamental Broadway has-been promises to make Julia rue the day that she stole the ro…
Julia stages a sit-in at the mall to protest racial mistreatment of Anthony by brutish cops who accosted him for window …
Songwriter Carlene gains notoriety -- and her first groupie -- by entering her ditty in the semi-finals Atlanta's theme-…
On an overnight Girl Scout outing, Carlene's leadership abilities take a beating, while Allison's methods seem to charm …
Allison thinks she's invited to stay at Charles Nelson Reilly's home, so the decorators do Hollywood and get flimflammed…
Julia strolls down memory lane while awaiting the results of hysterectomy tests at a hospital whose workers are on strik…
The Sugarbakers women use Anthony as ""date bait"" to reel in a big account involving a hotelier's flamboyant debutante …
Cast
