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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5x01 A Blast from the Past
17 September, 1990 8:00 am
Sugarbaker's is beset by tourists when the building's Civil War foundation puts it on the Tour of Historical Homes, Mary Jo opens her heart to an old friend eager to make good on a marriage pact they once entered into.
5x02 Papa Was a Rolling Stone
24 September, 1990 8:00 am
Charlene aims to make Anthony's 30th birthday a memorable one -- by hiring a private detective to find his long-lost father.
5x03 Working Mother
01 October, 1990 8:00 am
Resentment builds between Charlene and Mary Jo when Charlene wants to take a year off to look after her baby. The decorators cater to the whims of a rich, insufferable 10-year-old client as Mary Jo and Charlene ponder the joys and pitfalls of working mothers.
5x04 Miss Trial
15 October, 1990 8:00 am
Julia's dinner plans with former President Jimmy Carter and his wife are put on hold when her slow-moving jury gets sequestered.
5x05 The Bachelor Auction
22 October, 1990 8:00 am
When organizational confusion leads to Suzanne winning a date with Anthony in a bachelor charity auction, the two reluctantly try to make the best of a very awkward situation.
5x06 Charlene Buys a House
29 October, 1990 8:00 am
As the proud new owner of a grand but ghostly mansion, Charlene hires the decorators to give the place a facelift -- not mentioning that it's haunted.
5x07 Old Rebels and Young Models
05 November, 1990 8:00 am
Charlene's baby, Olivia, auditions for a modeling job, Mary Jo finds one of her former teachers in a nursing home.
5x08 Nowhere to Run To
12 November, 1990 8:00 am
Mary Jo takes up jogging, and inadvertently helps turn Julia into a fitness zealot.
5x09 A Class Act
19 November, 1990 8:00 am
Anthony buys in to become a full partner; new student Charlene fends off an amorous psychology professor.
5x10 Keep the Home Fires Burning
26 November, 1990 8:00 am
With her husband away on a mission, Charlene guiltily draws close to a man in her support group for military spouses who wife is also away. Meanwhile, lottery fever sweeps Sugarbakers.
5x11 My Daughter, Myself
10 December, 1990 8:00 am
Mary Jo forbids her nearly 18-year-old daughter to date a 34-year-old, then dates him herself, Julia is forced to crash the men's room at a football stadium.
5x12 And Now, Here's Bernice
17 December, 1990 8:00 am
After Bernice gets a local public-access cable TV show, Mary Jo has her heart broken by a client and decides that Bernice's show is the ideal arena to air her views on men.
5x13 Pearls of Wisdom
07 January, 1991 8:00 am
Mary Jo borrows and loses a string of pearls flaunted by Suzanne, subbing as a lifestyles reporter for local TV news. Meanwhile, a recurring dream about Julia upsets Anthony.
5x14 High Noon in a Laundry Room
14 January, 1991 8:00 am
Anthony, concerned with his masculinity after working with the women so long, tries standing up to his bullying neighbor, and is further humiliated when the women come to his rescue.
5x15 How Long Has This Been Going On?
28 January, 1991 8:00 am
Everyone at Sugarbakers is baffled to discover that sensible Julia has covertly been singing evenings at a nightclub, Anthony tries to muster the nerve to ask out a girl who works at the bookstore.
5x16 The Emperor's New Nose
04 February, 1991 8:00 am
Bernice gets an extraordinarily bad eye tuck and rhinoplasty from a plastic surgeon whose work leaves something to be desired.
5x17 Maybe, Baby
11 February, 1991 8:00 am
Mary Jo, wanting a baby, turns to her friend and former beau; Suzanne takes up smoking as a way to diet.
5x18 This is Art?
25 February, 1991 8:00 am
Amateur painter Julia inadvertently becomes the darling of Atlanta's art scene when someone tries to buy her handbag while she's attending a gallery opening; Suzanne inadvertently glues her lips shut.
5x19 Blame it on New Orleans
04 March, 1991 8:00 am
When the gang attends a convention in intoxicating New Orleans, Mary Jo unwittingly sleeps with a married man.
5x20 I'll See You in Court
18 March, 1991 8:00 am
Mary Jo runs across the man who mugged her the year before, but faces horrendous judicial red tape to bring him to trial.
5x21 The Big Circle
08 April, 1991 8:00 am
Julia tries coping with her boyfriend Reese's death by looking after Randa Oliver, the supremely spoiled child of a client couple on an extended vacation.
5x22 Friends and Husbands
29 April, 1991 8:00 am
Charlene, readjusting to married life upon Bill's return from the Middle East, quits her and Mary Jo's children's-book project.
5x23 Fore!
06 May, 1991 8:00 am
Suzanne is jealous when Anthony is invited to be the first black (i.e., token) in the previously all-white Beaumont Country Club.
5x24 The Pride of Sugarbakers
13 May, 1991 8:00 am
Mary Jo and Julia demonstrate different coaching styles when their firm sponsors a Little League team.
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