Designing Women (Season 5)

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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.

  • Poster for A Blast From the Past

    A Blast From the Past 0.0

    Air date: 1990-09-17

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for Papa Was a Rolling Stone

    Papa Was a Rolling Stone 0.0

    Air date: 1990-09-24

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: Charlene aims to make Anthony's 30th birthday a memorable one -- by hiring a private detective to find his long-lost father.

  • Poster for Working Mother

    Working Mother 0.0

    Air date: 1990-10-01

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for Miss Trial

    Miss Trial 0.0

    Air date: 1990-10-15

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: Julia's dinner plans with former President Jimmy Carter and his wife are put on hold when her slow-moving jury gets sequestered.

  • Poster for The Bachelor Auction

    The Bachelor Auction 0.0

    Air date: 1990-10-22

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for Charlene Buys a House

    Charlene Buys a House 0.0

    Air date: 1990-10-29

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for Old Rebels and Young Models

    Old Rebels and Young Models 0.0

    Air date: 1990-11-05

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: Charlene's baby, Olivia, auditions for a modeling job, Mary Jo finds one of her former teachers in a nursing home.

  • Poster for Nowhere To Run To

    Nowhere To Run To 0.0

    Air date: 1990-11-12

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: Mary Jo takes up jogging, and inadvertently helps turn Julia into a fitness zealot.

  • Poster for A Class Act

    A Class Act 0.0

    Air date: 1990-11-19

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: Anthony buys in to become a full partner; new student Charlene fends off an amorous psychology professor.

  • Poster for Keep the Home Fires Burning

    Keep the Home Fires Burning 0.0

    Air date: 1990-11-26

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for My Daughter, Myself

    My Daughter, Myself 0.0

    Air date: 1990-12-10

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for And Now, Here's Bernice

    And Now, Here's Bernice 0.0

    Air date: 1990-12-17

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for Pearls of Wisdom

    Pearls of Wisdom 0.0

    Air date: 1991-01-07

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for High Noon in a Laundry Room

    High Noon in a Laundry Room 0.0

    Air date: 1991-01-14

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for How Long Has This Been Going On?

    How Long Has This Been Going On? 0.0

    Air date: 1991-01-28

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for The Emperor's New Nose

    The Emperor's New Nose 0.0

    Air date: 1991-02-04

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: Bernice gets an extraordinarily bad eye tuck and rhinoplasty from a plastic surgeon whose work leaves something to be desired.

  • Poster for Maybe, Baby

    Maybe, Baby 0.0

    Air date: 1991-02-11

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: Mary Jo, wanting a baby, turns to her friend and former beau; Suzanne takes up smoking as a way to diet.

  • Poster for This is Art?

    This is Art? 0.0

    Air date: 1991-02-25

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for Blame it on New Orleans

    Blame it on New Orleans 0.0

    Air date: 1991-03-04

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: When the gang attends a convention in intoxicating New Orleans, Mary Jo unwittingly sleeps with a married man.

  • Poster for I'll See You in Court

    I'll See You in Court 0.0

    Air date: 1991-03-18

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: Mary Jo runs across the man who mugged her the year before, but faces horrendous judicial red tape to bring him to trial.

  • Poster for The Big Circle

    The Big Circle 0.0

    Air date: 1991-04-08

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for Friends and Husbands

    Friends and Husbands 0.0

    Air date: 1991-04-29

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: Charlene, readjusting to married life upon Bill's return from the Middle East, quits her and Mary Jo's children's-book project.

  • Poster for Fore!

    Fore! 0.0

    Air date: 1991-05-06

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: Suzanne is jealous when Anthony is invited to be the first black (i.e., token) in the previously all-white Beaumont Country Club.

  • Poster for The Pride of Sugarbakers

    The Pride of Sugarbakers 0.0

    Air date: 1991-05-13

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: Mary Jo and Julia demonstrate different coaching styles when their firm sponsors a Little League team.

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