Designing Women Episode Guide

Episode Guide

Designing Women: Season 7 (1992 - 1993)

• Season 7 Episode 22: Gone With the Whim

  In a parody of 'Gone With the Wind,' Sugarbakers redecorate a mansion, according to a woman's bad taste.

• Season 7 Episode 21: Gone With the Whim

  In a parody of 'Gone With the Wind,' Sugarbakers redecorate a mansion, according to a woman's bad taste.

• Season 7 Episode 20: The Lying Game

  Carlene cross-dresses to understand a beau who dresses in drag.

• Season 7 Episode 19: The Woman Who Came to Sugarbaker's

  A seance convinces Julia's former schoolmistress (Pat Carroll) to stay.

• Season 7 Episode 18: It's Not So Easy Being Green

  Anthony is jealous of Etienne's successful friend (Ron Glass).

• Season 7 Episode 17: Shovel Off to Buffalo

  Mary Jo becomes famous after Elvis' face appears on her snow shovel.

• Season 7 Episode 16: Sex, Lies and Bad Hair Days

  Julia seeks a date for depressed B.J.

• Season 7 Episode 15: Nude Julia, New York Morning

  An artist unveils his nude portrait of Julia.

• Season 7 Episode 14: Wedding Redux

  Anthony and Etienne decide to repeat their wedding vows for their families.

• Season 7 Episode 13: Oh Dog, Poor Dog

  Confused Bernice thinks the women are having her put to sleep.

• Season 7 Episode 12: The Odyssey

  Bad weather changes the Sugarbakers' inauguration plans.

• Season 7 Episode 11: Too Dumb to Date

  Mary Jo dates a handsome idiot.

• Season 7 Episode 10: Trial and Error

  Law student Anthony represents Mary Jo in court.

• Season 7 Episode 9: The Vision Thing

  Etienne drives Anthony crazy trying to be the perfect wife.

• Season 7 Episode 8: Love Letters

  B.J. finds love letters from another woman in her late husband's safe-deposit box.

• Season 7 Episode 7: Fools Rush In

  Anthony tries to get his hasty marriage annulled.

• Season 7 Episode 6: Viva Las Vegas

  Anthony speedily woos a Las Vegas chorus girl (Sheryl Lee Ralph).

• Season 7 Episode 5: Screaming Passage

  Julia fears the emotional roller coaster of menopause.

• Season 7 Episode 4: On the Road Again

  Mary Jo and Julia go on a road trip to Nashville.

• Season 7 Episode 3: Mary Jo vs. the Terminator

  Mary Jo tells off bossy Julia in public.

• Season 7 Episode 2: Sex and the Single Women

  Carlene spends the night with her visiting ex-husband.

• Season 7 Episode 1: Of Human Bondage

  A wealthy widow (Judith Ivey) offers to bail out near-bankrupt Sugarbaker's.

Designing Women: Season 6 (1991 - 1992)

• Season 6 Episode 19 : All About Odes to Atlanta

  Carlene enters an Atlanta theme-song contest and gets a groupie.

• Season 6 Episode 23: Shades of Vanessa

  Anthony woos a client and gets a girlfriend (Jackee).

• Season 6 Episode 22: A Little Night Music

  Julia may need a hysterectomy; guest Gary Morris.

• Season 6 Episode 21: L.A. Story

  Allison invests in a film, then brings everyone to director Charles Nelson Reilly's house.

• Season 6 Episode 20: I Enjoy Being a Girl

  Carlene becomes a Girl Scout troop leader.

• Season 6 Episode 18: A Scene From a Mall

  Mall security guards accuse Anthony of criminal activity.

• Season 6 Episode 17: Mamed

  Julia becomes a tyrant producing a community play.

• Season 6 Episode 16: Carlene's Apartment

  Carlene rents an apartment in a bad neighborhood.

• Season 6 Episode 15: Payne Comes Home

  Julia's son leaves his wife and moves back home.

• Season 6 Episode 14: Driving My Mama Back Home

  Julia and Mary Jo escort Mary Jo's mom home on the bus.

• Season 6 Episode 13: Tales Out of School

  Anthony sees opportunity when his law professor is attracted to Charlene.

• Season 6 Episode 12: Real Scary Men

  The women get stranded at a men's club retreat.

• Season 6 Episode 11: Julia and Mary Jo Get Stuck Under a Bed

  Mary Jo and Julia are trapped under an anchorman's bed.

• Season 6 Episode 10: Julia and Rusty Sittin' in a Tree

  Julia's date with an electrician becomes a group outing.

• Season 6 Episode 9: Just Say Doe

  Mary Jo balks at her brother taking her son deer-hunting.

• Season 6 Episode 8: The Strange Case of Clarence and Anita

  Sexual harassment and the Thomas hearings spark heated debate.

• Season 6 Episode 7: Last Tango in Atlanta

  The women help in an outreach program at Anthony's old prison.

• Season 6 Episode 6: Picking a Winner

  Mary Jo turns to a sperm bank to get pregnant.

• Season 6 Episode 5: Marriage Most Foul

  Allison's ex-convict former flame proposes; guest Marla Maples.

• Season 6 Episode 4: Dwayne's World

  Unattached Charlene tells her ex she has a boyfriend.

• Season 6 Episode 3: A Toe in the Water

  Julia thinks she's ready to resume dating, but Allison disagrees.

• Season 6 Episode 2: The Big Desk

  A cousin (Julia Duffy) buys out Suzanne, then tries to take over the business.

• Season 6 Episode 1: The Big Desk

  A cousin (Julia Duffy) buys out Suzanne, then tries to take over the business.

Designing Women: Season 5 (1990 - 1991)

• Season 5 Episode 24: The Pride of Sugarbaker's

  Mary Jo and Julia coach a Little League team.

• Season 5 Episode 23: Fore!

  An exclusive, all-white country club invites Anthony to join.

• Season 5 Episode 22: Friends and Husbands

  Charlene readjusts when Bill comes home from the Gulf.

• Season 5 Episode 21: The Big Circle

  Julia copes with Reese's death.

• Season 5 Episode 20: I'll See You in Court

  Mary Jo has her attacker prosecuted.

• Season 5 Episode 19: Blame It on New Orleans

  Mary Jo has a fling at a convention.

• Season 5 Episode 18: This Is Art?

  Julia unwittingly becomes Atlanta's hottest new artist.

• Season 5 Episode 17: Maybe Baby

  Mary Jo wants another child; Suzanne smokes to lose weight.

• Season 5 Episode 16: The Emperor's New Nose

  The results of Bernice's cosmetic surgery shock all.

• Season 5 Episode 15: How Long Has This Been Going On?

  Julia seems to be leading a double life.

• Season 5 Episode 14: High Noon in a Laundry Room

  Anthony confronts a menacing neighbor.

• Season 5 Episode 13: Pearls of Wisdom

  Suzanne is a correspondent on a local news show.

• Season 5 Episode 12: And Now, Here's Bernice

  Bernice is host of her own local cable show.

• Season 5 Episode 11: My Daughter, My Self

  Mary Jo objects to her daughter's older beau, then dates him.

• Season 5 Episode 10: Keep the Home Fires Burning

  Charlene joins a support group for military spouses.

• Season 5 Episode 9: A Class Act

  Anthony becomes a partner; Charlene fends off an amorous professor.

• Season 5 Episode 8: Nowhere to Run To

  Julia becomes a compulsive jogger. With Sandahl Bergman.

• Season 5 Episode 7: Old Rebels & Young Models

  A pet teacher of Mary Jo's escapes from a nursing home.

• Season 5 Episode 6: Charlene Buys a House

  The Sugarbakers decorate Charlene's house, which is haunted.

• Season 5 Episode 5: The Bachelor Auction

  Suzanne wins bachelor Anthony in a charity auction.

• Season 5 Episode 4: Miss Trial

  Jury duty pre-empts Julia's dinner with President and Mrs. Carter.

• Season 5 Episode 3: Working Mother

  Charlene quits to be a full-time mother.

• Season 5 Episode 1: A Blast From the Past

  Sugarbakers' becomes a Civil War landmark.

Designing Women: Season 4 (1989 - 1990)

• Season 4 Episode 28: La Place Sans Souci

  A weekend at the spa turns tense.

• Season 4 Episode 27: Anthony's Graduation

  Things impede Anthony's college graduation.

• Season 4 Episode 26: Their Finest Hour

  Highlights from past episodes include bras, killer bees and wacky dresses.

• Season 4 Episode 25: Have Faith

  Mary Jo dates the minister (Bruce Davison) of Julia and Charlene's church.

• Season 4 Episode 24: Suzanne Goes Looking for a Friend

  Suzanne's old friend (Karen Kopins) announces she is homosexual.

• Season 4 Episode 23: Foreign Affairs

  Anthony poses as Consuela to keep her from being deported.

• Season 4 Episode 22: It's a Wonderful Life

  Postpartum blues convince Charlene that Bill has strayed.

• Season 4 Episode 21: Tough Enough

  The ladies vie with an all-male firm for a sports club's account.

• Season 4 Episode 20: Tornado Watch

  Various types gather at Sugarbaker's during a tornado watch.

• Season 4 Episode 19: Payne Grows Up

  Her son's impending wedding makes Julia feel old.

• Season 4 Episode 18: Anthony and Vanessa

  Vanessa (Olivia Brown) asks Suzanne's help in wooing Anthony.

• Season 4 Episode 17: Oh, What a Feeling

  Julia and Suzanne negotiate for a new delivery van.

• Season 4 Episode 16: The Fur Flies

  Modeling a fur, Suzanne gets into a row with animal-rights activists.

• Season 4 Episode 15: The Mistress

  The ladies decorate a house for a client's wife and a condo for his mistress.

• Season 4 Episode 14: First Day of the Last Decade of the 20th Century

  In labor on New Year's Eve, Charlene dreams of Dolly Parton.

• Season 4 Episode 13: First Day of the Last Decade of the 20th Century

  In labor on New Year's Eve, Charlene dreams of Dolly Parton.

• Season 4 Episode 12: You Got to Have Friends

  Mary Jo takes a second job when child support is late.

• Season 4 Episode 11: They Shoot Fat Women, Don't They?

  Suzanne is the target of weight jokes at her high-school reunion.

• Season 4 Episode 10: Manhunt

  Mary Jo enlists Suzanne's help in finding a man.

• Season 4 Episode 9: Julia and Suzanne's Big Adventure

  Suzanne and Julia's trip to Japan is a debacle.

• Season 4 Episode 8: Julia Gets Her Head Stuck in a Fence

  Julia gets stuck in the bannisters of the governor's stairs.

• Season 4 Episode 7: Bernice's Sanity Hearing

  A greedy niece wants Bernice declared incompetent.

• Season 4 Episode 6: The Rowdy Girls

  Charlene's spouse-abused cousin (Kim Zimmer) visits.

• Season 4 Episode 5: The Girlfriend

  Anthony becomes a contractor and gets a new girlfriend.

• Season 4 Episode 4: Nightmare From Hee Haw

  A canoeing trip hospitalizes J.D., Bill and Reese.

• Season 4 Episode 3: There She Is

  Suzanne learns her Miss Georgia title was a mistake.

• Season 4 Episode 2: One Night With You

  A former classmate's dying wish is to spend an evening with Julia.

• Season 4 Episode 1: Proxy Pig

  Anthony hurts his back; Suzanne becomes his nurse.

Designing Women: Season 3 (1988 - 1989)

• Season 3 Episode 22: Julia Drives Over the First Amendment

  A nearby newsstand selling pornography offends Julia.

• Season 3 Episode 21: The Last Humorously Dressed Bellboy in America

  The accountant who absconded with her life savings offers Suzanne a deal.

• Season 3 Episode 20: Stand and Fight

  The ladies learn self-defense after Mary Jo is mugged.

• Season 3 Episode 19: The Women of Atlanta

  A photo layout on Sugarbaker's may be too revealing.

• Season 3 Episode 18: Come On and Marry Me, Bill

  Bill's stag party threatens Charlene's wedding.

• Season 3 Episode 17: The Engagement

  Charlene and Bill get engaged; Mary Jo dates a younger man.

• Season 3 Episode 16: Mr. Meal Ticket

  J.D. moves in with Mary Jo, then loses his job.

• Season 3 Episode 15: Full Moon

  A full moon coincides with strange occurrences.

• Season 3 Episode 14: Odell

  Sugarbakers' gets involved in a feud between mountain families.

• Season 3 Episode 13: One Sees, the Other Doesn't

  Suzanne can't believe a blind suitor likes her for her personality.

• Season 3 Episode 12: The Junies

  Charlene becomes a part-time saleswoman.

• Season 3 Episode 11: The Naked Truth

  Mary Jo and Charlene redecorate at a nudist colony.

• Season 3 Episode 10: Mr. Bailey

  A cat inherits the ladies' prepaid services.

• Season 3 Episode 9: Tyrone

  Taking in a troubled youth, Anthony remembers his own childhood.

• Season 3 Episode 8: The Wilderness Experience

  The women embark on a wilderness survival course.

• Season 3 Episode 7: But They're Really Great Curtains

  Striking laborers besiege the company.

• Season 3 Episode 6: Hardhats and Lovers

  Charlene tells Bill he should date more.

• Season 3 Episode 5: Big Haas and Little Falsie

  Mary Jo plans to have cosmetic surgery.

• Season 3 Episode 4: Getting Married and Eating Dirt

  Bernice asks the ladies to be her attendants.

• Season 3 Episode 3: E.P. Phone Home

  Charlene gets her friends to visit Graceland.

• Season 3 Episode 2: The Candidate

  Julia runs for a seat on the local board of commissioners.

• Season 3 Episode 1: Reservations for 12, Plus Ursula

  A voluptuous maid disrupts a romantic Thanksgiving at the beach.

Designing Women: Season 2 (1987 - 1988)

• Season 2 Episode 22: Reservations for Eight

  A romantic ski weekend becomes a battle of the sexes.

• Season 2 Episode 21: Ted Bare

  Mary Jo faces a dilemma when her ex-husband re-enters her life.

• Season 2 Episode 20: How Great Thou Art

  Scruples cause Charlene to resign from her church.

• Season 2 Episode 19: Incredibly Elite Bona Fide Blue-Blood Beaumont Driving Club

  Suzanne and Julia clash over a posh club's offer.

• Season 2 Episode 18: High Rollers

  Suzanne resorts to gambling to pay debts.

• Season 2 Episode 17: The Return of Ray Don

  Trouble with the IRS prompts Suzanne to desperate measures.

• Season 2 Episode 16: There's Some Black People Coming to Dinner

  A black man nixes his son's date with Mary Jo's daughter.

• Season 2 Episode 15: Oh, Brother

  Suzanne and Julia's half-brother (Lewis Grizzard) visits.

• Season 2 Episode 14: Second Time Around

  Charlene withdraws after being dumped by her boyfriend (Doug Barr).

• Season 2 Episode 13: Great Expectations

  An old friend from prison makes Anthony a business proposal.

• Season 2 Episode 12: I'll Be Home for Christmas

  A mysterious Santa swipes the Sugarbakers' Christmas gifts.

• Season 2 Episode 11: Howard the Date

  The ladies accompany a nebbish friend to his high-school reunion.

• Season 2 Episode 10: Stranded

  Suzanne and Anthony must share a hotel room in a blizzard.

• Season 2 Episode 9: I'll Be Seeing You

  Charlene dreams the Sugarbakers back to World War II and the USO.

• Season 2 Episode 8: Cruising

  Suzanne and Mary Jo become romantic rivals while doing a job aboard a cruise ship.

• Season 2 Episode 7: Heart Attacks

  Reese's demonstration of fitness causes a heart attack.

• Season 2 Episode 6: Dash Goff, the Writer

  Suzanne's ex-husband (Gerald McRaney) contemplates suicide.

• Season 2 Episode 5: Half an Air Bubble Off

  An eccentric client harasses the women with bizarre decorating requests.

• Season 2 Episode 4: Killing All the Right People

  A fellow decorator has AIDS.

• Season 2 Episode 3: Anthony Jr.

  Anthony goes to extremes to impress his girlfriend's wealthy parents.

• Season 2 Episode 1: 101 Ways to Decorate a Gas Station

  The women offer their decorating services as a contest prize.

Designing Women: Season 1 (1986 - 1987)

• Season 1 Episode 22: Bachelor Suite

  A wealthy client expects more from Mary Jo.

• Season 1 Episode 21: Grand Slam, Thank You Ma'am

  Suzanne's baseball star ex-husband reveals intimate details in his autobiography.

• Season 1 Episode 20: Seams From a Marriage

  The Sugarbakers suspect a lucrative assignment means compromise.

• Season 1 Episode 19: Mary Jo's Dad Dates Charlene

  Mary Jo's divorced father takes a romantic interest in Charlene.

• Season 1 Episode 18: O Susannah

  Suzanne volunteers her services as a temporary foster mother.

• Season 1 Episode 17: Nashville Bound

  Aspiring singer Charlene meets a big-time music promoter.

• Season 1 Episode 16: Reese's Friend

  Julia is jealous of Reese's attractive co-worker.

• Season 1 Episode 15: And Justice for Paul

  The ladies are jailed after buying stolen antiques.

• Season 1 Episode 14: Monette

  Charlene's childhood friend is a madam.

• Season 1 Episode 13: Old Spouses Never Die

  Charlene gets bad news from her doctor.

• Season 1 Episode 12: Old Spouses Never Die

  Mary Jo's love life lacks privacy; Charlene gets bad news from her doctor.

• Season 1 Episode 11: New Year's Daze

  Charlene's New Year's Eve date is an escaped convict.

• Season 1 Episode 10: The Slumber Party

  The Sugarbakers agree to chaperon the slumber party of Mary Jo's daughter.

• Season 1 Episode 9: The IT Men

  Charlene is attracted to a married client.

• Season 1 Episode 8: I Do, I Don't

  Eloping Julia has second thoughts.

• Season 1 Episode 7: Perky's Visit

  Julia and Suzanne's mother visits for Thanksgiving.

• Season 1 Episode 6: Design House

  The ladies' design for a prestigious magazine goes up in flames.

• Season 1 Episode 5: Mary Jo's First Date

  Mary Jo fends off a date's advances.

• Season 1 Episode 4: Julia's Son

  Julia disapproves of her son's new girlfriend.

• Season 1 Episode 3: A Big Affair

  Suzanne arranges a client's dinner date with Charlene.

• Season 1 Episode 2: The Beauty Contest

  Mary Jo's daughter enters a beauty contest.

• Season 1 Episode 1: Pilot

  Suzanne falls for Mary Jo's ex-husband.