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.
Genre: Comedy
Country: United States of America
Type: tv
Season: 1
Episode: 1
Duration: 30m
Release: 1986
Rating: 6.7
Season 1 - Designing Women
29 Sep 1986
"At the interior design firm of Sugarbaker & Associates in Atlanta, Georgia, thrice-divorced ex-beauty queen Suzanne Sugarbaker, younger sister of founder Julia, goes out with the ex-husband of her co-worker Mary Jo Shivley."
20 Oct 1986
"Suzanne sets up Charlene on a blind date with a wholesaler of imported goods without telling her that he's significantly overweight."
17 Nov 1986
"Suzanne is bored with not being more involved in the actual work at Sugarbaker's, so Julia allows her to work on the very next assignment: Design House '86. As part of the requirement for ..."
24 Nov 1986
"On Thanksgiving Day, Julia and Suzanne's mother Perky visits, along with her friend Bernice Clifton. However, a shadow is cast over the celebration when the women learn that a client was ..."
18 Dec 1986
"Suzanne believes her maid, Consuela, has put a fatal voodoo curse on her to take effect at midnight. Just in case it comes true, the other ladies have a slumber party at Mary Jo's house."
1987-05-11
"When Mary Jo undertakes the decoration of Hence Winchester's new home, she finds herself the object of sexual harassment by her wealthy client."
Season 2 - Designing Women
19 Oct 1987
"An eccentric client falls in love with Julia, while Bernice enters a beauty pageant for senior citizens."
23 Nov 1987
"Charlene meets and falls in love with Bill Stillfield, a recently widowed Colonel in the U.S. Air Force. That night, she dreams of herself in a World War II era bar. There she meets him, ..."
11 Jan 1988
"Bill tells Charlene he's not ready to go deeper into their relationship. Charlene becomes withdrawn, and Julia talks to Bill about how she felt when her husband Hayden died."
18 Jan 1988
"Julia and Suzanne's half-brother Clayton, who has suffered from alcoholism and mental illness in the past, comes to town."
01 Feb 1988
"Suzzane learns she has amassed a large amount of back taxes and she has to pay it or....so she decides to marry a wealthy older man. When Julia learns of this, she decides to talk to IRS ..."
08 Feb 1988
"Suzanne is now living with Charlene and selling lingerie to pay off the IRS. Charlene tells her a story about how the founder of Federal Express kept his company afloat. He went to Las ..."
1988-03-28
"A romantic ski weekend becomes a battle of the sexes when an avalanche sidelines the Sugarbakers ladies and their boyfriends."
Season 3 - Designing Women
12 Dec 1988
"Mary Jo inherits $3,000 from an eccentric uncle who stipulates that she must spend it on something frivolous, so she considers getting breast implants."
09 Jan 1989
"Bernice signs up the women on an all-female wilderness retreat that some of Lee Iacocca's top executives had attended in the past; she thought the then-CEO of Chrysler would be there. Mary ..."
1989-05-22
"A nearby newsstand selling pornography offends Julia, to the point where she drives her car straight through it, and pits her against an equally determined publisher in the ensuing court battle."
Season 4 - Designing Women
16 Oct 1989
"While camping in a rural area, a family of hillbillies in a nearby bar asks the ladies to dance. J.D., Bill, and Reese's jealousy leads to a fight."
1990-03-19
"Julia intervenes when Bill's grief over the loss of his first wife threatens his relationship with Charlene -- and she becomes convinced he is having an affair with his new cockpit partner, Gail."
