• 1986
  • TV-PG
  • 30m
Designing Women

Summary The misadventures of four women and their handyman running a design firm in Atlanta, Georgia. View more details

  • 1986
  • TV-PG
  • 30m

Designing Women

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Meshach Taylor Annie Potts Jean Smart Dixie Carter

All cast & crew

7.3

Details

Genres : Comedy

Release date : Sep 28, 1986

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : Stage 26, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA

Production companies : Columbia Pictures Television Mozark Productions Bloodworth-Thomason

Summary The misadventures of four women and their handyman running a design firm in Atlanta, Georgia. View more details

Details

Genres : Comedy

Release date : Sep 28, 1986

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : Stage 26, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA

Production companies : Columbia Pictures Television Mozark Productions Bloodworth-Thomason

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Episodes

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Episode 1 • Sep 28, 1986
Designing Women
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.
Episode 2 • Oct 05, 1986
The Beauty Contest
Mary Jo objects to her 12-year-old daughter Claudia entering in a beauty pageant.
Episode 3 • Oct 19, 1986
A Big Affair
Suzanne sets up Charlene on a blind date with a wholesaler of imported goods without telling her that he's significantly overweight.
Episode 4 • Oct 26, 1986
Julia's Son
Julia's son Payne comes home from college with his girlfriend: a professor named Primrose Horton who is at least twice his age.
Episode 5 • Nov 02, 1986
Mary Jo's First Date
Suzanne persuades Mary Jo to allow her to set her up with a date.
Episode 6 • Nov 16, 1986
Design House
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 the job, she spends the night there. The next morning it burns to the ground. Suzanne survives, but her future - and Sugarbaker's reputation - are in jeopardy.
Episode 7 • Nov 23, 1986
Perky's Visit
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 murdered after their delivery man, Anthony, argued with him.
Episode 8 • Dec 03, 1986
I Do, I Don't
Julia expects an engagement ring from her boyfriend, Reese Watson, but gets a canary instead. Nonetheless, they get married while drunk and annul the marriage the next morning, leaving Julia in a depressed state.
Episode 9 • Dec 10, 1986
The IT Men
While Charlene's boyfriend Mason is living in Tokyo, they have agreed to date other people. She goes with a man named Ed who is married to another woman, a fact she learns when Julia and Mary Jo meet with their latest client: his wife.
Episode 10 • Dec 17, 1986
The Slumber Party
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.
Episode 11 • Dec 31, 1986
New Year's Daze
The ladies' New Year's Eve Party has a shadow cast over it-literally-when Charlene's boyfriend, Shadow, breaks out of prison to be with her.
Episode 12 • Jan 31, 1987
Old Spouses Never Die: Part 1
Mary Jo and J.D.'s romantic evening is interrupted when her ex-husband Ted brings home the children on a flimsy excuse. Meanwhile, Anthony is required to attend a $5,000 poker game after a run-in with a corrupt businessman, and Charlene looks for a new doctor when her old one says to "wait and see" after finding a lump in her breast.
Episode 13 • Jan 31, 1987
Old Spouses Never Die: Part 2
J.D. brings his ex-wife and Mary Jo's ex-husband Ted together to lay down some ground rules; Charlene goes in for a biopsy while Julia confronts her old doctor; Anthony tries to hide from two of Mr. BB's bodyguards.
Episode 14 • Feb 07, 1987
Monette
Charlene's old friend Monette, now calling herself "Monica," asks Sugarbaker & Associates to re-design her house. She can afford a budget of $100,000 to $150,000 because of her profession: the oldest profession; she is the owner of a brothel.
Episode 15 • Feb 14, 1987
And Justice for Paul
Charlene's boyfriend's offer of a discount on antique furniture turns out to be of stolen goods, landing the women in prison.
Episode 16 • Feb 21, 1987
Reese's Friend
Julia is jealous when Reese cancels six consecutive dates due to work involving a new lawyer at his firm; a young, attractive female one.
Episode 17 • Mar 15, 1987
Nashville Bound
Just as her entire family is coming to visit her in Atlanta, Charlene meets Gaylon King, a man who claims to be a record producer with the intent of launching her singing career.
Episode 18 • Mar 22, 1987
Oh, Suzannah
Suzanne becomes the foster mother to a Vietnamese boat girl for a month while the papers for her adoption by a Birmingham couple are being cleared. However, they become so attached that they don't want to split up.
Episode 19 • Apr 05, 1987
Mary Jo's Dad Dates Charlene
When Mary Jo's recently divorced father, Davis Jackson, comes to town, he is instantly smitten with Charlene.
Episode 20 • Apr 12, 1987
Seams from a Marriage
The ladies are overwhelmed by their latest clients: an ultra-rich couple that lavishes them with gifts and trips.
Episode 21 • May 03, 1987
Grand Slam, Thank You Ma'am
Suzanne's ex-husband, an Atlanta Braves pitcher named Jack Dent, writes a scandalous autobiography in which he admits to an unprecedented amount of infidelity during their three-year marriage.
Episode 22 • May 10, 1987
Bachelor Suite
A wealthy client makes a pass at Mary Jo.
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