Designing Women (1986)
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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2x01 101 Ways to Decorate a Gas Station
14 September, 1987 8:00 am
A scruffy gas-station owner wins free interior decoration from Sugarbakers, Charlene consults a psychic about her future.
2x02 Ted Remarries (Ted and Tammy)
21 September, 1987 8:00 am
Mary Jo can't face her children being with her ex-husband's new wife, who is spoiling them.
2x03 Anthony, Jr.
28 September, 1987 8:00 am
Anthony goes to extremes to impress his girlfriends' wealthy parents, inventing a pedigreed family -- then an uninvited dinner guest informs him he is the father of her child.
2x04 Killing All the Right People
05 October, 1987 8:00 am
News that a friend and fellow decorator is dying of AIDS (and wants Sugarbakers to design his funeral) gets Mary Jo fired up at a PTA debate on sex education and contraception.
2x05 Half an Air Bubble Off
19 October, 1987 8:00 am
When an eccentric client harasses the women with bizarre decorating requests, they decide to matchmake him with Bernice.
2x06 Dash Goff, the Writer
26 October, 1987 8:00 am
Suzanne's visiting ex, a novelist who loves flowery Southern words and women, is in a writer's slump and contemplating suicide.
2x07 Heart Attacks
09 November, 1987 8:00 am
Reese's fitness demonstration - arm wrestling an old buddy and sometime-rival -- causes a heart attack, and subsequent different treatment from Julia.
2x08 Cruising
16 November, 1987 8:00 am
Suzanne and Mary Jo become romantic rivals while doing a job aboard a cruise ship.
2x09 I'll Be Seeing You
23 November, 1987 8:00 am
Charlene dreams the Sugarbakers back to WWII and the USO.
2x10 Stranded
07 December, 1987 8:00 am
While Charlene, Julia and Mary Jo get the flu on a trip to St. Louis, a snowstorm forces Suzanne and Anthony to share a motel room in Tennessee.
2x11 Howard the Date
14 December, 1987 8:00 am
It's the mercy date from Hell when the female Sugarbakers staff accompany dateless Howard the nerd to his high-school reunion. Their sympathy quickly wears off when he begins to boast about handling his "four women."
2x12 I'll Be Home For Christmas
21 December, 1987 8:00 am
Charlene and Anthony scheme to outsmart Mary Jo's disbelieving son on Christmas Eve -- until their hired Santa beats them to it, by swiping the Sugarbakers' Christmas gifts.
2x13 Great Expectations
04 January, 1988 8:00 am
Anthony is dismayed when an old prison cellmate arrives at Sugarbaker's with a business proposition -- he wants Anthony to become his partner.
2x14 Second Time Around
11 January, 1988 8:00 am
Charlene withdraws after being dumped by her boyfriend Bill, who is still grieving the loss of his first wife.
2x15 Oh, Brother
18 January, 1988 8:00 am
Julia and Suzanne disagree on how to handle the arrival of their half-brother, a recently discharged mental patient with aspirations to stand-up comedy.
2x16 There's Some Black People Coming to Dinner
25 January, 1988 8:00 am
Mary Jo gives Claudia permission to go to a school dance with a black youth, contrary to his father's wishes.
2x17 The Return of Ray Don
01 February, 1988 8:00 am
A penniless Suzanne faces stiff fines for back taxes, so after trying to charm Ray Don at the IRS, she sells off her possession and considers marriage to wealthy octogenarian Wilmont Oliver.
2x18 High Rollers
08 February, 1988 8:00 am
After Charlene unwittingly puts a bug in Suzanne's ear by relating the success story of Fred Smith, founder of Federal Express, Suzanne flits off to Atlantic City with Charlene and Anthony in hopes of winning a bundle to pay off debts by employing Anthony's gambling expertise.
2x19 The Incredibly Elite Bona Fide Blue-Blood Beaumont Driving Club
15 February, 1988 8:00 am
Suzanne and Julia clash over a posh club's offer of membership when Suzanne discovers discrimination in the club's by laws.
2x20 How Great Thou Art
22 February, 1988 8:00 am
Scruples cause Charlene to resign from her church after she loses faith in her minister when he votes against allowing women in the ministry.
2x21 Ted-Bare
21 March, 1988 8:00 am
On the brink of marrying a young woman, Ted begins to appreciate ex-wife Mary Jo's maturity, but his sudden attentiveness strikes everyone else as suspicious.
2x22 Reservations for Eight
28 March, 1988 9:00 am
A romantic ski weekend becomes a battle of the sexes when an avalanche sidelines the Sugarbakers ladies and their boyfriends.
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