Designing Women — Season 5
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About this season
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.
Episodes (24)
1. A Blast From the Past
Aired 17 September 1990 • 30 min
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.
2. Papa Was a Rolling Stone
Aired 24 September 1990 • 30 min
Charlene aims to make Anthony's 30th birthday a memorable one -- by hiring a private detective to find his long-lost father.
3. Working Mother
Aired 1 October 1990 • 30 min
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.
4. Miss Trial
Aired 15 October 1990 • 30 min
Julia's dinner plans with former President Jimmy Carter and his wife are put on hold when her slow-moving jury gets sequestered.
5. The Bachelor Auction
Aired 22 October 1990 • 30 min
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.
6. Charlene Buys a House
Aired 29 October 1990 • 30 min
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.
7. Old Rebels and Young Models
Aired 5 November 1990 • 30 min
Charlene's baby, Olivia, auditions for a modeling job, Mary Jo finds one of her former teachers in a nursing home.
8. Nowhere To Run To
Aired 12 November 1990 • 30 min
Mary Jo takes up jogging, and inadvertently helps turn Julia into a fitness zealot.
9. A Class Act
Aired 19 November 1990 • 30 min
Anthony buys in to become a full partner; new student Charlene fends off an amorous psychology professor.
10. Keep the Home Fires Burning
Aired 26 November 1990 • 30 min
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.
11. My Daughter, Myself
Aired 10 December 1990 • 30 min
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.
12. And Now, Here's Bernice
Aired 17 December 1990 • 30 min
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.
13. Pearls of Wisdom
Aired 7 January 1991 • 30 min
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.
14. High Noon in a Laundry Room
Aired 14 January 1991 • 30 min
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.
15. How Long Has This Been Going On?
Aired 28 January 1991 • 30 min
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.
16. The Emperor's New Nose
Aired 4 February 1991 • 30 min
Bernice gets an extraordinarily bad eye tuck and rhinoplasty from a plastic surgeon whose work leaves something to be desired.
17. Maybe, Baby
Aired 11 February 1991 • 30 min
Mary Jo, wanting a baby, turns to her friend and former beau; Suzanne takes up smoking as a way to diet.
18. This is Art?
Aired 25 February 1991 • 30 min
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.
19. Blame it on New Orleans
Aired 4 March 1991 • 30 min
When the gang attends a convention in intoxicating New Orleans, Mary Jo unwittingly sleeps with a married man.
20. I'll See You in Court
Aired 18 March 1991 • 30 min
Mary Jo runs across the man who mugged her the year before, but faces horrendous judicial red tape to bring him to trial.
21. The Big Circle
Aired 8 April 1991 • 30 min
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.
22. Friends and Husbands
Aired 29 April 1991 • 30 min
Charlene, readjusting to married life upon Bill's return from the Middle East, quits her and Mary Jo's children's-book project.
23. Fore!
Aired 6 May 1991 • 30 min
Suzanne is jealous when Anthony is invited to be the first black (i.e., token) in the previously all-white Beaumont Country Club.
24. The Pride of Sugarbakers
Aired 13 May 1991 • 30 min
Mary Jo and Julia demonstrate different coaching styles when their firm sponsors a Little League team.